Developers posts on forum

Tanitha: Nah dont confuse yourself, i was right.

Tanitha: Nothing to do with exp earned, means nothing to do with the total exp earned stat.
You could have started the game with 400k free exp, from the last softwipe.
Earned 400k playing since the softwipe.
Received 100k free exp from playing double exp games.
Then spent 200k on upgrading parts, 600 k on tanks, and have the other 100k exp sitting on tanks as unspent exp unspent
So you have spent 800k and have 100k unspent. Total of 900k refunded for the softwipe.
On your total earnings page, it will only show the 400k. that you have earned since the softwipe. Not the bonus exp, and not the total from the previous softwipe...
As for total exp earned on a tank.
If you have earned 40k on the tank, + 10k bonus exp. and played 100 games.
Then the average exp would be 40k/100 games = 400 exp a game.
If the bonus exp was included, the average would now be 50k/100=500 exp a game.
Bonus exp isn't applied to your stats.
*Edit, remember this is how they WERE going to work the LAST planned softwipe, its only a guess that they will continue to arrange things this way, when the softwipe does come. If it comes..

Overlord: And despite of the above at supertest Panther II proved to perform better against T-54 with win ratio 52-48 (both fully upgraded, 100% crew, no modules, no gold ammo). Pershing was in the lead of T-54 as well with 54-46 ratio.
Regarding "U" letter in the engine description, it means modernized with reworked fuel system. Guess, that's why it got lower chance to catch fire.
Not all of our team are playing Soviet tanks, many drive exclusively German vehicles, US tanks are far less popular at the moment.

Tanitha: It includes the other team right? or no-one got a medal? you need to be screencapping any bugs you find. reports without screenshots are nowhere near as good. (re: your other posts too)
Thanks.

Tanitha: Only complete caps count as a cap. If you cap to 90% and a team mate kills the remaining enemy, its game over, with no cap.

Tanitha: Its not a concern the way its calculated.
You are refunded for exp spent. and exp you have unspent.
Its nothing to do with exp that's earned.
Regards.

Tanitha: Is this just for whining? or can we include silly questions too?
Q: So whats the plan?
A: Shoot the red ones.
A: Win.
A: Rush ram then cap, it works every time and saves ammo.
A: Don't die.

LiannaSilverwind: When leading, I prefer my team to use setup I prefer, not the one team prefers. Being cruel I demand we field only prepared machines in our company fights. Many players want to field unequipped fresh new machines without any equipment, modules or trained crew. I refuse to accept such machines into team when I lead.
We have only one Maus anyway, I'd definitely try to field two (but not three) if we'd have them.

LiannaSilverwind: I field different setup than the one you described. Partly because my team does not have so many TT10, partly because we do not plan to field so many TT10 even after they are being available, partly because I personally prefer different setup. See you in company fights!
Our Maus tend to be the last one to die in case company goes to gloriously lose. Therefore most of the time its role is NOT to die. I prefer our tanks not to die, like General Patton said.

LiannaSilverwind: When I lead my company, I always insist we field 1 Maus in it. Works well most of the time. Cannot say anything bad about Maus. It has its role, just like IS-7 has its role and T30 has its role.

LiannaSilverwind: I did it twice already after formatting my disk and reinstalling Windows. I did not install WoT, just copied it back. Maybe because I'm programmer since 198x? BTW, do you really install games into Program Files?
A friend of mine did the same when he copied his WoT folder to his father's PC when his father got into Beta test as well. No game installation, only small packages from MS and then game copy.
Like you have said:

LiannaSilverwind:

Tanitha: Just screenshot and report the same as you would a tker.
Regards. Tan..

Decept1on: they need to fix also the "frontal shot hit the engine" and ipso facto 99% on chance of fire
at this point I was even hit on the top upper plate (250mm) and got engine damaged... incredible...
I never got in fire this much with KT or VK4502 or any tank for that matter, every hit you get engine damaged
I like the tank but this engine bug pisses me off !
of course the mantlet is a joke and it's hull...

