What will being polite and rational change?
You yourself have stated you’re unwilling to consider any proposal given in the last 9 years.
You wrote “it’s their vision is a fact”.
So why bother with proposals and asking when it’s clear that you either protest or do nothing, because nothing else works?
I genuinely only want to play tanks when I’m playing tanks. That’s it. There’s my ask. I want a TO mode (ALONGSIDE a combined arms ground mode) because Gaijin have proven themselves unwilling or unable to balance air power in Ground Battles, which is currently completely out of control after the latest SPAA nerfs. I have to force myself to NOT use CAS planes and strike drones and bring CAP fighters instead because CAS is so powerful.
I play ships when I want to play ships (which is defacto a ship-only mode after a certain BR due to the strength of AA guns) I play planes when I want to play planes (which are exempt from Gaijin’s “Combined Arms” vision) and then when I want to play tanks, CAS enthusiasts tell me that, akshually, I must instead play SPAA or a fighter because I will get bombed. That sound fun to you?
Here’s a proposal to you: If you think this is fun, let’s put back the old mid-map AA that could kill you within seconds in air modes. Air mains (rightfully) said they hated it and asked for it to be removed for years.
When tank players ask for the same thing, they got told explicitly to NOT play tanks. I didn’t come to Ground Battles, to play Air RB without nametags, I certainly did not come to Ground Battles to be one of those ground targets in Air modes.
Again: IF Gaijin could balance planes this would not be a constant question from the community. The fact that the most popular threads on the new and old forums revolve around CAS should clue you in that many people are dissatisfied with the status quo.
This game has such potential to be fun, but despite your ostensibly good intentions what you’re doing is forcing tankers to interact with (get bombed by) planes. They do not want to do this. You may not know the answer to this, so I’ll only ask your conjecture: Why do you think Gaijin has never put a TO mode even as an event in? Why have they never asked the community how they feel and when someone submits such a question to the devs they are ignored?
Do you think it’s about “realism”? If so, we are a long, long way away from a truly realistic game.
Is it about queue times? Then why are there fifteen other modes in the game? Why is Sim a thing when, despite my love for that mode, it’s actual player count is abysmally low? Surely if you wanted instant queue times you’d reduce the number of modes to the bare minimum, but instead we have things like Naval and Heli EC, the assault modes (which are terribly implemented) and more.
Or maybe it’s about incentivizing players to purchase premium aircraft to use on ground targets? Lengthening the grind for tank players by reducing their score via deaths they can do nothing about?
I do not know the answer to this. The only thing I know for sure is there are no technological limitations preventing a TO mode, on top of GRB, because we’ve had events in the past year (such as the Soccer tournaments) which had no aircraft whatsoever, so what stops Gaijin from putting the mode in, even as an event like Naval EC, to see how the playerbase enjoys it?