Developers posts on forum

dance210:   Hello _verminator_,   There will be no 5v5 next week. I am going away for the holiday weekend and unfortunately won't be available to start the tournament. I apologize for the inconvenience.

The_Chieftain: According to Friedman, the logic behind the 8" guns on Lex was that they didn't want the big capital ships to be outranged by cruisers, which had no construction limits of numbers in the case that the carriers somehow ended up in gun range.  Presumably the logic was similar elsewhere. 

dance210: Tankers, This time, on the Supertest server, we will be testing some changes to the Tier IX and X super-heavy German tanks on the Maus branch as well as the Tier VIII Premium tank destroyer 8,8 cm PaK 43 Jagdtiger. German heavy tanksLet’s start with the top of the line. Recently the technical characteristics of the Maus have been changed which resulted in a significant boost to its battle effectiveness. After having checked your feedback and statistics carefully, we decided to do some updates and to adjust the capabilities of this vehicle.What will be changed? The Maus will retain its core quality of being an armored fortress, despite the fact that its firepower and amount of hit points will be decreased. We will also fix the thickness of the armor of the hull bottom from 250 mm to 50 mm.  The situation with the Mäuschen is a bit different. We want to help you with your efforts in researching Tier X, so we will test a variant of the Mäuschen with increased mobility on the standard suspension. Thanks to this change, the Mäuschen will be more comfortable to play and it will be easier to completely research it. 8,8 cm PaK 43 JagdtigerWe will also revise the characteristics of the Jagdtiger 8,8. Its mobility will be improved and brought to the level of its researchable counterpart: Tier IX Jagdtiger. There will be no longer a situation where vehicles with the same weight and engine power have different mobility.

The_Chieftain: Speaking of this thread, did a replacement for the EU counterpart thread ever show up?    Test firing against the E2 castings. I put that photo up on my face book account a couple of years back. 

Saffr0n:   Try it without the mods. They're increasing network activity and blocking XMPP from connecting. 

dance210:  

dance210:   Hi guys,    Are you able to connect to either server if you select it from the drop-down menu? CT2 is currently working for me when selected from the drop-down menu.

dance210:  

dance210:   Hi guys,   The Common Test should be up and working now. Could you please try logging in again? Thanks!

The_Chieftain: If the B17 crowd is with the Collings Foundation, save up and ride in their P51. I did the Spitfire ride in the UK, hell of a thing.    Menz, you doing anything weekend of 23 Sept? Could be within reasonable distance of you.  (NYC).   I had a discussion at the office about the concept of having viewers chip in money to travel, and one of the lads made an excellent point.  Folks watch streamers to be entertained or educated, and we have no trouble, if we have some spare dollars, spending money on our entertainment.  Face it, how much do we spend on music, movies, or digital tanks? Thus, consider it simply as a directed entertainment expense: I want to see Sofilein's report from tankfest, so I spend some money on it.  (Hypothetically, I have not actually done so! ) . When it was put to me that way, it made sense.  There is plenty of evidence that people will pay for what they feel is deserved, even if it is not mandatory.  I do it myself.    It is not just tankfest.  Shows like Pax or E3, you never really get to check it out either if you are working them.  Something a lot of folks forget

dance210:   Constructive: adjective Helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive)     Examples of non-constructive vs. constructive feedback. Basically, constructive feedback is something that we can pass on that either explains why Item A great / terrible / needs work. Non-constructive: Boot camp is terrible. While this may express that you dislike Boot Camp, it doesn't tell us what you don't like.    Constructive: Boot camp doesn't provide enough information for a new player. While experienced players will understand that they need to move and flank the enemy during the second mission, that is never explained and a new player may be confused. Please rework Boot Camp to provide more detailed information during each step.  

Saffr0n:   Any other information you can tell us?  Are you running mods?  Laptop or desktop?  Are you able to go into battle after contact list goes offline?  Screenshot of the entire garage when it's non-functional? 

Saffr0n: Can you post a screenshot showing the entire screen so I have an idea of what you're seeing? 

The_Chieftain: He moved out of WGNA and become part of WG Global in Cyprus quite a few months ago.

