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One of the main goals of contests in online games is to increase activity in general, not just game playing. That's why they have a variety of ways that you enter and receive prizes. If everyone were automatically entered and automatically rewarded, they might as well just randomly give stuff away. People would win who had no idea they were even participating (as could happen in this event). Having an entry process requires people to actually take the step to enter, which in turn creates buzz and gets more people interested.

If this was the case I'd be fine with the Strela and Pindad - But it isn't. If you're playing a Strela solo without OPhelia it's actually close to being balanced. Because in this case, as you described, you need to attack isolated targets and abuse all the mistakes the enemy team makes. Problem is that people soon found out about OPhelia. With her as a commander you can (in theory) increase your damage output up to around a whopping 2500dmg in the time span you should be long dead. Bad players are everywhere and hence why you don't balance vehicles for bad players in general. So no, not really a mode problem but a simple "bad balanced commander problem". Additionally players soon found out that one Strela is nice, but a wolfpack of 3 coordinated Strelas is even better. Even if you happen to be a good player having 3 friendly MBTs as backup, if you get rushed head on by this wolfpack (ideally equipped with OPhelia) you're F u c k e d. You can't do shit about it. Trust me that's not really an exception in PVP if you happen to encounter an at least decent Strela platoon they're easily capable of weeping a whole flank within a minute. I can't really see how to change the PVP mode itsself to avoid such situations honestly. The same can be applied to the Pindad, except that the Pindad is even more toxic because you can severely abuse the rocket trajectory to your advantage by staying particularly invincible while dumping your salvos. Additionally it fires HE which means that you deal a minimum of 1.5k dmg even to MBTs frontally. If you ever played a PVP game similar to AW you very well know that "teamplay" will never be a thing in such games. See the example above, If I was in a triple MBT platoon getting attacked by a triple Strela/OPhelia platoon we wouldn't stand a single chance even if we did focus-fire and stuff like that. If vehicles can be abused like that it's a quite obvious that something severely disturbs the balance. It's not a mode problem because you can't "fix" human players at all or adapt the mode rules in any way to level player skill.

We are aware of the potential "another York" or "lol ATGM spam" problems and will balance the vehicle accordingly.

Making a new theme is free, just takes work on my part because I have to edit all the colors manually. There are quite a lot of colors to edit as well, so it will take some time. I'll mess around with it some more, but this will take a while.