Cap Gold Ammo Penetration Value

RickEdwards, on Jun 13 2021 - 18:30, said: So generally the biggest argument against a nerf of gold ammo is that lower tiers need it to have a chance against higher tiers. This is a fair argument, as a tier 6 against a tier 8 heavy generally has little chance to pen without gold ammo.   The main problem with gold ammo, however, is at higher tiers, where there are no tanks in the game that are 2 tiers (or even 1 tier) higher. A tier 10 tanks does not need a special ammo with higher penetration to penetrate tanks of the same tier; all having such an ammo does is make armor literally impossible to balance, as it either becomes impossible to pen with normal ammo or the effectiveness of paper vs gold ammo.   I propose that the gold ammo of everything below tier ten have its penetration capped at the normal ammo penetration of the tier 10 of its respective line. What this will do is generally keep everything tier 8 and down basically the same (with a few exceptions like the Obj. 416's 320 mm pen gun), while nerfing or removing the gold ammo of tier 9 and 10. Tier 8s and 9s will then be able to use gold ammo to have the same penetration values as tier 10s. This simple change would go extremely far to balance high tier gameplay, which is essentially being dumbed down by rampant gold spam.