Developers posts on forum

ARGO: You know when youv'e been over playing WoT when:
You go to put your clothes in the dryer and you slam the door block your ears and yell FIRE!!!
When you start thinking potatoe guns are a good thing.
When you wife goes to wake you up tells you your where talking in your sleep and askes why you where swearing at a guy named ARTY.
When everytime you hear the word "school bus" SU-14a pop in your head.
When your collection of girly mags have been replaced by Tanks Weekly.
When your idea of getting off WoT for a while means sitting on the couch and watching the history channel episodes about tanks.
When your idea of a date is taking your girl to a war museum.
When your at the museum and a seriously well built girl is standing infront of you and you ask her to move so you can get a better view of the Tiger tank.
When you start dressing in full tank garb before playing and set up a fan infront of you to blow your scarf while listening to "Carmina Burana O'Fortuna".

Tanitha: Yes, other objectives are in planning, it was covered in the newsletter too.There is many other posts on the topic also..
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ARGO: Welcome to the above tier 8 club, Time to either get a nice medium tank to feed your monster or buy a premium account.

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ARGO: This may come across as fluff to some but I also hated getting that new tank and finding it to be a absolute DOG out of the box but as I started working on it and improving it, I still love it when you get to the point where your crew is starting to aim better and the tanks is moving better. Now I look at it as kind of a learning curve for that vehicle, the game forces you to either A: hunker down and learn the tank or B: blow right through it to the next one which in the latter method usually results in the lack of skills you would have gained had you stuck with each tank you acheieve. Sure we all want to move up but when you have tunnel vision to the next tank, how fun is that?
And yes, The Devs are always working on matchmaking improvements, However there is another factor that even the Devs cannot fix in this game, The human factor.....You can't win them all, especially if you get stuck on a less skilled team.

ARGO: Sucks? Wow I am really surprised, I have had my VK3601H from day one "July" and I always use it to gain exp, and snipe. The Vk is a fantastic sniper and I also use it to hunt arty. Have you elited it? I found that all the guns for the VK work well with exception to the conicle gun.
This is my VK set up:
Camo net, Camo trained crew, 88mm AP/HE rounds "even amounts".
Hide in bushes and kill anything that moves......I average about 3 kills a game. My record in it for kills is 9.

ARGO: Seriously? Try never to sell tanks, always keep them because it will make grinding for exp easier.....

Overlord: Since these two variants of IS-2 have only slight differences, mod.1944 is not planned currently. Perhaps later as a separate upgrade for current IS-1/2.

Tanitha: The naming rules are clear, if you wish to report a name violation do it via support.
Website support.worldoftanks.com or Email support@worldoftanks.com
There is no need to discuss player names..
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Overlord: Release was scheduled for Q1 2011 a few months ago. February is more precise timeline.
Server split procedure has already begun, please follow the updates on the website and forums, more detailed information is to be announced.
Pre-starting procedures in progress, copying player database and final server setup, preparing new web sites and forums.

Overlord: Any evidence of that perhaps? Schemes, screenshots etc.

Overlord: History expert comments:
Tiger I tracks have already been discussed several times. Their width is correct. It's a matter of perception. Narrow transport tracks (Transportketten) were used for transportation. In order to mount them outer row of rollers was removed as well as wide battle tracks (Breitketten), they were replaced for narrower version. When the transportation was over, everything was done in reverse order. This was the requirement of German "Ordnung" for Kursk, North Africa, and black earth of Ukraine.
In late 1944 and 1945 this procedure wasn't followed carefully as before, since it required much time and effort. That's why aces of Panzerwaffe began to mount wide battle tracks without outer row of rollers (sometimes they even used Transportketten in city battles). As a result, late WWII photos feature Tiger with removed outer row of rollers, that's why battle tracks seem to be wider. In game we have an "honest" model with outer row of rollers mounted, and since it goes along the edge of the tracks, visually they seem to be narrower than they actually are. Especially if one expects almost 30-cm gap between MIDDLE row of rollers and outer edge of the tracks (see 1944-1945 photos). If you look at the tank from the FRONT and compare it to the respective scheme - you will make sure that the tracks are of normal width.
Unfortunately this issue arises over and over again.

Overlord: Our guys will check them.

Overlord:

Tanitha: Some screenies for starters please.
1. Showing the no badge on the garage.
2. and one showing the full tech tree.
Thanks.

Overlord: What gun are you using? Why some figures are missing?
Do you take into consideration armor slope, 25% spread of penetration and damage?

Overlord:

Overlord: Company battles are going to be divided into serveral sub modes: according to overall tier of a company, limited to min/max tier of vehicles in it, faction-based company battles.
Most probably overall tier division for companies will correspond to current battle leagues.

Overlord: Tier 9 SPGs!? Are they planned?

