I know some people might think that almost all the certifications in the game are too expensive with the current rate of cert generation, but if we could shelve that mentality for the duration of this thread; I would like to create an extensive list of certifications in the game that have prices that don't follow a rational pattern, or at the very least have highly impractical costs. I happen to subscribe to the line of thinking that certain certs should be expensive so people can't just specialize in everything, but there are a lot of options that really force you to spread yourself too thin for too little gain. I'll start with the biggest offenders first: Vehicle weapon certs- Not the cost of the weapons themselves, but the cost of their upgrades. Zoom optics, maximum ammo capacity, reload speed, and magazine size are almost all off kilter in one form of another. This mostly applies to secondary weapons, but somewhat to primary weapons as well. For example, if you want to upgrade the secondary weapons on your Sunderer or Galaxy, the costs should be greatly reduced seeing as how there are multiple weapons to upgrade and they're not exactly as effective as the guns on primary combat vehicles. These are the current costs for secondary weapon enhancements: Weapon ammo 1-10-30-50-100-150-200-400-500-1000 Weapon Optics Zoom 1-50-150-500 Infrared 50 Thermal 200 Weapon Utility (when applicable) Magazine Size 100-200-400-1000 Reload Speed 150-200-400-500-1000 First up is weapon ammo, while the first few increments are ok, things get ridiculous towards the last half of the upgrades. As it is, weapon ammo can already be virtually negated by a nearby ammunition Sunderer, so maybe the point is moot and it should be left alone--although that sounds somewhat counter intuitive. I feel like making each rank a flat 20 certs would be a lot more reasonable. Again, these are secondary weapons. Zoom optics aren't really that big of a help with most secondary weapons as it is, so the pricing there seems entirely superfluous. A better model would probably be something like 10-20-30-40. Altogether I feel like this specific line of certs suffers from erroneous stream-lining. Infrared is fine, and no one uses thermal so I guess that gets a pass. Magazine size and reload speed could use some more appropriate scaling, maybe 20-40-60-80 for both, and then another 100 tacked on for reload speed. As far as primary weapons are concerned, people will probably have mixed feelings about certain MBT's having easier access to optimized primary weapons. Still, when you get right down to it, a 10% reload speed increase for 2250 certs is entirely unacceptable, regardless of the tank. These are the easiest cert-sinks to point out because their effects are almost entirely quantitative, others however may require more in-depth observation so I'll stop here for now and allow every one else to throw their hat into the ring.
No. The 10% reload speed is a direct DPS upgrade. None of the other upgrades help you kill faster. The entire reason you selected your vehicle loadout is because of the main cannon so firing it even just 10% more often is a big deal. That extra round you can get off makes or breaks a tank fight. It shouldn't even be in the game, TBH, but since it is it should be prohibitively expensive.
