Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25467429-20150502130629/@comment-26164607-20150504162351

DRosencraft wrote: My "rub" is that every other special variant has been at least realtively modest in the price increase, regardless of the boost in stats. Even the X-02 -Kingiht- while costing about 45% more overall than the standard X-02, at least has a change in weapons load, despite still not having a terribly large boost in any of its stats. The stat boost on the F-35 Taurus is rather dramatic, but it too remains relatively reasonable in price compared to other similar-stat planes or even its standard self. So saying that its expensive because it's a free drop doesn't really make much sense to me. I also don't see where the "balance" is. It's minimally if at all better than the standard one, which does nothing to change any balance issue that may exist with that standard variant. There'd be no real gain had with the Osea, so why not maintain a more traditional price level? Why boost the upgrade cost by dozens of times?

It's more than 12x more expensive to take the Osea Falken to lvl 4 than it is to take the standard one there. Why?

I guess I just don't get what you would be paying for. The mini Wardog emblem on the body? I've personally given up any reason to care for upgrading the Osea version until I just have nothing else to spend credits on, but I'm trying to understand the rationale here. I'd hate to know it was just arbitrary, but I don't really see a sound explanation so far either. Let's take a look at the other special planes. If for example the F-16F -DR- is superior to the normal F-16F, in terms of Lvl. 1-10 range, then it would have a reasonable performance enhancement up until its max stat.