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Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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PapaKiller1974, on 11 January 2012 - 10:11 AM, said: After MM have been changed for T59 (now is equal to others T8) I was put several battles agains HT8. Eg. 1 x T59, 1 x T-44 v 1 x TKII, 1 x IS3
So my Q is:
1. Do you think that putting MT against HT (same tier) is just? And if it's not quite OK then do you plan to change it in near/far future?
2. Do you think that 5% income increase will satisfy worse (maybe better word harder) gameplay performace? (now it's take mutch more effort to get good profit per game).

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Plasma_Fire, on 11 January 2012 - 06:47 AM, said: Overlord can you please confirm that German tanks suffer a higher rate of performance degradation on any ground that is not firm ground compared to other tanks.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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xpnotoc, on 11 January 2012 - 04:03 AM, said: Overlord, any chance the current algorithm of a module "saving throw" can be re-worked to take into account the penetration and damage of a gun/shell, so that the higher pen/dmg of a shot the less likely a "saving throw" becomes?
I still can't get over the fact that I shot a Wespe (front armour 30, 160hp) with my T29s 105mm gun straight through the whole tank and I get a bell, hit, and .. zero damage done! As I pointed out in another thread that shot (198mm penetration) could have penetrated 6 Wespe standing on a line... Module saving throw shouldn't be such a HUGE factor in this game, people are starting to lose confidence in the game.
Thank you
Xpnotoc
EDIT: Should say this was from less than 100m distance.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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losvar, on 11 January 2012 - 03:54 AM, said: Any news on when we will see the M103?
The T34 is too damn situational to be used effectively in random battles, and there's no point in it as the E-75 can do everything that it can, just whole lot better...
When will the E-75 be nerfed, or VK4502P, IS-4 and T34 buffed to balance tier 9 heavies?
Will you buff the T34 if we don't get M103 sometime in the near future?
Any of the French tanks going to be nerfed in the next patch, if so, which ones and how?
Thank you for putting up with all this whining.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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molen, on 11 January 2012 - 03:43 AM, said: I recently tried the new playback function which is really cool, especially when you slow it down so you can see the shells fly through the air. Made me think of something.
Is there any way you could implement a "shell camera" mode in playback so you can follow your shell flying through the air in slow-mo after you fired it? Could be a ON/OFF toggle in the UI somewhere and when ON the playback speed would automatically go to 1/16(or maybe even a slower 1/32) every time you shoot and then the camera would switch and center on the shell and follow it where ever it goes. Would be cool to see where your shells actually hits or where it went if you missed.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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SniperWolf90, on 11 January 2012 - 03:36 AM, said: Q): Are you going to do something about the E-100? As it is now so it is completely useless in clan wars and random battles, it is also the weakest in its tier. Will you do something with the useless 150 mm and/or front armor (lower front plate)? Just wondering.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Snib, on 11 January 2012 - 01:56 AM, said: Overlord, one question with respect to module repair costs. Repair costs are calculated from hitpoint loss and a repair cost factor. Does equipment which increases said module hitpoints thus also increase the potential maximum repair costs? For example a wet ammo rack, it increases ammo rack hitpoints by 50% - does this also mean that ammo rack repair costs will be 50% higher if the ammo rack gets destroyed with wet ammo rack equipment installed?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Celestia, on 10 January 2012 - 11:53 PM, said: Overlord,
How is the Lorraine 40t currently standing amongst the other tier 8 mediums?
Using the same gun as the tier 9 medium, i only have to look at it to know its overpowered..
What do your "statistics" say?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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MichalKP, on 10 January 2012 - 10:49 PM, said: Hello,
are there any plans to change the current light tank limits in Company battles? Especially the one with max tier 6 for hvy/med/td and 4 for light tanks so that tier 5 and 6 French light tanks would be able to participate?
Thanks for your answer

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Kleist_, on 10 January 2012 - 10:46 PM, said: Can I get the actual answer (or ban more likely) to my question, it seems that you're avoiding it?
Question was:
Can I ( and where) reliably penetrate IS7 from front with standard AP shells in CQB, while using the 15cm gun mounted on E100.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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mystikro, on 10 January 2012 - 10:50 PM, said: no, he means this (see attachment). there are plenty of other light tanks with higher value, they still appear under the higher tier. my AMX12t doesn't go above tier 6, that's certain.

