That would fall down for exactly the same reason. Because established players who have invested in those crew point advantages would hate it. Sealclubbing has its constituency, and they pay a lot more into this game than the average player. It’s just simply not a political option here, any more than my proposal was.
I’ve put GE into my crews (the time spent at work to earn that money is worth the improved QoL playing the game, for me) and I’d be entirely fine with the grind being eased, ideally by an order of magnitude. I simply want what’s best for the playerbase.
People with “I had it rough so you should have it rough too” (and similar) attitudes are best ignored.
Reducing the crew skill grind is one of the most requested and consistently-supported things in War Thunder; trying to play devil’s advocate here is either arguing for the sake of arguing, or being wildly out of touch.
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All you have to do is read up this thread to see that’s not exactly true. Other than in the no-brainer sense we’d all like to pay less in terms of time to increase our crew skills than we do now, there’s no consistency in player feelings on this point at all. Look at any thread here where someone says that experienced plane crews’ high-g limits give established players a huge advantage in high-rank air and the reaction that gets for more evidence.
It’s not playing devil’s advocate to say that the core successful business model of WT for the last decade has been feeding a steady stream of newb players to the established paying ones to feed upon. Same as a lot of F2Ps, really. The idea that that paying long-term playerbase universally would want to see their advantages over new players in any way reduced, once gained, or that Gaijin has any commercial interest in wanting to reduce them and risk losing those players, is what seems out of touch here. No one makes money enough to pay the bills by “simply wanting what’s best” for others.
(Player level itself is still a nearly-meaningless stat for these purposes though. If you’re going to look at people’s player cards for a sealclubbing indicator, relative position% or average score/game are much more useful ones.)
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If I grinded for my vehicles I have the right to play them, if I’m condemned to top tier I rather uninstall the game
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This would potentially lead to people harassing them in the game saying you lev 100 yet you door “poorly” in matches.
I’m currently lvl 69, i love trying out new trees as it allows me to experience different teammates
Plus I won’t get much kills anyway because of my play style i might die in a few seconds.
Plus how else must i ace lower br vehicles.
I’m a Japanese main, i have br 9.0-9.3 in it
I played a bit of germany, france, sweden, italy, usa to try out their vehicles - GE/FR are 6.7 rest stuck at 2.7 for now.
I’m just more comfortable with 4.7 to 6.7 more than 9.3
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Adapt, improvise, overcome.
There would always be those who are better than you, better learn how to play and don’t complain.
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Unfortunately people see this as a problem when actuality, it’s an opportunity. An opportunity to learn from more experience players, and become a better player themselves.
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Level 100 players (not squads as much) in ARB: never really any complaints.
Level 100 players in GFRB: OMG THIS IS SO UNFAIR.
As a player mainly for GFRB I never quite understand this.
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And again level doesn’t mean a lot in WT.
I got to level 100 with planes even before there were any tanks in WT. So when I startetd playing with tanks I got inexperienced ground crews, stock vehicles and 0 map knowledge.
Someone may be 100 level today which he got from naval battles and he may tomorrow switch from naval to ground forces with zero ground experience.
Experience matters more than level does.
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I saw a guy playing at 6 br with a Tiger at level 7 .I didn’t know you could do that.
That is really strange. Only solution might be he bought way to it with GE through real money.
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There are more “whales” than you could possibly imagine in this game (I know someone who spent 2 million golden eagles to get to the top tiers with a fresh account); a Tiger at level 7 is really insignificant compared to that.
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Me who bought every German Premium ground vehicle except for two Copy Paste ones, has Object 279, IS-7, KV-220, Ba-11, PakPuma, TIS-MA, VT1-2, Excelsior, Sturmtiger, C2A1 Mexas etc. And has 90k GE for SL conversion to gamble on Lootboxes AND is currently slowly saving up 2000 GJN on the Market to get E100:
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It’s nice to know those who spend money on this game even have a derogatory title : )
Eh, I carry it with honor and pride.
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The thing is, most players have different perceptions of what low BR is.
Man, and I thought my spending habits with this game were bad… lmao
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I have a few myself ,in fact most German of WW2 ,I can waste just as much on a night out ,drinking eating or going to the cinema.I have nothing to show for my money either way.
Only time I regret spending is when Gaijin make me regret it by nerfing what I bought and messing with the fundamentals of the game that have been the same for years.
Anyway back on topic ,the whole Idea of so many at low level in high levels of the game and scoring high kind of makes this OP moot as a point.
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