Put the badge planes into hidden airports around the map.

[stiff sinew]

So the incident today gave me a funny idea.
What if badge planes were purchaseable as easter eggs for finding hidden airports. My idea has 2 branches:

1. The planes are always available but their location is randomized. Any hidden airport could have the plane its just a matter of finding the right one every week.
2. You can buy the plane only once but its location is static. The ideas for locations are as follows:
   Oliatu is found at Aether (pls make it an airport :( )
   Toms Totally Legit Helicopter is found at TTLH
   PZL Scorpion is found at Idea field.
   Sea Hornet is found at the small airfield on Eisen.
   Kantanka KTK-02 is found at A Cabana Totalmente Escondida do Tom
   Special Forces Training Camp Torrence provides the GH-60 Ghost Hawk
   Sukhoi S-54 is found at the abandoned airstrip near Tikaranto.
   Sukhoi T-75 is found on the Admiral Varyag.
   Sunrise Hills has the Dornier Seastar.
   Now, for the rare ones:
   Kanamori K500 and K600 are found at a hangar that looks like a museum (think Stefan Udvar Hazy Center)
   KAC R.811 is found at a scrapyard with a bunch of KACs in it on Meridem.
   K70 and K200 are found by locating driving to an umarked hangar on an existing airport's grounds. The despawn zone will report "You will be parked at ???? Hangar"
   ADF-340X Relay is found in a bunker deep in Novacadia with faded Archangel markings on it.
   7E7 is found in a rusted out hangar on Meridem.

[mossy hedge]

Yea this aint gonna happen

just logically thinking

[hazy urchin]

As much as it may be a cool concept

it kinda defeats the purpose

[zenith bridge]

^

now the seastar after the incident

idk what will happen to it

[dense lagoon]

What incident?

[hazy urchin]

[mossy hedge]

seastar was made a dealer aircraft for like an hour

[hushed badge]

wait

this is

[dense lagoon]

[hushed badge]

@stiff sinew Stop cooking

[stiff sinew]

I mean even if its not for current badge planes, its still a good idea for future badge planes

Like everyone with the badge gets 1, and players without can still go find it

Or hell just stop doing badge planes and replace them with this

[hazy urchin]

Maybe a better idea is to make it a red rarity on set airports?

[stiff sinew]

Perhaps

[hazy urchin]

Like the cow cube

[zenith bridge]

tbh I like the idea of badge planes still existing

hm

[hazy urchin]

ridiculously rare but gives a tiny ray of hope

[stiff sinew]

The cow cube can be purchased?

[zenith bridge]

that was a 1 off situation

[hazy urchin]

I believe so, I think there is an instance

[stiff sinew]

No, see, I want it to be a reward for exploring

[zenith bridge]

iirc technically red tier planes can be bought but they have like a 0.001% chance

[stiff sinew]

not just a chance at something cool

[zenith bridge]

and you have to know the airfield/airport they can spawn in

[zenith bridge]

could just add hidden aircraft that aren't badge aircraft

to those airports

[stiff sinew]

[hazy urchin]

sounds a lot better imo

Orange aircraft at hidden airports

1 per airport

[stiff sinew]

1 per airport and if you find the airport its guarunteed

[zenith bridge]

maybe just

a reward aircraft

like visiting this airport for the first time

[stiff sinew]

But then maybe ban the locations from teh wiki or make it so that their articles jsut don't say they have it

[hazy urchin]

then maybe some small aircraft? some light planes

[zenith bridge]

make no mention of the airport or make no mention they have aircraft

[hazy urchin]

Id feel it be a bit op to give them out

[zenith bridge]

maybe depends on how close they are to oconee

[hazy urchin]

yeah, that too

[stiff sinew]

Also most hidden airports require you to find them with a longrange plane, then land in a smaller one

[zenith bridge]

because new players (ie. ultralight and SE license) will find those

[hazy urchin]

but nothing op, just value due to its location, planes like the seastar

[zenith bridge]

to the further you are from oconee, the different types of licenses are required

but not SSTs or the sorts

[stiff sinew]

Give an Ultralight at Oconee Observatory

Then give some funky VTOL out on avalon and Kyo

Artic Cruiser on Tomfoolery

[zenith bridge]

just something like, Ultralight, Single Engine, Multi-Engine, and Jet

maaybe helicopter

[hazy urchin]

Yeah! this could be similar to easter eggs in games like the Stanley Parable 2 (if yall ever played it)

Idk many more games

collectible items rather than functional planes

[stiff sinew]

Yeah or the Helmets in Satisfactory

[hazy urchin]

(but still planes dont get me wrong)

[hazy urchin]

yeah

[zenith bridge]

honestly I just like the idea of giving rewards for exploration

[hazy urchin]

any reward

[zenith bridge]

like what cratehunting was supposed to be

[stiff sinew]

https://discordapp.com/channels/820044095535185951/1479298386820726954

[hazy urchin]

it would incentivize a lot

[stiff sinew]

I have been usurped

[zenith bridge]

man stole my idea!/j

[hazy urchin]

Maybe some hunts like the barn?

[stiff sinew]

Mmmmmmm it should be fair

[hazy urchin]

not as op but it giving a reward

[stiff sinew]

the PTFS barn is kinda BS because all of them look the same

[hazy urchin]

I mean the aero barn thingy

[stiff sinew]

Oh thats real?

[hazy urchin]

or am I hallucinating

[stiff sinew]

I thought it was an urban legend

[hazy urchin]

(dont think so)

[hazy urchin]

still searched in barns in Northern and Soutwestern Avalon

Guess what

didnt find a single thing

[vague wharf]

If aero/hyper does want to go for a economic reform type of thing then this is a good suggestion. If not then I don’t think this on its own would be very good

[potent plank]

https://tenor.com/view/kickedoutofsuggesstions-gif-569061571572124483

[vague wharf]

iirc it was but got removed after some people found it