Community Update No.8: Responses and What’s Coming!

[Josephs_Piano]

Perhaps when trees are not actually “national” they should be renamed?

Eg “Eastern Mediterranean” instead of “Israel”, “SE Asian”, “South Asian”, etc…

Might head off a few heated arguments?

[KhorneFlakez1337]

The trees are national, just like the subtrees are national.
The problem with giving them different names is that in a lot of cases there is no other name to give them that actually fits the tree without conflicting with minor nation additions and subtrees.

[Pipimer]

we have only tanks for years

[Raiden_Black]

@Charge Bison

Wat. I think Greece to Germany.

But, Turkey to Germany?

[KhorneFlakez1337]

That’s why I said “I wish they would do a double event”

[Pipimer]

Germany has already a big TT plus the have the Swiss

[foxtrot19673]

literally all people have said that both turkey and chile are the best options, are you guys even reading the player opinions before talking???

[kleinerPanzer]

@magazine2

We’ll be looking to place Singaporean vehicles in a number of trees, most likely with their vehicles going to whatever tree is most applicable and relevant on a case by case basis and best suits each specific vehicle.

I’m glad it’s not being added as a Chinese subtree alone, but how come the development team is so dead-set on adding Singapore in the first place? It feels a little bit random when there are other, more militarily significant nations that have virtually 0 vehicles in-game.

@magazine2

We currently plan to expand the Israeli tree to include Greece and Cyprus to increase its gameplay diversity.

This “diversity” is going to consist primarily of copy-paste Leopards and T-80s, it won’t be introducing any notable different vehicles to those already in-game. Greece and Cyprus to Israel is a strange choice altogether, especially when other suggestions like Turkey or Chile arguably are better fits (politically and militarily, at least; that being said, I’m still opposed to subtrees conceptually).

@magazine2

For China, our current priority will be to add domestic vehicles to help bolster the existing, available roster. We can share that we’re working on a new SAM system for China as well as new top jet aircraft, among various other vehicle developments that you’ll see in the short term. We’ll also be expanding upon options provided by Pakistani vehicles to help expand the tree alongside the planned domestic vehicles. Plus, a popular US made main battle tank to also bolster the ranks.

This is excellent on the whole.

@magazine2

We’ll start with the easiest to implement, and then gradually add similar features for other areas. First up will be more detailed data on armor penetration and shell ballistics. Next, we’ll likely try to implement useful information on the properties of guided missiles and aircraft flight models. However, this will take quite some time as we work on designing and implementing a mechanism (as mentioned above), so please don’t expect it in the near future.

Here are some mock-up windows of a design for what we have planned, which are heavily work in progress

Ooh, yes! I like this feature. If there is one suggestion I have currently, it would be to also add a chart for shell velocity over distance, instead of just trajectory & penetration (or, if the penetration chart will show the velocity too, that is also acceptable)

[KhorneFlakez1337]

More often than not they read them and then dismiss them.
If they have made up their mind we, the players, can’t really change that.

[AlvisWisla]

2016 was also when fake vehicles were allowed to be added.
2016 standards were worse…

[Josephs_Piano]

@KhorneFlakez1337

The trees are national, just like the subtrees are national.

So change that - think outside the box just a little

The problem with giving them different names is that in a lot of cases there is no other name to give them that actually fits the tree without conflicting with minor nation additions and subtrees.

Yes there is if you actually think about it and aren’t fixated on them having to be national - there is no actual reason they have to be when they are incorporating multiple nationalities other than the nominal one.

[KhorneFlakez1337]

They never stopped adding fake vehicles, it just shifted from “obviously fake” to “made-up specs/variants”

[Raiden_Black]

Markovnikov’s rule

[Pheonix_RX01]

I eated it, and gaijin decided China needs it so probably going to them

[KhorneFlakez1337]

Why would they change the trees to not be national? The main trees nation is the name of the tree and the subtrees are part of that tree. Having subtrees doesn’t change the fact that the “Great Britain” tree is the British tree, or that the “France” tree is the French tree, etc…

Also, what title are you gonna give to the individual trees?

[TIGER_TANK_1]

Singapore - part of the sinosphere (geographically, culturally, and ethnicity) => goes to different TTs
Pakistan - Indo culture => goes to China

Note:Some degree of geopolitics is involved when it comes to adding a nation, this is unavoidable; That’s the reason the Devs are making a seperate Korea tree rather than having it in China or Japan. Same reason you won’t see India and Pakistan vehicles in one tree.

[KhorneFlakez1337]

Culture isn’t factored in when they add subtrees.

[Raiden_Black]

@kleinerPanzer

but how come the development team is so dead-set on adding Singapore in the first place?

Yea … Yugoslavia/Turkey/Poland/Brazil should get higher priority.
Me thinks, its coz ASEAN to China was already agreed internally (to appease fanbase or whatevs). It was phase by phase, starting with Singapore (balanced with Thai to JP).
But recent event(s) took things to different direction/outcome. Now they’ve got WiP assets and need to complete the implementation and move on to next assignment(s)/roadmap.

[TIGER_TANK_1]

I’m sure some of it is, and Singapore is geographically close to China.

[AlvisWisla]

Which was exactly 1 arguable vehicle: F-16AJ.
All others are exact specs as listed in preliminary manuals/final documentation.