Gaijin Needs to Stop Placing Stock Missiles on the Pylons that later upgrades will come to

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Constantly when upgrading vehicles near top tier I find myself running into this issue. Gaijin gives you stock IR and Radar missiles now which is good right? Except when you do finally unlock a missile mod to give you more missiles, they often ONLY go where said stock missiles are located so you can’t actually expand your missile loadout. Here is an example with the Su-30

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Here I have the 2 stock R-73s and 2 stock R-77-1s and I’ve also added 2 R-27ETs as I was allowed to once I got the mod. However, notice this:

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I unlocked the next mod, which is the R-73, so I should have 4x R73, 2x R27ET, and 2x R-77-1 right?

No, I still have this loadout:

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because when you go to place the R-73s, you find gaijin has lovingly put the R-77-1s where the other R-73s normally go so you aren’t capable of using the new R-73s without completely throwing away your R-77-1s until you unlock that mod.

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They did this with the F-15J(M) too, where unlocking the earlier missiles does not allow you to actually add them because they would go on the pylons the stock missiles take up.

Gaijin needs to consider mod progression when they implement these stock missiles and put the stock missiles on the pylons that would cause the least issue with adding newer missiles as you unlock them through the modification tree.

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Edit: misunderstood the main post.

The missiles are located on pylons where they can be carried IRL, it’s isn’t a balance thing or a “DEV’s choice” thing. If you have proof they the missiles can be carried on other pylons by that aircraft then you can make a historical report for it. :)

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My guy, the R-77-1 can go on all but two pylons on the Su-30. It does not need to take up a R-73 pylon or a R-27ET pylon to do so. In the F-15J(M)'s case it was also avoidable.

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Then i have misunderstood your main post and apologise.

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The issue here, from that I see, that on release R-77-1 were placed under engines (there it can be carried), but then for some reasons moved on outer pylons (still can be carrier there), but here they are conflicting with T2 module R-73, taking 2 out of 6 missiles

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Players* demanded this, this wasn’t Gaijin’s sole decision.

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Not a soul asked for stock missiles to be placed specifically in places where later upgrades go.