What is your prefered method of earning points for air events?

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Lets hear a detailed description of how you prefer to gain you points for the event cycles! I enjoying taking tier 3 3.0-4.3 bombers and target bases in Arcade if I dont feel up for dog fighting. I also like to take out 3.7-5.3 fighters from the USSR trees, such as the, Yak-9K, Yak-9T, Yak-3, Yak-9U, La-7, La-5FN Yak-3P Or 3.7-4.7 Zeros from the Japanese tree, I have been trying 7.3-7.7 in the Israel tree with the jets, but earnings are much slower.

[Canadian Guitar]

While I don't play or have an interest in air. I do the tank events, and did the recent naval one.

The best thing you can do is play a BR/Rank where you do more, more often.

Sure Realistic Rank 6 might have a higher multiplier, but if you're able to do more in Rank 4 Arcade, then you're earn more score per minute there.

[Wandering Flare]

Just pick my top tier plane and suffer. Though, this event I pretty much ignored, opting to instead make SL for the crates with my Finnish 109, and so far ended up doing every stage.

I'd try to make the coupon upgrade (310k atm) but I really can't be arsed to bother for something that'll sell for like 15 GJN until stock finally starts dwindling in 3 years.

[Князь Жиромудр]

Ar-2 in air SB is just great for destroying ground vehicles with 10xFAB-100 and shooting down occasional pursuiting enemy aircrafts with its ShKAS. Just need to respawn once in IL-2M type 3 so the points do count, 3.3 for Ar-2 is not that high (but still, if you have Po-2M or MBR-2, it's so much better for maps at these brs are smaller, you can reach ground targets faster and bomb bases/fields when no tanks and armoured cars are available at the moment). B-34, Do217E-2, Hampdens and LeO 451 also work pretty well...

[SomeStoner]

switching between AIR RB & AB, USA 10.3, just letting my A10's go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRT honestly, gotten them all done in 2 - 3 hours

[Eftwyrd]

Don’t even deliberately grind events and haven’t in years, may inadvertently pick this one up though because I have been playing sim enduring confrontation and the multipliers for sim are huge if you are any good

[Hotschi48]

Originally posted by Wandering Flare:

Just pick my top tier plane and suffer. Though, this event I pretty much ignored, opting to instead make SL for the crates with my Finnish 109, and so far ended up doing every stage.

I'd try to make the coupon upgrade (310k atm) but I really can't be arsed to bother for something that'll sell for like 15 GJN until stock finally starts dwindling in 3 years.

I doubt the prize will be this low when people start selling it.

The F-14 is no prop plane, no boat or one-trick japanese bomber, it has fancy missiles and radar and this one or two movies and all that, and it's "worth " 7,992 GE's if one really purchases all the 8 levels. That's roughly 44,55 Euro bucks. If you throw in another level for the camo and 4 random modifications it's 999 more, perfect for a 10,000 GE package for 49,50 Euros.

Take the A1-H as example, also a event plane, it never sold lower than around 50 for a brief period 2 months after release, and now is the 4th most expensive plane out there at 148.

[shadain597]

I don't like Arcade, and because of how important it is to get score within a limited time frame, the feast-or-famine nature of ARB has been driving me a little crazy. Spending like 3 hours straight with teams that crash for no reason, uptier a prop to 10.3, etc. or they somehow completely delete every enemy within a minute after contact was made and all I got to do was dodge like 2 attacks. Fire off a first gen IR missile at the AI CAS to at least get on the board and the match officially ends literally one second before I'd get kill credit.

Rank 5 jet bombing saved my sanity, because even in a full uptier there's a decent chance you can take out one base for ~750 in-match score. If someone kills you, it's just ~5 minutes worth of time. If they don't kill you, just dive into the friendly fighters, land, rearm, go pop another base. You probably won't get to hit a third base, so at that point pick your poison, because often you're the last player on the team.

