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The discussion won´t die and Erik and I have been sending some emails back and forth. I suggested the following to him in an email:
Alternative 1:
Remove the HR and set a max altitude of ALL airplanes to 32k. That would give ALL airplanes access to the last MVR band and no plane able to dive on the other. This SHOULD be a fair solution and benefit the best planes and pilots. This of course negates the benefit of the Frank R version but it also removes if for the P47 and Hellcats/Bearcat and later Spits. This will add the much needed diversity for the allied plane pools. This I think is a very fair solution for both sides.
Alternative 2:
Keep the 2nd best MVR band but allow CAP and LRCAP to go at any altitude. This to negate the strato sweep. If I remember correctly you are using this HR in your game with Torsten?
In all honesty I think the first alternative is a very good one and fair for both sides. It will completely do away with the dive bonus and strato sweeps. The only problem I see here is that CAP can still climb above the sweeps if there is time. But as you know radar doesn´t work on sweeps (probably another reason its doing so well) and I have not seen this happen in any of my tests. And I have run perhaps 300-500 sweeps during the last week in sandbox. Its a fair compromise I think. I loose the P47s altitude advantage and later Spits and Hellcat/Bearcat while you lose the Frank. But it will be a boost for all other airframes. Including the IJN ones that lack any fighter with access to the MVR band.
This is perhaps not the best allied deal. But I feel its an important one nonetheless. This will spread the workload out among the allied pools and perhaps add a bit of competitiveness to planes like the P38 and P51. These are supposed to be the workhorses of the USAAF but with the current HR I lose them at a rate of 1:1 with top notch pilots in the P51. Thats simply not sustainable for the pools. It also completely do away with the allied max altitude advantage. But as I hadn´t even thought of that until recently its not something I´m going to miss and Erik has refused to do away with the HR we have now anyway.
I feel the 1st alternative returns the game to the old ways of Allied quality and Japanese quantity. I will still have an advantage in speed and pilot quality. This will also boost the IJN that lack a fighter with access to the highest MVR band. This should be a fair solution I think? Its a boost to the weaker allied planes but takes away something from the best allied planes. This I think is necessary in order for the allied pools to compete with the enhanced Japanese production.
Whatever it leads to it will remove the dive bonus and thats the real problem. Its so powerful it dwarfs everything else in the airmodel. As both Erik and I agree on this I don´t see why he shouldn´t think this a fair deal.
If he doesn´t I still have some P47s left and when using them in a layered CAP I can shoot down "R"s at a 10:1 ratio. So I just stay defensive until the P47N arrives and then sweep him out of the sky. Once the Bearcat arrives at 200 per month they can add to the pile together with the new Spits at 50 per months. Not very fun but it will do.
