With how “Bad” some premiums and how insufficient premium time can be, I am proposing a way to at least make people willing to spend money outside of the premium sale window.
War thunder has known coupon for a long time. usually for vehicle acquired from shop or event. right now it’s limited to these two features. but what if Coupon was a purchasable consumable sold in the web or in-game?
This feature will work as a tier-based consumable, where a single purchase of this consumable will enable you to ascend a tech tree vehicle, unlocked or not, a premium vehicle status. as by premium I meant more than just talisman, but granting it all the feature from premium, GE or Store alike (without the store pack bundle like Prem time and GE of course) to that Tech tree vehicle.
With that being said, an impasse in what vehicle that qualifies now exist, that is whether to allow any vehicle from the TT of the coupon rank, or whether it apply only to unlocked vehicle. as of now the best approach will be to allow all vehicle, unlocked or not, to be unlocked with the coupon, like buying a regular premium vehicle. of course this will still disable any research to a vehicle next to it if the rank research or vehicle before the couponed vehicle has not been purchased.
the coupon will also unlock all modification on the vehicle, just like how you get a premium vehicle, aside from the usual premium economic treatment of higher RP and SL reward, very low repair cost, and cheap crewing cost.
I believe that this would mitigate the issue of always having to create new premium to fill the demand of “vehicle that are actually workable and worth the money” and enable gaijin to focus more on adding unique tech tree vehicle that would make user experience more pleasant even if just a little.
So its safe to say that OP doesnt mean SL nor RP talisman, but entirely separate option to turn a TT vehicle into fully premium vehicle with all the SL and RP bonuses and research rank bonuses etc.
Ohhh alright I see the scope of his suggestion now, and while I doubt it’ll ever happen, I think there could be a case to be made for additional benefits of talismans (or as i’ve seen in the past, different tiers of talismans at different price points)
With how Gaijin monetization model center around player frustratrion, you can just chalk the fact that you can’t test drive those vehicles as the “downside”. because let’s be real, even after test drive, some vehicle still gives you buyer remorse. like, HEAVY buyer remorse.
I still haven’t recovered from that J-7D purchase. I mastered that thing, could get aces on a whim, know how to use GSh-23 in duel, makes a lot of SL from it.
And I still reel at the thought of me buying that thing back in 2023 when Mirage, Draken, Junk Phantom, Turkish 104, 4EJ ADTW was on sale. Horrible as they were the tree was much more developed later down the line.
Maybe that much will be the downside of buying that outright vs buying outright premium. That is if Gaijin even cares about premium at all. if not there’s possibility that they can use this model as their “premium vehicle” monetization model while moving ALL premium vehicle (not event) to TT later down the line while giving plane that past buyer has bought some more bonus to compensate for the purchase.
There’s a difference to making just enough to buy/crew the vehicles, and enough to do that and expert crews, so I’m fully in support of SL talismans and the like
Talisman doesn’t change research efficiency. If you’re content with the one rank up down efficiency, then suffer in silence. It’s not like I’m proposing nerf.
Beside, why do you care if I want Hunter F.6 or A-10C instead of F-5C / Draken XS to be my premium grinder anyway? I’m not making your life harder.
Sounds like you’re the one suffering. I don’t want TT vehicles to be able to grind out entire trees. I don’t like people just sitting in a high tier premium and grinding out the whole tree. Try using the TT vehicles at each BR, each rank.
So you just want to suffer for the sake of it? Life is not hard enough for you? get a flight to Eswatini.
Let’s be real here. there’s not enough gameplay variance to justify grinding rank 3-6 anymore. all the fun in that tier has been sucked out by the fact that all of that is just a train of monotony until the introduction of radar missile with working radar at 11.3. On tank it’s even worse with HE Howitzer creeping up to 4.0 range and 6.0 upwards vehicle that can be categorized as oversized M41, some amount of oversized IS-2 or Wirbelwind with working gun and method to lead the target.
And the way you make your point kinda makes it sounds like you don’t want to play top tier either so why even bother? Again, the way premium being played in GRB right now is still going on whether this Idea exist or not. that’s on Gaijin for making top tier premium comes with free respawn/comes in a pack of 3. Not my responsibility.
lol, you’re playing a grind based game. It’s all part of it. It’s a core element of the game. So no, I’m not about making that grind as easy as it can be. The grind is easy enough as it is.
Disagree.
So you only like top-tier and just want to make it easy to get there. I see.
Go play Arma if you want no grind. They’ll gift wrap you all the vehicles you could ever want.
It’s a generational thing, i guess. You guys want instant gratification. I grew up with games like Navyfield. This game has been out since 2012. It’s not going anywhere. It doesn’t matter how busy your life is. Doesn’t matter if you’re studying, working, bogged down with other hobbies. If the grind takes you years, so be it. All part of the fun. The more time you lot spend making topics like these the less time you’re working on the grind. Anyway, the subject bores me, so I’m going to go play some of this game we all love.