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Subject: Ural Steel 2012
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Farva1, on Sep 19 2012 - 08:48, said: So I'm still alive, even though tbh I don't really feel that way right now.  Thank you WG for getting me home safe and sound despite my best efforts to die in Moscow.  To all those who had to watch/help/carry my fat butt around, you have my sincere apologies and most heartfelt thanks!

From what I recall Moscow was a blast (minus the games of course).

Subject: Arracourt Post meridiem Challenge
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Subject: Arracourt Post meridiem Challenge
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Subject: Arracourt Post meridiem Challenge
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Subject: Skirmish XVI
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Striker_002, on Sep 19 2012 - 18:31, said: The WAR vs WAR finals ended with WAR winning, who would have thought?

Subject: Skirmish XVI
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Striker_002, on Sep 19 2012 - 17:31, said: The WAR vs WAR finals ended with WAR winning, who would have thought?

Subject: Skirmish XVI
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Striker_002, on Sep 19 2012 - 17:31, said: The WAR vs WAR finals ended with WAR winning, who would have thought?

Subject: Arracourt Ante meridiem Challenge
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dopper, on Sep 18 2012 - 20:33, said: Oh that wasn't you streaming Ural Steel footage from Moscow over the Internet?

Subject: Arracourt Ante meridiem Challenge
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dopper, on Sep 18 2012 - 19:33, said: Oh that wasn't you streaming Ural Steel footage from Moscow over the Internet?

Subject: Arracourt Ante meridiem Challenge
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dopper, on Sep 18 2012 - 19:33, said: Oh that wasn't you streaming Ural Steel footage from Moscow over the Internet?

Subject: Arracourt Post meridiem Challenge
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Subject: Arracourt Post meridiem Challenge
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Subject: Official Q&A Thread: 7.5 Era
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_Goliard, on Sep 10 2012 - 05:16, said: Dear Vallter, thank you for responding to me question regarding the T-127's match maker.
I tried to play a few games in my T-127 on the public test server, to give you guys some data to analyse and work with.
Well, to be honest, there's a small problem with that.
Nobody plays anything below tier 5 on the test server, and I haven't managed to get a single game in my T-127 going. Or my B1, for that matter.
All in all, I doubt the public test server will help you evaluate this tank, if only for the simply reason nobody bothers playing it.


AcesHighMDP, on Sep 10 2012 - 15:48, said: Hi Vallter, one question: on the Panzer IV with Ausf H turret, the stand-off armour on the side of the turret has 2 doors which were obviously closed during combat operations in real life, why are they open in the in-game model ?.This negates any benefit from the extra armour, since those openings are very easy to hit from any angle.


Eliminateur, on Sep 10 2012 - 16:03, said: Vallter,
In the tanks that have spare tracks lines in the front/sides(which was used to marginally improve armor there as well as carrying it) are they taken into account for the armor group on that part as they should?(tracks ARE quite thick, they would work as layered armor of sorts), or their thickness is added to the value of the armor behind them?.
you can see they easily add 20+mm(or more in bigger fatter tanks) to the armor which is VERY welcome.
Examples of such:
the pz 4 H listed above
the IS4 lower plate


karl_eller, on Sep 10 2012 - 16:49, said: Is there any plans to let beta testers re-purchase their reward tanks (KV-220, M4A2E4)? I sold my M4A2E4 a long time ago, because it kind of sucked when it was constantly getting put in matches with Tier 8s, since it was slow compared to the regular M4, and was painfully short on penetration. However, with the MM changes in 7.5 I'm thinking of grabbing a Tier 5 premium for fun and profit, and the M4A2E4 caught my eye on the wiki. It'd be nice to also be able to flex my beta tester epeen in game again.
So is there ever any chance of me being able to re-buy this tank? Or am I S.O.L.?


FaustianQ, on Sep 10 2012 - 19:12, said: Valter, can you go over the reason for selecting the T95E2 over other possible tanks for the second US T10 medium? Further, can you elaborate on the second US T8 medium? TIA.


