Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25142096-20141011054905/@comment-24307098-20141011182752

Alessio Omega wrote: Realayer wrote: my speculation is that the stars are representing the rarity of the planes, just like many other games I've already given proof that it can't be the rarity in my first post. I don't quite think that a 4-stars F-15S/MTD -Stripes-, given to 3.000 people, is more rare than a 2-star F/A-18F -Black Hornet-, given to just 1.000 players. but you have to consider that PA changes the prize range frequently, for example, F15C -Cipher- is top 200, then PA changed Su37-yellow 13- to top 1000, not to mention previous. So my speculation is that PA already has a plan for the tournament prizes and set the rarity of the plane and changes the range according to situation/ the opinion received.

And let me elaborate my point a little bit... Besides rarity, the stars might also represent the popularity, speciality, and strengrh of the planes.

Wardog and Stripes have popluarity, speciality and stength, so 4-stars.

Zipang, Rafale VA, not as popluar as the aboves, but they are strong and their designs are significantly special, so they are 4-stars.

Shogun, similar to Zipang and VA, but stat-wise it is not so strong, still it is only to top 200, so speicality and rarity makes it 4-stars.

Area88 planes are very popular and special in an AC game, but stat-wise they are not that strong, so they are only 3-stars.

Black honet, Libra, Scorpio, not as popular, not so strong, but they have special design, albeit not so significant as VA, Zipang and Shogun, so they are 2-stars.

I think all these elements are the consideration of the current star system.