Remove "required to complete and purchase previous researches in this line"

[Implicc]

@SexyTent

This is not factually correct.
When the M3 lee is added, it could be skipped if it is stored in a folder and finished grind of the grants.

Not everything will be foldered. I am sure their goal is to eventually make every tree as full as the german one. Other countries often only have a single weapon in its tier. No way they are just going to folder additional weapons into it.
And it is downright impossible for new types of items. Case in point, the new APC.

@SexyTent

Also, if it is not added to the folder, you can still continue researching Tier 5 tanks in your example and the progress will not be reset.

I was not saying my progress would be reset. I was saying that instead of getting to play with my desired tank “soon” I am now thrown way back in my progress and have to grind the other one first, so I have to play more matches than anticipated. So instead of feeling happy about new content it will instead be a source of disappointment for the few players that happen to be affected.

@SexyTent

To begin with, do you think “tree reconfiguration” will happen more often in the future?

It won’t happen often but players have already complained about the unintuitive nature of having BR X weapons in Tier Y.
It’s not unlikely that a somewhat huge restructuring will come at some point and bring each item into its proper tier.

@SexyTent

After all, you are saying things are “a problem” based on the premise that you want to skip lower tiers.
I am of the opinion that in order to grind the higher tier, you should grind the lower tier. Since we are crossing paths from there, I don’t need to go into detail on the example of the hole you gave, I just say “grind the lower Tier first”.

Let’s get this straight, I am not whining or complaining. Yes, I would profit from a removal and, yes, I am a bit aggrevated at having to now grind more than 300000XP to finish researching my “almost finished” FG42.
But I can deal with that.

My point was that at some point in the future, when the merge chaos has settled down and legacy players are not the majority anymore, it makes no sense to keep the requirement.

This is really not a personal issue for me.

@SexyTent

Are you in the development room at Darkflow and know all about Enlisted’s code?
Are you an experienced programmer and an expert?

Please, usually I’d be right with you at dismantling armchair programmers saying game dev is super easy but this is a very reasonable educated guess.
Everything within the UI points to the requirement message only being an afterthought. I can still finish researching my premerge items although I won’t be able to buy them. I can even start researching new items if the previous one is unlocked.
Why not grey out (or “red out”) anything that I couldn’t even buy later anyway?
It seems like they intially wanted to copy the Warthunder tech trees, which doesn’t have any of these research requirements, and they only tacked that message on afterwards for whatever reason.

The 5 minute thing was a bit of a hyperbole but let’s not act like this change would significantly detract from any development time.

[noktinnky_noktin]

yea i think the problem with new tech tree is that if new stuff got add and someone like me is farming for high tier stuff it gonna halt my progress

[Elkaless]

he means the bouncing effect of a player researching his next shiny toy, just for an update to drop and having to go back in the line to unlock (and pay) the one (or ones) added before in the line, which he most probably will not want to use, so he can actually claim the one he was researching and wanted to use just minutes before, adding 120k or 150k or 80k or whatever k XP needed, plus an undisclosed amount of silver, just for the sake of it.