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Subject: KRZYBooP's Used Tank Emporium! LEFEFEFEFEFEFE, and 13 57!
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Subject: Incoming! Rewards for testing Crew 2.0
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Subject: Success
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bd52, on Feb 22 2021 - 08:33, said: Can anyone tell me how some tankers reach a high success rate when it all depends on the team you are with. If your team is the pits how can u win when they fail. I have been on runs of loss after loss and it follows me continuously. I have made mistakes during battles but it seems that no one carry's the day. 

Subject: Incoming! Update 1.12
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Subject: What happens to Szarik?
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GAJohnnie, on Feb 24 2021 - 15:30, said: Actually we took a vote an elected you to take his place at the Veterinarian's office. You won with 99% of the vote. Congratulations!.

Subject: Dear Wargaming, stop lying to yourself.
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BrianTheBomber, on Feb 24 2021 - 13:18, said: Yes but the person I was replying to (CupuJoe)  seemed to think I was the OP.

Subject: What happens to Szarik?
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Subject: [Opiniones] Actualización 1.12
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Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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Kefic, on Feb 24 2021 - 11:47, said: I just went to Reddit to see.  I was interested to find that list.   I was absolutely demolished when I saw there were things I had yet to think of on it...ouch.   I am glad to see that there are a lot of people seeing the power disparity between 60pt commanders and 75 + handling bonus commanders.  This is a huge problem.

Subject: Dear Wargaming, stop lying to yourself.
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HiBan, on Feb 24 2021 - 11:48, said: So before it had 46K on peak time. Now it has... maybe 15K on a good weekend if we count the farming bots?

Subject: Dear Wargaming, stop lying to yourself.
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BrianTheBomber, on Feb 24 2021 - 01:57, said:
I never said 60k, I said it hit 50k and above. But since we don’t have the data or screen shots of 60k, I don’t want to say something I can’t prove.I was here as well and I do remember 55 to 60. But I don’t have the proof.

Subject: Crew 2 What Can We Do With Crews We No Longer Need?
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ShadowDancer27, on Feb 24 2021 - 10:58, said:
In the present sandbox this is the case.  I think it's great that the junk crew they throw at us over time bloating the barracks and stuffed into expired rentals and junk premiums will have some value.   We should provide the feedback that we also want the option to either merge additional crew into units or recoup the XP on these extra crews into crew books.  They didn't do so automatically so we can also test mobilization of barracks crews into new units.

Subject: Crew 2 What Can We Do With Crews We No Longer Need?
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Kani_Bist, on Feb 24 2021 - 10:24, said:
So you basically get screwed for using actual, cash to buy a 0 skill crew.........  wow.   Thanks for the info, rock on.

Subject: Crew 2 What Can We Do With Crews We No Longer Need?
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Fenhold, on Feb 24 2021 - 10:03, said:
I read that article, and as it stands that is correct. 
  I’m on board with your stance, but it could be argued that you won’t have redundant crews. The ability to drive 3 tanks is a bonus, so you could just leave the crews where they are. I would prefer to break weaker crews down into xp to spend on buffing my better ones, but that falls outside of properly compensating is for time invested in training the crews we have.
  I’m looking to the option of retraining crews to specialize in different play types and builds within tank lines. 

Subject: Crew 2 What Can We Do With Crews We No Longer Need?
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FrozenKemp, on Feb 24 2021 - 09:56, said:   They will become regular crews + instructors.  To clarify, your crew will convert to a regular crew, plus you will also receive instructors.

Subject: Crew 2 What Can We Do With Crews We No Longer Need?
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Fenhold, on Feb 24 2021 - 09:09, said: Put as many as you can in barracks. Unassigned crew members will be converted to xp books.

Subject: Crew 2.0 is WG's NGE.
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ComfyTank, on Feb 24 2021 - 08:39, said: It won't survive the flight of players?  Some people are going to get really mad, but it's not like there is anywhere else to go.  If you like arcadey tanks, all the other tank games are still worse than this one, 10 years after this game was made.  There's definitely people who will quit out of spite, but they are always the vocal minority.

Subject: Crew 2 What Can We Do With Crews We No Longer Need?
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Subject: Crew 2.0 Similarities to another incident
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I_QQ_4_U, on Feb 23 2021 - 20:06, said:     They just changed the name and added three more after level 75 plus a few skills that add  even more under certain conditions.   As it is currently once I get to about 4 skills on most tanks I'm pretty happy, after that mot much really adds any big performance boosts. With C2 there's going to be a lot more incentive to get past level 75 and get those juicy crew boosts and if you put one crew on three thanks that means you only have to work on different crews a third as often.

