#IMO more wings should produce more drag

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vapid pier
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this maybe be unpopular idk

glad hull
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Does their current drag not stack already?

true vortex
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You know we aren't going to listen to what you have to say if you don't even attempt to provide a reasoning

vapid pier
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oh ok, the reason is because wings produce drag to create lift, also because wing stacking is super prevalent right now and it looks dumb when a plane has 12 wings, also it makes shooting down wings feel piontless

@true vortex

vapid pier
hexed plover
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it looks dumb is not a very good reason

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Should we also make it so wheels cannot be redundant because it makes shooting cruisers feel pointless

vapid pier
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no because you can shoot the guns of cruiseres

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planes are simply not vulnerable enough to justify their advantages

true vortex
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I'm undecided personally

novel plaza
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so heres the counter point

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a car can be fine up to 20% with very minimal effort

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a plane however can be crippled at 50% decently often depending on whats hit

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so even if they werent as good and looked goofy, people actually want to play the game when they fly something

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so they arent going to make a kite out of tissue paper that crashes to the floor in 2 shots

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its going to be hard to take down, or as hard as they can make it so they can actively participate in the game as long as possible

languid turret
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I think you only see the top 10% of planes in actual matches, and they're all pretty over-engineered and optimized, with triforcing, enough armor, redundancies, and such

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It takes a decent amount of skill and trial and error to build a functional plane

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So naturally it'll be harder to kill what is essentially the best in their class

sullen cosmos
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Currently almost any plane can be knocked out of the air with a couple shots from any weapon taking off the vertical rudders, unless you add a ton of control thrusters to the nose. Give wings a bit of rotational drag and then we can talk about making them more vulnerable.

If you did want to nerf wingspam in some way, I'd lean toward giving diminishing returns on the amount of lift and stability each wing provides. That said I don't feel that using excessively large numbers of wings is necessary or even optimal right now.

glad hull
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Could also require space beneath and above wings for optimal lift

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Not currently necessary

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Wings have little lift as is

sullen cosmos
vapid pier
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i mean there is a limit to the effectiveness of staking miniguns and bubble shields

toxic dragon
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I have no experience, no knowledge and no idea what this would do, so i'm going to just say
joe biden