Sandbox server - field modifications

Kritas, on Jun 15 2021 - 09:57, said: Concerns that I have after watching the stream-the view from a less experienced player who has reached mid tiers.    1. The differences in game between stock tanks and elite tanks will be wider since the field improvements aren't available for stock tanks. 2. A lot of silver will be required to create dual loadouts for each tank. While we won't have to pay for a duplicate piece of equipment that may appear in each loadout for a specific tank, we'll have to buy extra equipment for any tanks that we want to play if we wish to take advantage of the dual loadouts if they include equipment that isn't already on the tank. It will be a huge credit sink.  3. The differences/advantages between tanks that fall below the tier limit for using dual loadouts and field improvements and the higher tier tanks that can use the new features will be increased. 4. The gap between newer and more experienced players will become greater. According to WG, they want the gap to be "minor", but it will be there. 5. While it was a bit unclear on the stream, it appears that we will have to choose between XP on elite tanks going towards crew XP vs. XP towards improvements. This makes sense, but will be easier on people who have more skilled crews and don't need accelerated crew training-see concern 4. 6. The Product Manager on the stream indicated that WG is fairly set on this direction, but will pull back and make changes based on feedback. It sounds very much like the Crew 2.0 experience and it appeared to me that it WILL happen at some point.   There may be other people who will interpret the answers that were given differently. There was a stream poll about how people felt about field improvements and 49% were interested in it. The Sandbox will be open for one week for testing and feedback. Any tweaks thereafter will be done in Common Test.