The_Chieftain: They have quite the selection. Worth going if you're in the area.

dance210: Hi guys,    Yes, the Common Test is currently down. There is currently no firm ETA on when it will come back up; however the latest news sounds like it may be up by tomorrow. If we find out more definite information, we will let you know.

dance210: Hello Clan Wars players,   Clan Wars is getting ready for a round of hot changes for the summer!   Strongholds June June 26: Tier X Skirmishes will be disabled for the time being Players reported frequent queue timeouts in Tier X Skirmishes. Tier X Skirmishes will be disabled while we review this issue and overall Strongholds gameplay.   July Some Strongholds tests will be running in July (dates TBD): Early July: Team sizes in Advances reduced to 10v10. Battles are still Tier X. Mid-July: Tier VIII detachments will have new requirements: Minimum number of Clan players reduced from 10 to 2. Maximum legionnaires increased from 3 to 8. In July: War Games testing will restart.   Global Map   Season 6 of the Global Map is beginning this summer! More details to come.

The_Chieftain:   This is Airshow country. We get a million people to watch Fleet Week or Thunder over Louisville. For tanks... Aquino Weekend gets an attendance of about 5,000 over the two days. Most everything else (eg The Battle for the Airfield) is sub 3,000. D-Day Conneaut  gets 25,000, but it's not so much a tank show as a general WW2 thing. We certainly don't have a 'pilgrimage' event which folks from all over the continent will try to get to.

The_Chieftain:   I've done Danville, VA, and Charleston, SC, that close enough? Was hoping to do Wilmington, NC two weeks ago, but unfortunately schedules didn't allow for it. Give us time, I'm sure we'll be back in the area.    

The_Chieftain:   Hmm. I'm sure if someone showed up, we wouldn't turn them away. Check out the Let's Battle tour schedule, we're doing Minnesota, Texas, Ohio and Florida. Obviously you've missed Toronto. Plus other minor things at NYC/Danbury in the autumn/winter. If Sofilein can get her viewers to pay for her trip to TankFest UK with her smaller viewerbase, I'm sure someone like yourself, Jingles, QB etc can get viewers to go the other way.  

Saffr0n:   Hi Logan + All,  The Common Test server has been shut down and work is currently being done on it. No ETA for when it will be back up. 

Mezurashi: Removed some inappropriate images. That's crossing the line a bit.   Just a reminder, thanks.

Mezurashi: Topic locked due non-constructive posting.

The_Chieftain: I think the final answer remains to be seen.

dance210:   Thanks Scorpiany for letting me know about those minor bugs. I can definitely send that to the dev. team. From what I understand they are still working on some of the issues (e.g. clan tags being incorrect).

dance210:   A fix for the contact list / chat was applied early this morning. It should be back up and running, except for some players who may have incorrect clan tags. If you are still having issues with the contact list and/or chat, please let us know. Thank you.

Saffr0n: Attention:  Boot Camp on Common Test will be disabled at 20:15 UTC (15:15 PT + 3)

dance210: Boot Camp is currently disabled on the Common Test.

Saffr0n:   Please go to your ticket section at na.wargaming.net - 'My Tickets'. I reopened the four most recent tickets you submitted, which you can now view in your ticket tracker. Hopefully this confirms that tickets do not get removed from the system, they are removed from your view when they're closed.    Let me be the one to tell you that I'm not here to offend anyone on our forums. Please don't edit my comments intended for another player to make it appear that I'm slighting you or triggering you. I apologize if you felt that way. 

The_Chieftain:   I know Thaine and Barnett will be roaming around as well...  

The_Chieftain:   I see PanAm are back in business, from the advertising.

dance210:   Connect to...chat? Or the Common Test?   If it's chat, please tell me what connection error you are seeing (is it the forever spinning connecting wheel of doom, or does your contact list just show no names). If it's Common Test, that was shut down yesterday and I don't believe it is back up quite yet.

dance210:  

dance210:   Hello,   Have y'all logged into the game yet today? The dev. team applied a fix last night that should have resolved the contact list / chat issues, with the exception of some players showing incorrect clan tags. Please let me know if you continue to have problems after logging in today. Thank you.

dance210: Hi all!   The contact/chat task was updated last night. They applied a fix to the XMPPCS cluster, which controls the contact list functionality. This fix means that the contact list and chat should work normally. The only caveat: clan tags may still not be correct for all players. They are still working on resolving that issue.   If any players continue or start having contact list or chat issues after the fix this morning, please let me know. This should have fixed the issue for everyone; however, as different players were affected at different times, we would like to confirm that it has indeed been resolved.

