EU Questions & Answers

Listy, on 01 February 2012 - 02:24 PM, said: I do have one of them you know...
**twitches.*** Overlord is out to get me and my precious!
All joking aside, you seemed to have painted yourself into a corner here. There's not much you can do to make the Chaffee better than the AMX, without either rewriting history, or seriously punishing those going along the medium line in the French tree. I can make money without premium at Tier VI, in a tank with better matchmaking than my Chaffee, but fills the same role.
Equally with a little luck I can make money at Tier VII, but can break even. All without premium. Again the tank for fills the same role, but is cheaper to run. That's the underlying problem. The Cahffee is more expensive to run than two tanks that are higher tiers.
This to my mind is a fundamental imbalance and a bit of a embuggerance for the game.
I suppose the easiest way to get around this issue is the M41. Then you balance that in consideration to the French Lights. Of course other nations might ask for a TVI tank. I'm sure you can find a Soviet tank that fits the bill. The Germans are a bit harder, but one of the other versions of a VK2801 could be your bigger tank (TD, or Flak panzer).
Anyway new question: This is a hypothetical.
In the future if a new class of Tank is implemented on top of an existing tree, would the "end of line" tax be removed? For example on the US light tree. If you did eventually add an M41 Light tank, would the Chaffee get normal T5 matchmaking and credit income/cost? What about the buy EXP? Especially for those who brought while expensive?