Sandbox 2021: Try Out Crew 2.0!

none666, on 25 February 2021 - 02:32 PM, said: LOL are you for real?  whahahaa and I thought Im stupid, my BIA 0 skill is not removed, its just not BIA anymore    


bbmoose, on 25 February 2021 - 02:43 PM, said:   I appreciate your kind and political correct answer, but I'm sure you get my point. It's not how detailed a survey or poll is, but about if people want something or not. There surely are some aspects of crew 2.0 that I may possibly like, but it doesn't outweigh the fact that I don't want a new system. I don't want to learn something new, or want to invest a lot of time in something that I didn't asked for. You want to change something that I am perfectly fine with. So what I like about crew 2.0 is not really relevant, unless you want to add it to the current system. I will have a choice that way; I could keep on playing like I did the past 7 years, or start using new skills/perks or adding instructors. And I know for sure that a big part of the community feels the same about it.   Why don't you guys do a survey before you develop a whole sandbox concept? I'm sure that this crew 2.0 wouldn't have been on sandbox if you asked your players about the crew system, because nobody ever asked for a compleet rehaul. It has never been a problem or issue in this game, in contrary with other subjects like arty, WV's, maps, matchmaker and game balance.  


NoobGoneBad, on 25 February 2021 - 02:52 PM, said:   Can you please answer these questions - Do you personally think that it is a good idea to remove 4 tank crews and replace them with 1 tank crew?  Do you also think that is a good idea to remove all service history of tank crews?  I really liked my special crew members like O'Treat and Simon Crews etc. The new system where u make them into ''instructors'' is load of cr*p imho  


gunslingerXXX, on 25 February 2021 - 03:06 PM, said: Come on Dwight, you know 1 extra skill point on an instructor is useless. And I'm not even considering that point might RNG roll in a useless skill either.  0-skill crew was bought and earned to get up to speed without having to grind. Taking this away (replacing it by something useless is basically taking it away) is not cool.   Please don't pretend it make sense or that its fair, it is not.   


WigglyWorm, on 25 February 2021 - 03:06 PM, said:   Here is a problem in itself.   I haven't been able to answer any WG surveys since I started  running a modpack (an "approved" one).   The Survey will not go past the first question each time. I lose the ability to finish the survey if I restart the game in safe mode. One of the questions from the past in surveys is "Do you use mods ?". If others experience that issue, your survey results are going to be skewed.   So, yeah. Surveys are great and all.... as long as you can answer them.    


Trostani, on 25 February 2021 - 03:15 PM, said: It's true for retraining using gold.  If retraining for credits cost is higher but I could live with this (but 500k for new players is a lot). What about exp lost during retraining? I have good crew for progetto, if I want retrain it now for credits I'll lost additional % of base qualification (for 100% crew fixed amount, around 30k?) which I could catch up in several battles. On sandbox on top of 500k credits I will lost 1,8 MILLION exp. Retraining for free - over 5 Millions (!!!). How you can call this similar or lowered to current system?


teriaksu, on 25 February 2021 - 03:24 PM, said:   Dwight, do you consider this to be a healthy way of solving the problem ?  True, we didn't grind for that 0-perk, because WE PAID REAL MONEY FOR IT. That was the point! We paid REAL MONEY to gain an advantage over those who didn't cough up the dough.   Now you're taking away something we paid real money for (I keep repeating this idea, but I cannot stress this enough) and in return you give us more RNG. It's not a slap in the face. It's 3 slaps in the face, at least. 

In what universe is this acceptable?  I'd really like to understand the WG pov     Furthermore, the fact that WG considered this to be acceptable shows WG doesn't really care about what players think, it's all about the green. It doesn't matter if WG doesn't implement crew 2.0, other "ways" to milk the paying players will show themselves.   I really can't respect that.

 


SovietBias, on 25 February 2021 - 03:42 PM, said:   I'm sure you realise this is unacceptable.   And even IF one wants to consider the bonus points from instructor as a way to mitigate the loss, 4 instructors (max per crew) account for 8 RANDOM skillpoints, and only when your crew hits level 60. A full skill in the old system takes 10 skill points.   All this system accomplishes is to heavily nerf the most common 3-4 skill crews, then nerf BiA crews, and then proceed to remove the cap allowing crews at 75 skill points to grow beyond what could be possible before with 7-skilled crews.   Nice ideas with the new skills, I can even accept the extra 750 to train crews for multiple vehicles, but the rest is just widening the performance gap in order to monetize.