Rules, Guidelines & Tips For Creating Suggestions (Check Before Creating A New Suggestion!)

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Note: If a thread does not pass the approval process, it’s up to the poster to contact the Suggestion Moderation team for further details and if requested a copy. We are more then happy to assist where needed.

Updated the rules: 08-03-2025

bookGeneral Rules:

When submitting a suggestion, there are some basic rules to comply with. By following them, you can easily get your point across and improve the overall structure of your suggestion:

1) Clearly title your suggestion

Having a title such as “Some suggestions” doesn’t tell us, or anyone else, clearly what your idea is. Please aim to be as specific as possible.

2) Write your suggestion in English

All suggestions and replies to suggestions must be written in English or include an english translation so everyone can understand you. If you’re not that good with English, write to the best of your abilities or use machine translations and include your native language.

3) Include as much information as possible

When making a suggestion, it’s best to explain your idea and show it to everyone. Stating that you would like “This” or “That” without justification or explanation doesn’t really help anyone. Think of it like pitching an idea, you want to win people over, not make a statement. Please don’t submit suggestions that don’t contain any information as that is not much use and isn’t really presentable to anyone.

4) Always include a picture

When relevant, always try to include images, especially for vehicles. Letting people see what you’re talking about helps immensely. It also adds to presentation value.

5) Stay opinion free

Suggestions are for constructive and beneficial ideas and additions, not for raging and ranting over existing or suggested content. Any instance of ranting/raging will not be tolerated.

6) Include a poll in your suggestion

Having a poll as part of your suggestion allows fellow users to quickly and easily show support for your idea. Besides the obvious convenience for other users, it also provides a good general overview of the support your idea garners over time.

7) Create polls that don’t include a “Negative” or “No” answer

While polls offer a good and simple way for individuals to quickly express their stance on a subject, without having to elaborate it in detail, there are ways to manipulate polls to always show a desired result. To avoid having an unfair voting system, make sure to always include a negative option to a question so that it’s fair and unbiased.

8) Submit a new thread on an existing topic

If someone before you has already submitted the same idea you have, please refrain from posting your version of the idea in a separate thread. Instead, use the existing thread to share your thoughts and opinions with others there. This way, we can avoid having several discussions on the same subject in multiple places. Please look at the correct list before starting a new suggestion.

9) Suggestions should contain only 1 proposal per thread

When submitting any type of suggestion, refrain from combining multiple different ideas into a single suggestion. Doing so can cause issues when only a single part of your suggestion is implemented. For example, a single suggestion is created for spawn point changes and map rotation changes. However only one of the two ideas ends up being implemented, this now has created the issue of either moving the suggestion to implemented and blocking off the second part of the suggestion from being resuggested or leaving it open while it still is already partially implemented. To prevent issues like this from happening please break up your ideas in individual suggestions. For vehicles, what can be combined as a Family suggestion or will be considered a Bundle please look here. (Link)

10) Include the nation you want your suggestion to go to in the title

When submitting a vehicle/sub-tree suggestion, be sure to refrain from adding your preferred implementation nation in the title. While we welcome all poll options, adding it to your title only makes it appear to be the sole option. To prevent any unnecessary off-topic arguements any title that contains such preferences will be edited to remove them.

11) Change your tags after your suggestion has been approved

While it’s possible for a user to change their tags after a suggestion has been approved, doing so breaks multiple sorting methods that are being used in the suggestion section. Any suggestion that after approval has the national tags changed to another nation will be removed. If you want a tag changed or name corrected please PM one of the Suggestion Moderators instead.

nu Please Do NOT :

Naturally, there are also a few things you should try to avoid at all times. Those things are the following:

Submit a suggestion more than once

Suggestions have to be reviewed and approved. This takes time, so please don’t double post a suggestion because you thought you didn’t post it or it was removed. You can see your pending suggestions under your profile > Activity > Pending.

Create suggestions regarding individual Battle Ratings, Ranking, Current Vehicle/Crew/Repair/Modification/Ammo Costs

All of these figures are carefully calculated by taking into account many different parameters. Should significant changes to these figures be made, developers usually ask for feedback in the respective official topic, share your ideas on these matters there. For overhauls please read the Economy rules (Link).

