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Jump back to quoted post26 Jul 2016, 07:01 AMadamírcz

Yeah, it sometimes gets frustrating, but most of the time, there is nothin what could be done about it. Can you imagine how ridiculously boring the game would be if you would see two infantries aproaching against each other and be instantly able to tell "OK, player two will win but lose two models, if player one doesnt retreat on time." This is exactly why I nearly stopped playing older RTS games immidiately after learning about Man of War and Company of Heroes series

After all, the RNG can let someone get away with occasional sc%rew ups, but never lets an unexperienced new-blood player win against veterans.

Jump back to quoted post26 Jul 2016, 06:01 AMsteffenbk1

i have felt a lack of efficiency for a little while now. Just how long they take to respond to game breaking bugs. And how they take longer and longer to fix something. The combined arms was a good example, of how much we had to push for the fix. And still it took them days to do anything. They could have just made the breaking commander unavailable until they fixed it. And now they wont do anything with the usf morter before next week, after the back lash it got from the community, and from what i heard on helpinghans stream, that tightrope got message from relic, saying that there wasn't a problem with the morter, i got really pissed. Since we have clear video proof of it.

Jump back to quoted post21 Jul 2016, 04:11 AMRealName

Don't all weapon teams suffer a 1.5 accuracy? wth is that tard talking about?

Jump back to quoted post18 Jul 2016, 13:03 PMMr.Smith

Yes, you receive more veterancy based on the value of the target you are hitting. Since tanks are more valuable, you get more XP. I don't know the exact mechanism behind that (e.g., do you get XP proportional to the target's max HP or not)

However, yes, to me it seems that this is, was and will remain a major enabler for AT blobs until it is fixed:
- Enemy fields a light vehicle -> easy vet for your infantry
- Your vet3 "AT" infantry can now run over the enemy's vet0 infantry.

There probably doesn't exist any "clean" solution to this (i.e., penalize veterancy gained through AT damage). However, user "Myself" once proposed a potential fix to this:
- Radically increase infantry veterancy requirements to match the veterancy gain rate they should have when attacking tanks
- Increase veterancy awarded for attacking infantry (to keep infantry AI gains at the same level)
- Increase veterancy requirements for tanks with AI capabilities (e.g., so that you don't get Vet5 Command Panthers if you manage to run over a squad of conscripts).

As you can see, this requires a cascade of changes. Depending on when you decide to halt this cascade, you reach different trade-offs. If you can think of how to parametrise veterancy exactly, I am sure that somebody will be willing to implement this in a mod.

To give you a task-list:
1) Find all infantry AT squads
2) Find out by how much their veterancy gain should be slowed when they attack tanks
3) Go over to stat.coh2.hu. For every single tank present (doctrinal or non-doctrinal):
- State how much their veterancy gain should be slowed to account for their AI potential (tank canon, flame dots, MGs, crushing)

I was just too lazy to do this, so far