I said this too many times... even before the changes from 1 manning tanks to 2 man tanks...
IT IS A VERY BAD DECISION to make this game have cooperation forced by the assets/ bot difficulty and some more other factors which I really don`t want to discuss.
People don`t want to play COOP with a bunch of randoms anymore, they give a shit about rules and everyone around them. Mics sometimes are non-existent in a game... and so where is the cooperation if they can`t transmit data in fast (typing is not nearly as fast as it takes more than 5 sec to say something like: " Tank at 200 near that T shape building..."; test it measuring time, first by typing and then saying it to see what I mean)? It isn`t 2015 when PR was still something good and fun... I for one took lately a very big break from the game and I am going to delete it soon, because it isn`t fun at all. I don`t like the "new" stuff added and the bots are even more annoying than they`ve been. I really liked the things that made this game good (planes, tanks, apcs ,IFVs and inf), but adding something and breaking it even more it is no excuse (same thing with every update for 5 f***ng years) ... It feels like pouring content just to compete with other titles which this game can`t compete against. YES IT IS FREE and I understand that, but if you want this free game at least make it enjoyable like it used to be...
I love the community here, you guys are the BEST, but unfortunately I don`t think we can grow this community with PR ,anymore, like we used to.
Maps changes are always going to be an issue as none of them are perfectly balanced as Muttrah is. And this comes from someone that really hates Muttrah :))
Anyway I ,overall, don`t see an issue with the assets themselves nor the overly played maps and like Connor said the issue itself is the quality of players that join our server, meaning, we don`t get too many people that want to learn about this game more and most are just consumers (play the game when bored and then switch to something else). This is why we get no mics, this is why we have issues with overreacting when trying to explain the rules, this is also why we don`t see too many choices when changing to harder maps. It is either the players choice to change maps (requests are rare), ours or none at all, we just leave PR/TS and go play something else (at least this is what I do and some other friends I have here) because we got sick of stupidity or what we call noobs ( the people I have talked above).
I love the work that has been put into this "perfect" (my point of view) server, but it isn`t our fault that people are not willing to follow rules and "suck" at this game. My final point is that we don`t get too many choices when 10-30 people play on the server and most of them are so bad when it comes to cooperating (they don`t listen or are ignoring your need for help completely).