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So if i play skirmish with easy level all the time, i get same amount and as powerfull war spoils than a player who plays online all the time?

As long as you complete the matches (or surrender too I think, that's the way I interpreted it yes. Reading the patch notes a few months back when it was released, it said something along the lines of there are certain in-game time markers (which weren't disclosed) and when they were met you had a chance of a war spoil. Not sure why this sometimes entitles you to more than one - unless there's a similarly reduced chance of a second and then an even smaller chance of a third upon reaching these in-game time markers...

Personally though I think this is the wrong to do it as I agree there should be more of an incentive/reward for competing in auto-matches. The chances of drops should be increased for completing auto match games and possible there chances of getting decent drops should also be increased for this too.

I realise the current system has come about on the back of the short lived CoHO release whereby spoils were only dropped for auto matching and the community forum went mad with comp-stomp players who moaned that they didn't get any drops from playing their preferred gaming mode. Lord knows why they needed elite units for comp stomps though!

The thing is I think this has had an adverse affect on the game, particularly competitively as now there's hardly incentive to play auto matching. I used to love it on CoHO but so far I've not been as enthusiastic about it on CoH2 (more to do with loading times and balance issues thought to be fair), but it was more of an incentive to play competitively previously. I know other layers in our community feel the same too and don't bother with auto matching purely because they dont have to any more.

Id love to see hero units (made a post about this on another suggestion thread over at Relics boards) return or something similar like quality bulletins that were exclusive auto-matching rewards though.

Which is why I said the game balance should flow up from 1v1 and not down from 4v4, many people just want 3v3 and 4v4 to be balanced and state that the game will only grow with those two game modes, because they like to play them. Everyone likes what they like right? And if you don't you are an Axis/Allies fan-boy who should L2P or not take the game so seriously.

As for growth of the game, people get interested in a game by seeing how players play it and most casts and videos done for this game and more competitive and popular games are from 1v1 and 2v2 replays. The reason being it is easier for the caster and the watcher to follow 2 or 4 players than it is for them to follow 6 or 8.

I am not saying I don't think 3v3 and 4v4 should be playable, but a lot of people are spouting that because 4v4 isn't perfectly balanced the game is dying and I truly disagree. Relic has already stated that previous RTS games balance for competitive 1v1 and 2v2 and that is how they grew such large player bases; therefore Relic is going to balance for 1v1 and 2v2 and let the balance fixes flow up to 3v3 and 4v4.

Yea fair point, when I re-read your statement I realised what you were driving at hence me editing the original post as you were responding mate.

Personally I feel:

1. Tweak Kuble (probably just a single one) small change such as reducing it's suppression, prevent reversing, adding a reload time to break suppression or adding a fuel cost.

2. Add more early game units for USF (Jeep maybe) for variety of early game Strat. (maybe this, along with many more commanders) is coming with the Ardennes Assault addon??

3. Maybe make Tiger/Jagtiger doctrine only units.

4. Add Heavy tank (Pershing) commander for USF

5. Allow for T35/85 building soviets

6. Fix irritating bugs like maxim retreat.

7. Allow mixed teams (as a filter option) on automatching - No more wait times and to give a true reflection of faction preference selections.

8. Maybe investigate resource penalties and unit restrictions for 3v3 & 4v4 for all factions.

Ehm.

It suppresses faster than MG42, has better penetration, better accuracy, and does more damage.

http://www.coh2-stats.com/small_arms/hmg_team_mg42_mp
http://www.coh2-stats.com/small_arms/dshk_38_sokolov_mp

Which in my experience tends to count for nothing as it's constant retreat bugs and narrow arc of fire is so easily out flanked it may as well not be there at all.

It's a random dropped based around in-game time isnt it?