Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-172.1.44.57-20150303005326/@comment-25467429-20150304154408

There are also some (like me) who are "collectors" or "perfectionists" who just want to get everything they can in a game, at the max they can get it. I have the F-14A and D sitting at lvl. 10, waiting for another good time ot splurge to get them to 15. Other than that, I have my faves maxed - the F-22A, the F-15 S/MTD, the Su-37, F-15C.

But you have to think - what makes someone like a plane? Uusally it's whatever the best plane was when they first got interested in planes. For a lot of older people, that means some of the low-tier stuff that, back in the 1990s, were known quantities, known as among the best, or had great real-life tales people could recall. Younger audeinces are going to gravitate to whatever seems strongest, most versatile, etc. That's why most players, who are predominantly younger or newly initiated to the world of fighter aircraft, will chase the top-tier planes, while veterans of the series, genre, life, will find a little more enjoyment in the old stuff. It's also about the same reason that players will gravitate to planes familiar to their own nation's military. Americans tend to use American planes, eastern Europeans will tend to favor the Migs and Sukhois, etc. There are many exceptions, but that is the way 50%+1 tend to go.