Here are my suggestions on what to buy on higher BR, grind through ground vehicles. All the mobility modifications except Engine upgrade is not cost effective in my opinion. On the other hand, all the OK signed modifications are crucial whether it makes you not die, or get a surprise kill/area denial, quicker shots etc. Also, generally, there is one ammunition that is the best for your vehicle. If your stock ammo is close to non-top level ammo, use it. In Leo’s case, first tier APFSDS is crucial imho for its speed and pen for grinding games.
Note: To remind, if you won’t touch these vehicles after grinding, disable auto purchase and keep some money in your pockets.
Honestly Transmission/Filters are very worth it. Mobility is key at top tier.
Also, is modification costs really a problem at top tier for F2P players? I haven’t played F2P in years, so I don’t know.
Just imagine playing without a premium account.
It’s like 10 cents per day, so anyone semi-serious about the game should use it, it’s like some sort a “soft” subscription method lol.
Could you please re-read, my post, even if only for the note that understand that I am talking about the vehicle you will never play after spading? Do I need to make a tiktok video with simpler sentences for young people?
Also, to your question. Top tier is at least 2x-3x hard because premium players can never go below 0 SL but normal players not only get less money from wins but also can go to negative SL by playing badly. If you are premium, you can safely spam games without the risk of going bankrupt. At the worst case, you get low RP and maybe 0 SL. F2P players are fucked up in top tier. They need to finance their top tier game with event premiums or normal lower level lineups, ideally 6.7
Paying money for anything, no matter how cheap, when you are not using it sounds like a terrible investment for me.
If you can use it indefinitely for forever, it’s fine to take breaks. Thus, premium vehicles make sense.
For premium to be justified, you must be able to play every day.
You cannot make up for not playing 1 hour each day for 5 days by playing 5 hours on 1 day. You still paid money for nothing for those 5 days.
Warthunder really needs to add an SL talisman so that you can premiumify the vehicles you like to make SL with rather than buy stuff you don’t care about to afford your gameplay.
And before you ask:
I pay my water, gas and electricity based on the liters/kWh consumed.
I look at that in a very different way.
You don’t need to play every day to justify a premium account, you only need to play a certain amount of hours in order to be a “good value”. This metric is obviously different from person to person.
If you gather 500 hours of playtime during a year, it means you’ve paid 40 euros to get much better experience during those 500 hours, which is honestly well worth it in my opinion.
That’s like tipping WT 50 cents over those 5 days.
Do you pay the base cost of running the “service” that stays the same regardless of your resource usage ?
If you do, then you’re paying them for nothing if you consume 0 liter/kWh in a day.
I could also pay 40 euros on something semi-permanent or at least indefinite. I’d be fine paying for a set of premium navy props (say “Pacific Theatre pack” with premium hellcat, zero, seafire, wildcat corsair and a corsair given that the usual rank 2/rank 3 plane is ~1000-2000 GE and 1000 GE is at 7 euros., so 40 euros would cover a set of pacific theatre props) since I can go and use them whenever I want (server issues and bans notwithstanding).
Unfortunately yes, but fortunately it’s in eastern european monopoly money so it’s actually adjusted to local income ranges. Electricity bill last month came out total at some… 6000 HUF? It’s also something I use every day.
Warthunder I get randomly obsessive and spend few weekends playing a stupid amount, then ditch it for a few weeks or months even. Like, I basically didn’t play at all almost for a whole month mid jan-february because I was busy with exams.
Note: To remind, if you won’t touch these vehicles after grinding, disable auto purchase and keep some money in your pockets.
I, among others, don’t research every mod in a tier before moving on. It is best to get the transmission/filters so your remaining mods are easier to get.
I understand that, but to me premium account is just an amazing value even if it’s not permanent due to it’s benefits. As I said, 40 euros over a 360 day period will basically be like throwing pocket change at Gaijin.
It was just an example of how even in real life they might charge you for something without you directly using it.
This is why I focus on total hours played rather on total days played.
Yeah sure you do buddy. They reimplemented entire economy because review bombing by non-prem players that were sick of the predatory economy and increased gain for all players significantly but you never had money problems. Guess what, you need to play much less games compared to pre-fix.
Wasn’t poor, only joined in because gaijin was being annoying
Economy right now is good, if you get good kills and don’t die a bunch, you’re getting profit
You do you, but for people, even playing 1 hour a day, prem is great value.It literally gives your life back due to cutting grind, if you are grinding SL/RP. No matter how much predatory it sounds, it works.
At rank 3 props, this system exists. If I go down in my F4U-4, spitfires, bf109s and so forth before 15 minutes pass and I consequently can’t land, I’ll have likely made enough SL just doing my best to cover my first respawn and maybe some more. I pay 3-5k to spawn, and make ~10K if I land in a bf109F4 (used as I got screenshot). If I die 5 minutes in with my Bf109F4, I make 2200 SL. If I die 10 minutes in, I make 4.3k. I can still lose SL, but it takes effort or being spawncamped to do so.
With rank 4 props, it starts to break down - Spit f16e costs 11K SL, while earning a potential of ~16K if you survive and land. Still tenable, but you no longer have the case of 1 full cycle covering 2 respawns.
Then we reach rank V jets and… look at the F80C and…
Maximum reward: 19 734
Cost to spawn: 18094.
Most SL you make in your first cycle after spawning is less than 2000 with 1050 score and RTBing to land. You must survive a full 30 minutes, earn 1050 score each cycle and land both times to earn enough silver lions to respawn with a small change (36K total spawn cost vs 39.4k total income).
This needs fixing, as early jets have as a consequence became a bracket only bombers really seem to play despite all the cool and wacky designs like the Horten.
Funnily, once you graduate to rank 6 jets?
Take off with F8U2, get 2 kills and die 9 minutes in: 900 score so ~91% reward, 9 minutes alive, didn’t land (80% of 91%) : 9x0.91x0.8x1600 = 10483.2 SL.
Well, you paid 11078 SL just to spawn for the first time. You still lose money, but only barely
9 minutes of being alive lets you break even per spawn almost.
It’s not that great in GRB when compared to air RB. Ground sim has a decent economy as far as I can tell, but it has it’s own issues that make it not viable to play full time.