Subject: In-Game Vehicles\French Vehicles\Heavy Tanks\ARL 44 90mm DCA 45 gun bug?
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zuludo, on 11 January 2012 - 11:25 AM, said: I can confirm that as you progress through levels of tanks gun gets better ROF. On ARL best u can get is about 7 rounds/minute, on tier 8 tank it is about 8 rounds/minute.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Kleist_, on 10 January 2012 - 10:44 PM, said: How do you plan to balance the Maus if IS4 will get same/similar armor values?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Celestia, on 10 January 2012 - 06:30 PM, said: But here, it was announced that the T110 would get a brand new 100% crew for itself
Was also posted on your blog
http://worldoftanks....d-and-improved/
http://worldoftanks....d-and-improved/
http://overlord-wot....d-improved.html
Just want to double check
I would rather get a new crew for the T110, than half and half for both the T110 and T30
Duplicated crew would be a nice option...

Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Турнир «Январский взводный марафон»
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Spartak13, on 11 January 2012 - 11:54 AM, said: Я принимаю любое решение судейского комитета. Момент неоднозначный и в правилах не был описан, поступило предложение по реакции на сознательную стрельбу по сокомандникам. Предложение было отклонено, и это воля организаторов соревнования.
Единственное что хотелось бы отметить, что то, что условно говоря, считается нормой на 1-2 уровне, на 8 уровне, мягко говоря, порицается куда серьезнее и потому встречается куда реже, а вот влияние одного такого "shit happens" на результат в 40 (длина марафона) боев оказывает достаточно серьезный.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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intlidave, on 10 January 2012 - 05:17 PM, said: Hi there.
The French tank tree picture has been out for almost a year now. Could we get a similar one for the British (that isn't a fan-made version of an ancient pre-alpha one)?
How far along is the work on the Brits anyway? Are you still making models, or is it in that strange limbo that US Heavies have been in for some time now?
What are your plans for the Japanese tree? Japan wasn't big on tank production in WW2 and their only post-war tank that isn't too modern (laser rangefinder, fire-control computer and full barrel stabilization) is the Type61. That's barely enough to make a full medium line.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Listy, on 10 January 2012 - 05:00 PM, said: A Tier 8 with 254mm of armour and a Turret? Why do I bother with my Jagdtiger?
But anyway. The real question.
On the much promised British Tech tree will there be two TD Lines? We've found enough designs to make both "Heavy" and "Light" branches.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Chewie, on 10 January 2012 - 04:51 PM, said: The T34/M103 seems like a good solution.
The T30/T110 seems odd. Would it not make sense to follow the T34/M103 and have the crew stay with the T30 and give the T110 a 100% crew? Do you not want to do this in case players have a very skilled crew (2-3 secondary skills) and don't want to lose this for the obvious advantages they offer for clan wars battles? That does seems like a very big hit in performance.
Are you able to offer a choice to a user when they first log in after the patch to determine how they want the crew to be distributed? They could choose where each of the highly skilled crew members go, and the rest of the crew member slots would be filled by new 100% crew members.
Would you be able to just copy the average crew member's experience, and give the T110 a crew that has that average experience? As in, the average experience of your crew in your T30 is X, your T110 has a crew that each member has a total experience of X.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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posthumecaver, on 10 January 2012 - 04:01 PM, said: So T34 will get he crew with (Repair/Firefighting/Camo) training or the M103, or both?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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sword_of_Damocles, on 10 January 2012 - 03:46 PM, said: Hello overlord!
Can we,somehow,know if someone had reported us via in-game reporting method???
Just curious

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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CosMoe, on 10 January 2012 - 03:28 PM, said: Hello Overlord,
in the Battle Mechanics Wiki you write that:
"Penetration value varies every time you fire your gun. This variation can be up to a 25% plus or minus penetration value and is based on a Gaussian (normal) distribution curve. Shell Damage also varies in the same manner."
Why is there such a high amount of randomness in these game-critical values (even after the randomness in aim!)?
1) From a player's perspective it is extremely annoying to "bounce" or do less damage on identical hits where you penetrated before.
2) It does not make the game more "realistic", unless there was some high shell randomness, which I never heard of before.
3) Lastly, if World of Tanks wants to enter competitive E-Sports I can only highly recommend to reduce randomness as much as possible (see recent developments in LoL) because as of now these highly randomized game mechanic effects make any skill (like exactly knowing when and where you can penetrate the enemy tank) impossible to achieve. The impact of randomness must always be lower than the difference in top-player skill! (Exception: This only works in Poker because there are a lot of repetitions which average the amount of "luck" for every player whereas in WoT you'll only fire 15-20 shells per match in a highlevel tank!).
Overlord, what is your personal stance on this and what do you think is Wargaming's stance?
TLDR; High randomness in penetration and damage after the randomness in aim is too much randomness for a competitive game and also often frustrating and quite unrealistic.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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kostek_pl, on 10 January 2012 - 02:31 PM, said: Overlord,
Can dev team take a closer look to german 10,5 AP round (L52, L68). From my observations it does 280 damage avarage, when you claim it's avarage dmg is 320. I sure that i've seen 300-320 damage just a few times, rest is between 270-290 per shot.
Can you also explain why shell cost is so high (US and GER), compared to other guns. I mean 128 round costs 1070 and it does lot more damage, 122 round costs 1025 and it does 390 damage? 600-800 cr / round would be more reasonable.

