The fokker e3 isnt the starter for two reasons. The first, and the one the aces care about, is that it gives an advantage. The fokker dr1 has 3 times the wings, and is therefore much easier to shoot down. You improve faster in a bad plane. Imagine you played black ops, and started the round and someone spotted you 10 kills toward your killstreak. Youd immediately have a powerful weapon to use, and thus, gain an advantage. If you tried to play without it, youd lose horribly. If you start without it, and learn to win that way, you get the killstreak, you dont need it, its just an added bonus. The same goes for the planes. I could use a sopwith or fokker and do just fine, but i do better with the aid of my nuiport and albitross. If i started with my good planes, i couldnt do a thing with the sopwith.
The second is mainly z's concern. Its to draw and hold more people, which kinda annoys some of the aces who like playing with just their friends. The sopwith camel and fokker dr1 are famous planes. The fokker dr1 is remembered as the red barons plane, and the sopwith was snoopys.
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its just for appeal.
As for adding more planes, there are some on the drawing board, i know, and i know one is a three seat bomber. The problem is, there are enough people complaining about the fancy planes. I see aspirants asking how to earn money fast. This game was built to be a one way street. You cant skip a red light. Aspirants think were better than them cuz of our planes, because screw us, they are CLEARLY superior at everything. We're able to wipe them out time after time cuz weve practiced, but they will always complain. No one wants to put up with this, so, by adjacent, we dont want more fancy planes giving aces more advantages. Planes in the middle would be pointless after a while. Theres only so many ways you can distribute the planes stars.
While new planes would be cool, i dont think theyre necessary. Hamers remembers a time when there were two planes: the red fokker, and the sopwith. Then, i believe, planes up to the spads level were added.then the SE5A. Thats as far as we are.