It's not a super fast way to earn score, but it's not difficult, pretty darn consistent, and barely impacted by the skill level of your teammates. You will end up cursing the occasional match in which there are 4 actual bombers and 1-4 attackers determined to each drop 25-75% of a base's worth of bombs on separate bases though. Plus, the SAAB-105s (or whatever the exact name is) are pretty much the worst enemy in that BR range, because they get an attacker spawn and IR missiles.

Originally posted by Canadian Guitar:

The best thing you can do is play a BR/Rank where you do more, more often.

Sure Realistic Rank 6 might have a higher multiplier, but if you're able to do more in Rank 4 Arcade, then you're earn more score per minute there.

Yup, best thing is to find a decent balance between playing what you enjoy, and playing something that earns you enough score per minute to fit your available playtime.

[Wandering Flare]

Originally posted by Hotschi48:

Originally posted by Wandering Flare:

Just pick my top tier plane and suffer. Though, this event I pretty much ignored, opting to instead make SL for the crates with my Finnish 109, and so far ended up doing every stage.

I'd try to make the coupon upgrade (310k atm) but I really can't be arsed to bother for something that'll sell for like 15 GJN until stock finally starts dwindling in 3 years.

I doubt the prize will be this low when people start selling it.

The F-14 is no prop plane, no boat or one-trick japanese bomber, it has fancy missiles and radar and this one or two movies and all that, and it's "worth " 7,992 GE's if one really purchases all the 8 levels. That's roughly 44,55 Euro bucks. If you throw in another level for the camo and 4 random modifications it's 999 more, perfect for a 10,000 GE package for 49,50 Euros.

Take the A1-H as example, also a event plane, it never sold lower than around 50 for a brief period 2 months after release, and now is the 4th most expensive plane out there at 148.

I guess. I'm at 352k atm (correction) and it's the end of the first day of the halfway stage, you figure it's feasible to make 750k by the end if I bump up from Rank IV to Rank VIII?

[Hotschi48]

I don't play jets except a very few up to Rank V, I never fired any missile in the game, I can't give any advice on any jet at higher Ranks. On second thought I can't even give any sound advice on the jets I play....

[shadain597]

Originally posted by Wandering Flare:

I guess. I'm at 352k atm (correction) and it's the end of the first day of the halfway stage, you figure it's feasible to make 750k by the end if I bump up from Rank IV to Rank VIII?

Assuming you still make the same amount of in-match score per day? Just going up to rank 5 is almost enough, and it would have been plenty if the first half of the event had been played with rank 5 too.

The rank multipliers don't seem all that important until you pull out a calculator and start crunching numbers. Rank 3 has to earn like 50% more mission score than rank 7 in order to get the same event score.

[Wandering Flare]

Originally posted by shadain597:

Originally posted by Wandering Flare:

I guess. I'm at 352k atm (correction) and it's the end of the first day of the halfway stage, you figure it's feasible to make 750k by the end if I bump up from Rank IV to Rank VIII?

Assuming you still make the same amount of in-match score per day? Just going up to rank 5 is almost enough, and it would have been plenty if the first half of the event had been played with rank 5 too.

I could throw on the J35XC to keep the SL grind going or go all out with the JAS39C, although I think both ranks give the same modifier.

[DEADPANSOUP8730]

What I do is grab my f4s and go into sim. Depending on the match I can get a good amount of score.

[shadain597]

Originally posted by Wandering Flare:

I could throw on the J35XC to keep the SL grind going or go all out with the JAS39C, although I think both ranks give the same modifier.

I'm going to assume that's a typo and J35XS, the premium, is what you meant. Yeah, rank 7 and 8 have the same modifier, so either is fine, as long as you still earn a solid mission score.

[Wandering Flare]

Originally posted by shadain597:

Originally posted by Wandering Flare:

I could throw on the J35XC to keep the SL grind going or go all out with the JAS39C, although I think both ranks give the same modifier.

I'm going to assume that's a typo and J35XS, the premium, is what you meant. Yeah, rank 7 and 8 have the same modifier, so either is fine, as long as you still earn a solid mission score.

Yea, downsides of the evening and S being C in my native language. Thing's in F-14 uptier territory though so I guess I'll give the JAS39 a shot first.