Board Thread:Unanswered Questions/@comment-26466017-20150912224521/@comment-75.95.173.188-20150914231903

People like what they like, but my strategy is to buy the highest rated planes before the 4 million credit superplanes. So the Wyvern for a multi and the ADF01 for a fighter. FYI, my Wyvern is lvl 12 and my ADF01 is lvl 11 and I'm rated around 2100, and don't consider myself a particularly talented player.

At the level of these planes, the price difference isn't really an issue. For example, a lvl 13 Wyvern has about the same rating and more upgrade slots than a lvl 15 F-35 and costs about a million credits less (in total). It's only when you get into the mutli-million starting credit planes that it's just not worth the trouble.

That being said, any plane can be competitive with the best players if you're a good player.

If you're just going to upgrade one as a do-everything plane, I say go with the Wyvern over the F-35, and not just because it's higher rated. the 6AAM is a better air-to-air IMO than the HCAA and the SOD is better than 4AGM or GPB IMO.