Create “bump” posts in existing suggestions

When replying to an existing suggestion, post only relevant content that is directly contributing to its discussion. Posting “bump”, “up” or similar useless posts, with the sole intention of giving the thread more exposure by getting it to the first page, is considered as spam and is not allowed.

Copy-Paste entire sections from 3rd party websites for use in your suggestion

While we welcome a copy-paste for things like vehicle specs, please do not simply copy-paste entire 3rd party pages (e.g. various wikis and encyclopedias) as this is not only seen as taking little interest in your own suggestion, but is also considered as plain plagiarism.

Submit a suggestion for theoretical / “paper” / fictional vehicles

War Thunder is a game about military vehicles, ranging from well-known to obscure experimental vehicles and unfinished prototypes. One thing all these vehicles have in common however, is that they existed “in flesh” in some form. As fictional and blueprint vehicles only existed on paper, thus contradicting the authenticity of real vehicles present in the game, submitting a suggestion on one such vehicle will not be approved. (Link)

Submit suggestions related to internationally recognized extremists organizations

While War Thunder is a game about military vehicles, suggestions for content that are related to these groups won’t be accepted under any circumstance.

IMPORTANT: Any new suggestion thread that does not follow the above rules will not be approved.

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vic Specific Rules for Vehicle Suggestions:

Before suggesting a new vehicle, please ensure you have done the following:

  • Check the respective list of previously suggested vehicle ideas according to the vehicle you wish to suggest. Unique lists can be found for each nation and vehicle type in their respective sub-sections. Anything already suggested will not be approved again.

When suggesting a new vehicle that has not been previously suggested, your thread MUST contain the following:

1) Clear and relevant title specifically naming the vehicle or vehicle family you are suggesting

2) At least one or more images/photographs

3) Basic background and historical info on the vehicle, such as relevant construction or operational information

4) Unclassified specifications and performance data for the vehicle, its weapons or the system

5) List of at least two relevant unclassified sources where the vehicle/weapon is covered

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eco Specific Rules for Matchmaking, Economy & Progression Suggestions:

Before suggesting a idea related to Matchmaking, Economy and Progression, please ensure you follow these specific rules:

1) Fundamental Changes Only

While we won’t accept any submissions asking for changes in individual BRs, prices & costs, reward gains and similar, we do welcome suggestions that propose fundamental changes and overhauls of currently in place systems. For example, instead of suggesting to change a single vehicle’s BR (Please do this in the BR feedback posts), you may instead suggest to change the way BRs are assigned to vehicles in general.

2) Content Quality

Matchmaking, Economy and Progression are three very complex and serious aspects of War Thunder. Therefore, submitting suggestions on these specific subjects isn’t as easy as submitting other suggestions. Only well-written, highly detailed and elaborate suggestions will be approved, whilst submissions such as “Pls increase SL & RP gain for…” will simply be discarded. Serious subjects require serious dedication.

3) Content Type

Although things like BR and Repair costs fall under these labels, suggestions on individual system-calculated parameters will not be accepted as they are subject to constant change. Feedback for these changes is to be given in the respective feedback threads for economical changes when available.


IMPORTANT: Any thread that does not comply with the points above will not be approved. We will only approve suggestions for changes to the Matchmaking, Economy and Progression if you show that you really understand the subject matter and that you put a lot of effort into your submission.

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paper Differentiating “Paper”/Fictional Vehicles from (unfinished) Prototypes

Sometimes it’s easy to mistake an unfinished vehicle for a paper one, while at other times making that distinction becomes difficult due to personal interpretations. As these cases often result in a vehicle’s classification being subject to discussion, we’ve come up with a few simple suggestion specific guidelines to help users make this distinction easier and faster. Please refer to these guidelines when considering making a suggestion on a more obscure vehicle.

Reminder: Paper/Fictional vehicles will NOT be accepted as valid suggestions.

