Developers posts on forum

Overlord: 1. Yes, and the procedure was not .. let's say was not easy.
2. I'm not involved into organizational stuff, but already feel sorry for it. Can't give you any info on that. Hope, it is a lesson learnt.

ARGO: Here is the simplest way to deciede whether or not to spam the HE based on the way I myself use it.
If it's far bigger than me, HE
If it's got big armour, HE
If it's a Big Mama TD, HE
If you got a pea shooter cannon, HE
If it's your tier or lower, go either way.
Or to just put it even more simplistic, If your shoot 3 rounds into it and your still bouncing? HE.

Hypnotik: Your commander, deputy commander and treasurer can already do this.
Go to the clan page, you'll see a bunch of checkboxes on the right. Select who you want to send gold to, and click the 'allocate funds' button on the bottom of your clan list.

merig00: The ammo price is part of game balance.

merig00: The ammo price is part of game balance.

ARGO: The battle of Kursk
In the year of 1943
Beneath an August sun
German sons met Russian guns
And the battle of Kursk begun
The Tigers and the Panzers
Were here to take the land
But the KV and the T-34
Would make them change their plans
With arty fire and funeral pyres
The death toll started to rise
It was hell on earth this battle
As seen through human eyes
In battles fought and battles won
The devil gets his dues
The words “Over 1 million dead”
Would be the next weeks news
Today those fields are empty
Only a statue as witness of war
She forever weeps for her Russian sons
Who will see home never more

ARGO: It all depends on how you look at it I guess, you can easily agree they are cannon fodder because they are weak or you can look at them as Arty's little helper. Me? I look at them as a inexpensive way of completely destabilizing the enemies team through sheer harrassment. I give them time to get moving from their base, wait for my arty to set up then sneak on in there and run around causing sometimes half the enemie team to have to turn around to chase you down while your arty starts picking them off or better, they take out their arty. Naturally you can attempt to take arty out yourself but I try to just seriously antagonize them. Leos are great for this. Anyway, I have added another link below you can check out and I hope it helps you find more purpose in lights.
http://forum.worldof...3033entry433033

ARGO: Sorry to shoot down your post but there are dozens of "Ratte" threads in this forum. Please use search function before posting so we don't keep repeat posting.
Thread closed and moved to junkyard.
Again my apologies.
ARGO

Overlord: Not going to give any empty promises, however this is actually possible.

Overlord: Not 3mil active players (wish we had that much), but 3min registered accounts which is not the same.

Overlord: Can't say when exactly.
Web updates are not linked directly to client updates, so can be deployed separately.

Overlord: My bad, edited the reply.
Refer to the guide - http://uc.worldoftan.../expansion.html

Overlord: They will correspond to the real time zones, however the global map is to be expanded first.

Mad_Hatter: Those, who are facing lagging these days, please read the blog article - The nature of lag issues. I hope, this will help

ChrisK: That tank is at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. It's part of the "mile of US tanks," I can't remember which gate. I think it's in the northwest. Anyone in MD want to go take pictures? I think it's still an open post (although I haven't been there in more than 10 years).

Overlord: Edited.
11. Encounter battles always start in 30 minutes after Prime Time. If an encounter battle ends in a draw, both clans are considered defeated. All defeated chips are removed to reserve. All chips from the winning clan continue their movement and participate in the battle for province, which starts in 90 minutes after Prime Time.
13. The first battle will occur in 90 minutes after Prime Time between the owner and one of the attacking clans. All battles for the province which is attacked by several clans will occur one after another with 30 minutes interval between each battle. The winner of the last battle in such series becomes a new owner. For the battle with the owner, clans are picked randomly out of the list of all clans applied for that battle.

Overlord: Yes, the issue is known. Thanks for the report.

Overlord: Wargaming.net is going to visit E3 Expo: June 7-9, 2011 which takes place in Los Angeles (CA, the USA), and planning to have a meeting with players on June 10th.
The exact time and place will be announced later depending on the approx number of people to come.
If you feel like coming to chat with developers, leave a comment in this thread.

