Profile of van Voort

Indeed

I completely agree that there were elements of the pre-Warspoils system that worked very well.

In fact pre-WFA we had four systems working in parallel

1) Most Bulletins Tied to Achievements

2) Commanders and Some Bulletins Tied to Level

3) Other Commanders available as DLC only

4) Commanders available via promotion (Cas, Mobile Defence, Defensive)


People complained about 3, but 1 and 2 were fine because people clearly knew what they needed to do to get what they wanted.


Warspoils made everything available as a random drop, but completely removed any control people had about what they could get


There has been various flirting and probing about what to do about that, like the post-game surveys and the hint never to delete any duplicates but there's been no action nor any sign that Relic really know what to do with this.

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Now, if it was me I would do the following:

1) Everything is available to buy

2) Everything is also available to grind. I'm happy with it being hard, but it has to be clear what you have to do and what you get

Pak 43s

Expendable Falls and JLIs

More Raketen

etc

etc

Whats going to happen: 1) Relic wants to milk the fanboys
2) They release commanders OP as hell for a whole month
3) 1 month because they don't want to start losing the playerbase
4) They balance it after a month of receiving fanboy money.

You forgot the bit where:

a) Everyone plays it because it's new
b) Nobody knows how to counter it yet
c) People start QQing that it's OP because everyone is using it and they don't want to adjust their playstyle to counter it.


I already know that is what's going to happen, and I'm not going to make any judgement on it either way for at least a fortnight after it comes out and probably not evern then

Well the original factions have more than twice as many as anyone else and there is no real need for any more

The only significant gaps I can think of is Guards + IS2 and Shocks + T34/85, but maybe that is what custom commanders are for (if they ever come)


I'd rather they work on revamping some of the existing ones:

Urban Defence
Soviet Industry

I believe they are working on Industry