Subject: Crew 2.0 important info
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gpc_4, on Feb 24 2021 - 07:22, said:
Its a freaking sandbox test. Many things have been tested on sandbox and never released. 

Subject: Even more reasons Crew 2.0 fails... (the extra evil non-obvious reasons)
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I_QQ_4_U, on Feb 23 2021 - 20:26, said:   It's a different system stop getting hung up on XP numbers.   As far as crews go you don't HAVE to put them in three tanks and if you do it just means you can play more tech tree tanks if you want.   I do admit that WG's idea of less complicated is laughable though.

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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2Fantastic, on Feb 23 2021 - 22:46, said: So most crews multiply. All you do is retain your crew for tier 1 tank that requires 2 crew. 200 gold. You then get a whatever commander level you would have got if you had just used all 4+ crew for one. You then retrain the commander for whatever class you want, unless you want a light tank crew. Total will be 750. So again for 1700 gold you get two commanders from one crew. And each commander can drive three different tanks of the same class.   stop complaining and actually pay attention. You have way more to gain from this new system.   Also crew 2.0 is so much better. 

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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Treeburst, on Feb 23 2021 - 22:22, said:
Well, the problem as I see it is that a “five skill crew” isn’t actually a five skill crew. With the way it is set up now, a “five skill crew” is impossible to replicate with the new system. 
  Let’s take a tier 10 Russian medium crew. TC is the radio operator IIRC, but that doesn’t really matter a ton. I’ll list the crew the way I normally spec them. One 
  TC - 6th, BIA, vision, vision, camo Gunner - BIA, camo, snap shot, repairs, firefight Driver - BIA, camo, smooth ride, ORD, repairs Loader - BIA, safe stowage, camo, adrenaline rush, repairs. 
  So one of the actual problems with the current system is that a lot of the useful skills are concentrated in the TC and to a lesser extent the driver. But with the current system a “5 skill crew” actually has 10 fully trained skills (6th, BIA, 2 vision, camo, snapshot, smooth ride, ORD, safe stowage, adrenaline rush) and one trained to 75%.
  You can’t do that anymore. But nobody else can either, so at least that is a level playing field. 
  I don’t like having the “zero skill” crews get taken away either. 
  I do think it will change the game, so I guess if the goal is change for change’s sake then I guess it will be successful. I’m on the fence, I can see some interesting possibilities with the new system from playing around with the crew conversions on the sandbox. 

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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El__Sanx, on Feb 23 2021 - 21:32, said:   Hey OP, I took a deeper look at what you said and found some "interesting" things. I present all the evidence in one case study:
  Firstly, I would like everyone to meet my Obj. 430U in the live server, one of my fav Tier X tanks. As you can see, it's got a 3+ 81% skill crew and some nice equipment. Please take note of its stats:     So, let's see how it looks in Sandbox after the crew conversion:       Using those 51 points, I tried to replicate the same skills that I had before. This is how far I got, please take note of the stats and compare it to the Live version:     Only 5 full skills and 1 point in another one, looks like it falls a little short in comparison to it's Live server counterpart skill count. Let's try maxing out the Commander to level 75 and see how it looks (had to use 1,000,000 free exp to do so, btw):   So, if you stuck with me up to this point, I wanna thank you for your attention. Looking at the evidence, it's clear the current experience conversion ratio is not balanced nor fair to the players, because it makes you lose a lot of crew experience and some of the skills you already had. On top of that, even if you max out the commander (which requires a huge investment of time or funds to do so), you won't be able to fully replicate the same set nor the same amount of skills you previously had in your tank, because of the stupid level 75 skill cap. Even if you see an increase in some stats, you still lose performance in another areas, and overall you get a worse tank performance compared to the Live Server 3+87% crew.

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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killerman1997, on Feb 23 2021 - 18:30, said: This is a reduction on ALL TANKS. its fair, equal and fine. To balance a game you should never buff the weak tanks, you should nerf the strong ones. Not saying either of those are strong, but its not like your the only one with this, Its all players, its just a global nerf.   In my opinion im really happy with a global nerf, World of tanks is becoming to fast, bring it back to a tank battle not a fps

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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spud_tuber, on Feb 23 2021 - 17:21, said: How much of that is due to no BIA post changes?    Edit:  would you be willing to post screenshots of pre and post change crew setups, as in actual skills and perks on the crew pre and post?   Edit 2:  just read that the changes also removed the commander boost to crew skills, so all those changes you're talking about will probably be the same or very similar for a 75 point crew as well.   Looks like it is an absolute reduction in performance (which I don't actually mind,  tbh, as it is a form of anti-power creep), but a wash in relative terms.

