So I have been on a 2 year hiatus from Arma 3 and have just come back to my favourite community on the internet, and something foul is afoot.
Of course we are talking about game balance, over the last 2 weeks since ive been back and playing daily. i have noticed a nasty issue affecting the minority of players who play helicopter pilot.
This is of course in relation to the Y-32 - Xi'an ;
This is a excellent aircraft that has unmatched speed, capacity, versatility, survivability, and its fun to fly if not challenging
These reasons above are exactly why it should not be in the standard helicopter rotation, even the long timer VTOL transport rotation.
This aircraft when in semi-capable hands fills the operational capacity for 2 other helicopters if not 3. its short return times, overall attractiveness to the infantry at HQ and AO evac, ensures that it will be filled up long before any other airframe at the almost exclusivity of the pilot flying. This excessive utility and pull makes it so any other pilots whom were once flying non stop and having work to do suddenly all have reduced roles, leading to much longer idle times, lower pilot efficency and for those who care about it, a unbalanced leaderboard.
Not to mention, the reason why everyone play videos games; Personal enjoyment. lowers for everyone but the person in the VTOL. this alone should be reason enough to consider removal from the standard vehicle rotation.
I suggest that the Xi'an be placed as eighter a very rare spawn, once per restart cycle or less, or moved to a more frequent reward spawn with its gunner seat and armament adjusted for game balance (See current jet loadouts).
I believe this small change with upset some of the dedicated VTOL bois, but in the short and long term will improve the fairness surrounding air transport and stop people from getting bored.