[Would you like to see this kind of contributor rewards in game?]
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Currently there are a few programs where active comminity contributors can get rewards for their work (eg. Active Wikipedia Editors, Forum Moderators, Active Bug Reporters, etc) in the form of regular in game bonuses such as a title and some GE.
It is a really cool thing that gaijin is doing but what if the rewards were more unique? What if instead of GE, each type of contributor had their own reward in the form of a unique vehicle that is only available to whoever has managed to become a contributor with each type being different. (For example, there would be a different vehicle given to Technical Moderators than Forum Moderators, etc)
It could be a really unique and fun way to reward players that are active and helpful in the community with something unique that has no financial value, rather the time spent helping other members of the community.
These vehicles could be obscure WW2 prototypes in the middle BRs that would not really fit to be in the tech tree or premiums and wouldn’t affect the matchmaker in a significant way due to how few of them will be available (and an even lower number will actually see combat).
P.S. Sorry Forum, Technical, Suggestion, Wiki (and any other I that I forgot) Moderators for calling you just contributors, you do much more but I just needed a word to describe people that just help with the game.
I disagree with this suggestion btw (yes ik I’m a year late to the party). Decal rewards and stuff are cool, but I dislike the idea of unique vehicles. I like vehicles to be available to everyone. There is a vehicle that is given to Gaijin staff and some people who do forum stuff, it’s the LaGG-3-4 and it is the rarest vehicle in the game, but I have no clue what the exact requirements for getting it are. I’m a community helper and I certainly don’t have it. I think that more unique vehicles, especially WWII prototypes, as exclusives for helpers and moderators is bad because a) it makes more unique vehicles that should be available to everyone exclusives that are even more limited than event prizes by orders of magnitude, and b) it encourages people to game the system to try to get these contributor positions purely for the vehicles, which is bad. I think having the LaGG-3-4 as an exclusive for staff and people like that is fine, but I am highly against that system being expanded to other vehicles.
As a sidenote, I’d love to get my hands on the LaGG-3-4 someday, but I highly doubt I ever will.
it describes well my daring and aggressive playstyle in-game where I often deal a lot of damage really fast in most situations. sometimes even survive 1 vs 6. but not often.
beside it fits pretty well with the game
It would be even better if i could have it as an avatar in the player card and event more if i was the only one to have it.
they were rewarding it with a title and 1000 GE once a year for the top technical report. I got it too.
but I also made a lot of historical reports and put my own money to get information out of the archive for the sake of the game.
I work with a dozen different communities including the Swiss, French, German, Italian, Israeli, Chinese, Canadian, Russian, British, and South African. some more actively than others.
I also edited a handful of Wiki pages to add some details and historical information.
and if they gave me 10 GE for every suggestion I made and 100 GE for every suggestion I implemented, I would be owning some 25,000 GE right now.
in the old forum, I may have made around 2000 suggestions, and there are around 200 implemented. I long lost count, that is why I started to give a number to my suggestion. it’s just a count for my own curiosity.
but I would not mind if I got some unique ingame title or even be allowed to steal the nickname “Caid” who belongs to a player who played a single game in 2015 and never came back. so people will still call me “Cald” or “Canadian ID”
Yeah. Profile picture? Cool. Decals? Nice. Title? Alright. LaGG-3-4? Please Gaijin I’m begging you (I don’t want my rarest vehicle to be the damn Twitch drop Chi-Ha Kai). More vehicles? Hell no.
Agreed. The decision to only allow ingame profile pictures was so dumb.
Jesus Christ that’s a lot. I’m not even sure what to say here. Just oh my God that’s a huge amount of stuff.
Also does it count as putting a lot of work in if I write 90,000+ words for a year in review every year, but it doesn’t have a meaningful impact on the game?
The LaGG-3-4 is only for developers (that have done A LOT for the game, not just any developer). Something that would be more likely would be something like a sherman with unique 3D Decorations or vehicles really similar to their tech tree counterparts (Su-76D - Su-57B. Same chassis but different gun). A vehicle that would “fit” each community contributor role.
Since I saw Schnidbee (sorry if i misspelled your name) typing, a good example for Game Masters could be a Russian Police BTR-80
It’s not only for developers, other people with a lot of influence get it, but I’m also half joking here I know I won’t get it. I have like no influence and I know. I’m joking here.
Not really. Like, in my heart I’d love the strangest, most bizarre WWII prototype I can imagine. But fundamentally, I am anti-exclusivity and because of that I do not want more vehicles locked into this level of exclusivity.
Absolutely terrible idea. As soon as they offered real-money equivalent rewards for suggestions they will instantly change from ‘something people submit out of personal interest with the goal of getting some cool vehicles into game’ to ‘lets churn out as many bare-minimum suggestions as possible so I can buy the new pack for free’.
Someone would be making 100 different suggestions for shermans, with each one having a slightly different coax mounting, or because they were field modified with a single piece of scrap metal, or the commander give the vehicle a cool name. It would be awful.