Tanitha: This one usually goes.
Tanker dies.
Whines about the balance all game / whines about the useless team all game / etc
And then team then wins 15/4 or something similar..
PS, whining about whiners, that has to be a win? : )

LiannaSilverwind: As potential programmer you certainly realize and as Master of Computer Science myself I can assure you that engine changes are not so easy to implement, as well as increasing amount of visibility checks will put much higher strain on server. I hate visibility problems myself, but I do not view small patches being bad, because for me it's better to get some small good patches than waiting for a year for visibility fix.
About tank quality. What tank is more important for the country - the one that is able to fight at every possible condition, season and weather and is mass produced or the one that has really good tank cannon, nearly perfect optics, but has great cross-terrain problems, cannot pass over some bridges, eats limited fuel stocks of your country and costs so much that you are unable to make enough numbers to successfully fight against your enemy although you have most of Europe conquered and at your disposal together with their population, factories and metal?
WoT simulates small tank combat at numbers of 15 vs 15. If we'd play real WW2 simulator, we'd have one Tiger and two Panzer IVs at Malinovka base facing 30 or so T-34s rushing through the field. But developers already stated that WoT is not a simulator. Personally I look forward towards historical mode battles.
Thank you for your time of betatesting! Good luck in your future endeavours!

Tanitha: Its not a server for only USA players atm, its a server with a international player base.
After the server split into USA / euro things will probably be different, until then, don't make nonconstructive posts in caps please.
Locking.

Tanitha: A T54 nowhere near stacks up to a IS4 1v1. But they don't need to because they have a speed that is4's don't have.
Cap / defend cap / scout / mopping up smaller tanks.... It has other roles apart from a 1v1 skirmisher against other T9's.
Similarly the P2 doesn't stack up to the vk4502.
Sure the T9 mediums are great in packs, but a pack of 10 t54s will just get more stomped by a pack of 10 IS4's.
As proven by testing on some training competitions. 10 a side, over 12 games each side? I think it was, swap tanks at 1/2 time..
So...
Im not really sure where you are getting your figures from.
Anyway its nothing to do with the tech section, so locking.
If you would like to continue a discussion please post into one of the existing threads. You should find lots suitable in the vehicle comparison section.

Tanitha: Yeah I don't mean scouting "counts/marks" they goto the tank that scouts a target first. Light tanks used to be able to rush in, scout 8 tanks first, kill 1 arty before dieing 2 minutes into the game, a ton of exp and credits earned and move onto the next tank, and the scouts like leopards and PZIIIa's were played by vets as a huge cash cow. Scouting like this isnt as easy now, so now the cash and exp is in spotting for your bigger tanks while they kill the target. As halfik posts below. It has nothing to do with the scounting "count" of who scouted a tank first.

Tanitha: As he's posted, if you are the scout, and your arty hits or kills a tank, you are getting more exp than the hitter is. Because you both get 1/2 1/2, and you get more with being lower level. So you need to light up the tanks for your bigger tanks to snipe, and your arty to shoot, while avoiding their artillery in the process (rocks/buildings) trying to get a few shots in yourself.
30-40 games later, you are in a bigger tank.
I don't find survivability much of a issue, when i die, im playing another tank in a few seconds. I find its more about doing your part for the team, and then moving onto the next game. (when i want to grind quickly) when I've finished grinding and playing a tank i want to play, in between games, I casual watch the game until its finished now, no hurry or need to grind any more.

Tanitha: Its released in Russia. Same version, so no wipes for them etc, they pay for stuff, etc..
Rest of the world is lucky with freebies until the game is fully finished.

Tanitha: Ram II, fires quickly. 30 rpm.
Its hard for other tanks to fire back when you are hitting them every 2 seconds.

Tanitha: Hey Guys,
Firstly, world of tanks, among the best games I've ever played : Great concept, level design, matchmaking, gameplay.
Really solid programming. You have taken the time to think about what makes a game good and have done it and I'm very, very impressed.
My friend recently got me into the game. I didn't think much of it at first (as he tells me about a lot of sucky games) but I had one game of it and was hooked. We're both from Australia.
Welcome
A few points :
1. Is there going to be an Australian or Pacific server set up? The game is playable at the moment but am sitting on 250-300 ping.
Doubtful, there is a china server which is on west aus time zone. That would probably cover the Asians which are usually grouped onto Australian servers. But if there is a demand for it you never know.. There usually isnt the demand for it though, every aus server Ive ever played on has been dead, and only semi populated a few hours a day during east aus's prime time.
2. Are there many Australian players connecting on a day to day basis?
A few, check out panzacs clan. no i don't play there. I have a usa clan for clan wars.
3. Any other Australia tankers out there, reading this? Drop us a message and we'll look at sorting out a group. I've got 5-6 mates already into it so we can go from there.
As above check out panzacs in the clan section.
Thanks Guys,
Shultz
Have fun.