Mouseman, on Sep 10 2012 - 22:20, said: I remember about a year ago the Sturmtiger (spg) was being planned for release as a premium tank.   What happened?  Is the Sturmtiger not going to happen?  Is it going to be released someday as maybe a tier 9 or 10 arty?
I was higly anticipating driving a Sturmtiger around and using that naval depthcharge launcher to shatter opponents.   Please tell me it hasn't been entirely shelved.


fatsoferret, on Sep 11 2012 - 00:09, said: I have a lot of tanks with camo that i bought with gold, i heard that we will be refunded for the camo that we bought when the new camo system come in 8.0.  How will we be refunded? will we get gold, or will we get credit equivlent?


spigalau, on Sep 11 2012 - 00:18, said: Have the developers given any thought to allowing other classification groups within a users garage other than just 'Primary' ? Would be great to have user customisable groups so that the tanks you use in Clan Wars could be grouped together, another group for the ones you are currently grinding, etc.
Primary: Lowe, Type 59, SuperPershing (aka the money trolls)
Clan Wars: IS4, IS7, Obj 261, E100, BatChat
Grinding: SU100, T54, E50
etc.


kvolkster1, on Sep 11 2012 - 00:54, said: Why do TDs make so much less exp per battle than any other tank?


iron_elephant, on Sep 11 2012 - 10:13, said: Hello,
   If I ask a question that was already answered, I apologize in advance:
1) the RBT-5, will the main turret gun be usable or is it locked out like the hull gun in the B1(will the B1 hull gun be unlocked in the 8.0?)
2) a diagram of tank icons has recently surfaced showing something called a "German-Agrimotor" a tank tractor, but not fully tracked, is this legit? (and if so, can we expect more non-fully tracked vehicles)?
3) will there be an expanded permanent Chinese tech tree made available to the NA server?
4)the European-Italian tech tree sounds like a rumored tech tree to be developed sometime in the future, will there be a Middle Eastern-Indo-Pakistani tree released or are there too few tanks for such a possibility? (perhaps premium gift tank releases like a Vijayanta [Indian altered version of the Vickers. Mk 1])?


iron_elephant, on Sep 11 2012 - 10:24, said: Hello again,
   Forgot to ask:
5) Will British Indian crewmembers be available from the British barracks when recruiting our crew for the British tanks/spgs?


PaoSan, on Sep 11 2012 - 13:13, said: I heard some people talking about a Second Russian Medium line Will it be linked to the kv-13 in any ways?
Will that line get linked to the T series Line or will it be completely set apart?


slenderfungus, on Sep 11 2012 - 13:34, said: Valter, I have a few questions:
1.  Has this thread been completely ignored now that the 8.0 test is out?  It appears that way.
2.  Will the T-127 be given it's former matchmaking where it will only be in tier 4 battles again or not?
3.  Why are the Chruchill and T-14 given preferential matchmaking, whereby they only see a max tier 6 battles, when the T-25 will see tier 7 and will the T-25 be changed? Like its tier 5 heavy peers, will the matchmaking be changed so the T-25 only sees tier 6?
I tried to make this easy for you so you can answer yes or no.  I really don't care about the test evaluations for 2. and 3., as they are irrelevant.  A simple "yes" or "no" will do.
Thanks!


Slakrrrrrr, on Sep 11 2012 - 15:32, said: If I may ask, why does the British Tech Tree get a medium tank at tier 1? Couldn't it be placed at tier 2 and replaced with the A5E1?
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/, Great Britain, Light Tanks


Downhome, on Sep 12 2012 - 00:31, said: Wonderful game, but like several others you have, for some reason, made it impossible to remap the TAB key. I use the TAB key as my left turn in every game I play, mostly because it allows my hand to relax on the keyboard in a natural position, reducing cramping and carpal tunnel problems. Is there any file I can edit or any way you guys can patch the mapping so that ALL keys are remappable? I would love to play this game and would probably like it enough to buy gold IF the tab key were remappable.

Subject: Official Q&A Thread: 7.5 Era
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iron_elephant, on Sep 09 2012 - 11:15, said: Hello,
First I would like to say great job thus far! As for my questions:
1) Will the physics update of 8.0 include control of secondary large guns on tanks or will this be made available in another   release? (ex: B1 hull gun or Somua turret gun)
2) In the British tech tree release can we expect British India crew (or other British Commonwealth crew)?
3) Will the 8.0 update include voice overs for crew of nationalities other then the current one (accents, Russian, French, etc.)?
4) Will there ever be a stable premium tank for China made available to buy with gold rather than from the gift-store? (a small premium detachment tank force/incomplete tech tree of Chinese tanks available to the NA server)
5) Will there be a tech tree other than the European tech tree (not sure of the official name) which could include premium tanks from other countries (such as the Vijayanta, [Vickers Mk.1] of India)? Or a tech tree for South East Asia and Middle East (an Eastern countries version of the European tech tree)?


