All of that is true but Gaijin being unwilling to put in the legwork to rework a mechanic that we both agree on is predatory shouldnt be a reason to not rework it.
Its affecting lower ranks less anyway since there are way less autoloaded tanks. Ofc people with the wallet to straight up buy ace want it to stay but scorpion for example is not that.
I think you misunderstood me there. I meant its detrimental to Gaijin since they have to deal with multiple different values for one singular vehicle to judge its balance status.
Probably a bit of column a and column b. Not every balancing decision Gaijin makes is purely statistical
Ironically, removing reload bonuses would turn lower tiers way more dynamic (as genuinely every nation uses a loader/loaders), exactly what Gaijin is after at least in top tier.
No he didn’t. The word ace never appears in his quote. He refers to a fully upgraded vehicle and a fully upgraded crew. You interpret this as aced for this vehicle, I interpret it as level 150 (for ground).
If i give 3 choices in my question, normal, expert and ace and he says fully upgraded how could it be anything besides ace when that is the maximum upgrade for a crew?
I want Crew skills gone as a whole or reduced to minimal levels, but I accept that some major changes are very unlikely to happen. Some minor changes like reduction in RP/SL costs might happen, but I think that’s it.
They have less autoloaders, yes, but having Ace is always beneficial when it comes to your own performance. Some people don’t see the problem as they’re playing lower tiers and Acing their tanks anyways due to much less costs. Just like some don’t see an issue with stock grinding, because they grinded out their WW2 tanks in 10 battles.
I think they work on a single value to determine balancing, which is efficiency.
Reload speed is just a single metric they can fiddle with to increase/decrease said efficiency.
Not every buff/nerf is due to statistics, it might be for “realism” like those engine governor things and whatnot. Reload speed affects all crew levels so basing the changes solely on Ace value doesn’t make sense.
Because he just didn’t specify more precisely than what he said? You didn’t get an answer on that part.
You are reading what you want, not what is written.
Written is and was: Balance is about SL.
Exactly its a value they can change for manually loaded vehicles to increase or decrease efficiency and as such it only makes sense if that value is somewhat stable and doesnt change by significant amounts on a individual vehicle.
It might, as weve already agreed upon, be that way for the inital implementation of a vehicle and that still doesnt change the fact that every subsequent change will be unfair to either manual loaders without upgraded crew or autloaders depending on the specific situation/vehicle.
Is an ace crew an update to a fully leveled crew? So yes i did get an answer. And even if Smin meant the other thing then that still means that the current situation is stupid since that would be a major detriment to autoloaded tanks.
Gaijin likes their averaged numbers and as long as average experience is balanced they seem fine with it.
Depends on the situation, but to me it looks like autoloaders might get the short end of the stick more often, especially for people that are willing to grind/buy Aces.
If we assume that the average crew level is non-Expert maxed, then stats of the vehicle in question will contain that average crew. You’re then allowed to either grind or pay up to receive even better performance, at which point you’re playing a vehicle that’s better than perceived average.
For autoloaders, you’re stuck with the average performance and you can’t improve it even if you wanted. The biggest “losers” of this system are people with no crew level on manually loaded tanks and biggest “winners” are those that can get Aces on manually loaded tanks.
No, it is an update to an experted crew. It can be an update to a lower level expert crew. Ace has nothing to do with fully leveled crew. Ace does not influence crew level.
Yes, you got an answer. But it didn’t tell you what you wanted to know. You just wish it to be there…
Maybe the average crew is simply that: The average of the vehicle performance across all players. No matter what crew. That would be the data they collect.
I wouldn’t have a single problem if they reversed some of the ace 5s reloads in exchange of removing the bonuses, that would net the incoming wild advantage many vehicles would instantly get.
The thing is to get rid of the advantage generated behind another layer of resources, and embed the best load performance within the basic five levels of the trait.
Yeah, the average crew for a vehicle in a given time period would be the average of all players that used the vehicle in that same time period. I just used non-Expert maxed for ease of understanding.
The stats in here definitely weren’t done with all those ~1.2m spawns being with a 6s reload speed, which is their Ace value.
That might very well be true. Just one more reason to, in the best case, abolish the system or at least try to get rid of the difference between autoloaders and manual loaders in said system
I’m all for a rework, but because of reasons stated above I believe there’s not much to expect from it.
The inherit difference between the machine and human loading is a problem here, so solving it without some unrealistic features or major disturbances is hard.
I wish we lived in a perfect world where crew skills would just disappear tonight and vehicles would balance themselves out automatically, but sadly this is WT and those things are outside of out reach.
We still have higher crew skill points gain in Arcade than in Realistic, which is really hilarious.
Goes to show how Gaijin isn’t keen on touching legacy systems until their data (probably revenue) shows them there’s an issue.