Tanitha: Imo there's a combination of faults here, the game and light tanks (since warping was fixed recently), and a "learn to play" deal.
With the current light tanks problem, there was "warping" in game, So moving tanks didn't have their positions updated enough, so if they were at a distance they weren't really where they were meant to be. So light tanks then had a role of scouting, the PZIIIA's were good scouting tanks, With their speed they could get in, scout for your arty, kill the enemy arty, and get paid a lot in a short period of time. But since the warping was fixed, they are a lot easier for the bigger tanks to target, and snipe, so they aren't lasting as long, and scouting is a lot harder. Light tanks need buffing one way or another, to come back into their scouting roles.
As for the learn to play situation, There is many things that will make a player successful or not, and after only a few days playing, you probably aren't aware of these techniques yet, they come with experience.
Some of the basics are.
1. Tanks Armour is different everywhere. Auto aim aims at the turret which is usually the most defended section. you need to work out the enemy tanks weak spots and aim for them, often with "shift" and zoom enabled. Like manholes, machine gun ports, the hull and not the turret, etc. You also need to aim at flat spots on not angled spots etc.. Then you might start hitting/damaging more.. But still there is only so much a small gun can do, so if you cant penetrate a enemies Armour, there is always HE ammo, which usually damages without penetrating.
2. You can change your target reticule, so it displays penetration chance, green decent chance, orange iffy, red, probably not. This will help you learn where to aim.
3. You also need to pick your targets, if you are a small tank, you go after the enemies smaller tanks, and leave the bigger ones alone. Or anything can kill the enemy artillery, so they are always a good target.
4. No matter what tank you have, you will always be up against bigger tanks. unless you have a T10 heavy or something similar. Even then you will be matched up against another T10 heavy, so its still going to be balanced team wise. The main thing you need to realize and know is how exp and credits is paid. Its paid by comparing your tier/level to the tier/level of the tanks you are shooting. You get paid for damage not kills. So you doing 10% to a tank a lot bigger than you, probably will pay you a lot more than that tank will get for one shot killing you who is below their level. So really the higher your tier, the lower you will get paid. The most beneficial tier of tanks is about T5's. Also the person doing the damage isn't paid the credits, 1/2 is paid to the shooter, and 1/2 is paid to the spotter if the shooter cant spot the target themselves. So all you really need to do is camp at a rock near the enemy base, while you are scouting the enemy, and as the bigger tanks get paid their 1/2 for shooting, you get your 1/2 for scouting for them. + your level bonus for the level difference between you and whats killed.
5. another little point is don't sell all your tanks, so when you die, exit the battle, hop onto another tank, and play 3 games in the time you are currently playing 1 at the moment. 3x the profit will help speed things up, as long as you only work on upgrading one of them at a time.
Looking at your stats in game, they are pretty bad, 212 games and 156 average exp. Player stats are here for all to look at, so not like im leaking anything. http://game.worldoft...5325-LaiDragon/ The point is there is lots of room for improvement for you. The T28 you have atm, i averaged 350 exp a game in, and i only played it for 31 games before I dumped it for a bigger tank. They don't take long to obtain. Especially now while you are getting 500 free gold a day, that converts to 200k credits. Or you could save for 30 days premium for 2500 gold, but until you are getting your exp earned per game up a lot, premium is probably a bit of a waste at the lower levels, but you will need it soon if you play a bit... You should be zooming through these lower levels though a lot quicker than you are.
Asking in game chat what others earned in their T28 on average, they mostly were stating figures around 280exp a game average. Either way 30-40 games and you should be out of it.
So i played these. (on the medium russian line)
T34 387exp ave and 78 games
T34-85 423exp ave and 182 games
T43 566exp ave exp and 225 games
T44 625exp ave and I stayed with this tank for ages.
My average exp on these tanks is probably a bit low, because I didn't max them and play them while maxed, i just played them long enough to get to the next tank, so I wasn't playing in good maxed tanks.
So anyway keep at it, I hope the above helps you play better and get more enjoyment out of the game.
Regards /tan..

Tanitha:

Tanitha: Feel free to pm overlord, who might then be able to refer that onto the section who does keys, who then might organize their creation, and then forward them back to you via overlord etc etc etc etc. all going well you might get some keys "fairly" quickly and easily.
However if it was me, id just want the keys quickly without the delays.
You can get keys from mmo websites pretty much instantly, there is a list of providers here.
http://forum.worldof...available-here/
You could probably just get 10 keys, from 10 email addresses. and you can make email addresses quickly with http://hidemyass.com then
No registration or passwords, etc etc. takes 10 seconds to make a email address.
So yeah that way, ,all going well, you can probably download the game, install it on all 10 machines, and get 10 keys, all within an hour.
Regards.

