Loosing Silver Lions

[addict]

Several day's now ive been playing air arcade with boosters to gain a little more SL but instead of gaining SL im loosing, so i changed all my ammo to default so i dont have any costs then my repairs, still im loosing alot of silver lions. Anyone have some advice ?

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

What vehicle are you using? If it's a variant, be sure to specify what BR/model

[whatdoesthisbuttondo?]

Premium or regular account? Also what rank, and which planes?

With the current in-game economy, at least in Air RB it can be quite problematic to get a net positive on later rank 3 and up, if you're not running a premium account, given you need 3-4 kills (which is 25% of the enemy team usually) on a lost match to be in the clear.

[hi_1002]

War Thunder is designed to make you lose sl above rank three.

[ulzgoroth]

Air arcade implies a lineup. Basically a good question though.

What's you goal exactly? If the priority is making SL, the best solution is playing a different mode.

[Chaoslink]

It’s all about the rank you’re playing at if you ask me. I have a premium account, so that has its benefits, but I play almost exclusively rank 2-3 staying in the 2.0-5.0 range for the most part. I reached just a few thousand SL the other day as I grind the British tree and expert every crew on the vehicles I train them on (doubles vehicle buy cost) and only a few hours of playing later that couple thousand SL was back to 800k. I frequently am the top player on the team, had an M4A2 Sherman game not too long ago where I got a quad Ace, 20 kills without dying in the thing, so my performance is above average typically. With that, I make anywhere between 40k-120k SL per match depending on the stats.

One thing to be aware of are the medals you earn on the side of the score screen. For air AB, some of the easier ones to earn are the ones for getting the most AI ground target kills, especially the Rogue Wave one for killing ships since there’s only a few per map. If there’s 9 PT boats, killing just 5 guarantees you that award and most of the higher tier medals like that can earn you a decent chunk of SL. My personal favorite to earn is mission maker, earned by getting both the first and last kill of the game. With a booster active, the last game I earned that in was worth 13.5k alone.

Point is, if you look at those medals and see the ones that are either easy to earn many of or are worth a ton of SL, trying to get those each match can help you earn more SL per match.

A lot has to do with the tier I play, but I’m not sure if or when I’ve ever left a match with a net negative SL. Probably has to do with rarely playing top tier. I just don’t like the gameplay once you have things like choppers and ATGMs and all that. War Thunder is, was and always will remain a WWII game in my eyes.

The short version, play rank 3 or lower.

[addict]

i am playing regular account and i am curently lvl 9 playing 1rank 1 and 2 rank2 spitfires and 1 rank 1 baufort, i guess the repair costs are higher then wat i get from a game. And im not playing for SL just for fun but in order to keep playing i need some gain to keep repairing my toys :-)

[ulzgoroth]

Okay, that's really low rank to be losing SL. Repair (and ammo) costs in the bottom ranks are generally quite low. Some definite questions about what you're doing in your matches.

But also it sounds like you may have no idea whatsoever what you're doing making a lineup. The short form:
-Rank is irrelevant (except for clearing special tasks).
-BR is everything.
-BR should be about the same for all your vehicles, since matchmaking is based on the highest.
-In air arcade battles only, it can be good to have one aircraft that is two BR steps (a step is 1/3 BR) ahead of the rest, and optionally one aircraft that is on the step between the high plane and the rest. Your matchmaking rank in that case will be one step below your highest instead of equal to your highest.

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

Originally posted by addict:

i am playing regular account and i am curently lvl 9 playing 1rank 1 and 2 rank2 spitfires and 1 rank 1 baufort, i guess the repair costs are higher then wat i get from a game. And im not playing for SL just for fun but in order to keep playing i need some gain to keep repairing my toys :-)

Depends on the vehicle. At rank 2 I don't think it should be too expensive, but if it's a great performing plane, then probably yeah it's expensive. Especially if you don't have premium

[addict]

just tried to play another game with a 200+ booster, we lost, but i didnt loose any SL nor did i gain any so now i dont get it anymore lol, and i checked the BR in game it said i was br3.3

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

Originally posted by addict:

just tried to play another game with a 200+ booster, we lost, but i didnt loose any SL nor did i gain any so now i dont get it anymore lol, and i checked the BR in game it said i was br3.3

I'm really not sure what vehicles you're using, but at 3.3, it shouldn't be too difficult to break even with a few assists or a kill. What vehicle are you specifically using in arcade?

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by addict:

just tried to play another game with a 200+ booster, we lost, but i didnt loose any SL nor did i gain any so now i dont get it anymore lol, and i checked the BR in game it said i was br3.3

...But you don't tell us what you are playing, so that BR gives us little to go on. (Except that you're not at a rank where profit is prohibitively hard to get.)

[addict]

In my last game i was in Air arcade with a Spitfire MKiib Rank 2 with a BR 3.7 and MKiia rank 2 BR 2.7

[addict]

Just now i did another air arcade + 75% booster with the same vehicles + another spitfire MK1 and a rank 1 baufort MK8 with br 1.7, we won the mission but ive lost 2k SL ???? if i keep playing ill be out of sl in a week or so LOL

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by addict:

Just now i did another air arcade + 75% booster with the same vehicles + another spitfire MK1 and a rank 1 baufort MK8 with br 1.7, we won the mission but ive lost 2k SL ???? if i keep playing ill be out of sl in a week or so LOL

Right, but are you getting kills at all? Assists? How you perform matters just as much as winning and all that.

Note that you should not be shooting at the lead indicator. Shoot just ahead of it. It tells you where to shoot based on no movement whatsoever. Since your plane and the enemy plane are both moving, you need to adjust slightly for direction and speed. Should help if you're not getting many hits.

[addict]

Right, but are you getting kills at all? Assists? How you perform matters just as much as winning and all that.

Note that you should not be shooting at the lead indicator. Shoot just ahead of it. It tells you where to shoot based on no movement whatsoever. Since your plane and the enemy plane are both moving, you need to adjust slightly for direction and speed. Should help if you're not getting many hits. [/quote]


I had 1 kill 2 assists 2 ground targets destroyed