Developers posts on forum

CatStalker: True story. I was the 45th person to connect :D

krazyone:
I was actually at tier 7 in my US line when I learned the reason to keep crew around

krazyone:
I was actually at tier 7 in my US line when I learned the reason to keep crew around

krazyone: When I first started I wish I would have kept one crew on each of my tanks, however each tank I would get a new crew until I realized it was much better to keep one crew through the entire tree (tree being TD, Heavy, SPG)

In other words I would keep the same crew on each line and just start with a fresh (or if you pay for a gold or silver crew) crew on each new line.

But that is what I would do and in the end it is your choice on what you do. As well I am sure that many other players have different play styles as well.

Happy tanking
~krazyone

krazyone: When I first started I wish I would have kept one crew on each of my tanks, however each tank I would get a new crew until I realized it was much better to keep one crew through the entire tree (tree being TD, Heavy, SPG)

In other words I would keep the same crew on each line and just start with a fresh (or if you pay for a gold or silver crew) crew on each new line.

But that is what I would do and in the end it is your choice on what you do. As well I am sure that many other players have different play styles as well.

Happy tanking
~krazyone

GeneralDirection: As a follow up, I've already requested the GM team not hand out any warnings or other sanctions for posts to this point. I understand you guys are upset, I just wanted to include the reminder that the forum rules apply at all times.

Agrona: Right, for the contest, it needs to be during the time we have for the contest. Or else we would be getting crazy submissions from a year ago all the time!

Agrona: Thank you! No surprise seeing you on the list again. Congrats

Agrona: Yes of course you are!! Every now and again, we have been giving out keys to people on other sites. You are still a valued and special player

Agrona: Yes it does, we are still in Closed Beta and value the feedback we are receiving from players. It's still closed, so it hold meaning for those who can't play yet. Just thought I would share the information with the WOT players just in case some of you wanted to join up.

Agrona: No, because I don't have any keys to give away. They are doing a special so this is currently the only way to get one other than applying and waiting.

Captain_Judo: 500 is a slight underestimate! Thank you for the patience, though  
To add to GeneralDirection's post, we can't emphasize enough the community's overwhelming response to this contest. This includes the flood of exceptional submissions which we need to deliberate over. We can assure you that everyone's tournament ideas have been accounted for and we are now nearing the stage of discussing finalists and (drum roll) an actual winner

GeneralDirection: It's understandable.
I just got an update, it looks like we're down to 100 finalists. Yes, there were that many submissions that we have 100 we're considering "finalists." Captain_Judo will narrow it down a little more, but hopefully that gives you an idea of how many we received.

GeneralDirection: I'll explain the issue here, but also want to caution that you guys should take a chill pill when it comes to insulting the community team. The forum rules still apply, even if you're frustrated with the situation.
Agrona was our World of Warplanes community manager until the end of August, when she moved over to events for World of Tanks. Gaea then moved over to community manager for all of our products. Unfortunately that meant that Agrona had to play a lot of catch up and adapt to her new workflow, and that along with a few misunderstandings in how this contest was supposed to play out caused this delay.
In addition, frankly, it was an overwhelming number of submissions. The only contest we've run that has had more submissions was the Black Tom MVP event--something far easier to process than this, considering this requires time to review an entire tournament concept, whereas the MVP event requires comparing data to a submission to confirm accuracy.
I've made the decision to adjust the rewards for this contest, and also increase the reward slots to the top 10 entries. I'll also talk with LF about using more than just the winner for Skirmishes. So the gold prizes will be:1st - 36000
2nd - 33000
3rd - 30000
4th - 27000
5th - 24000
6th - 21000
7th - 18000
8th - 15000
9th - 12000
10th - 9000 At the end of the day, the situation sucked for us, but it's our responsibility to deliver for you guys. So hopefully you understand better why it happened, but also that it's not acceptable for it to happen and we're going to acknowledge that.

GeneralDirection:
It's in the hands of the eSports team now. Captain_Judo actually mentioned it here, in response to your comment. They're reviewing the entries now. We're taking the feedback to heart from recent contests and making sure this one is judged as accurately as possible--which means a lot of double, triple and quadruple checking.

I'll see if he can communicate that in the contest thread itself, since you guys are looking there for a response.

Agrona: Congrats to our winners! See who topped the charts here.

