“Dumbing down” is not a good way to reward those who invested time into it. And the uncertainly would led to the loss of money invested because money doesn’t give you the freedom to drive whatever tank you like (APSD/HEAT), but force you to use one or two lines of tanks.

While “Dumbing down” may get you access to wider audience, but WoT already have a wide audience; what it needs is one: better gold sink (fortress) ; two: more encouraging low tier game play and three: elements to keep their sugar daddies.

El Halluf:: – modified like 4-5 times, corridors added, THERE is no place where you can hide with a tank on that map from a good arty. Blive me we tried in clanwars, good arty positioning it’s going to ruin your day. The secret is to know from where arty is shooting and cover accordingly.. but if they have 2 or more arty covering all sides.. you’re fucked.
outcry: NERF ARTY!

Malinovka – modified – corridors added. can’t tell much about it because i didn’t test it much, but i’ve got a run with a light on it.

Karkov map added – maze like map.

Serene Coast – modified – corridors added. I guess they fucked ep on this one bcause they actually improved the map.

Now why is the points on adding more light tanks and try to engage people to play with light tanks if you modify all maps with corridors? Light tanks can’t be used properly on corridor maps.
And all the idiots cry because they got hit by arty.

1. Completely obliterating the enemy team is absolutely no fun at all. If you are in a slow tank/TD you have a big chance to make 0 damage. Being on the other side and seeing stuff like 1-7 after 2 minutes in the game is also a fun killer.

2. Having an unicum in the team does not guarantee victory nor is losing the unicum a guarantee defeat. I would take a 2x green platoon over a purple unicum every day. The article is saying the unicums may have a tough life if this type of MM is implemented. I say good. Many unicums are inflated by playing a lot of platoons and shooting a LOT of gold.

3. It does not have to be equal colors on both teams, meaning that a unicum and a yellow in a team could have 2 greens on the other side. This would be interesting to see for me. Who wins, 7 unicums aided by 8 yellows or 15 greens?

4. My final idea is this: make EU3 with “equal skill team MM” and leave EU1 and 2 alone. This way EVERYBODY wins.

and your idea of premium benefits its a bad business model for profit.

reading comprehension is hard mate…

he asked people to be open minded, to listen to an opinion, to actually et out of their box-world, but you clearly failed at it

“According to SS, ALL below average players are MORONS and can’t grasp tactical game play.”

isnt that what every damn player says this days? “everybody is a tomato but me! i swear!”

you re just full of it, you will always be right, no room for anything but your god damned opinion, what a waste to even write, thankfully there are smarter people out there who can see the bigger picture, and not some whiney e-lawyer

Silentstalker, you seem to have the wrong idea about corridor maps: I’m not complaining about the corridors itself, but how they are made. It’s right that players should have to choose between different routes, but this choice shouldn’t be permanent. Many reworked maps have the tendency to introduce corridors which are detached from the rest of the map.
Severogorsk, for example, was one of my favourite maps before they “improved” it. It was far away from perfect but imho better balanced than nowadays.
The two hills made it great for hulldown tactics and teams pushing to far on either the right or left flank made themselves vulnerable to fire from the other flank or the middle. This made pushing harder and equaled the flanks even if they weren’t equally stocked with tanks of one team. Those cutout “windows” on the corridor also covered the city and stopped assaults from there.

In comparison to that the reworked variant is really bad. Differences in the amount of tanks of each team on one flank most likely decide the result of the battle within the first three minutes. Playing arty from the south base is horrible: your teammates are stuck in the “corridors” while a single tank pushing though the center is killing everyone in base. Supporting one flank from the other flank is impossible. This map now is most of the time a pain in the ass especially without great armor or alpha to win the peak-a-boo battles.
Most of the map changes seem to favor this static gameplay while open “windows” or flanks are cut out.
It should be possible to make this game a little bit noob-friendly without taking all dynamic elements out of the game.