Everyone has access to the achievements, and it’s one of the fastest ways for a new account to earn silver orders. That’s not artificial, it’s worth considering.
If they made some of the achievements repeatable, they’d go a long way to solving the issue.
For one campaign one time. Its clearly bait. Him stating “oh I had 15 everything is fine” is just an inflation for a one time award
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Ahh so this is the secret ob bobs countless silver orders. Well I wonder how much more silver orders this “first time award” will grant you over 15 but it should be apparent that when this “new account bonus” runs out anyone will end up at the same problem: no more fresh troops.
I’m currently stuck at Battle of Moscow campaign and can’t even fill my Submachine Gun squad with more assaulters than 2. That plus the fact that matches often get decided by the players with the better tanks/planes/squads/gear as the difference in effectiveness can be extreme this foot on the break of players progress is worsening the already unbalanced situation to an new extreme.
Not to forget guys: the same will happen with guns orders sooner than later. If that happens, starting a new campaign will be a nightmare of being stuck with stock troops forever - if Gaijin doesn’t change the income of silver orders accordingly.
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If the weapons change like the soldiers did I’m done with it. The silver costs increase as we get new weapons too so the whales will have StG44s everywhere while new players are trying to get 2 starter SMGs or a few semi auto rifles
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Oh, I know, and that they either have to concentrate achievement orders in a single campaign to be efficient is a big problem, but in a single campaign it helps. I’m not arguing against you man, I hate this update to.
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I know lol but its just such a sleazy marketing tactic to hook people
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I stated at the beginning that I created a brand new account. If a player can’t or won’t buy premium or BP, the only current way to progress in a modest way on multiple campaigns is to have separate accounts. Nothing that I wrote was to “artificially inflate” the reality of the situation.
The simple fact is that if someone wants to progress in multiple campaigns, they’ll need to purchase extras. But then it sort of appears that they don’t actually just want to play for free, they want to progress quickly for free. The Devs have obviously installed a paywall. To play multiple campaigns on one account….it seems the only way is to pay to progress
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Paywall = P2W simple as that
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I see what they are going for however…why cant they just give people standard troopers for free to fill squads? Specialist soldiers ok they cost silver, company makes money blah blah but there should be a way to atleast allow F2P people to fill squads or empty the damn squads not in use.
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Well it is already said in the devblog that this change is planned to happen
“We will use the same approach for weapons here as well. Spare parts will be removed from Enlisted. Upgrades will be carried out using bronze weapon orders. […] So, we will remove weapon delivery for bronze orders, leaving it only for silver and gold.”
Now I don’t think that the developers are unreasonable. They went over the top and after realizing now have an opportunity to fix this by thinking about new ways for players to earn silver orders in order to counter this development of constant shortage. JustV2k@live already gave some ideas how F2Pers could aquire them and personally I assume they will also increase the amount earned in BP as well as in dailies for premium owners, to further boost these pay2progress salemodels.
Yet since we don’t know how the devs will handle this my guess is that at the moment it is the savest way to spend all your bronze weapon orders on random weapons. The article said that in the future you will be able to sell weapons you dont need for bronze orders. The question now is if it’s more wise to turn all the unwanted guns into spare parts before the change (it wasn’t said in the article what will happen with unused spare parts and if they get compensated) or to upgrade all your important weapons or to wait and simply sell all the unwanted guns once this change has been implemented.
Personally I’m still wondering why they made such a drastic change in the first place. The academy was super annoying and I’m glad it’s gone but the whole idea doesn’t appear to have been completely thought through.
Holy shit… how is this acceptable to anyone? Even for a F2P game having to have multiple acc’s for the various factions so that you can have a good time shouldn’t be acceptable
Edit: At least they are working on a solution… I think… Jesus I hope that solution will be the answer.
