Make spawning vehicles cost us special points that are free, capped and automatically regenerate over time. [end of TL;DR]
It’s basically a ripoff of a mechanic from the Planetside 2 (those blue points):
With a difference that those points wouldn’t regenerate when you spawn in a vehicle, only when you play infantry (otherwise it doesn’t make sense). And it wouldn’t regenerate when you are in the squad spawn menu for >10s.
It would change brainless vehicle spam into kind of resource management “mini game”.
Theoretically it could also be used to spawn certain infantry squads (for example historicall russian full SMG squad) or powerfull weapons (like panzerschreck). (Spawning with them would also prevent regeneration of those points.) But it could cause f2p players to not be able to use them at all as they have limited active squads slots. It could also be used for calling arty for example, or basically for any stuff that may be too OP to make it a regular squad.
Main benefit is that devs will have control over how many vehicles a player can spawn, without hard capping vehicle count and instead giving the player an illusion of choice.
Not only “could.” Since you need 2 deaths to respawn with same squad, it WILL cause F2P players to be unable to play at all or not use certain squads. Current 3 slot system already stinks with P2W, I can´t imagine how bad and limiting that would be after such change. As was suggested, devs should allow F2Ps to unlock some slots through grind for this to be at least somewhat feasible.
Yeah, full agree. But I had to include this idea (even if it doesn’t fit the game now) as I don’t like systems that serve only one role.
Anyway, infantry is only an addition, the main target are vehicles.
why not, just include a respawn limit? say, higher end vehicles like the T28/ Pz4/ Jumbo\ whatever can only be called in twice, while the lower or less threatening vehicles, like 3 or 4 times a match.
That way it doesn’t peanalise F2P or less skilled players, while inhibiting better players or just spammy ones from insta dying infantry squads to just spam armour?
The whole point of the system I proposed is to not limit vehicles like that. In my opinion it causes more frustration than it’s worthn. In WT I always hated when my favourite vehicle was oneshoted and I couldn’t use it any more, that’s the situation I want to avoid.
Also your solution doesn’t affect spawning one vehicle after another by one player at all. With your idea people still will be able to spawn let’s say 14 planes in a match (let’s say 4 spawns for fighters and 3 for bombers, 2 of each). Spam remains, only “collor” changes. And I would say that it would be very unfair for f2p players (4 plane respawns in this case).
From what I can tell your goal is to prevent a new tank/plane spawning as soon as one dies.
PROs
Rewards killing vehicles more
Larger focus on infantry
CONs
Promotes vehicle camping (in my opinion the most annoying)
Fewer opportunities to use vehicles
Locking infantry squads would definitely cause problems. If F2P could unlock a “heavy infantry” squad slot that was treated like a vehicle squad that might work.
There are probably more pros and cons here but that was what I could think of
Maintnance would cost you bronze (for example) after battle.
In my idea it costs you points that are used just for that (so are separated from the main game economy) and only in battle.