Erwin_Freakin_Rommel, on Sep 09 2012 - 17:53, said: Hi, I have only two questions. I'm in bit of a hurry so I don't have time to look through 46 pages for answers(yes I used the search function).
First, will we ever get test servers located in the US?
And if not, why?
If anyone can like to some answers, it'd be greatly appreciated.


Chaos8034, on Sep 09 2012 - 18:45, said: I have a question for WG, Do you know what a queue is? Do you know what it's purpose is? Did you know that the 8.0 test server's queue doesn't work at all?


casadint, on Sep 09 2012 - 20:47, said: Question Number 1: I understand in 8.0 the PZIV will have it's best gun reduced for a ..... The question is, why remove a historically accurate gun?
Question Number 2: I understand nerfs are constantly happening to tank destroyers, particularly their guns, I.E. Marder II.  Why was the historically accurate PAK 40 not upgraded in damage?  Tank destroyers are meant to be the unbalanced tank, such as SPGs.
Question Number 3: There is no balance, no fairness and no allowance in War.  If you plan on remaining historically accurate, why change the setup of tanks, TD and Arty? I.E. Marder II, PZIV, SU-85 and etc.  The majority of people that argue about the unfairness don't care about the historical facts, however, these facts allow this game to stand differently from others.  Why not just add more tanks, TDs and arty from the same era, however, delve into more prototypes and blueprint models.


TDK_Truth, on Sep 09 2012 - 21:26, said: Do you plan to remove the sell limit on tanks?


husband, on Sep 09 2012 - 21:29, said: Will future patches, now that physics is being fine tuned, include destructible/weight limitations to bridges?


jimmystickrules, on Sep 09 2012 - 22:30, said: If I sign up for the 8.0 test server do you keep the free xp and credits after the patch is active?
Thanks

Subject: Premium suggestion?
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Subject: Premium suggestion?
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Subject: An old girl is coming home
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Subject: An old girl is coming home
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Subject: 2nd round of SEA Account Transfers
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karl_eller, on Sep 19 2012 - 04:38, said: Tanitha, will we be able to re-do the tutorial on the SEA servers once our NA accounts have transferred over, so that we can get the M3 Stuart Lend Lease? I never had the option to run the tutorial on the NA server, but I did it on the SEA server already, and I want MOAR PREMIUMS!

Subject: 2nd round of SEA Account Transfers
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zione1995, on Sep 17 2012 - 12:32, said: I am sorry Tan ( I have read all 12 pages of this 3d before posting) but nowhere was stated that.
Anyway, I'm downloading the SEA client to see by myself the issue wirh the ping, but my main concern is that I am a tier 8+ player and I'm seriously worried about that there are not many players at that tiers.


fire70, on Sep 17 2012 - 10:46, said: SoonTM

Subject: Please welcome Captain_Judo, the newest member of the Wargaming America eSpor...
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Subject: Please welcome Captain_Judo, the newest member of the Wargaming America eSpor...
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TheRonmasteh, on Sep 19 2012 - 03:19, said: PD: Wonder if I'll see you on your M26 sometime again...

Subject: Please welcome Captain_Judo, the newest member of the Wargaming America eSpor...
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Subject: Please welcome Captain_Judo, the newest member of the Wargaming America eSpor...
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Subject: Skirmish XVII
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Subject: Skirmish XVII
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Subject: Skirmish XVII
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Subject: All Star #54 Winners
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Scruffee, on Sep 18 2012 - 21:13, said: WOOT! My 1st All Star win!
This was also my 1st entry :P

Subject: Ural Steel 2012
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PlatedMegaFTW, on Sep 18 2012 - 22:40, said: No juice with god knows what floating in it and leftover field rations from the cold war and I think we are in business

Subject: Ural Steel 2012
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PlatedMegaFTW, on Sep 18 2012 - 21:40, said: No juice with god knows what floating in it and leftover field rations from the cold war and I think we are in business

Subject: Ural Steel 2012
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PlatedMegaFTW, on Sep 18 2012 - 21:40, said: No juice with god knows what floating in it and leftover field rations from the cold war and I think we are in business

