Type 62 and Type 63

[PurplePhoenix]

Are those Chinese tanks really good/overpowered? They have RB repair costs 11 000 and 9 000 respectively.

[Scheneighnay]

Don't know about those, but looking at other vehicles, repair costs have no bearing on performance, they're pulled out of a hat.

[Slyke]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

Don't know about those, but looking at other vehicles, repair costs have no bearing on performance, they're pulled out of a hat.

They are based entirely on statistics of how much players earn on average with respective vehicles. It takes some time to collect enough data to change the price from the initial estimate, though.

[Katokevin]

The Type 62 can make for a nice light. Mobility is generally good, and the gun is strong for a light (85mm with APHEBC and APCBC as well as a 300mm pen HEATFS for the heavier targets). However, essentially being a mini T-54, it also shares a similar (poor) turret traverse speed (which is not great for a light tank and you often end up traversing the hull a lot more).

The Type 63-I is essentially an uglier (how did they manage to do that?) PT-76 hull with Type 62 turret and ammo. I don't think they need to be so high honestly, but I'm not really surprised.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Curst:

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

Don't know about those, but looking at other vehicles, repair costs have no bearing on performance, they're pulled out of a hat.

They are based entirely on statistics of how much players earn on average with respective vehicles. It takes some time to collect enough data to change the price from the initial estimate, though.

Doesn't explain the variants of some vehicles that have 10 times the repair cost of vehicles around them in the tree

[Illusionyary]

Type 62 and Type 63 are both... okay... at best. There's better things at the same BR (Ru 251).

[Slyke]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

Originally posted by Curst:

They are based entirely on statistics of how much players earn on average with respective vehicles. It takes some time to collect enough data to change the price from the initial estimate, though.

Doesn't explain the variants of some vehicles that have 10 times the repair cost of vehicles around them in the tree

Yes it does. Or do you think developers raise the cost just to annoy you personally?

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Curst:

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

Doesn't explain the variants of some vehicles that have 10 times the repair cost of vehicles around them in the tree

Yes it does. Or do you think developers raise the cost just to annoy you personally?

what aspect of the A6M5 Otsu warrants a 28,000 SL repair cost when far better vehicles in the same BR don't even break 10,000?

[Slyke]

You really don't understand any of it do you..? A vehicle doesn't have to be better to have higher repairs, it only needs to earn more on average. It doesn't need to be better to earn more either, it only needs better players to choose it for some reason (in case of A6M5 Otsu that reason most likely being that it's the last A6M5 in the line).

[Col. Cornbread]

Type 62 is better than the RU 251. Besides Heatfs it gets an APCBC round which allows it to get flanking 1 shots. Also has better frontal armor so you don't die to 50s from the front like the RU 251 at the cost of a little bit of speed.

its 6.3 with a good HEATFS and apcbc round at 40mph, its down sides are armor and reload

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by Curst:

You really don't understand any of it do you..? A vehicle doesn't have to be better to have higher repairs, it only needs to earn more on average. It doesn't need to be better to earn more either, it only needs better players to choose it for some reason (in case of A6M5 Otsu that reason most likely being that it's the last A6M5 in the line).

Which is why it's a fundamentally stupid system - especially as there's a feedback process once repair costs run away where most players will avoid the overpriced machine and the non-representative few who remain are the only ones providing the data that sets the price.

But yeah, I believe you're right that that's what is at work...

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by ulzgoroth:

Originally posted by Curst:

You really don't understand any of it do you..? A vehicle doesn't have to be better to have higher repairs, it only needs to earn more on average. It doesn't need to be better to earn more either, it only needs better players to choose it for some reason (in case of A6M5 Otsu that reason most likely being that it's the last A6M5 in the line).

Which is why it's a fundamentally stupid system - especially as there's a feedback process once repair costs run away where most players will avoid the overpriced machine and the non-representative few who remain are the only ones providing the data that sets the price.

But yeah, I believe you're right that that's what is at work...

come to think of it it's stupid enough to make sense