Comments on: Crew Role Retrain to Cost 500 Gold: Storm Explains

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:24:54 +0000

IMHO it should only cost 200 gold but only include the role change, if you want to put it on another tank you can still do it manually and if you want to reset skills you can do that as well, but putting it all in 1 payment is just an attempt to get more money out of the user, what if you don’t want to reset skills because you only had camo/repairs on that crew member? or you don’t want to spend the gold for a 100% reset

By: LonerPrime

LonerPrime — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:08:35 +0000

I already pointed out the three types that will use this feature. This guy is one of them. And I am pretty sure he isn’t the “desperate” type.

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By: Schepel

Schepel — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:11:20 +0000

I do not mind they set the price at 500 gold, that is their prerogative, but I do mind there is no silver conversion for it. Ah well, at least it is good to have the option to do so. Don’t like the price, don’t use it. I know I won’t.

By: Schepel

Schepel — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:09:48 +0000

You are crazy.

By: Stieger11

Stieger11 — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 08:50:45 +0000

What happened with that “free 6th sense for everyone on 100% commander” idea?

By: Da_Zohan

Da_Zohan — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 06:56:26 +0000

Lonerprime,
yes, 2 of the 3 aspects are available for credits.
And u ask why force people to pay gold for all 3?

Answer:
TO MAKE MONEY!!!!!!!!!

No matter what WG does, ppl will always have butthurt. I have 9 RO’s that are multiple skill sitting in my barracks.
So, I need to pay 4500 gold so that they can be used elsewhere.
NO FUCKIN PROBLEMO!!!!
Thanks WG for finally introducing a role switch!!!!!

Too bad it doesnt cost 600 gold so that the whiners would be even more butthurt!!!

By: IN33DAMM0

IN33DAMM0 — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:31:31 +0000

So those times we want to throw a 4 skill crew into a different tank to help grind it or something (who knows why) we have to pay 500 gold each crew member? Why isn’t it just 500g for retraining them to a different class of tank, if its a heavy tank to another heavy tank it costs 200g still. Its not like people will want to redo ALL skills when putting them from a T110E5 to a T57 heavy..

Maybe I’m not understanding this completely, but don’t they make enough money from people (like myself) buying a premium account or premium tanks? To retrain 6 crew members to another is 3000 gold. So $20 to retrain virtual crew members to another tank seems a bit to much.

By: wedjac

wedjac — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 21:09:26 +0000

Sorry to say that but your math fails this time.
Consider this simple situation: I’ve researched a WT Pz IV. Got 5/6 crewmembers, from S. Emil and Rhmb. I lack a loader. What do I do?
By chance, I have an unemployed German gunner, with BiA and some Camo skill, in my barracks. I retrain him (for credits) to WT Pz IV gunner. I work on his main skill to be 100% again, using my Dicker Max, or another German premium TD. So the situation is like that:
I’ve got a 100% WT Pz IV gunner, with 2 universal skills. I want to make him a WT Pz IV loader with the same skills – SAME vehicle, SAME skills. I DON’T change these things. Still, 200+200+200? Even though I DO NOT use two out of three services you’ve mentioned and thus legitimized charging me for them?
I’m not whining about the amount of gold itself, for me it could be 100 or 800 or over 9000. Just the explanation “you pay for retraining it for another tank”, while you don’t do that – is bullcrap. Not a perfect sense, just pure NONSENSE.

By: LonerPrime

LonerPrime — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:59:23 +0000

First of all stop defending WG with “They are a business so they need to make money”. That point is already proven. The issue in question is if they are overstepping with their money making schemes or not. I have sunk enough gold in this game to have a year’s worth of premium account and two tier 8 premium vehicles. Even I have disposable income but this move still doesn’t click right to me. Why? Because two out of three aspects of this “Retraining” is already available by spending credits. That is the perk reset and the vehicle type reset. The third, and the new one, is the specialty reset. So why force people to pay gold for all three? It is not about “Not Paying”. It is about being reasonable. Sure money is made to be spent but you wouldn’t throw away your money now would you? After all you can still make more later.

Point being, this “awesome feature” as you describe it will only be used by people who are either WG fans, truly desperate or people with deep pockets and nothing better to spend on.