Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25467429-20150511115406/@comment-25467429-20150512132930

I will add that the Mobius tournament is running the rest of the month, so at best the likelihood of the Nosferatu being added will be as a straight standard tree option until at least June, since I doubt they'd make Pasternak or Butterfly Master random drops. I suppose they could add a concurrent tournament, which would force it to be a TDM, but I don't know if they'd risk that.

As for the new upgrade form, it would be bad to artificially complicate the process any further by saying something like you  can use it on any one sp. plane to increase its max level. Even with the nonstandard upgrade forms, they're rare enough an item in the game that I think most people use them as a sort of one-off thing for when they happen to have one and a plane that needs upgrading, or holds on to one planning to use it on a plane they want to upgrade at a later date. Furthermore, just a basic unlocking of higher levels on the sps would already introduce the cost barrier, given they will all cost north of a million credits per level even on the cheapest. That seems to me as though it would keep people playing more than the mere hope of possibly lucking into one after a mission. And if they do make it relatively easy to find, then that defeats the whole point in making it a restricted item in the first place. What would be the point in having an item that is that rare already, adding the almost pointless caveat that only one plane will get a level boost, when the alternate option is both simpler and would end up being similary restrictive? I really hope its not something like that.