Light Tank XP unusable?

GreyKat, on Apr 19 2017 - 07:51, said: I may have missed something here or misunderstood the patch notes and just need some clarification.  It was my understanding that the XP for the lights when the patch came out would stay with the tier they were originally at.  That's fine and dandy with me I thought I would just convert it to free xp with gold.  I wasn't real happy about that and it seemed like a WG money grab....again, but OK I can roll with it.  After updating last night (vanilla client) I noticed that indeed the XP I had ground out on the scouts (lights) which I've had for ages did stay with the tier they were originally on but I'm unable to convert this xp?  In all cases I have ALL the tanks branching out and all mods researched but have multiple instances now where the XP I had is there but I can't get to it to use it for anything even converting with gold.  Is this the way WG planned this?  I fail to see how they would miss another opportunity to do a cash grab with XP conversion.   I do appreciate all the free tanks, silver, and gold refunds I received as I already had all the scouts fully researched and owned all the tier 8 (now 9) and some tier 7 (now 8).  I think it works out to over 6 million creds after I sell all the freebie tanks and add it to the silver.  I don't think it really is a fair replacement for the 200000+ xp I had banked up on different former tier 7 & 8 scouts that I can now no longer access.   So please clarify is this a bug with the patch or planned?  I'm used to all the butthurt WG routinely hands out after playing this game as long as I have but this seems like the rusty iron phallus wrapped in spandex and going in drunk and dry.  Pass the butthurt cream please. I also noticed that on the now tier 9 lights that I can convert the XP I gain on them even though I don't have the tier 10 unlocked yet.  I can also choose to speed up crew training which I shouldn't be able to do considering there is a tank to unlock a tier above.      I do have to comment that as a long time scout player that I'm still totally undecided on how the new way of things is.  Given the huge number of people playing scouts last night there were many maps where the top tiers on my team were all scouts and the enemy team had all heavies and we got stomped   It just seems like trading one problem with MM for another totally similar one and still not fixing anything except limiting the number of arty.  I think the lights are somewhat underwhelming and don't see how they are going to fit in to the meta when other classes of tanks have better everything including vision just lacking the speed.  In some cases the meds aren't lacking the speed.  I'm curious to see if things change or if/when the new frontline mode comes out if scouts will be able to shine.  It seem like on the small maps that we have now light tanks are simply target practice for the other classes and don't really have a true purpose that can't be filled by a medium.