Subject: 7.2 public test coming soon
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Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Турнир «Январский взводный марафон»
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Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Новый мировой рекорд одного взвода - 112 боев, 96 процентов побед
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Foxie, on 11 January 2012 - 10:37 AM, said: но тут не только модераторы принимали участие!!

Subject: 7.2 public test coming soon
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Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Турнир «Январский взводный марафон»
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Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Новый мировой рекорд одного взвода - 112 боев, 96 процентов побед
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Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Новый мировой рекорд одного взвода - 112 боев, 96 процентов побед
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Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Новый мировой рекорд одного взвода - 112 боев, 96 процентов побед
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NikLemos, on 10 January 2012 - 11:01 PM, said: Не верю. (с)
Уж позвольте немного усомниться. Великодушно прошу прощения. Не говорю за всех в вашем взводе, но некоторые очень пристально следят за своей статой. При том, что после изобретения и внедрения формул от ВоТ-Ньюс, Лемоса и даже формулы от "Бронесайта", это делать абсолютно бессмысленно. Всё равно сразу видно кто скилованный боёц, а кто нет. По формулам подсчёта боевой эффективности.

Subject: Concours de fin d'année, les gagnants
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Rlox, on 10 January 2012 - 07:56 PM, said: Et les trois Laptops personne ne les a gagné...?

Subject: International Forums\České a Slovenské Fórum\Návody, tipy, triky...\Ako interpretovat statistiky hraca?
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Crabtr33, on 10 January 2012 - 03:50 PM, said: ja se radeji orientuju podle Efficiency ratingu, ktery vyhodnocuje prumery bojovych aspektu (zniceno, dmg, spot, obsazeni, obrany)
Player statistics Fieldpanzer

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\All Hail Future Tier X Tank Owner - the science experiment.
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Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Турниры и конкурсы\Викторины и конкурсы\Новый мировой рекорд одного взвода - 112 боев, 96 процентов побед
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Sech, on 10 January 2012 - 02:50 PM, said: Я-то не наступаю.
Во-первых, с результатом поздравил и признал его выдающимся (в отличии от вас, кстати: 97% побед? - не, это же на 1% больше, чем у нас там же боёв меньше!!!1расрас). Так что если кому-то показалось, что я считаю по-другому - сорри, вы ошибаетесь. Сильвер, Фокси, Лучик и Бербо - однозначно молодцы.
Во-вторых, я действительно рад что первые места на евро-сервере в зале славы занимают представители русскоязычного коммьюнити; и огромный респект тому же Сильверу за 1-е место по среднему опыту, вот это - выдающийся результат.
Я просто очень сильно не люблю излишнюю пафосность, а особенно сильно - лицемерие. Только и всего.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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octak, on 10 January 2012 - 03:14 PM, said: Arrival time of this fixes on the french tanks ?
along side with the MM change for this tanks ?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Gigaton, on 10 January 2012 - 02:41 PM, said: No specific date was given. Just "coming soon".
But here's the thread: http://forum.worldof...st-coming-soon/

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Overlord, on 10 January 2012 - 01:54 PM, said: Most likely the extra crew members will be sent to barracks regardless of the free slots there. The procedure hasn't been established yet.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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H4rdcor3, on 10 January 2012 - 01:25 PM, said: @Overlord,
do all the tanks classed as "light" get the so called scout bonus? In other words; do they get the same cammo bonuse wether moving or standing still? This question come up when discusing the French light tanks.
Follow up question; do my Pre-order premium A-32, a medium(!) count as scout in this way?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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Gigaton, on 10 January 2012 - 12:23 PM, said: Any idea when the 0.7.2 public test starts then? It was already announced on US sever.
100mm/(cos [60-x])=?, where x is the current normalization value for AP.
But it should be somewhere between 155-200mm effective.

Subject: Journal Hebdomadaire #12
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KuroNyra, on 10 January 2012 - 01:44 PM, said: GG.
Mais comment faites vous pour cherchez vos informations? Je doute que vous n'ayez que Internet pour cela.
(Decept1ons, si tu veux, j'ai un petit livre sympa sur les panzer divisions et armored division ayant été présente au Jour J avec avec les rapport détaillé sur les chars. Si tu veux, je pourrais te passer quelques petite questions sympa. )