Many people have been advocating for extra squad slot/s for free to play players, and I’m all for it. Reasons have ranged from 4 slots (not counting premiums) is too few to have a versatile selection of squads, to recent class additions (such as guerillas) not being used because of their niche applications.
However, in all the suggestions prior, most people have only advocated to add an additional slot to the free to play players, forgetting about those who paid. And today, I have come up with a mind blowing answer to this million dollar question.
Just add one extra slot for all players.
That way, free to play get an extra slot (which means we could take 3 infantry, 1 plane and 1 tank or something like that, which is really the minimum needed to play), and those who bought full slots now get 10 (at least I think it’s 10). Upgrades for everyone!
However I dont agree with giving pay to win players anything more. Like 10 squads? That’s OP.
I agree that many squads are redundant since youre limited to 3.
Id also argue that one shouldnt be forced to use a vehicle slot. (i.e tank/plane). Most people will take out a tank for example.
Others like myself who will never use a plane and dont like tanks would much prefer to have an extra infantry squad like for a specialist we currently never get to use such as mortars or guerillas.
We can swap tank/plane for APC squad which is good. But I see no reason why we shouldnt have at least 4 infantry squads and still have the option for a tank/plane if so desired.
I’m not exactly a fan of it, but if we give them an extra squad, then they won’t feel robbed by technically losing a squad. Besides, people like Quadro and that who own all the premiums too have like 20 or more squads to choose from in a single battle. And those people are few and far between.
I dont get how they ‘lose’ a squad by F2P gaining just one.
How many squads do these people need? LOL
I wish there was a way we could have as many types of squads as we wish. Each team only has a certain amount of XP anyway.
Id definitely limit vehicles since they are OP but the ability like a real army to look at all your squads and be like well today Id like to take out my mortar squad or today I think flamethrowers will be really useful in this battle.
Or we need AA guns, no one on the team is building them, I can use my engineer squad.
Rather than at the moment where for example Im more commonly leaving my engineer squad out because I dont want a whole squad of soldiers with bolt action rifles fighting against SMG spam but it also means I can no longer help my teammate build AT and AA guns.
People have had this debate about the greyzone they scream oh just use planes. Well sorry mate but the majority of players dont have planes or dont use them. Same goes for tanks. Build an AT gun, I could but I dont have engineers with me. Use guerillas, yeah sorry no can do, they arent in todays lineup.
Idk maybe that would be OP but it is incredibly annoying when you get for example a long range Tunisia map and youve got all SMGs or its a close quarters urban map and youre stuck storming points with recon.
We have all these cool classes but sooo many of them never get used because due to the nature of the game youre basically forced to take out an assault squad, most likely an LMG squad and engineer squad (maybe you have guerillas instead of engineers whatever)
They buy the extra squads to be better off than free to play accounts, but this takes away that advantage. Yes, one that shouldn’t have existed, but it is what it is.
Maybe if everyone got an extra squad, then we can use some not-as-versatile squads.
Aircraft is very important, so at least F2P should have a tank and an airplane, and players who buy slots will also get a slot, which is good for everyone.
I don’t understand exactly what this means, no one said to give slots only to free players, we are talking about slots for everyone. For example, with the addition of two slots, free players will have 6 slots, and players who have bought all the slots will have 6 + 6 slots instead of 4 + 6.
I have nine total slots for Allies, Germans and Soviets and since I don’t like playing tanks, I usually insert another infantry squad, plus use one plane. Sometimes I will use an APC or a second plane so I have one dive bomber and one fighter, but I always choose fighters that have bombs or rockets for ground attack.
I was being half sarcastic. I just thought the devs would be sooner to approve the idea, since they can then sell an extra squad slot to premium players.
as Paypig i say no,
all Players or nobody, Event Slot would be the best Solution for everyone and its a small kick for newer Players to get one and play the game.
You forgot to mention about the veteran box because thanks to that thing existing the premium squads are more common nowadays and the fact that we don’t have an event squad slots is cruel.
it was my suggestion - universal event/premium slot but Dark Gaijin only agreed with 2nd statement and pissed all over f2p players while laughing maniacally as they were counting money