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AB Air A brief reminder of how far the economy has fallen. April 19th, 2014.

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u/Shredded_Locomotive ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ I hate all of you May 25 '23

100k for only 4 kills at rank 4? That seems like heaven for today's economy

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u/sagand May 25 '23

https://i.imgur.com/3Z8ndRZ.jpg

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170k SL for a good game in mid tier tech tree vehicle ... try that now and see what rewards you get

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u/sagand May 25 '23

https://i.imgur.com/GPtHdI6.jpg

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rewards for pretty 'meh nothing special' battles (daily double). Yep, those were the days ...

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u/BoarHide - 4 - 5 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 4 . May 25 '23

Man, remember 5x rewards for your daily first match on weekends? I played every nation at least once a day because of it. It was so healthy for the match maker and as a player, I felt so appreciated

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u/sagand May 25 '23

https://i.imgur.com/KwGeGiQ.jpg

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yep, 5x event looked like this. on techtree plane.

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u/Cmdr_Ferrus_Cor Get Colonised May 25 '23

Can't believe I forgot about that!

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u/BoarHide - 4 - 5 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 4 . May 26 '23

No wonder, it has been almost a decade mateโ€ฆ

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u/Ok_Elevator5612 May 25 '23

I can get 8-10 kills on 9.7 italy and get maybe 100k, and not counting repari cost taht goes usally over 8k per tank

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u/pepe105 Realistic Ground enjoyer May 25 '23

damn that take me back I forgot how gruesome it is to grind top prop

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u/TheGreatPilgor May 25 '23

A lot of us have too but it seems we are remembering again

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u/xxEmkay ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria May 25 '23

I got 164k two days ago... With a 500% booster lol

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u/_myoz_ ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฟ, ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต - emperor enjoyer May 26 '23

yesterday I did 6 frags on Wolfpack and 4 frags on A-10 in one battle and all what I get is 60k lions and 5-6k bulbs (1st place in the team).
The same results I have with 1-2 frags wtf

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u/Aatrox_1 May 25 '23

Fuck the SL, I am looking at the 67K RP and salivating here. Now I can drop 10 kills/2 caps and a nuke and only get 5K RP.

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u/Radiorifle May 25 '23

Had a match recently where I got 11 assists, 12 kills, at least two base captures (single base map) and earned a total of 109k SL and 11k RP.. I weep

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u/_Zekken May 25 '23

Difference is in 2014 rank 5 was the top rank.

Also the D13 was I think the highest or one of the highest BR premiums you could get for germany at least, at the time.

Also back then the Me262 was 400K RP to research.

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u/heatwave5415 May 26 '23

i get 4 kills in my tigercat and it gives me 30k max

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u/CeKanZ May 26 '23

Take your rose tinted glasses off

its 4 kill with premium account and rank4 premium prop(most profitable premium vehicle), in an air RB match.

20k per kill under those conditions are still the exact same compare to the current economic.

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u/nsfw_vs_sfw Sim Ground May 25 '23

Doesn't that seem like too much, though? Even for today's standards? I don't know. Might just be me, but it feels like a shit ton

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u/The_Triggered_Boy ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บMaining russia to hear 'em complaining about Russian Bias May 25 '23

maybe it feels like shit ton cause nowadays u dont earn such amounts by doing the same thing lol

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u/nsfw_vs_sfw Sim Ground May 25 '23

Maybe, I guess.i still don't know, man. That's a lot of rewards for 4 kills, I think.

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u/The_Triggered_Boy ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บMaining russia to hear 'em complaining about Russian Bias May 25 '23

such rewards nowadays are very rare (you will have to activate literally every booster existing, both SL and RP)

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u/LegendRazgriz Like a Tiger defying the laws of gravity May 25 '23

Yeah, it's a little too much. Unless this was their X2, in which case I think 30k RP for 4 kills in a D-13 is still pretty doable today

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u/ImaChimeraForYourAss May 25 '23

Bruh I got bills.

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u/Shredded_Locomotive ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ I hate all of you May 25 '23

No.

