218 for SQ leaders idd, about 240 for ACE and 260 for fighter only.

Other than that, richard and several others here are correct, SQ leaders give less true ability with equal vet count, and as such classing is a bad choice (although no catastrophe either as the gap is not huge by any means)

I also highly doubt this will ever be fixed by SDE as it would affect many existing crews. Just for fun try to imagine the uproar from players if SDE ever was to patch this.

I honestly feel that, just like gunners having to be classed up to use bigger guns, you should HAVE to class up your fighters to be able to use higher tier planes. It would only make sense to make it work this way...but then again, the making sense part is probably what eludes most of SDE... :-/

Just class them ASAP.

8 EBVE Fighters all classed on time and all over 200 vets and capped at 40 % and working fine.

Have not seen that much improvement versus with 170 vets but your mileage may vary

Ability to micro makes up almost any difference.

I was making sure that all/most of my fighters had +12 in fighter and didn't worry about the bomber stat long before SDE changed it so that all that mattered was the fighter stat. I've been classing my fighters on time for the same reason, eventually, they'll probably get round to fixing it so that the game works as intended.

When they do, i'll be in awesome shape. At the moment, my stuff still works to the extent that fighter/fighter combat isn't all that hard against almost all people...

Ill just class normal then. Mainly to rid myself of that pesky blinking [CLS].

SDE should have just made it so that you have to class them to get the next tier of plane. The classes are already on par with them anyway. Squad Leaders for nations that don't normally have this class would just get +0 to their ability to keep it even. You could delay class them if you wanted for slightly higher ability, but would be stuck in lower level planes.

That would make sense, but then again "sense" isn't a real priority in this game.

[QUOTE=Ackbar25]Ill just class normal then. Mainly to rid myself of that pesky blinking [CLS].

SDE should have just made it so that you have to class them to get the next tier of plane. The classes are already on par with them anyway. Squad Leaders for nations that don't normally have this class would just get +0 to their ability to keep it even. You could delay class them if you wanted for slightly higher ability, but would be stuck in lower level planes.

That would make sense, but then again "sense" isn't a real priority in this game.[/QUOTE]

The blinking stops after one level.