Developers posts on forum

GeneralDirection: Careful what you say.

GeneralDirection:
Wargaming.net recently visited the offices of IGN to provide an exclusive look at some of the content coming with updates 7.0 and 7.1. In this preview article, IGN shows off a tank using snow-themed camo -- scheduled for 7.0 -- as well as one of the new French tanks coming with update 7.1!
"World of Tanks 7.0 (and 7.1 a short while later) introduces a whole swathe of new features. Universal Camouflage is going to let players tweak the look of their tanks, and, if they're on an appropriate stage, add a slightly higher chance to remain hidden. A tank with green camouflage may, for example, be harder to detect on a level with a lot of grass or trees, while a snow-camo tank would stay stealthy on one of the colder levels."
IGN also had a chance to take a look at Wargaming.net's upcoming project, World of Warplanes.
Head over and read up on the future of World of Tanks and World of Warplanes!

Tanitha: Thanks very much for your questions. We will gather them up now and send them off to the development team, and get you some detailed answers back about Monday/Tuesday.
Regards
Tan.

GeneralDirection: The tournament isn't even over yet, but we've already learned countless lessons with this being the first tournament created by Wargaming America. I won't list them all off, because it's something that we need to look at once things are done.
That said, I want your feedback on this tournament and what you'd like to see done differently for the next one. This can be any ideas you'd like to see for a format, the registration period, team sizes, tanks allowed, maps... anything. Please post it in this thread and I'll make sure we discuss it when planning the next tournament.

GeneralDirection: Hey folks,
After reviewing the screenshots and chat a bit, this isn't something we're going to take action against as it was in good competitive spirit.
The rule is primarily there so that if there are cases of harassment, we can and will enforce it. Trash talking, bragging over a victory, etc. are things we don't want to tolerate in the competitive environment we're attempting to create here.
Being passionate about the game is important -- it's what drives you to want to win -- but having a calm, cool demeanor and respecting your opponent, win or lose, is just as important.
I will say, though, that OutThnk has taken a bit of unfair criticism; we didn't write the rules as well as we probably could have. He's handled this very courteously, so hopefully everyone can respect that.
We will be modifying these rules -- quite heavily, actually -- before announcing the next tournament.
But oh man, the next tournament is going to be awesome.

GeneralDirection: We had a few delays in getting things processed yesterday. Rest assured, your gold is coming! (If it hasn't already arrived by this posting)

GeneralDirection: You guys rock -- we got a ton of entries for this. Tomorrow is going to be a VERY busy day.
As an added bonus, the winner will be announced by The_Chieftain, and he'll even tell the real story behind the photo!

GeneralDirection: I just fired this off to our team in Belarus. Hopefully we can figure out what happened as soon as possible.

GeneralDirection: Can you send me the screenshot as well, please? events@worldoftanks.com

GeneralDirection: Thanks, I'll send this for QA to look at.

GeneralDirection: Yeah in this case it sounds like a lot of critical hits were landing, rather than hit point damage.

GeneralDirection: Who were the team members you had readied? I'll need a list of names for the email that I need to send off.

GeneralDirection: Can you please email those screenshots to events@worldoftanks.com as attachments? I can't open them in my browser for some reason.
Also please include your team's name.

GeneralDirection: Don't worry, next tournament will be a lot easier to get involved in. I'm planning to set up a lot more of these moving forward.

GeneralDirection: As Barasu said, can you confirm that everyone had a tier III or lower tank selected? The tournament is set in the tool to disallow any tanks above tier III.

GeneralDirection: It's not possible to allow you to play the next round due to the team losing. But I am trying to figure out ways to make this up to the teams who lost because of the alt issue. As I've said in other threads, this is not IGN's fault. It's not Wargaming's fault. This was a mistake I personally made due to not realizing that once a battle was scheduled, players added after the battle was scheduled, could not participate in that round.

GeneralDirection: Battles start at the same time as yesterday: 6:10PM PDT (though some are staggered to start at 6:12PM PDT). That would be 9:10PM for you.

GeneralDirection: What do you mean by first prize? We haven't given any prizes out for the tournament yet that I know of.

GeneralDirection: Alts were allowed in the first match just fine, so long as they were added before the round's battles were scheduled. This was my mistake, not the mistake of the developers. In the future I will stick to strict deadlines and not offer any last-minute changes.

GeneralDirection: We're reading it, yes. I'll try to make sure we reply more often to threads to make that clear. It's a slippery slope with suggestions, though, because it can suggest that we're giving a "stamp of approval" on a suggestion, which we can't really do before it's presented to the game designers for discussion.

GeneralDirection: The name "Life Ox" is a development name, and is subject to change.

GeneralDirection: I received a response on this. Unfortunately players cannot be added to a team for that round once battles are scheduled, due to the way the "Special Battle" mechanics work.

Vallter: On both answers I will be able to answer only after the supertest of this map-) Because it will change for sure.

Vallter: First, you can move dead tanks.
Secondly, the bridge will be not the only way to/from there.

Vallter:

Vallter:
On both answers I will be able to answer only after the supertest of this map-) Because it will change for sure.

Vallter:
First, you can move dead tanks.
Secondly, the bridge will be not the only way to/from there.

Vallter:

Vallter:
On both answers I will be able to answer only after the supertest of this map-) Because it will change for sure.

Vallter:
First, you can move dead tanks.
Secondly, the bridge will be not the only way to/from there.

Vallter:

Tanitha: This should be the correct overhead map for Lively Ox.
I'll get the content team onto fixing the website link.

Regards
Tan.

GeneralDirection: I see Ragnrok on your team on the tournament page. How long before the battle did he log on?

GeneralDirection: Who?

GeneralDirection: What is your team name, and who were the alternates that could not join?

GeneralDirection: I've sent off an email asking for more details on what we can do.

GeneralDirection: Did your team lose? Win? Draw? I'll need to know more details on the match.

GeneralDirection: I'm going to look into whether or not this can be fixed without completely resetting the tournament. I won't have an answer until early tomorrow morning though.

GeneralDirection: Ugh. So my suspicion may be correct. You were both added after registration was closed. It looks like that may be the cause of it.
Is the button available for the second battle, or still grayed out?

GeneralDirection: Who were the two people that couldn't use the button?

GeneralDirection: How many people were able to get into the special battle window?

GeneralDirection: Do you know when they logged in?

GeneralDirection: Can you try having them relog?

GeneralDirection: The battles should start, but you'll be one person short until you can get a fifth logged on.

GeneralDirection: Yep.

GeneralDirection: Done.

GeneralDirection: Steve Jobs was an incredibly brilliant visionary, so it's a shame to hear this news. The impact he and his vision have had on so many facets of everyday life has forever changed the world. From the portable music players we listen to music on, to our mobile phones, to the laptops and computers artists and filmmakers use to create the masterpieces we admire every day, he had a hand in much of it.
Rest in peace, Steve -- the world is a better, more connected place because of people like you.