It happens with every plane, not only special planes, i've even seen an Su-34 doing that, but it would be a good idea to add a no sp planes/sp planes only restriction, and plane lvl restrictions too.
And i think they need to increase homing against planes that are using afterburners.
Yes, that happens when everyone has higher level planes. I'm still not getting why you're associating any of this with special planes. It makes no sense.
i did find it fun to see everyone 'pulling out the big guns' if someone on our side went with a plane of 2200. but i often found i got better results sticking with a humble 1850 fighter. as it was worth less points to shoot down, i offten had less missles flying my way over X-02s worth 8000 points for one hit.
my only complant is that some of the matches where players got out there best aircraft were over far to quickly as the mvp only needed about 4 to 5 kills total to win. :S
The team balance in general is non-existent. You'll often end up in one-sided matches which once again sucks the fun out of TDM.
My ASF-X -RB- is worth over 10,000 points in a TDM match. Over 10% of a team's score if I get shot down....
I highest I've seen point wise is `12,000.
What they could do to solve this special plane issue is to either:
A: Have restricted rooms to only standard aircraft
B: Standard aircraft only tournaments
Speaking of which, how many special aircraft are there now? Too much for me to count.
Fighters: 62
Multiroles: 50
Attackers: 19
Bombers: 2
Piston Fighters: 6 (including the 2 upcoming Sky Kid aircraft)
Those are special aircraft I counted, which you clearly asked for.
Maybe because I totally hate SAAMs, I've never really had to switch to SP aircrafts. The only planes I've ever used to play TDM is the Su-35...
my only complant is that some of the matches where players got out there best aircraft were over far to quickly as the mvp only needed about 4 to 5 kills total to win. :S
True, I find the matches ending way too fast cause of this.
As for planes in TDM, I don't mind using standard or SP planes in my setups as long I dominate in the match. I'm pretty much worth 15k in points anyway.