CMRT: tank combat seems way off

[Steiner14]

I just don't think that finding even real issues means things are way off and just be cause your personal favourite gun or tank or your personal pet crappy gun does not behave the way *you* want doesn't make it broken. Remember just because your tankers lost does not make the game broken.

That's the typical BFC forum yesman attitude. If something is wrong, then "you don't know how to play". Defending until it can't be defended anymore - in the meanwhile customers have stopped playing and will never come back...

When you find stuff wonky go post on BFC's boards and prove it.

I guess this was a joke. I was banned a long time ago from their forums, because I disputed the political views spread by the developer.

It is a highly unprofessional forum because the game developer spreads his political views but does not accept that they are countered, because it is "his" forum.
But a professional attitude is to either allow opposing opinions, or to take an unpoliticial stance.
The BFC-forum - probably because of that leading character - is ruled by the worst yesman mentality I ever had experienced on a company forum.

But it's even worse: the mentality is so extremely unprofessional, that he wrote me a PM, where he bragged that he would have studied history and therefore was correct, and when I wanted to reply, I was already banned. This behaviour in German is called "nachtreten" - to put the boot in?

It wouldn't put much weight on it, but by looking at the overall picture of the fanoy and yesmen mentality the BFC-forum has turned into, then things are quite obvious.

This began to develop for the worse with CMSF. I left for several years, because I couldn't find anything interesting in slaughtering chanceless forces, and when I came back with the release of CMBN, the audience and mentality of the forum had changed dramatically. The nice and open minded CMx1-atmosphere was gone, while a sneaky and narrow minded atmosphere was present.

I will never forget, when CMSF came out, how Steve allowed the most stupid and rude posts against Arab people, while on the other hand he was censoring what was contradicting US propaganda lies.
Maybe they hoped to get a contract with the DOD?

And your reaction is quite typical for the BFC mentality since: "We are right. Raising a problem is not enough for us to look at it, YOU must prove it." While you already have decided it was only "because your tankers lost".
I'm sure you did not even download the testscenarios I provided.

I can tell you, it's not because I was losing, but in fact because I'm a perfectionist and if something goes wrong, I search for a solution until I have found one. Therefore the result is, that I'm a quite decent player.
But if real world tactics are not honored, and gamey tricks therefore are used, what do you guess, will be the result in the long term for such a game?

This arrogant attitude of mediocre players is one of the reasons why CMx2 is getting no foot on the ground anymore: yesmen mentality and arrogant fanbois are defending, what good and open minded players recognize much earlier.

How long did the whole beta-circle not recognize that spotting of tanks was not working correctly? I had sent BFC my findings soon after CMBN was released. And at that time the fanboi brigade had played CMSF for years already and noticed nothing.

Yes, that's one of the problems: the mediocrity of the yesmen has driven most of the good people away.

What I find symptomatic for this mentality:
You did not even ask me what the gamey trick for tank combat was, I mentioned. Because you have given yourself the answer already: players that critizice the game do this, because they cannot play...