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Daytrader said:
Can you get far in this game without paying at all ? or is it pay to win, cheers
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Well it depends what you mean by that really, it's not really a game you progress through as such, it doesn't have an end really. But you will get access to new planes and tanks at a rate commensurate with the amount of time you play for, it's quick to start with, once you get to tier 4, it slows down a lot and will take much longer, tier 5 (jets) takes, much, much longer.

Paying for a premium account means you will get access to new planes and tanks more quickly simply because you get more experience and more money. I wouldn't say you will notice much difference in the speed you unlock stuff until tier 4 though, then you will notice it. It doesn't give you a 'fun' advantage though at all, to be honest many of us in the squadron tend to prefer to play lower battle rating, easy to get stuff as it's just more fun, things don't move as fast and you get to feel more like a hero :p ...and admire your plane and the scenery.

If your idea of fun is flying jets though, it's going to take a while. In which case a premium account may be worth it just to get you towards that goal as quickly as possible. Having said that, you can just focus your playtime a bit to get where you want to go more quickly, I find it fun to fly the aircraft of every nation, but you don't have to and if you don't, you will get new stuff faster.

Having said that, it works differently now, when I unlocked most of the stuff I have the bonus experience system was totally different (much better!) in that each day you could double your XP in the first battle you won for each nation, which encouraged people to fly all nations as they took advantage of this. It's different now. Also if you had a premium account, which I did ..you would get double XP from that and the daily bonus would double that ...so the pressure was on to get a good win for your first each day with each nation ...sometimes this worked out brilliantly and you could land tens of thousands of XP with one win and a lot of cash ...sometimes it was a miserable win and you would waste it.

Best I ever had was one of the special bonus weekends they did where the XP bonus was x5, so premium account = x2 and that was then x 5 due to the bonus. So double it and then times that by 5! ....that's a lot of XP and you really can't get close to that anymore.
 
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Daytrader said:
Can you get far in this game without paying at all ? or is it pay to win, cheers
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There's no direct pay-to-win as such, as in premium ammo that costs real money to buy (no such thing in WT)

But you can/could enhance your plane/tanks abilities to the max, and crew skills to a high level early on using real money, which would give you an advantage early-on, but it's mostly nothing that you can't grind for free anyway.

Either way, it's worth a look at without investing any money in to start with, and then decide after a bit how much money you want to 'invest' into it. :)
 
Moeks said:
Well it depends what you mean by that really, it's not really a game you progress through as such, it doesn't have an end really. But you will get access to new planes and tanks at a rate commensurate with the amount of time you play for, it's quick to start with, once you get to tier 4, it slows down a lot and will take much longer, tier 5 (jets) takes, much, much longer.

Paying for a premium account means you will get access to new planes and tanks more quickly simply because you get more experience and more money. I wouldn't say you will notice much difference in the speed you unlock stuff until tier 4 though, then you will notice it. It doesn't give you a 'fun' advantage though at all, to be honest many of us in the squadron tend to prefer to play lower battle rating, easy to get stuff as it's just more fun, things don't move as fast and you get to feel more like a hero :p ...and admire your plane and the scenery.

If your idea of fun is flying jets though, it's going to take a while. In which case a premium account may be worth it just to get you towards that goal as quickly as possible. Having said that, you can just focus your playtime a bit to get where you want to go more quickly, I find it fun to fly the aircraft of every nation, but you don't have to and if you don't, you will get new stuff faster.

Having said that, it works differently now, when I unlocked most of the stuff I have the bonus experience system was totally different (much better!) in that each day you could double your XP in the first battle you won for each nation, which encouraged people to fly all nations as they took advantage of this. It's different now. Also if you had a premium account, which I did ..you would get double XP from that and the daily bonus would double that ...so the pressure was on to get a good win for your first each day with each nation ...sometimes this worked out brilliantly and you could land tens of thousands of XP with one win and a lot of cash ...sometimes it was a miserable win and you would waste it.

Best I ever had was one of the special bonus weekends they did where the XP bonus was x5, so premium account = x2 and that was then x 5 due to the bonus. So double it and then times that by 5! ....that's a lot of XP and you really can't get close to that anymore.
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Thx for your time posting that, i will give it a try soon, cheers
 
matt_fsr said:
There's no direct pay-to-win as such, as in premium ammo that costs real money to buy (no such thing in WT)

But you can/could enhance your plane/tanks abilities to the max, and crew skills to a high level early on using real money, which would give you an advantage early-on, but it's mostly nothing that you can't grind for free anyway.

Either way, it's worth a look at without investing any money in to start with, and then decide after a bit how much money you want to 'invest' into it. :)
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Cheers.
 
lol ive literally dragged my laptop halfway across the camp in the baking sun to get some wifi, thought about patching WT for a couple of quick games just to see theres a major update :D

Sods law, can wait for a while then!
 
Brainchild will be pleased :)

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Hopefully it won't be as pants as the 47mm cannon armed Typhoon, but even if it is, I reckon it'll still be able to fight it out at that BR!

Well, one way to find out :D *loads up premium British planes lineup, kicks in bonus RP ticket*
 
matt_fsr said:
Brainchild will be pleased :)

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Hopefully it won't be as pants as the 47mm cannon armed Typhoon, but even if it is, I reckon it'll still be able to fight it out at that BR!

Well, one way to find out :D *loads up premium British planes lineup, kicks in bonus RP ticket*
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iirc they kept some 7.7's for sighting, how come this doesn't have any?? :(
 
Well, I bagged it in one match where I got 6K RP :)

You don't *NEED* Russians to do well at low BR! :D

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The 40mm's chuck shells a bit wildly, funny how only the Russians get dead-straight shooting large calibre cannons for their planes. :rolleyes:

Working on getting the improved 40mm guns, that should settle them down a bit. I suspect a few people have gone "lolWUT" already at being insta-smashed out of the sky! :D :p
 
matt_fsr said:
Brainchild will be pleased :)

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I....

AM PLEASED!!!!!

The Vickers P tempest is a lovely plane, and I enjoy flying it immensely. But it attracts fighters like flies to poop, and cannot defend itself at the cannon-heavy 4.0 BR it fights at, unless you are willing to spend vast amounts of time becoming a dead-shot with it. At present, I can kill ground targets pretty well, and bombers, but only get a fighter kill once in a blue moon.

Now, a 1.7 BR version... This is going to be interesting!
You say it fires wildly: Vickers P was the same until you get the cannons upgraded, then it settles down. Fire single shots, with a large gap between, and it might behave.
Maybe.
Probably not.

Any advanced ammo options?!
 
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