Profile of Retro

Very stupid of you my friend...you should have just change steam download region to Canada...try reading steam forums sometimes....

Care to explain what the actual benefit would have been? I got everything working perfectly and it just might have been the reason to keep my warspoils and be able to turn them into supplies. Nothing to complain or worry about on my side.

Just out of curiosity: When was the last time you farmed and did you still had any gamefiles that could trace you to farming? Such as the mod file of this farming mod, pepperidge farm map etc.?

Great job! Thanks a lot.

Does anyone know if those war paint winner skins somehow also change the model? I just wonder why on the german Three-Colour Summer Camouflage skin the PzIV has those mesh Schürzen while on the Winter Frost skin he has solid Schürzen and why the Scout car SdkfZ has a radio antenna ring and other little extras that the summer skin doesn't have.

I can only imagine that whenever a duplicate is obtained and about to be turned into scrap supply they let a program run that checks either for the map on which it was obtained (pepperidge farm) and/or if there were any blacklisted mods running in the background. I'm no IT person, so just speculating but I guess this might be a possibility

But why the "Duplicate inventory items that were earned using a War Spoils farming mod will be salvaged without any Supply given to the player." Why not simply turn every war spoil obtained by farming into dust?


The good thing is: They might have changed their course and don't seem to wipe our progress/ban us for everyone who is still farming at the moment. It appears rather like they are fine with turning every farmed duplicate from then on into 0 supplies.

Yet this appears half-baked as when everything stays as described in the article you can still farm. Just with the exception that all the duplicates you obtain are simply turned worthless. Which would make absolutely no difference to everyone who farms right now with the current system. This new system thus won't give anyone a real incentive to stop farming as obviously farming in your sparetime for the hope of getting non-duplicates is still better than doing nothing.


The neither good nor bad thing is: I'm not sure if I should welcome or dislike the decision that all duplicates will automatically be turned into supplies for us. Not rarely it made the most sense to use 3 identical bulletins to buff specific units e.g. infantry. We'll apparently lose this option and instead now have to look for other good combinations. That's not bad per se but I have the concerns though that this might turn the bulletin system almost entirely meaningless as the impact of different single bulletins seem rather neglectible. I would have preferred to chose myself which duplicates to scrap and which not.


The bad thing is: From the perspective of someone who obtains his drops in a fair way this system still must appear quite flawed.

So a commander costs you 15000 Supply points a.k.a. 30 drops. That would seem fair if only bulletins were used but according to the article even duplicate commander drops give you only 500 supply. I can imagine the disappointment when you get a rare commander drop and then notice that he's a duplicate which makes him essentially as worthless as the most uselsess white bulletin. It neither really solves the problem of receiving duplicates either.

It would have been more just in my opinion if the supply worth of a drop is determined by it's kind (bulletin < skin < victory strike < faceplate < commander) and it's color (common < uncommon < rare < epic). This way getting a rare duplicate would still be something to cheer about. A duplicate epic victory strike or a rare commander simply shouldn't have the same value as a common bulletin, given how rare those drops are.

If you had the bad luck to get a duplicate commander drop chances are that your "chance to drop a commander" is "reset" to the abysmal value I'd evaluate right now somewhere between 48 and 168 hours of actual ingame(!) time due as a rough stochastic assumption. Thus you won't see another commander drop for a felt eternity. I doubt that this will really satisfy players who see drops as an incentive to keep playing the game on a regular basis. And that's after all, what the drop system is all about.

To give a rare duplicate commander the worth of 3750 supply would seem more fair as this would create a system compareable to Hearthstone where you can exchange 4 cards into a single card of the same type.

And how can you always get the same amount of loot points no matter the length of the match? Wouldn't that mean that you can end a match at 5 minutes and still get full loot?

They added this 1-2 weeks before. Nice little extra but I still stick with the "nothing at all" decal

Another question: Suddenly a new OKW skin popped up as a spoil of war which was really beautiful and which I'd never seen before. Turned out 2 days later it belongs to this community skins update. Anyone knows for sure if the whole sale and availability of these skins is limited for only a specific time or is just the -50% discount limited?