PEA or Part Efficient Aircraft are on the rise (I guess). The first time, that I saw the term "PEA" was used by Chi aka @Monarchii. PEA planes are not limited in the number of part counts and number of wings to qualify as an AI plane like @MAPA did. On the other hand, PEA can be a bit flexible to build while keeping more details and mobile-friendly.
So Let me know, do you love, hate, or are neutral toward PEA?
in my honesty, it was a community project plagued with a lot of problems, mainly stemming from the lack of skill, for now, i want to clean the slate, i regret the massive traffic and dump that basically followed PEA, but I am proud to those who follow and make one that is very well-built, honestly there's a lot of tricks to part-saving, simple ones yes, but it can vary from 100% efficiency(like struts, by using sliced hollow fuselage) up to i dare say 500% efficiency(I can't explain it well but basically, you know that divot or curve inside of the top wings of biplanes? I can make that with one part and it'll still be relatively smooth looking, if not, then atleast good enough from 100m away)
@WinsWings huh, wa uw
@Monarchii Well, I do painting too. Impressionist paintings are not realistic like classical paintings, but they give the mood of what the artist is trying to express - beautifully. Like your PEA or MAPA's staff. I feel them like an impressionist painting. For those with 3000 parts, are very detailed "classical paintings"
@WinsWings i don't know many art jargons, but you go mate, correct :3
@Monarchii Totally agreed! Less part count doesn't mean a crap always. it is like comparing an impressionist painting to a traditional classical painting. It has a different taste.
I’m neutral, check out my acc and @Mal0ne to see what I mean.
i am neutral
@FlirBlitz
Do it. (Not the bombing part, the posting part.)
Also, T!
@FlirBlitz lol
@TheMouse now i wanna go on a new account and try this lmao
if it gets 100 upvotes i will be bombing the state of California
i think they are neat
@FlirBlitz
Really should have called it a PEA. Definitely would have made front page lol.
@TheMouse this is the aircraft
@FlirBlitz
Lol. Did you call it a PEA? If not, you should have, and you probably could have tripled its upvotes. What was that account, anyway?
its so over-used its becoming genuinely stupid ._.
it was funny the first time, but cmon man please
Theres also the "First Planes"
Some are true, while others look fake as hell and do not look like theyre a new player
I ran a test recently, i literally put 29 parts together, went on a different account, and posted it.
As of now, it has more upvotes than all but like 3 of my posts
EDIT: I was right, it has more upvotes than all but 3 of my posts.
One isnt even a plane, its a challenge
@WinsWings Hmm that is true
@TheUltimatePlaneLover Sometimes, I see thousands of "unthoughtful parts" added to a build, which never adds any quality to it. In return, someone who can not build anything good could misuse the work PEA over and over as well
@Kenzar
First point, fair, I agree that overuse/misuse of anything can be dislikable
As for the second point, also fair, but put into perspective; a 96 part plane at max that could take hours to make in order to replicate a specific aircraft (all PEAs MUST be replicas, fictional aircraft that use the tag whilst still abiding to the rules are actually are actually LPAs) versus a 120 part plane that one could make in significantly less time. For precise examples this took about 3 hours to make, and this took only one hour minus the break I took to eat and sleep, since I started building it in the evening before dinner. On the other hand, this took about six hours, again minus breaks, and this took about two days, if you ask me it's not really the PEAs's faults for their low production time, my guess honestly is just that I'm a quick worker lol.
@Yourlocalhuman True
@Kenzar I support @Monarchii, and he is not a dump. He has remarkable, outstanding detailed builds with full cockpits, VR in his deleted account. And I have some planes kept with me as unlisted (which I use to download and play). I would share if he let me do so -
@hpgbproductions
Exactly.
@TheMouse maybe, not sure if it's exactly what you mean
But i think that if [PEA] doesn't look better than "my first plane", than why [PEA]?
@hpgbproductions
So would you say, if everyone were perfect builders. PEA would be good, but because no one is a perfect builder, its just an excuse not to work hard?
Most PEA's that arent built by the original or high-skilled builders are ass, so i take them depending on who made it.
As an artist-type person, i slightly hate PEA since a lot of them look very bad, not necessarily as in inaccurate or unrealistic, but rather, visibly rough and low quality
Quick check of recent PEA (very small sample size):
- fuselage that has like 3 parts in a line, i joke to myself that my tris are visible but this is too much
- [point partially taken back] airbrake that can be made with fuselage cutting (which will make it have FEWER parts), but instead the builder made a rectangular-ish 3 part panel that looks very rough (The airbrake actually uses just one airbrake part, but it sticks out from a circular fuselage when retracted)
Additional (about 2 days of newest):
- semi-circular intake on a replica of a well-known stealth plane xdd (there is no way to build that shape with 1 part, just use a few more)
- allegedly using a lot of wing parts to make a curved wingtip (i didn't download but a commenter called it out)
- the common pet peeves, like blue or chrome windows, etc