Subject: Dear Wargaming, stop lying to yourself.
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Avalon304, on Feb 23 2021 - 16:33, said:   This was literally never a thing. 60k combined east and west was never a thing either.   https://stats.wotapi...ts/wot/na/total   Max for the NA sever combined with just a little under 42k people. The record for NA West was a little over 13k people.   Why make up numbers?

Subject: Dear Wargaming, stop lying to yourself.
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Smooky_Le_chien_husky, on Feb 23 2021 - 16:28, said: not for this year but for 2013-2017 berfor  all change to climb and fight with your team and team mate having the real armors nos spam of gold ammo or special ammo seem wg want make all new name on in . now all wall every where all mechanic change the server did drop and daying . so here the number fo player be in that year  2013-2017 Concurrent Users: 52,000 players or more  . just not forgot wg did baned many people too .. that na server   TeriyakiTanker befor talk you need search

Subject: 2.0 What happens to a crew I've got chilling in an expired Rental?
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BlackFive, on Feb 23 2021 - 16:34, said: I presume that being in a Rental is not a big deal - but I would hate to be wrong.  I can see a scenario where they 'clean up' your garage at the same time they clean out your Crews   Have they said? 

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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gpc_4, on Feb 23 2021 - 16:09, said: So we don't want a more robust and interesting crew system? Haven't people been asking for that for years? I have many questions and concerns but I'm going to give it a chance. Overall, I think it could be interesting. Especially one crew for multiple tanks.

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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Avalon304, on Feb 23 2021 - 15:57, said:   This is literally what every company does. Even those that you think care about you.

Subject: The Sky Is falling again
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_BobaFett, on Feb 23 2021 - 15:54, said:   Good thing the majority hates it.

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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Avalon304, on Feb 23 2021 - 15:49, said:   I am a paying customer too. I just understand how marketing and advertising works.   It was int he package, but it wasnt valued in the cost of the package, so you didnt pay for it... you got it free with purchase.

Subject: Crew 2.0 Really Screws Over a Lot of Your Crews
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Avalon304, on Feb 23 2021 - 15:27, said:   Nope. They were an added bonus to the purchase of a tank.

Subject: Dear Wargaming, stop lying to yourself.
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iBeany, on Feb 23 2021 - 15:03, said: 4 years ago I’d log on to see 60,000 players online on the US West server.  Now there is only 1 US server, and theres only 15,000 players.  The game seems to be dying.  The thing is, we know this.  We, your loyal sheep, keep playing and paying.  Now don’t get me wrong, I like world of tanks.  But doing things like crew 2.0 to “cater to the new players” is just blowing smoke up my [edited].  I’ve been around for 7 years, spent 3,000 hours on this game, and spent hundreds dollars.  I know thats all by consent, but by all means I’m a loyal customer.  Why do you care so little about the community here?  Nerfing HE, that is a giant [edited]You to derp guns.  Why is it so bad that your game is fun for me?  Redoing crews, and making me pay for the retrain.  I can’t believe it.  What you’re doing is taking something I’ve worked for, and cutting its value down by 10% or even 30% if I refuse to pay.  
  Wargaming, I get you need to make money.  I’d buy fun premium tanks and cosmetics—in fact I already do—and I know others would too.  But why are you so hell bent on giving the middle finger to the only people who play your game? 

Subject: Proof Your Super Crews Will Get Hosed with 2.0?
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I_QQ_4_U, on Feb 23 2021 - 13:21, said:     It's going to take a little more than a bit of sandbox testing to really come to terms whether it's an improvement or not. Nothing really gets tested until it goes live for some time, especially something this big.

Subject: Proof Your Super Crews Will Get Hosed with 2.0?
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I_QQ_4_U, on Feb 23 2021 - 13:03, said:     We have no idea, how does a maxxed crew in the new system compare to any 5+ skill crew now? We have no idea yet.

Subject: Incoming! Crew 2.0 details is live in the sandbox now.
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Subject: Heavy Tank Italian Style: The Carro Armato P26/40
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heavymetal1967, on Feb 22 2021 - 23:17, said: https://warspot.net/304-heavy-tank-italian-style

Subject: Incoming! Special XP conversion rates and discounts!
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