We aren’t talking about Graphics.
Extra points can also be earn by registering more hits, the other day I caught this player having his ass stick out of a building, so I start shooting it and caught the engine and it set on fire, so I repeatedly shoot it with machine gun and continue to hit its engine and tracks, two minutes later his vehicle is destroyed I think he went through both the fire extinguishers bro and I accumulated around 600sp from the hit counts and killing him, almost ran out of ammo though lol
Seriously.
Why does my f4u-2b costing 12k to spawn in sim?! Even the f86 sabre is cheaper there, while the f2h2 banshee costs 15k.
The repair costs legit dont make sense. It is like they hit a peak at tier 4 and 5 for high cost low sl reward and then it gets better.
Not a clue. I don’t believe for a second that there are a large majority of players in superprops just teamwiping everyone.
When some win, the others have to lose. How will the F4U make any money if killed by a Ta-152 for example?
That’s almost always been the case for whatever reason. Back before repair costs were reduced the most expensive tanks were all rank IV/V, with stuff like the Lorraine 40t being 22k, and the Char25t being 15k to repair. It is extremely apparent in sim, since repair costs jump from 5-8k to 10k+ very quickly.
Give this a read. It has some outdated elements (it does not have severe damage for aircraft), but seems to be mostly in line with my experiences.
Kinda the opposite in my opinion.
War Thunder or Gaijin specifically are deconstructing the History and roots of the Game by having removed or plan to remove unique vehicles for dubious reasons like historical accuracy while adding more and more of the same bland modern vehicles, redesigning the maps into high octane Call of Duty brawling lobbies, making entire vehicle types and gameplay approaches unviable, amomg many more examples.
Since approx. 2019 with the culling of three certain German Tanks, the developers forced the Game to “grow up” too quickly, leading to completely ridicolous Era mixing and messed up Balance, one death leaving due to the Advertisement of the Modern ERA coupled with the aforementioned COD brawling maps and the inflation of Store bundle prices to up to 75 bucks, for example.
It is not War Thunder that is showing its age, but Gaijin, the Devs and workers behind it.
And I am not refering to the good Kind of age that could attain wisdom and competence, perhaps also compassion. But the bureaucratic Type, where they are stuck in outdated and no longer acceptable ways, because in the administrative branch we have the saying: “This is how we’ve always done it, so we will keep it this way.”
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Whilst i agree to most of your views the answer to your question is imho obvious.
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The wording “superprops” is attached to very late or postwar aircraft which mostly never saw combat or scored an air kill. And the “super” refers mainly to engine performance based on 115/130/150 octane fuel - and not to superior design.
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Technically seen we have just 3 non-US WW 2 superprops: the Mk 22 Spitfire, the Ta 152 H and the Fiat G 56, whilst just the first 2 saw combat and scored kills. The rather poor USSR late war and post war designs excel in Air RB mostly due to too low BRs and insane mid to low alt performance like the post war Yak-3U.
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The rest of the so called superprops were US made and scored (except the F4U-4b) not a single kill in WW 2. Even the BR 5.0 P-51 D-30 scored not a single kill.
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So the comparably high repair cost have to be seen as balancing factor - a lot of experienced players rack up kills like there is no tomorrow, but masses of untrained players drag their BRs artificially lower than it should be. The plane performs too good to see a further lowering of the BR, so gaijin tries to increase the repair cost to create a kind of deterrence for newer players.
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Thx to the player revolt in May 2023 we saw a general reduction of repair cost, but you might remember the days when you needed 3 kills to cover your own repair cost. Planes like the G 56 or the Ta 152 C had repair cost of ~ 50.000 SL and the B-28 had 74.000 SL repair cost at BR 6.3…
Have a good one!
PS: You see the proof of my hypothesis if you check out Italian WW 2 props - they have all one thing in common: Too high BRs with rather poor plane performance and comparably high repair cost compared to adversaries at the same BR - but their pilots are able to close the performance gap with skill.
Have a good one!
Big issue there is in sim, where your maximum earnings are capped. In ARB, you get get 3-4 kills for 33k SL/match - way outscaling your repair costs (especially once you realize that if you get critted/ignited/severe damaged irrecoverably - J-ing out gives you max repair cost while waiting until you hit the ground only gives you like 6-7k - less than you get for 1 kill or an assist if you die early. One of many systems rewarding the inverse of expected/realistic behaviour…) However, in air sim you stop receiving rewards after 600 score which caps at ~18000 SL if you survive the full 15 minutes and return to base to repair.
This leads to the vicious cycle of spawn in at 12k spawn cost in the F4U-4B, get 2 kills and then run away and afk on your airfield for 15 minutes. Taking any risk after those 2 kills means you lose money, as you lose the ~20% landing reward and whatever proportion was left in the 15 minutes if you die. This can lead to anti-team gameplay, as in my P-51 cannon mustang I am not punished for going to help a friendly who calls for help even with a maxed score - spawn cost is 3K, max pay is like 9k or so, thus surviving just 7 minutes will offset the costs while in the -4B I will have to consider the fact that I’ll likely go negative into SL if I risk myself for the friendly.
It’s the capped PvP rewards that cause a lot of issues for rank 4/rank 5 planes because even if planes are balanced with repair costs, such only works if you can actually make the plane work for you.
The score cap is that low? That’s incredibly stupid, no wonder my earnings were trash despite getting 6 kills and 9 ai kills in 50 minutes. I spawned 4 times, and I only gained 800sl when the match ended.
I’ve just been ignoring the system since I already have plenty of SL, and I just want to play the game without trying to optimize for rewards.
I see 600/800 thrown around usually.
Useful Action cycles:
Landings:
Max reward possible for P-51H: 1210/min. For 15 mins, that comes out at 18150.
At 1:55:19, I survived full 15 minutes with 1025 score and got 13222 SL, this is in ballpark of ~73% of the 18150 calculated. Then I landed and got 3.3K SL, which is ~18% of the 18150. Both are actually a bit below 80% and 20%. This also means that apparently ~9% of the reward is missing.
At 1:10, I survived full 15 minutes with 454 score and got 11477. This is 63%, landing represents 2869/18150 = 16%.
It seems a bit more complicated than a flat-out “score caps at 600”, but it seems to effectively cap there.
According to the original thread, Rewards for useful actions in the aviation SB mode - Simulator Battle Discussion - War Thunder - Official Forum
There is less of a “maximum score” and more the fact that it seems they use activity% for calculating useful action reward. Based on data in this post (Report on how scores, SL, and RP rewards are calculated), activity% is not a linear function and rather seems to have a maximum.
"ARB activity as function of score and time
On further research (Community Bug Reporting System), it appears that the 600 score consensus I’ve seen posted before is effectively a soft cap, 800 is also a soft cap. However, due to the non-linear way activity is calculated you will never exceed 92% activity no matter what score you earn.
ASB activity as a function of score against 15 minute survival
This also explains where the 9% of my reward went. Naturally, the bug reporting manager closed it as “not-a-bug”, so being unable to get 100% of your reward looks intended.
The max SL pay-out, it turns out, is even less than the theoretical maximum from the stat cards!
Some planes' reward% at 2k, 1k, 800 and 600 scores
This also explains why the belief that 600 is the max score has been something I’ve read stated and believed as truth. You receive 86% of the reward at 600 score, getting 800 gives you 90% and 1000 gives you 2%.
Quoting from the guy who did the researches:
200 points = 54% reward
400 points = 75% reward
600 points = 86% reward
800 points = 90% reward
1050+ points = 92% reward
Thus “2 kills and you effectively cap your reward” is true for practical purposes.
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