What constitutes a paper/fictional vehicle:

  • Vehicle only existed in blueprint/sketch drawing form
  • No major individual, vehicle-specific parts (i.e. guns, powerplants, etc.) of the vehicle were built
  • No parts unique to the vehicle were built
  • Vehicle is a completely made up, unofficial design created by an individual

If the vehicle you planned on suggesting meets the criteria above? In that case, it’s unfortunately a paper/fictional vehicle and as such won’t be accepted as a valid suggestion.

What constitutes an (unfinished) prototype can be either:

  • Vehicle was (partially) constructed
  • Vehicle-specific parts (i.e. guns, powerplants, etc.) were built
  • A hull was laid down

Does the vehicle you want to suggest meet the criteria above? In that case, you have a more obscure vehicle which at least in some capacity existed in the real world and is therefore a valid vehicle to be suggested.

Additional Notes

1) The main distinguishing feature between paper and non-paper vehicles is whether the vehicle in question itself or specific parts of it were already constructed at one point. For example, the hull of the E-100 was partially constructed and would thus be a valid suggestion, whereas the Ta 183 only existed as a wind tunnel scale model, thus not being a valid suggestion.

2) Do note that the Suggestion guidelines may differ from the vehicles that end up being implemented by the developers. When it comes to suggestions these guidelines will be used to enforce the rules.

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Sorting of vehicle related suggestions

vic Vehicles
Vehicles are primarily sorted by the nations that operated them, not by the Tech tree where the OP would like to see them implemented. This is done to both give credit to the nation that actually used the vehicle as well as centralize discussion about the vehicle in question. Of course there are always vehicles that were never operated by anyone, suggestions for these vehicles are just sorted by the nation that actually tested them. Following that, there are vehicles that were made for a nation but just before being delivered some type of intervention happened that caused them to not be delivered (E.G. the Israeli CL-13 or the Iranian Shir 2), these are just sorted by the nation that ordered them. Last but not least there are the vehicles that were made by a company and garnered so little international interest that nobody even tested them, these are just sorted by the nation that houses the company that made them.

As was mentioned at the beginning of this section, nations like Finland, South-Africa, Canada, etc. still fall under Other Nations, even with their implementation under in-game trees. At the same time we would also like to once more remind people that just because a nation operated alongside another nation or even under the other nation it’s command structure (E.G. 1st Canadian Army operating under the UK led 21st army group or the UK 1st Armoured Division under the US VII Corps.) These nations are still their own nation and as such are sorted by those nations. You are always allowed to add a poll question as to what in-game tree you would like a vehicle to be implemented though, this is purely up to the OP.


dakka Weapons
Weapons are sorted purely by the nation that built them (E.G. Aim-9J would go to the USA), if after being implemented the weapon is missing from vehicles that used it in regular service, this is a matter for the Bug Report section. However, If a vehicle used something on an experimental basis this obviously can be suggested!


fam Family or bundle
When submitting a vehicle suggestion like any any other type of suggestion refrain from proposing multiple different ideas at the same time. However, you can list multiple different variants of the vehicle if what you are suggesting a certain family of vehicles. While this can be rather complicated, we will provide a short example of what can be suggested and what is considered a bundle that won’t be accepted.

Allowed (Examples) Not Allowed (Examples)
A6M (General) A6M (General, If A6M5 Model 52 is already implemented)
A6M2 (General) A6M2 (General, If A6M2 Model 11 is already implemented)
A6M2 Model 11 A6M2 Model 11 & A6M3 Model 22
A6M3 (General) A6M3 Model 22 & A6M3 Model 32
A6M2 Model 11 (U.S.A.) A6M2 Model 11 (U.S.A.) & A6M2 Model 11 (China)
A6M5 Model 52 Otsu (721st Sentai) A6M5 Model 52 Otsu (721st Sentai) & A6M5 Model 52 Otsu (11th Sentai)
A6M5 Model 52 Otsu A6M5 Model 52 Otsu & A6M5 Model 52 Hei
A6M5 Model 52 A6M (General) & A6M6 Model 53 Hei
A6M3 (30mm) A6M3 (30mm) & A6M2 (Sen Baku)


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