It’s because by-and-large the game mode is heavily skewed by farmers / grinders and players that use whatever the most OP thing possible is for the day of the week…and people that leave games as soon as things get a little bit challenging.
The majority of sim players win more than half of their games. The largest subset of the player-base has a 70%+ win rate…and this is in a game mode where the average kills per fly-out is basically less than .2
The vast majority of the sim player-base as far as Gaijin is concerned are the PVE bots.
They could just make it harder to do that… like say make AI actually able to shoot missiles and can shoot people down if they’re zombie space climbing… just sayin
It would encourage players to play in the most passive way possible and encourage a play style that takes zero risks. It would also encourage people to only play overpowered vehicles to an even greater extent that they already do. It would also encourage people to create more games so that they can play against ground objectives with even less risk from player controlled fighters.
Your suggestion would take everything that is bad about the game mode and amplify it.
There is zero benefit to taking risks in your idea.
The best way to grind rewards in it would be zombing in a fast bomber that cannot be caught by any of the fighters at the bracket. Or playing PvE in mostly empty rooms on big maps.
Exactly. Why would I play sim if I might not even get enough to cover my spawn cost when I am doing good, if I die without landing. And potentially getting nothing for bailing out in enemy territory will just not end well.
and if you zomb and die you get nothing. Simpel as to solve the bot and zombie player problem. Looks like you dont want to fix the problem for good. Just cry. If your to scared to play then you should stop.
The problem has to be solved on its root or else it will come back and get worse. Again and Again.
The problem is that it is easy to get a positive balance in sim even if you lose. Not much effort is needed.
Hence it gets exploitet.
Hence its easy to send in bots as the task they need to perform is easy and fast to code. Fly from A to B and rince and repeat. For boters it matters not if you make +1sl or +1000sl, they dont play. They run the game 24/7. They can do it all day long. Brain dead players too.
So you need to make it teadius and complicated. From a programing pov and from a effort put in. Even from a mathematical pov. You callculate your SL/RP earinings in hour gain the more ceratin that number is and higher the more lucatrive it becomes. That number is to be unceratain.
Humans are like eletricity, will alwas go the way of less resistance. So are bots.
You can do the lazy thing and simply change rewards so much that it impossible to get a postive balance, bots simply will rest untill those changes are reverted. As it was done in the past and the exploiting will begin again. legit players are punsihed as they rest there play too.
The goal is to destroy the “explotation” in ways that is immersive and fits the narative of the game mode without punshing leggit players while making hell for expoliters boters and so forth.
I have to say that if your target is not to come back to base, land after you performd you task you are part of the problem.
Hence sim EC needs a rework. No more rng targts showing up like in a sand box. selection of missions, cleare goals, rewards and payouts on survival.
Tasks can be shared in platoons. Many missions. From cap to cas escort and so forth. Not just hop in bomb and go. Thats somthing for RB random matches.
It needs that in addition to many changes and expansions.
Ask your self, why to people bot and exploit sim ec?
Is it because its such a fun game mode?
Is it because they want the uniqe flavor and diffrences of the airplanes?
is it because its easyer to get SL/RP in sim then in any other game mode?
Because it is easy to write a script and gain rewards in a more passive way. It isn’t that the rewards are good (anymore), but rather that it is easy and safe to do so.
Your proposal only supports them, since people would just avoid combat if it meant losing the majority or all of their rewards.
Zombers suiciding into airfields is only something that comes up during event times. Zombers that are exploiting the current rewards system will land their plane.
Your suggestion doesn’t solve that problem…it just punishes players for playing PvP.
It’s easy to get a positive balance if you are playing PvE in a mostly empty lobby. If you are playing PvP without premium time and at higher tiers…you have to maintain a better than 2:1 kill to death ratio to break even.
Botters exploit the lobby creation system. They are not something that most players run into on a regular basis.
Zombers on the other hand are typically player controlled…anyone that has played during an event would know this because they get really upset when you kill them and will react in chat to it.
And there are multiple content creators that have created guides for how to use bomber to grind score during events.
Your suggestion punishes active players. We already have spawn costs that provide a disincentive for dying. It’s such a strong disincentive that most players will not stick around in games where they are dying too often to PvP actions.
My most common win condition at top tier isn’t from completing more objectives…it’s from killing every player in the enemy team until they decide to quit the game.
Your suggestion just lowers that bar even further where the only people that would be gaining anything are players that explicitly look for empty or unbalanced games. Or players that run to their airfield in the most OP thing in the bracket because someone started to win a dogfight.
My goal is to fight other players.
If you think the goal of the game is simply to complete a task and return to base… congratulations you share the exact same logic as the players that exploit the rewards system during events and try to enforce PvE-Only lobbies.
Under your system…declaring a truce and only completing objectives in order to safely return to base would be the best way to exploit the game mode.
How is punsihing palyers? One will surrive and get the reward. The other guy got shot down. So where is the problem?
your goal is cry, in no post i said you should not play. The reward system would be diffrent and if you come back home you get what you earnd and ho crashes or gets shot down gets maybe somthing? I dont get your point. At all. Bombing bases is playing teh agme, shoot other players is part of the game. Now it matters not if you get hoome back or not. So its even more easy to exploit. It matters what pilot skill you got. Just fly streight foward, spam all guns missles or whate ver untill you get a kill adn if you die or not what ever.
I would even go further and force players to taxi instead of let them spawn on the run way. Have multiple airlefds with diffrent layouts and punish monitarly the players abusing wrong take off and landing paths.
The simplicity of WT Sim is its greatest enemy.
The more complex and close the real life the harder it gets to be exploitet.
You are punishing players who do PvP, and try and play sim. You can’t punish zombers by reducing rewards for anyone who tries to actually play the game.
Is spending 17k SL to spawn, getting several kills, and then dying, really deserve 1/10th of the original rewards? and god forbid they crash in enemy territory.
Your suggestion makes it much more viable to base bomb in a fast aircraft since there is less risk of being shot down.
When you punish players for dying, you force them to do low risk things. If PvP becomes high risk, people just wouldn’t do it. Why would I risk losing nearly all of my rewards in a dogfight, when I can just take a Ju-288 and bomb bases and stuff for 2 hours.
I should be rewarded for contributing to the game and doing useful actions. Whether I make it back to base shouldn’t be the deciding factor for how much I am rewarded.
This would be the highest risk job you could do bomb bases in enemy terrory so why would you do that if you want a save income? Are you telling me that after all those changes, flying a bomber alone in to enemy tretorry where enemy interceptors would be waiting because its to dangours to fly and camp enemy airiflds becomes safe? How?
Yes it should, not jsut how much SL you get but how much RP and crew skill points you get. It would put a incentive on actualy flying the whole mission not just 50% of it. Would even requiere some planing and put the whole journy in to advatoures expirance. Why just pay attention untill you drop the bomb and just bail?