that exactly what I first thought of, just wasn’t sure if reserve doesn’t lock you
yeah. looks like huge poop
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I always get the feeling that these changes are made by people that doesn’t play this game.
They changed the rules for single vehicle lineup but made it easier to abuse for 2+ vehicle lineups.
You can now buy any premium plane and downtier it with a reserve plane without even having to own a tech tree vehicle besides the reserve one.
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It’s not even that. The whole new system is flawed and not very well thought out.
When they will hear about this reserve trick, they will probably call it a bug and e.g. exclude reserves from being used for calculations. So there are ways to fix this.
But this whole system is just stupid. Let’s say you want to play a 2.3 BR plane at 2.0 BR. You can create a “lineup” like this one:
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This way I reduced my BR to 2.0, and I have no intention to play the 1.7 BR plane. It’s there just to reduce my BR.
Let’s say I die in the battle early, and since I only used my 2.3 BR plane, the 1.7 BR plane will get crew locked and my lineup will become a 2.3 BR, right?
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You can say, it made the difference, it’s now working as intended. I can’t play at 2.0 BR anymore, because I have the 1.7 BR plane crew locked. A huge victory for the devs?
But don’t get too excited. I have 5 crew slots on my account. There is nothing that stops me from… adding another 1.7 BR plane to my “lineup”:
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So I can start another battle at 2.0 BR again. And again, I have no intention to play the 1.7 BR vehicle. Before the next battle finishes, that first 1.7 BR plane will probably be already unlocked. And if not, I can add another 1.7 BR plane to this “lineup”.
This whole system is just stupid and not thought out at all.
The only difference is that more players won’t understand how this works and probably less players will use this system to their advantage, especially at the beginning (before they figure out how to do this).
The funny thing is that the devs have so simple and fair solution to just always use the highest BR plane as a lineup BR. Something that already works well in every other game mode.
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Enabling reserves etc as counting might be intentional. Off my head, Italy was unable to reduce BR with early jets due to lack of “at most 2BR lower” units for years.
And that is considering you get a crew lock in the first place, if you survive long enough all crews will be unlocked even if you die on the plane you want to use.
It’s so easy and fast now to change planes in crew slots that it will take no time to put another plane to lower your BR average even if you have a crew locked.
Not well thought at all.
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The actual thing is, that if you use the one plane, with those others you have no intention in using, and you leave the match, crew locking the other planes, then you are locked into the higher BR until those planes are unlocked.
This may be the intention.
It’s not going to actually punish them as the OP in this thread seems to want, it’s just to slow them down if they fail at doing it.