Idea for tankers

Dear readers, I have a suggestion about the game that might would it make more fun.
My idea is: Let friends join join tank and let them be a belly machinegunner.
I play this game with some friends and sometimes i think i want to join their tank and be a belly gunner, awesome right?
but for unwanted people you could have an option to close the tank for ‘‘only friends’’ or ‘‘all people’’ or ‘‘no one’’

please let this be a thing because the bellygunner (machinegunner) feels useless now.

greetings,
StarwarsnielsNL
Holland

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I don’t think it’s necessarily for other players to control them since wr already have working hull MGs on plenty of tanks.
Devs just needs to make them work on every tank. Your teammate can even currently take any role in your tank (if you are missing crew member).

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YEAH i know, but i was playing battle to berlin today and i really could use a (working) belly gunner, and who els then an ai?

I would not want AI to fire any of my guns in a tank, for obvious reasons.

If you are more selective in when you use and how you use your tanks guns you stand a better chance of not getting Bombed by a plane, when I fly the best way to spot a tank, that is not marked, is by looking for tracer fire

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We have a long way to go. Dev haven’t make any hull MG that is not useable in War Thunder works. Letting a hull mg that is functional in War Thunder to fire independently doesn’t mean they will add hull MG to those tank that don’t have functional hull MG.

It’s not that big thing, it’s just all about laziness.

Then add AI order to shoot and to not shoot. Simple as that.

Imo hull MGs that are only human controlled are meaningless. AI + human should be the way to go.

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Should be easy. Can turn AI gunners on and off in Warthunder

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I often switch seats in tanks to use the MG gunner, the reload time and over heat times are so bad on so tanks it’s worth doing.

I don’t like the idea of introducing a retarded mechanic to suplement another retarded mechanic.

Tank overheat rate is ridiculous and time to overheat should be at least doubbled.

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I don’t think that’s a fair assessment. They are probably doing a lot with the resources and staff they have, and have to prioritize what gets attention. Pretty amazing game you can play for free…

LVT has two open rear mg spots.