Mugsy_: In the last few days we were having some technical issues, they should be resolved now. If you continue to have problems just submit a support ticket at support.worldoftanks.com. ~ Mugsy_

Agrona: as long as the battles occurred during this time frame "between Tuesday, September 25, starting at 12:01 AM PDT, and Thursday, September 27, ending at 11:59 PM PDT (6:59 AM UTC Friday). Curious what time this is in your region? Use this handy Time Zone Converter to help you out."

Agrona: Results for last week will be posted today.

GeneralDirection:
Tomorrow AM hours deployment. So basically, if you play in the evening of the 26th, you'll be playing 8.0. You might want to start the download ahead of time though, this update is a little larger than the typical.

GeneralDirection:
We're trying to release the updates as close together as humanly possible. It's been a logistics issue to this point that has kept us from deploying them simultaneously (i.e. we didn't have enough of the properly skilled people to deploy on multiple servers). But we're making progress on that to get things closer together, and we of course will continue to strive toward reducing the gap between regional releases.

GeneralDirection:
Tomorrow for NA, unless we run into any last minute issues.

Agrona: http://images.mmorpg...anes_header.jpg
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Agrona: *****Winners will be posted today****. I know there have been some complaints about the choices for finalists. We are trying to find a way that makes everyone happy. We are open to hearing suggestions of how we can improve our voting process for these contests, we want everyone to participate and feel satisfied with the winners. If you have anything you would like to suggest we would love to hear it!  Please post it here or feel free to PM me with any suggestions or ideas you might have.
Thank you everyone!!

Agrona: This week's All Star contest! Check out the news here.

Captain_Judo: We're escalating the matter for the appropriate team to fix. Obviously this is important to us and we're hoping to have it fixed soon.

Captain_Judo: Every tournament creates a tourney sheet. It appears this one just wasn't publicly available. Corrections have been made and the tourney sheet should now be visible.

Captain_Judo: Our system automatically sorts the teams based on application submissions. We strictly accept the first 64 teams. Your team was just short of this cut

Captain_Judo:

CatStalker: In the graphics options it doesn't use the shorthand of vsync, but you'll want to enable the setting "Vertical synchronization". this will cap your fps at your monitor's refresh rate.
Edit: ninja'd

CatStalker: Good thing i recently switched to turkey bacon

Tanitha: Thankyou Team, that is looking very sexy now days.
Thanks so much for getting this back up and going again for the players.
/Tan

Mugsy_: I havent heard of this happening elsewhere, have you submitted a ticket to support? ~ Mugsy_

Mugsy_: Hello,
We definitely haven't forgotten about making the NA map available to our Clan Wars. We are still working on it, but I can't say exactly when it will launch yet.
~ Mugsy_

Hypnotik: If you look on your team's page, you'll see who you're playing for tonight. However I'd also like to see the brackets for this tournament.

Vallter: Added missing line about T-127 and Matilda Black Prince to update notes

Vallter: Only model change, without characteristics change

Vallter: They are not ready by this update and were never intended to

Vallter: Becauses there is none.

Vallter: 8.0 is coming and soon will be here. Update notes are finalized and public now.
Go read them!

Vallter: Great works!

Vallter: Check to see which Soviet vehicles are the lucky recipients of this weeks Tech Tree Focus
Back to the article

Mugsy_: Hey CDR,
Thank you for sharing your input and suggestions, noted.
~ Mugsy_

lord_farquad: Ok, so here's what we'll do...
All teams in the quarter final and semi final will receive a split of the prize pool (exact percentages tbd). Those teams in the round prior to the quarter final (1/8) will receive 500 gold per team member due to the technical issues they also experienced. This decision is final and not up for dispute. The decision is based off of player feedback both public and private. Thanks to everyone who sent in their votes and/or ideas!
The remainder of the tournament will be cancelled.

lord_farquad: Ok, so here's what we'll do...

All teams in the quarter final and semi final will receive a split of the prize pool (exact percentages tbd). Those teams in the round prior to the quarter final (1/8) will receive 500 gold per team member due to the technical issues they also experienced. This decision is final and not up for dispute. The decision is based off of player feedback both public and private. Thanks to everyone who sent in their votes and/or ideas!

The remainder of the tournament will be cancelled.

lord_farquad: Ok, so here's what we'll do...

All teams in the quarter final and semi final will receive a split of the prize pool (exact percentages tbd). Those teams in the round prior to the quarter final (1/8) will receive 500 gold per team member due to the technical issues they also experienced. This decision is final and not up for dispute. The decision is based off of player feedback both public and private. Thanks to everyone who sent in their votes and/or ideas!

The remainder of the tournament will be cancelled.