Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26257239-20150724203251/@comment-25467429-20151007182559

^That's a very good point. There are some players who are very good pilots, but I hardly ever see them participating in tournaments becuase they simply don't have the money to compete against those spending tons of cash. I knwo what PA was aiming to do (in a non-nefarious, optimistic, sense), but the cost they've put on the super-planes, or even the max level on the mid-to-high tier planes up around 20, only further plays into the hands of those paying out the ear for the game.

Which gets to another improtant tournament tip; be deftly aware of what prize you're going for. For example, Talisman is a moderately expensive plane. I know it'll take me a while before it'll be useful given the amount of moeny I can spend on it. But I knew this from the start. Be mindful of what planes you target in tournaments as the cost of maxing one of them out may be far greater than going with a similar but less prestigious variant. I wanted Talisman, and got Windhover and Avalanche at the same time. I wouldn't worry too much about missing either unless you really like the plane adn its paint scheme becuase there are many planes in the game that could be comparable oro better at max level, with similar in-game cost, without the out-of-game cash needed for placing in some tournaments. X-02 Knight, XFA-27 Scarface, surely are great planes. But the cost of making them competeitive agaisnt lvl 10 of even their vanilla counterparts, and the cost of fuel to rank for tournaments like that, are too hgih unless you are absolutely enamored by those planes and/or you really have the money to spare on it. No sense chasing something you can't use.