Universal crew training

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I would love to see a Crew System Rework and ill try to explain why I think it would improve the game and how to implement it.

Observation: Players who have extra crew slots / well managed crew slots typically perform much better in games and continue to fight till the end of the match (I have 10 crew slots on every nation). Sometimes you get very 1 sided matches where everyone in your team has left after 1 or 2 deaths and there can be many causes for this.
One problem I noticed is many new players do not “tetris” their crews correctly and end up having to spend a lot of SL on teaching vehicles again to crew. Example: They want to try out some ground SIM but the vehicles have different BRs and their Arcade loadout doesn’t work effectively anymore.
Ergo many new players (my friend had this problem) end up crewing the same vehicle to multiple crew slots and end up going bankrupt. This can lead to feeling like they are not making enough SL and end up leaving the game early even though they were enjoying the game.

I think it would really improve the quality of games and the quality of life if we make the following change:

-Either purchasing crew basic training and then expert qualification needs to be “universal” covering all the crew slots you have, or the expert qualification experience bar progression towards ace needs to be “universal”.
I believe the first solution would be better because it would be less punishing towards new players who maybe didn’t assign all their vehicles to the right slots and are queuing into matches with subpar loadouts due to lack of SL.
-This change would also drastically improve the quality of life for players after battle rating changes. Sometimes BR changes can mess up your crew slots and your BR planning (for loadouts) and force you to have to repurchase expert qualification and start over your progression towards ACE because your line up was altered. I think it would make the player base much more open minded about BR changes when they know they can just crew any vehicle they have purchased training for, to any one of their crew slots, its a feeling of safety even when BR changes happen. This can change feelings of dread/panic to excitement when BR changes are underway.

It would be cool to have such a rework and one that maybe shows your “progress to ace” on the tech-tree itself after you have purchased expert qualification.

Let me know your feedback / ideas !

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This could work but only because of gaijin constantly changing BRs and ruining lineups. If you shiffle crews around at lower BRs it costs little to do. If by the time you get to higher BRs you still have not learned how to properly use the system that is on you.

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100% agree, its one of those systems thats just unnecessarily complex and makes the game less aproachable for new players and serves no purpose besides making more mon…oh.

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Agree wholeheartedly. Crew training should be universal.

One avenue to get this idea implemented could be to tie it to having active premium account, as a “nice to have but not essential” perk coming with it in the same vein as the “SL Insurance” is.