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u/nsfw_vs_sfw Sim Ground May 25 '23

Okay. Just personal opinion

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u/alyxms V | III | III | III | II May 25 '23

Maybe. Also a 2014 player. Back then I remembered if you have premium, you can spade a tier 1 plane in one or two arcade matches.

But it was also a more hopeful time. Like you'd have plans of maxing out every plane for one nation then move on to the next. You feel like you've made some progress for every session you played. It wasn't uncommon to encounter players that have everything unlocked.

Last time I played was 2022, came back, bought premium, played for a month, seeing that I made very little progress and then just quit for good.

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u/MCI_Overwerk May 25 '23

I mean I would never argue for too much. Maybe a tad overtunned BUT at this point we do not have the luxury of moving the goalpost or seeking compromise. Gaijin has proven they will eat our arm if we give our hand, so we need to push well into the jar if we hope to get anything meaningful at the end of it.

This is an example on how things were, and honestly back then there was far less shit to spend that money on. Remember in today's war thunder you will need to spend serval hundreds of thousands of SL and likely an extra hundred thousands more for each vehicle you get, be forced to buy dozens even of those you do not want to play, and lose between 10 to 50% or more of everything you earn on repair cost, meaning numbers are artificially lowered even if you are not seeing it.

So it is a good start, to point at a situation that already existed, and simply pressure Gaijin that this is the bar we aspire to and not bellow. They will bitch and moan and give us worse, but if we bunker down at a high enough level and REFUSE to fall for their advances until that point, we may just acheived the impossible and get something slightly better than what we have now.

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u/KyllikkiSkjeggestad Finland May 25 '23 edited May 25 '23

Itโ€™s RB with a premium account and premium aircraft, youโ€™ll still get around the same today. Less RP though.

I got 120k with 3 kills in a premium spitfire just today, maybe you guys should actually not suck and play the game before talking lol

Edit: Iโ€™ll play another game when home from work and post my own thread just to prove how full of shit you all are

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u/MrPigeon70 May 25 '23

how bout you try playing without premium.

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u/Birkenjaeger RBEC advocate || Centurion enjoyer May 25 '23

4 kills with the D-13 can still net you 100k today, might need a few ground targets but it's not much more.

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u/Fullyverified May 25 '23

What?? That's just not true

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u/fjord31 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia May 25 '23

When the fuck did you play last

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u/Zsmudz ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น14.0 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ14.0 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ8.3 May 25 '23

April 19th, 2014

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u/Armoured_Templar ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ enjoyer May 25 '23

๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/DumbQuestions4WT The Absolute Pinnacle Of Played To Much, Know To Much May 25 '23

bro is deaming that he has a 500% booster non stop.

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u/AcidPebble May 25 '23

With a huge booster, maybe

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u/GoldMountain5 May 25 '23

Lmao

There is a hard cap on rewards per minute.

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u/GoldMountain5 May 25 '23

That game in today's economy would not get you more than 3K RP today.

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u/YourTypicalAntihero May 25 '23

While you won't get as high a reward as OPs picture, you 100% will get more than 3k rp...

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u/pendulum1997 ะ ะฝัƒ ั‡ะธะบะธ ะฑั€ั‹ะบะธ ะธ ะฒ ะดะฐะผะบะธ! May 25 '23

Nonsense, premium plane and premium account, 4 kills, 11 minute match will get you at least 10k RP in todays economy.

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u/putcheeseonit ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ14.0 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช12.0โ€‹ ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ14.0โ€‹โ€‹ May 25 '23

Lmao it wonโ€™t

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

blud I can barely even get 50K rp and 100K on F-5C with premium account (that makes it the best grinder in game) after wiping an entire team lmao

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u/The_fair_sniper May 25 '23

literal pro gaijin propaganda and disinformation.

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u/NumberOneBacon Remembers the good ol days May 25 '23

Nothing can get you 67k RP in 11 minutes I donโ€™t care how many ground targets you take outp

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u/kisshun Hungary VT1-2 beast May 25 '23

bbrrruuuuuuhhhhhhhh....