FB lost my account so I've been forced to start all over (old account was about 100k away from hitting MORAF).
So I started over as an aspirant with the EIII, "maxed" it out, and at lvl 14 I am still not feeling the need to upgrade to a tier 2 or tier 3 German plane (I did get the spad asap, so go figure).
A couple of months ago the EIII went from a tier 3 airplane to a tier 1 airplane, well, the EII is too good to be the/a tier 1 (hence free) airplane. Even with the adjusted upgrades.
Make it a tier 2 airplane, because I keep shooting lvl 19's and up out of the sky with the EIII (I have to admit, it is "maxed out", I drop, and I have the experience lvl of an Air Chief Marshal).
The EIII goes 160 w/o bomb, is flat (monowing), and has the best paint job in the entire game (Austro-Hungarian service). The only "good" thing about it is that the max upgrade for ammo is 240 bullets. Either degrade the manoeuvrability to two bars or upgrade the ammo to 3 bars and make it a tier 2 airplane. The EIII is way too good to be given away for free as a tier 1 airplane.