Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25467429-20150502130629/@comment-26372030-20150506164647

ok, i agree with you on most of your points (smoothie analogy's aside)

so would like to humbly suggest a possibility; that while your XFA-27 S1 is undoubtedly a rare aircraft, and one you most certainly worked very hard to get, it was always going to be more expensive than the airframe it was based on. the airframe in question being the massively overpriced XFA-27.

personally i think this is a interesting observation, that in regards to these super-planes, the only tournament special to have 'regular' pricing is the X-02 -Knight. from this it would seem to indicate that the 'chance' of a plane being released with i huge price-tag can 'partly' depend on two points.  - the price of the original airframe. (it must always be higher than this)

- the availability to players. (tournament planes are likely to have costs closest to the original airframe, challenge planes can feature as more expensive. while free drops 'can' feature a higher price/level depending on how far along the aircraft tree the original airframe appears to be.)

of course this is all speculation. i have no direct prof of this, and indeed the may be examples against this concept. I also wonder why the costs for the d101 and xfa27 were so very high, but as i have already given views and speculated on this in the comments above, i will not be going over them again now ;)

'See you in the skys'