Moving the Canadians Leo’s to UK
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If it does happen I think it’ll be next year but yes it should happen.
Tho I hope I’m wrong and it happens this year.
Would finally buy the CF-188 for playing with Canadian tanks
I have no reasons whatsoever to buy it for now
After seeing this:
As an Australian I am very hopeful that this mean we are going to be an official sub tree and I hope our Canadian brothers and sisters join us soon!
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Official as of several statements made yesterday by the big man, they’re just moving away from the use of “subtree” as a term for when other kit is put into a main nation’s tech tree. I guess to retain creative flexibility.
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THE HOPE!!!
smin did say outright that calling these nations “subtrees” gives expectations of a full line of vehicles in the tree (or something to that effect) so it’s more to manage player expectations when a nation becomes tied to a tree, like we have with South Africa, India, an Australia
They couldn’t do it in one update. We’d be too powerful.
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I think it was more to disassociate subtrees from the expectation of a dedicated line, which a 5-line researchable tech tree layout simply does not have room for. As seen with the South African subtree, dispersing the subtree throughout the main TT makes it more manageable while still providing interesting vehicles and filling BR gaps.
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When talking to some of the more reasonable Chinese players during the whole Thai VT-4 “issue” I was told that the term “sub-tree” has a far more negative interpretation when translated, while in English it just means “under” the translation implies far more than just adding it as a smaller part of tech tree, it translates more as a “slave nation”, which I can understand not being appealing especially when talking about China and Japans history.
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Call it partner nations, or whatever term in other languages they feel is suitable. Subtree works well in English despite the “sub” prefix.
Hopefully in the future the permanence of subtrees will remain so, as long as they are officially decided. I’m pretty sure Australia can be regarded as a UK subtree now, it’s just the reluctance to use established terminology that’s throwing me off.