Tanitha: Hi shire.
On the main page you can click on mods, and it will show you what the mods are doing, like "reading page bla bla"
So you can pm one that's online if you like. Or I'm usually online.
Links here. http://forum.worldof...tats&do=leaders
With the Tk rule.
Its a little bit iffy at the moment, there is for example, two departments, Support and Moderators.
Support have their rules, but mods have input into them, and when they are complete and ready the rules are posted into the forums.
The rules for reporting of tk's etc, game chat, forums, etc all all getting worked on and reviewed at the moment. Because we "hopefully" will be swapping to new servers sooner or later, and a server split, which will probably end up resulting in swapping from closed to open beta, then or soon afterwards.
SO the new rules for everything, are mainly for the open beta swapover.
At the moment, I believe the new forum rules are done, but not being implemented by the mods yet, until they are posted officially.
The new in game rules (chat) are still being worked on and not ready. In game (tk) rules are currently probably going to be changed to "only the killed can report." + a few other minor tweaks.
But while we are between rules, I'd guess both reports from the killed, or other, is still acceptable.
I'll pm you the reply and close this thread. Since discussion on possible news rules, isnt really appropriate until they become official.
So I wouldn't want this to turn into a discussion..
Please also note that the time limit on reporting cases is 7 days. So don't leave it too long either if you wished to report it. The "only the killed can report" will be a better system, it will stop 10 players reporting the same tker each time.
Regards

Tanitha: Still seems kind of buggy. if you are t6 you need to kill 7 IS7/mouse/T30's etc.
Above T6, its not possible.
Even in low tier tanks, like say a T4, you usually aren't matched up with 7 T8+'s on the enemy side.
Even then a T4 would be pretty impossible to kill a T8, unless it got a killsteal / killing blow mind about 7 of them. (Unless it was a arty..)
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Etc Etc. It could probably do with some suggestions for improvement imo.

Tanitha: Please keep the thread on topic and not let it drift to topics of religion and Israel etc.
If the topic of UFOs is now exhausted, I'll lock the thread.
If it can stay relatively on topic, all is good.

Tanitha: I do up the clan list on the forums, even that is probably a bad idea, its a lot of work with additions and alterations daily.
Unless you can grab a feed from the game, of clans in game that updates auto.

Tanitha: Hi..
The NDA is a bit iffy atm IMO. Because we are kind of in between closed and open beta's at the moment.
I believe the NDA is still currently in place, but a lot of the usual restrictions and sections are now removed.
At the moment I think the main restriction is posts discussing the game, go into the closed beta section of the forum, and not into the public sections.
There is currently no restriction on video's and pictures from the EU/USA game.
There is restrictions on posting of he Russian game onto our forums.
Their is another post here, covering the same topic.
http://forum.worldof...live-streaming/
Sop I'll close this thread, and pm you the reply so you can find it.
Regards.

LiannaSilverwind: From what I've read production cost of heavy tanks was horrible compared to medium tanks. Plus mobility was rising in importance due to new arms like Helicopters, Aircraft missiles etc.

LiannaSilverwind: If possible, please take into consideration Orthodox Christmas (6th-7th January).

Overlord: This will help to sort things out.

Overlord: Screenshots can't feature apertures in armor correctly, because game engine doesn't calculate this, these are just visual effects. They don't give proper understanding.

Overlord:

Overlord: That one is better. Now if would like to prove smth, record videos, sicne previous KT's screenshot with holes is not informative.

Overlord: So 80deg slope, you're saying. Can you post the image indicating where exactly KT has 80deg slope?

Overlord: We should make sure that we are speaking the same language.
If you want to determine the level of KT's armor protection than it is (side turret) 80@20deg=85.1mm
Picture. Screenshots don't feature apertures correctly. It is impossible to determine crossing angle between the shell and the armor according to the pic. That angle is more important in terms of penetration.
Record videos.

Overlord: Indeed. There was a mistake. The second gun will be replaced for one of 150mm sFh 43 versions.
Thanks.

Overlord: It is strongly recommended to study all the specs carefully before posting such stuff.
Regarding the pic. Henschel turret has 80mm side armor, slightly sloped, overall less than 85mm effective armor. 107mm gun for KV-3 has 167mm penetration. It's not the front of the turret, it's side.

Overlord: If Doyle and Jentz wrote CCCP encyclopedia, what language did they use?

Overlord: Thanks. You report bugs, we fix bugs.

Overlord: Last day of 500.