Overlord: The grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
There have been major faults and mistakes on RU side, which made long 10-month rough road of beta testing to release. Failures for RU side are even more critical, since officially the game is live already. The latest issue occured on December 31, right on the eve of New Year, one of the most celebrated holidays.
We actually learn from our mistakes and updating EU/NA side has ALWAYS gone much smoother, without significant "post patch" issues. And faster. Downtimes here are shorter.
Sorry, just couldn't help posting this.

Overlord: Closed beta doesn't recieve patches from main Russian server. The patches are being developed on the basis of data (first of statistics) gathered from all sources and are totally the same (apart from language packages).
0.6.2.7 update for closed beta was released on the next day after Russian side. 0.6.2.8 update were released on the same day for both sides.
Clan wars beta is supposed start simultaneous as well.

Overlord: Latest news from the front, you know.
Can't guarantee the exact date. The whole server split procedure is rather complex. It begins this week, but one can never be sure. So by the end of the next week is more reliable.

ARGO: To think that's a Tiger tank and not a sherman or leo, I felt clostriphobic just watching that video. Can you imagine trying to maeuver one of those 88mm shells into the gun while that things rockin and rollin?

Overlord: It is under discussion at the moment. So no information. Sorry.

ARGO: You get a map to El'Dorado's gold
I put in Mr. Putin.....hehehehe get it.

Overlord: This issue will be addressed seriously. Visibility system will be reworked completely. However it will require some time.

Overlord: Of course, there will be the respective news on the website. The EU servers should be up and running by the end of the next week.

Overlord: Turning off forced anti-aliasing in your graphic settings should help as well.

Overlord: Not this way, but Soviet>German>US.

Overlord: All the maps currently have the same ratio. Apart from sandbox mode (tier 1-2 battles).

Overlord: Will see. Almost the same was predicted prior to Russian release.

Overlord: EU servers -> open beta -> clan wars beta -> game release & hard wipe -> clan wars release & clan wars wipe (global map wipe)

Overlord: Is a softwipe a panacea for you? It is needed solely for technical purposese. Not for fun.

Tanitha: Yes thankyou, its very interesting.
What id like to know though. Is comparing the guns that are "really" used on the tanks.
What i mean is with the T54 its top gun is $1250 a shot, and its 2nd gun is $250 a shot.
So if you want to make a profit in the tank you really need to use the 2nd gun, and I do. So do a lot of others.
Its not really affordable to use the top gun.
Ammo costs as above, are a big thing really.
Like in a usual game where you shoot 20x. the difference between the guns is 20k in ammo bills.

Tanitha: That's why mods don't post much except for moderator messages.
When we are discussing the game, in black text, is just as a normal player, we play too ; ).
It means no more or no less than any comments from other players.
As said below.

Tanitha: I do like my vk4502p. I just don't like the mouse. I hate it, its just a personal thing.
And its pretty apparent from my stats in it, 31 games, 29% wins, 449 average exp.
I'm obviously very bad at playing it too : )
However I do know mods that have a Maus and like it. Personal choice I guess.
But I want some kind of speed personally. So the is7 and its 50 will do me, or one of the T9 mediums.
Maybe the E100 will get me to stay German on release. Ive not heard much about it yet really.

ARGO: I will say when I first started playing WoT back in July, I was in a PzII and I decieded to choose "Standard" match to see what bigger tanks looked like. I will never forget the 1st time I saw the "out of the box" IS3. I was awe inspired over it's sheer size compared to my tank and was facinated with the way it looked. My buddy who was with me said "Wait until you see an IS4" and I was shocked "You mean there are bigger ones?". Yes I was inspired and wanted to earn one, also I noticed back then how when an IS3/4 hit the battle field, all the other tanks ran from them in total fear. It was amusing to watch but even more amazing the way those ISs just would one shot tanks. It would and did give the tank a "God like" Legend.
But then came the soft wipe.....
Now those IS tanks were no longer dealing with little tanks anymore and the "fear factor" they once had started to wear due to people who had shot right up to them and really didn't know how to use them thus giving us all time to study their weakneses and learn how to kill them. Today, I still like the IS tanks looks and I myself drive them but killable or not, God or fraud, They still to me will always have that legendary status.

Overlord: 1. Yes. 2. No

Overlord: New servers will be added this week. Capacity of US and EU clusters will be extended to approx 90k concurrent users which is more than RU cluster has currently.
Micro-transcations will be implemented at release.

Overlord: Here "soon" means when its ready.

Overlord: The discussion is here.

Overlord: The discussion is here.

Overlord: The discussion is here.

Overlord: Clan wars beta is about to start as well soon. Since clan wars will be using web interface without considerable integration with game client at least at early stages, the release of the game itself is not dependent on clan wars release.

Overlord: Blog will be launched shortly. Our guys are working on curious stuff for it currently.