Overlord: We haven't got rid of all the issues yet, still analyzing the changes in traffic post 6.4 update.

Overlord: Unfortunately there is no way currently.

Mad_Hatter: World of Tanks is not just a great game, it’s also a complex client-server application in which the client (installed on your PC) and server (hardware cluster in a data center) exchange data packets with each other. These packets contain information such as the position of your vehicle on the map, shots fired, and computations for penetration and damage. The majority of calculations related to the game mechanics of World of Tanks are server-side, thus significantly limiting the possibility of any cheating and hacking.
The Journey of Your Internet Packets
To navigate the Internet, with its millions of nodes, a packet must travel through many intermediate network systems (including routers, bridges, and gateways) before it reaches its final destination.
The three main routes packets go through on their way from your PC to our game server are:
1) Your local Internet Service Provider (ISP), which provides your access to the Internet using copper, wireless, or fiber-optic connections. In some cases, changing your ISP may be the only solution for severe connection issues.
2) The regional Backbone provider supplies access to high-speed transmission lines that connect users and/or local ISPs to the Internet. These lines form the backbone of the Internet and are the true “Information Superhighway.”
3) Our Data Center houses the computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems, that power our end of the game. This includes redundant or backup power supplies and data communications connections.
If any of the equipment en route is not functioning properly or is overloaded, this can lead to data transmission delay or packet loss. Packet loss occurs when one or more packets of data travelling across a computer network fail to reach their destination.
When caused by network problems, lost or dropped packets can result in highly noticeable performance issues, including lag. Because of this lag, game information received from the server is delayed, and you may not see any changes taking place on the battlefield. This is what leads to the appearance of vehicles teleporting across the map, delays in firing, etc.
If you experience heavy lag, we recommend that you find your “trace route” to our game server. In Windows, start a Command Prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd), then type “tracert 174.34.231.132”. This should also work for any third-party tracking application. Send the results to our Support Services by opening a support ticket. We are grateful for your cooperation and patience in helping us resolve these issues.
Release 6.4 and Recent Lags on the US Server
The recent release of the version 0.6.4 update has led to an increase in the amount of traffic which affected our previously stable network connections. The lag issue on the US server is local, however it does affect a large part of the Eastern United States (and all related traffic that goes through it). The servers in our data center are working fine and their capacity is sufficient for the time being.
The first reports of severe lag were received on May 19th, and we started investigating the issue both in our data center in North Carolina and along the packet routes to it, paying special attention to those going through the CaroNet Hosting network. As a result of the analysis, CaroNet made some changes to outbound traffic parameters on May 20th to exclude routes via Level3 (another service provider). On our end, we have reconfigured the server equipment several times so as to optimize the traffic structure and flow, and to minimize the load on local ISPs, reducing packet loss and ensuring as smooth gameplay as possible. The improvement is still partial pending routing issues to be sorted out by the backbone provider at the earliest possible date.
We apologize for the recent lag issues and any inconvenience caused. Thank you for your understanding and support.

ARGO: The KV in layman's terms is basically that kid in your neighborhood that's to big to play with the little kids and too small to play with the big kids......With that said and being a KV driver as well, It kinda sucks being that kid sometimes.......

Overlord: Packet routing has been set to default settings (level3 is back) which is supposed to improve network performance for players from Oceania and Southeast Asia.
Lag thread.

ARGO: Reasons like this is EXACTLY why the T-14 is a good choice and like others above already stated, the Ram II is also good. I will even say that the T-14 and Ram II are the best two "lower cost" Premium tanks in the game. I know because I use them to grind as they were intended. Now as with all premium tanks, your not going to go around and spit in the face of let's say a Tiger II or IS4 but like the above quoted text says, The one thing about gold tanks is that they are ignored for the most part leaving you many openings to lob some rounds into a preoccupied enemy who is to busy chasing the glory of killing that T-29 or IS4. And just for the record, the T-14 and Ram II can take a lot of abuse and the T-14 does pretty well in it's class dealing the abuse as well.

