The post was to show the tank had Combat History. Forgive me for not being a Jagdtiger Commander from WWII & posting my own Combat history so that you wouldn't be offended by the copy & paste of "facts". Perhaps I should have threw together a fabrication or some fantasy Combat History together to keep your disdain for copy & paste from tainting your palette.
Ok. Here ya go. ANYTHING that may breathe a hint of life back into this game that is dying a painfully obvious slow death should be considered. In the 2 years that I left the game I can count on my fingers and toes the number of obvious changes to the game (not counting added skins, which you do awesome with BTW) but i could count on 50+ peoples fingers the drop in the population. When AH is fighting to get 300+ players on a weekend and other WWII Sims are clocking 10,000+ players, then adding anything that may appeal to the gaming community should be considered. We could argue that we need the Zündapp KS 750 Motorcycle And Sidecar (<---- I copied & pasted that BTW), but how many people do you think would flock to the game for that? Throw up a Military Channel advertisement with a Jagdtiger and Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus (<---sorry more copy & paste) fighting to the death & a SU-14 or other tracked artillery laying waste to spawn campers on a NEW terrain with the new graphics and we may, just maybe, get back to the days when you rushed home from work so you could get in the MA before it filled up. Let the Flaming begin.
The give and take on these boards are a good "weeding out" of ideas. Many ideas aren't thought through. People poke holes in them showing the OP what they might have missed in their thinking. Wishing for a certain vehicle is OK, but there is no reason to be offended by others pointing out that in the long run there are many other vehicles/planes that would be better to add first for any number of reasons.
As for "trying to help save the game" many ideas have been mentioned and some even commented on by HTC. Most of the "advertisement" type suggestions were met with a cost per return answer. If it cost 5K to place an ad and you only get 20 people and only half of those stay a year (less than $3600 return) it isn't worth it. I think that is the main reason they are pushing the "social media" outlet right now. It doesn't cost anything other than time to maintain it. And as long as subscribers help out by linking/liking to their pages they will get a wider audience with out incurring the extra cost.
As for changes to the game, "adding things" doesn't look to be a real answer as they have faithfully added things to this game 2 and 3 times a year for many years and the numbers continue to drop. Creating a better gaming environment I believe is the answer. Better graphics is the visual environment and should help some, but the game play environment is where I think the biggest problem is. But even that is only my opinion and is subject to the same "flames" you get on your posts.
Make your posts, read the replies, and try to see their side of what you said. You may be surprised by what you missed when you thought you had it all worked out.
