This idea could draw in people from these two large groups:

[junior herald]

Add a game mode that's you spawn in and you're in a tank. One tank. One life. Many other players. Add different tank variants. Add some from real life both modern and historical/WW2 and give them cheeky legally distinct names. Why would this be succuessful? Unbeknownst to many, there is a HUUUGE tank enthusiast community of people who only like tanks, distinct from but sometimes indeed overlapping with military enthusiasts, war gaming community, history nerds...and there are people who just really like tanks, a lot of them! Tank nerds would love it. If adding too many tanks is a concern for the main game...don't worry just add tanks to the game that are only for this game mode. That would really give this game a boost and draw in a ton of war gamers and tank enthusiasts. It would sort of be like adding a game mode that's world of tanks in Silica but with less BS that comes from World of Tanks.

[green path]

could be modded as a scenario. 😄

[coral frost]

This dude just suggested we add the Sherman tank to silica to win over the WoT community.

While we’re add it, we should also add Dune, Star Wars Halo and Warhammer to silica to win over those communities as well.

[analog hazel]

That would be a TON of content, hence, a lot of work just for a game mode. It sounds more like a mod to me 😛

There will be a survival game mode though where vehicles will be limited. Oppulent Omega has developed one and is really fun.

[hazy pumice]

Cheers for the idea but to be fair, adding a bunch of new tanks that are usable in only one game mode is very expensive to do, would be clear that we are trying to pull over players, and would not work anyway unless there was a gigantic marketing push to try to win over those players who would likely not switch anyway even if the features in such a mode were 1:1 with WoT. I honestly do not believe it would achieve what you hope it would achieve, rather, those resources are better spent adding units that are usable to all game modes

[green path]

I guess so, I didn't read. I thought the dude was suggesting a large scale tank battle. (which is not hard to do at all - takes maybe an evening to set up in ArmA if you want more stuff to it other than tanks shooting at each others).

[junior herald]

large scale tank battles with the current in game tanks would also be super cool IMO. I hear you on adding tanks that wont be in the rest of the game though. Figured couldn't hurt to ask lol.

[junior herald]

I think Dram said on flumpy squid's video he is into Dune so it may or may not already be an inspiration also username checks out 😛 (I could be misremembering)

[analog hazel]

Indeed, the Dune novel inspired Dram to make Silica. Also the Dune RTS games, the old ones were also an inspiration source.