Hey I noticed that when you send soldiers away for any reason the standard issue weapon & knife stay in your inventory. I thought that since the plethora of standard issue weapons could just be used to improve the weapons for future soldiers that the knives should also be used to do the same. Although improving knives doesn’t seem to beneficial, so maybe we try to get a new game mechanic introduced. Perhaps instead of having a mass amount of knives that will never see the battlefield again we should be able to disassemble them & use them to improve any weapon in the game. We could do the same with other weapons that can’t be disassembled like the motors & flamethrowers. It would be a kind of “free parts” we could start banking once we obtain to many useless weaponry.
The same with radio sets, I have about 20 radios at the moment that will never see the light of battle again.
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Standard equipment such as knives that cannot be upgraded should have an unlimited supply, it seems silly to keep track of how many you have
Yep - this.
That sounds ridiculously unrealistic to me. Like how much man hour is it to create a more durable tank armour out of… knives??? Or an improved rifle? This is supposed to be WWII, not Minecraft…
The entire weapon upgrade system feels somewhat off for me, don’t make it worse please. 
Maybe just simple a “rebranding” would be enough to make it more appealing to me. Instead of dismantling to upgrade, the wording could be changed so we are sending back stuff to central storage and get “upgrade tickets” in return, which we can spend on improved gears. Same thing gameplay-wise, much less nonsense for me. And then a thousand knives could get you the best scope in the world, without hurting me by hinting that our squad has such metallurgists who can create glass out of metal.
I mean it is what they did in the war. Like what they actually did. Germans were so low on steel they would scrap anything and just add it into the alloy to try and match the allied production. They would pump fuel out of civilians cars, they would encourage people to take stuff from how that has chromium, aluminium, rubber, anything and sacrifice it to boost the war effort. 600 knifes just lying around would get smelted and added into whatever they needed at the moment. (armor skirts, gun barrels, helmets)
That is a good point, but I still feel it’s missing something important. We are leading a squad, not the scrap metal collection efforts at home, which was probably a civilian effort. We leave behind a field full of tanks burned out, then instead of reusing them we wish to collect some rusty knives to get a good rifle?
I don’t think Germans were melting their knives into rifles on the frontline, e.g. in Moscow or in Kursk. And probably they never made efforts on sending back the surplus of knives for a 1000-2000 km trip. I guess DHL/FedEx wasn’t fully functioning then either.
One thing I know for sure is that Hungarians were freezing to death so they surely did not melt anything but ice before they demised around Don Bend at -40 °C, and left behind some metal for sure:
Metal collection was probably done hundreds of kilometres away. Yes they probably fixed their items with what they had, but it was for keeping the working state, not for providing an excellent rifle from 600 knives.
I’m far from being an expert on world war stuff or such, it just feels weird for me, but my instincts could be wrong. I can live with this feature in the game as is, but its current presentation will not bring me any nearer to the game. (Which is good, otherwise I would not sleep much. 
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Main “base” (aka soldier management screen) is placed in unrecognizable void, so I think that placement of “how far is metal collection” is probably not so relevant and perfectly skippable detail.
My point was that if you are the bastard who with his squad destroyed 6 tanks and 3 IL-2 singlehandedly, you’ll probably get the better equipment than the scoundrel who took all the knives from the enemy after the battle, and the golden teeth as well. Though with the gold even better equipment could be organized. 
Imagine in-game atrocities if you allow players to “farm gold” through trying to “scavenge” golden teeth off the corpses. 
Also, we already have option to get even fully upgraded rifles through silver tickets, so I think this might perhaps be too many options to “easily” get hands on some good quality equipment.
Perhaps it should be kept at “upgrade permit ticket” or some parts, since spare parts are now considerably harder to obtain in comparison to CBT.
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I’m not that big of an expert on ww2 but I don’t think they bought new tanks and weapons on the front line. I don’t think they had a field academy where they put 3 guys to battle to death. I don’t think they unlocked new weapons and vehicles as they were being gunned down on the battlefield. You already scrap weapons, upgrade tanks and so on. It’s already in the game. I don’t want an option to dismantle my 600 knifes during a match and build a tank out of them right on the spot, I want to make my wasted equipment useful to me and my squads.
Now we agree. If giving back extra equipment is worth “equipment upgrade tickets” or whatever, and knife upgrade tickets are worth better knives or at a 10:1 worse ratio (or anything that fits) could be converted to other upgrade tickets then that’s in line with my expectations.
If the wording is that it is scrap metal and the 600 knives willl be dismantled into a tank or a super precise more powerful sniper, you lost me there - same game mechanic, but feels bullshit. Not a game breaking thing, but not for me. At least if you dismantle some guns and create a better one of the same type out of their best parts, that’s something I could imagine how it works, we’re doing it currently with car wreckages as well. But knives to tank - not really.