Sounds just like me! I said pretty much the same thing, got my 3rd plane and on the second flight it went full throttle, nose first into a corn field!

You can get something fancy, and it will probably take a beating but it might survive. Or you can fix up your very capable Four Star or whatever else you can fix and have fun flying it. Try doing some precision stuff, or planning out some kind of routine where you do one trick into another, but have the locations AND altitudes planned (i.e. you didn't lose altitude trying to make a correction or something).

I was doing 'tricks' with my Nexstar, and I lost it due to 'poor judgement'. At the time I wouldn't admit this, but I was really just yanking on the sticks. I sort of knew what the outcome would be, but that one time when I took a chance, I lost it due to 5' lack of altitude.

Then I had an Avistar, and I thought I had learned a lesson from my experience with the Nexstar, so I did all my 'tricks' at high altitude. Unfortunately I did a 'trick' and got a little disoriented and my lack of experience showed as the 2 mistakes high wasn't enough and I lost that plane, too.

Next I got my Dolphin. I was so eager to have a flying plane that I was up late building it, and finally got it ready for flight. Second day, due to lack of sleep, I missed the runway by about 6" and caught the wingtip in the tall grass; plane cartwheeled and snapped in half. I fixed it, but now have a plane that doesn't fly straight.

People kept telling me to slow down, that I didn't really know what I was doing (in much nicer words though). Of course I didn't believe them, but they were right.

You will know when you're ready for something more advanced, and really only you will know. I tried to convince myself, or prove to myself or others that I was ready, but deep inside I knew I wasn't. I have a feeling that when you are ready, you will know it, and by then you will know which is the right plane for you.