Subject: Arracourt Post meridiem Challenge
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BlazeZero, on Sep 18 2012 - 21:18, said: I can certainly understand and appreciate your situation with regards to this mess and how it was out of YOUR paticular hands but lets examine the entire situation here LF. We have a screw up with the scheduling 3 matches into the tournament. Now I'm not sure how you guys run your tournaments back-end wise but I can only assume its some sort of an automated system that launches the battles, so if thats true that means that something got glitched. If its a person launching these battles than it was just a mistake by that person. Once the posts started rolling in about the battles not being in the right time we received a 2 word answer of and I quote "Fixed it" from General Direction which is, it seems, a standard WG answer to a big problem. Barely an acknowledgment of the problem and a 2-3 word response that we shouldn't worry about it anymore. Now I can understand that dealing with tourney problems may not exactly be GD's job description but a simple answer of something like "postponed until our E-Sports manager gets back from moscow" would have been perfect. Instead we were assured the problem (whatever it was) was fixed when 4 days later it clearly was not at all. And finally there was absolutely no warning that the battles on sunday would still be screwed up. We didn't hear anything until you got back and said "herp derp I was out of contact, what happened?" (not trying to be a dick here LF it was just comical when you poked your head up yesterday and asked what happened).
Now its fantastic that you're hiring another E-sports person dedicated to this stuff and hopefully this means these issues will be few and far between from now on, but can you understand where these things can be made into an even bigger issue when there is no information coming from the dev team over what blew up?

Subject: Arracourt Post meridiem Challenge
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BlazeZero, on Sep 18 2012 - 20:18, said: I can certainly understand and appreciate your situation with regards to this mess and how it was out of YOUR paticular hands but lets examine the entire situation here LF. We have a screw up with the scheduling 3 matches into the tournament. Now I'm not sure how you guys run your tournaments back-end wise but I can only assume its some sort of an automated system that launches the battles, so if thats true that means that something got glitched. If its a person launching these battles than it was just a mistake by that person. Once the posts started rolling in about the battles not being in the right time we received a 2 word answer of and I quote "Fixed it" from General Direction which is, it seems, a standard WG answer to a big problem. Barely an acknowledgment of the problem and a 2-3 word response that we shouldn't worry about it anymore. Now I can understand that dealing with tourney problems may not exactly be GD's job description but a simple answer of something like "postponed until our E-Sports manager gets back from moscow" would have been perfect. Instead we were assured the problem (whatever it was) was fixed when 4 days later it clearly was not at all. And finally there was absolutely no warning that the battles on sunday would still be screwed up. We didn't hear anything until you got back and said "herp derp I was out of contact, what happened?" (not trying to be a dick here LF it was just comical when you poked your head up yesterday and asked what happened).
Now its fantastic that you're hiring another E-sports person dedicated to this stuff and hopefully this means these issues will be few and far between from now on, but can you understand where these things can be made into an even bigger issue when there is no information coming from the dev team over what blew up?

Subject: Contest Ideas
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 DeutschPantherV, on Sep 13 2012 - 03:15, said: How about some more movie contests? I liked what I saw from those.
Also, does this mean that you are now in control of the design your own tournament contest?

Subject: Ural Steel 2012
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Conflict, on Sep 18 2012 - 21:41, said: Yeah yelling through a loudspeaker in Russian and Broken heavily accented english was horribly distracting. (in room thats meant for sports with weird echo acoustics)
Awesome, I think the NA staff could do a good job with NA events. If we could do something similar to what the Russians do, with constant tournaments..the game could really explode here - with 8.0 and all. I might suggest meeting with the WG Germany staff, they really seem ontop of things more so than any other WG officials I had contact with save for Pavel and the NA guys of course.

Subject: Ural Steel 2012
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Conflict, on Sep 18 2012 - 20:41, said: Yeah yelling through a loudspeaker in Russian and Broken heavily accented english was horribly distracting. (in room thats meant for sports with weird echo acoustics)

Awesome, I think the NA staff could do a good job with NA events. If we could do something similar to what the Russians do, with constant tournaments..the game could really explode here - with 8.0 and all. I might suggest meeting with the WG Germany staff, they really seem ontop of things more so than any other WG officials I had contact with save for Pavel and the NA guys of course.

Subject: Ural Steel 2012
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Conflict, on Sep 18 2012 - 20:41, said: Yeah yelling through a loudspeaker in Russian and Broken heavily accented english was horribly distracting. (in room thats meant for sports with weird echo acoustics)

Awesome, I think the NA staff could do a good job with NA events. If we could do something similar to what the Russians do, with constant tournaments..the game could really explode here - with 8.0 and all. I might suggest meeting with the WG Germany staff, they really seem ontop of things more so than any other WG officials I had contact with save for Pavel and the NA guys of course.