Saffr0n: Can you guys let me know if you're able to execute clan management functions now? 

dance210: Hi all,   I apologize for the tournament. It appears as though HQ decided to restart the server in the middle of the tournament.   Since battles were all over the place - working, not working, maybe working on the west server, none of the battles will count and all players will be compensated per our posted rules. Again, sorry about this guys

Saffr0n:   Understood. It's one of the effects of the contact list issue. When it gets resolved, platooning other than dynamic, should be restored. 

dance210:  

dance210:   Thank you guys for the suggestions. I had other reasons for going through all the posts...and I was mostly done before I my first post.     The good news: You don't need to wait any longer to find out the winners!   Huge thank you to everyone who participated! The number of entries was awesome to see :-D   Congrats to the following players! Your account will be credited with the Tiger 131 today Last_1_UC ArmorStorm Dragonx1x jasonsanchez SputnikRising derekiv nerazzurrini OfficerMittens TigerAce07 I_am_Richard    

dance210: Hi Clown68W,   You are welcome to send an email to tournaments@wargamingamerica.com; you would need to submit screenshot(s) showing that the player(s) did not show up. Unfortunately, we have no viable way to track if a player no shows for a battle.

Saffr0n: Got info back via morse code. I'll answer here and provide the same info on your open tickets.  It appears that some of your actions are hanging, for whatever reason. I've been asked to compile all of your clan data and put a task in to clear whatever is causing the sync issue. I don't need any information from you as I can collect this through our dev tools, but if I do I'll PM or ask in your tickets. I've been told that a new Clan Management System (CMS) was introduced, though, it's not to say that it's the only reason why this is happening because not all clans are experiencing this problem. 

Saffr0n: Hey All,    Sorry for any confusion to those players participating in the CT. It got shut down temporarily. I'll update if I receive any other info. Thanks for what you've guys contributed so far.    Update:  https://ru.wargaming...pport/news/2955 It's in Russian since RU handles the CT server, it says:  "Test server was stopped due to maintenance work. We'll inform you when it's up again."

dance210:   I just received a message that the test server was taken done

dance210: Today we are sharing more information about the French tanks being tested on the Super Test. First, we take a look at the updated versions of Tier IX and X medium tanks - AMX 30 1er prototype and AMX 30 B.
These vehicles are similar to the German tier X Leopard in terms of the gameplay - snipers firing from the maximum distance. The differences in characteristics are minor and in fact the vehicles are very similar. The announced changes should separate the game roles of the tanks: French mediums will no longer be long-range snipers and will function as a medium distance support tank.
Characteristics updates will be similar for both vehicles. We plan to revise the following characteristics:Turret armor. We will significantly increase the front armor of these vehicles. The fixes are aimed at increasing the survival rate of these vehicles. Due to the decreased distance in battles it’s necessary to strengthen turret armor in order to keep the survival rate of the vehicle at the same level. However, we should understand that the tank won’t turn into an invulnerable monster firing from behind the hills.  Adjustments of gun fire parameters. Fire parameters of AMXs will be rebalanced, adding more stabilization and damage per minute to the gun so that the tanks could battle more effectively at a medium distance moving around the battlefield. But we will decrease fire effectiveness at a long distance with a standard shell penetration of 247 mm, and gun accuracy of 0.34.            Next, we will share some information about the French tank destroyers at tiers VIII, IX and X.
The purpose of these changes is updating vehicles for the current conditions of Random battles. The changes will affect their firepower, mobility and armor. The most important – on the Super test the vehicles will have 120-mm gun with a magazine loading system. TDs of Tier VIII and IX will have magazines, and Tier X will get a top gun instead of the 155-mm one it had before. Increased side armor. Armor thickness will be increased in order to increase vehicles protection. Three caliber rule will no longer be so ultimative for the French TD. Mobility. The mobility of the top vehicle will be taken as a basis and will be transferred to TD of Tier VIII and IX with corresponding adjustments.          Finally, during the Super Test the Game Balance team will check the viability of changing the role of the Medium tank Bat.-Châtillon 25 t.
The purpose of these changes is to better distinguish between magazine heavy tanks and Batchat. The gun changes will increase the comfort of firing due to better aiming parameters, but will significantly decrease the chances of destroying same-tier medium tanks with one magazine. We intend to make the vehicle more comfortable, allowing more mistakes when firing – missing one shell out of six will be less fatal than missing it with the previous magazine. Moreover, the reloading time of shells in the magazine and of the magazine in general will be decreased, which will give players the opportunity to effectively realize the fire potential of the tank.  
Improved accuracy and aiming time will not only increase the quality of firing, but will potentially influence on vehicle’s survival rate, as the time required for a shot will be decreased and the tank will correspondingly be less under their opponent’s fire.
Bat.-Châtillon 25 t. has also been transferred into the HD-quality.  These are the main changes with the French tanks that will be tested on the Super test today. Please, note that the adjustments are note final and might be changed by the results of the tests.  

dance210:   Hello,   The staff working on the Common Test, including HD models, are not the same staff working on fixing the contact list issues.