Personally, I don’t see the point of it. For example, you’ve just researched a new tank, but you have to pay for both the tank and then the crew training cost:
What do you guys think? Should it be removed? Should it stay?
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I think it doesn’t have a purpose other than to make you spend more SL.
It should be removed.
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Definitely remove it
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If they remove it they would just have to add the cost to the vehicle instead.
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With how easy it is to get SL now, it’s fine.
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Fine with me, since it would let me move my vehicle slots around without paying.
I dont mind its existence, moreso the fact that it is only for that one crew slot.
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This is the same of asking Wargaming to remove module grind to be able to unlock the next vehicle in the line. No. But comparing to World of Tanks, this price could be used as boost to give more crew XP, but I doubt it will make into the game at some point.
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In my opinion, crew training cost should be a one-time purchase, that makes up a greater portion of the vehicle cost.
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In my eyes it’s allowing you to buy vehicles at a “cheaper price” if you don’t want to play them. If the training cost was removed entirely, that’d be good, but knowing gaijin they’d just add it to the buy cost.
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At a bare minimum, Expert/Ace costs need to be reduced significantly, with expert/ace tied to the vehicle not the slot
If it were me. Id change:
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Expert cost be 2x the crew training cost and not be the vehicle purchase cost (this overall would roughly halve the SL cost and it makes more sense having those 2 things tied together)
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Reduce the GE cost for ACE, at very least, by 10-20% its too high currently but also more importantly reduce the RP cost for free ACE by around 50%. Id also have RP contribute towards ACE even if you dont have expert purchased ( I dont beleive it counts currently) so that is a lot of potential extra RP you need to farm with the aircraft
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Have expert/ace tied to the vehicle or failing that, have a purchasable token (and third tier) that ties it the vehicle rather than the slot (this could be the current cost if the aforementioned changes were implemented)
As an additional area for imporovement. The current crew skills themselves need a rework. At a bare minimum, they need to improve the clarity of what each skill actually does within game, but also re-balance the impact of certain skills. Skills like G-Lock for aircraft and reload/repair speed for tanks have to great of an impact on the overall performance of a vehicle and this creates a definitive pay-to-win aspect.
You also have the issue of skills becoming entirely irrelevant, like those that deal with AI gunners for bombers (not that they actually work currently, but that is a seperate issue altogether) but rather that most modern aircraft dont have gunners. So perhaps have different crew skill trees for aircraft with and without gunners, or at the very least, past a certain BR where they dont exist. (this could be for things like the navigator skill)
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Yes but I would rather pay an additional 300,000 to the tank cost than 200,000 per crew
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I bought the AV8B and it costs 1.6 mill to expert!
This cant be right… doesnt top tier crew cost less?
Its garaged now anyway after they put air spawn its useless. But still very spenny when you have paid real money…
Definitely needs to go, it serves no purpose, specially at higher tiers where vehicles go for over a million SL.
I feel like a good solution would be to have a “free crew training” feature that takes a couple of days for it to apply and SL training should be an option for getting your hands on the vehicle instantly.
Like you know, most F2P games do when it comes to progression, Clash of clans is like that.
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Just a superfluous and unnecessary penalty for no reason other than to encourage you to buy SL with GE.
Yes, I know, we’re all SL billionaires sitting on mountains and mountains of SL. That doesn’t make what I said any less true.
99% of the people who play this game aren’t us.
Definitely remove it. At higher BRs it’s highway robbery. You pay over a million for a tank. Ok fine it’s a high br tank fine. Then you pay almost the same amount AGAIN just to put it in your lineup? You’re just buying it twice. Stupid.
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But this is Gaijin. If they did that, the free progressive training would take an interminable amount of time and the SL training would have all their prices increased dramatically. Or worse; replaced with GE. Please don’t give them ideas.
True… free repairs already take upwards of 2 weeks! 14 DAYS to be able to play a damaged vehicle, I’m aware that is a mostly “forgotten” feature and nobody is insane enough to wait for that long.
But nothing is set in stone, I feel like 10 days or 7 days is fair enough for high tier vehicles and lower tiers should be somewhere in between. Skill bonus and daily RP bonus for reaching top tier are signs that they can play nice sometimes, so I’d be hopeful if a feature like that would come to the game.
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And your tank is crap (in many cases) until you pay for the upgrades as well.
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it 100% should. You can make an argument for it being a 1 time cost, but it should just be removed from the game
i literally have a hundred lineups that i would like to change/re-arrange, but i dont, because it would cost SL, which is retarded and annoying
- now add in the fact that they are Constantly changing the BR of vehicles, so we are Forced to adjust lineups, so they are effectively forcing us to repay the training cost on vehicles, and screwing us over
its absurd and annoying (also to clarify i have Tons of SL, its just the principle of pissing them away for moving vehicles around, when it should be Free)
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Paying for training doesn’t bother me, what really bothers me is that every time I change the crew vehicle I have to pay for the training again and the crew’s specialization, if I have to pay, at least pay it once.
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I’d even accept a “training cost reduces per crew already trained in the vehicle” - just say the one crew that you paid full-cost for is part of the trainers for the new crew if you need a lore reason or whatever.
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