Tanitha:
I'll give you a hint..

But to be serious, I'm sorry you aren't happy with the 6.4 patch. I'm loving it, well I was until the Charlette node started lagging a couple of days ago.
You might be better splitting the concerns you have up into the appropriate sections though. Like there is a main thread for spotting, and another main thread for the matchmaking, and another main thread for artillery etc...
There's no need to go over the same topics that already exist in those threads again in this thread.
Closing /Tanitha

Overlord: Packet routing has been set to default settings (level3 is back). Do connection/high ping issues for Australian players still persist?

ARGO: The T-20 for me was bitter sweet, On the one hand you have superior speed and descent firepower. On the other hand it severly lacks in cornering ability which drove me nuts in places like Himmesldorf where the speed does you no good. With that tank you would most likely want to build on it's strengths by putting in a rammer, gun laying drive, and possibly a verticle stabilizer because that tank is all about speed. I will say that you get the best of everything in the T-23 which is very well rounded in all departments and will be satisfying until you achieve the Pershing. All in all, I don't see you spend a lot of time in your T-20 when there is greener pastures just down the road.

Tanitha: You dont need to listen to me, or anyone else.
Run a tracer route, and see where the problem is yourself.

Tanitha:

Tanitha: If you cant do this, you probably have a mod running that enlarges the minimap.
The downfall of such mods is most/all of them stop pinging.

Tanitha: I believe Someone needs to fix, or bypass the broken internet in between us and Australia telstra.
I'm not fully sure, but I think telstra can change their routing to usa, and WOT can change their routing to australia, and the owners of the faulty equipment can fix their equipment.
I think one of the three needs to happen, for the aus players to clear that traffic jam.
Ive been working on the problem on the WOT end. But ive not worked on the problem at the telstra end, I dont use telstra I use a ISP that uses telstra.
Someone who uses telstra directly would be better contacting them, with a copy of the trace program above.

Tanitha: This one is prettier and contains more info.

Tanitha: It shows you where the problem is, like nezexcs photo above.

Tanitha: Mainly just telstra or "ISP's that use telstra cables/routing." Other ISP's like TPG take a different route, which doesn't have a traffic jam in the middle.

Tanitha: As above.. no I cant login.

Tanitha: Apart from the old tried and true method below..

I'm not aware of any other way to leave it on permanently. Sorry

Tanitha: Hi, I have similar problems , which I've referred to support, and verified that its being looked into.
As a "player" with limited information id guess its the following...
The charlotte3 internet connection that was causing problems with the internet and thus causing lag to the wot servers. Was bypassed. To fix/bypass the internet traffic jam.
This appears to have fixed the majority of problems for the USA'ers, but the path that the internet now takes from Australia -> WOT now goes through other problem area's (internet streets) and is giving Australian's large pings, often around 700 ish. You can see the problem area's in the photos by B4BYR4C3R above.
if-1-2.icore1.EQL-LosAngeles.as6453.net,206.82.129.57 (Packet loss)
+
ae14.chrlncpop-rtr1.southeast.rr.com,24.93.64.25 (High pings)
I believe WOT has safeguards that prevents players that have huge pings from connecting to the game. So most Australians can connect with extra high pings. But those over the cutoff threshold are refused connection all together.
Hopefully the matter can be resolved quickly by WOT support.
Regards.

Overlord: Considering possible compensation presently.
Lag thread.

Overlord: Considering possible compensation presently.
Lag thread.
Closed.

Overlord: Considering possible compensation presently.
Lag thread.
Closed.

Overlord: Considering possible compensation presently.
Lag thread.
Closed.

Overlord: Switch to this thread please.