I’m sorry that that was your reading.
However, wanting to lower a certain number, (and making the feature enjoyable to a greater proportion of the playerbase,) would inherently mean that I am in favour of the idea itself…?
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I guess sabotage wasn’t the right word for what I meant. It’s just that your desire to play an entire subfaction is it’s own unique issue that doesn’t have to be solved by this suggestion. Instead, we should be getting systems that give more direct player choice, such a splitting factions, organized subfactions, selecting whether an unlocked squad in a tree is British or American, so-on and so-forth. I didn’t perceive your criticism as an attack, it just was tackling a problem separate to the one I’m solving in my proposal.
And like I said, perhaps in the Allies tree, you select whether the squad unit is either American or British? Someone’s Rifleman II squad is one or the other depending on which they picked, and it can get swapped with appearance orders like individual units?
Of course, this should all be discussed on a separate thread, so it doesn’t derail my topic.
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It’d be nice if individual squads (TT or premerge, not event squads) were “generic” and you could choose the faction for them which would turn them into a historical squad from said faction. Even as a stopgap for until subtrees get implemented or something.
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Fair enough, I have always handled the return of legacy squads as the first step (more like a leap) towards making sub-factions fully fuctional within the game, so I was writing with that in the back of my mind. A sentiment I do still agree with, returning legacy squads would, ideally, solve two problems at once (returning once commonly available squads for everyone, and making sub-factions more viable at the same time). Indeed, I myself wrote a suggestion for another way to implement the return of legacy squads in the past.
I get that that context would not be immediately obvious, and that stance should have been explained in my original reply.
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I think that it being more grindy isn’t necessarily bad. Having extra squads is relatively trivial and not an entirely necessary, unlocking all the squads for a preferred subtraction would not be too unattainable.
My issue is more so once you are done with a TT, there’s really nothing to do. Many people probably quit, many just grind silver for gambling (hence gamble boxes getting more hype than the updates they come with…), so I think adding this would be some nice “new game+” type of progression.
From the people I know who have done it, it is in fact a monumental task. I think having a long term thing like that to work for is probably healthier than just gambling and FOMO.
Just to be clear, grind for the sake of grind isn’t necessarily good in my eyes, but I think having more things to do in this manner is fine. 100 percenting being a lot of work isn’t an issue, given most of the squads are duplicates that add nothing.
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I don’t think we need to make legacy squads available instead why not add new squads to the game to fill the same role.
Why not both? That is what I’m suggesting.
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Well if new squads are added why would we need old squads?
Less work for developers, since adding beyond 15 of any type of squad realistically doesn’t do anything but give the devs more work.
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Returning the squads involves way less work than making new ones.
Assuming there is a system that allows you to earn either, one scenario involves just creating that system, the other involves creating that system on top of researching new units, creating appropriate squad emblems for those newly researched squads, and adding those squads in game without producing any horrible bugs in the process.
And, lets not forget that we have such famous and distinguished squads currently relegated to legacy content, such the Royal Tank Regiment… I, as someone very interested in British military history, would very much like to have access to that squad.
Legacy squads, we’ve got them so lets use them.
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For now I think legacy squads should return in some manner, I don’t mind if they come back in the way this suggestion recommends or if they come back another way.
But I would like to see a squad formation feature where we can select the class of the squad (assaulter, mg, etc) and choose it’s nationality and then it gets assigned a historical unit insignia or the player gets to choose. I remember seeing a suggestion that was about this but I can’t find it to link right now.
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I would love this… Both systems, actually… I would be making a complete military company, rather than bringing completely unrelated regiment/brigade formations together as we do now… I’d like to roleplay as a Major… Well, I already do, but I’d like for it to be more real/literal…
There have been several.
One of my first ever suggestions involve this very idea.
Indeed, it is my featured topic to this very day for a reason.
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The suggestion I saw and that I’m currently thinking about had lots of images of mock-ups of what it’d look like. I think it was a post by @ErikaKalkbrenner or @Valkay
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Is the terrible XP to silver conversion rate not good enough for you?
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