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I mentioned this in my 1st comment to the OP. Do NOT unlock the nodes on the squad upgrade tree that increase squad size until later. Keep the 3 infantry squads and one vehicle squad and unlock all other nodes in the upgrade trees that will make the squad stronger
When a new campaign level is unlocked….lets say Gunners……choose one of the existing 3 squads that has a Gunner node and then unlock that node as well as the increase squad size node.
Now Spend one silver order on a rifleman….all infantry squads can be filled 100% with riflemen.
Now…open “managing soldiers” for the existing squad that you just unlocked the “Gunner” node in.
Transfer the silver order rifleman (going to be higher that 1* rank) to that squad in exchange for one of the T1 riflemen.
Close that squad and open the newly unlocked Gunner squad….move the gunner to reserve and replace with the 1* rifleman.
Now back to the existing squad that you just moved the silver order rifleman to. Open that squad, exchange the Gunner for a 1* Rifleman that you move into reserve.
Now for one silver order, you have added a new Gunner and a higher rank Rifleman to the existing squad. That existing squad already should have most/all of the XP, Rank, 2nd weapon/backpack nodes unlocked, so is a pretty efficient squad for one silver order. And if it’s a new account….repeat as new campaigns are unlocked.
3 infantry and 1 vehicle squads are enough to enjoy the game. If someone wants to progress faster…we all know what the choices are.
Acceptable? It’s is the facts of the current state of this game. What are you going to do….demand a change? Good luck with your protest.
And BTW, I’m just the guy pointing out the facts and trying to offer a clumsy work around. Doesn’t mean that I like it, but I can clearly see the direction that this game is headed.
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Ok you’re right, my bad man it just seemed like you were more so trying to side with it than anything is all. Rather than expressing any sort of disapproval and whatnot. And well while I personally can’t protest, I do know that enough community dissent and outrage will make them change the course of what their doing. That is IF the player base would care enough to generate enough outrage. I know they would be able to do this speaking from the past.
Where various changes like the changes to weapon accuracy that happened a while ago, and even changes to arty and explosives all basically happened bc the community was pissed about things concerning them. So yes, the community has the power to do something. But idk if it will. I’m hopeful with seeing all the outrage and dissent that’s been raised already. Only time will tell tho I suppose.
Edit: Oh and I have been protesting kind of already now that I think of it. I rarely play the game anymore now bc I’ve seen the direction the devs have been heading, and it’s been great :o lots of other awesome WW2 games that have been keeping me busy as of late(that aren’t grindy)
I’ve seen lots of complaining on this forum….but I’d bet very few have quit, because deep down they enjoy the game.
Gaijin/DF have the player data in great detail. I’m sure that they expect a certain amount of churn.
The only data that will get their attention is if a significant percentage of the userbase stops playing.
Otherwise it’s just noise.
That’s yet to be seen tho. There are quite a few players who are starting to get fed up with some of the things the devs have been doing as of late. Some people seemingly quitting as well 
You’re right tho Gaijin has the data so only they know how these decisions are affecting them userbase wise. That, and the forums is a relatively small sample size of the overall player base.
So we can’t really tell what the numbers are just going off of what we’re saying here. But it is where all the money spenders are from what I can tell, or most of them, so I have hope in that fact as well.
When i Played WT, one thing i know to be true, is having mulitple accounts is a no no, guess thats not here then?
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Ended the premium I’m quitting, I’m lvl 30 and 32 in Normandy and with this new economy of the silver order i don’t really want to start another campaign.
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I would expect that to be a no no in any game to be fair 
especially in a game like this where the grind still isn’t even worth it and isn’t even fun. Like, even IF you do start a new F2P account to take advantage of what was said above. You still have to go through the tedious grind that is the current progression system. With the absolutely chad-like XP bars which without premium, is hell! So yeah it should definitely be a no no even here imo
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woah lvl 30 and 32! Man, I’ve been playing longer than you and I’m barely half your lvl in Moscow! Even less than that in the other campaigns 
Edit: Good to see you speaking or making decisions with your wallet there tho