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Jeremy Taylor: Ready up, tankers! We are on the edge of War!
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P.S. Clan War mode interface sketch design

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Jeremy Taylor: Ha! That's cute I like the way you guys spread rumors on the Russian forums . I don't want to disappoint you but there's no individual server where people from these forums test American tanks.

Jeremy Taylor: Hi
What kind of server do you mean? The European closed beta is not out yet and will be launched a bit later.

Jeremy Taylor: World of Tanks has its leveling system that makes it become related to RPG. Referring to Germany, the player starts with a historically accurate small tank called Leichtetraktor and then upgrades to the top tank Maus of the 10th level (famous super heavy prototype). Player may choose one of several tech trees or may level up different types of fighting vehicles at the same time. Moreover, player may level up different panzers of different nations. Each fighting vehicle has a number of modifications to be upgraded as well like turret, guns, tracks and radio. And each module modification stays within the bounds of historical correctness. Regarding that players will have 150 models of fighting vehicles in the release version and nearly 350 will be added later, there's actually no "dead-end" in World of Tanks . The only possible dead-end I see here is to collect all the panzers available in the game and max them out.

Jeremy Taylor: Those who are not very familiar with World of Tanks will find tons of useful information in this comprehensive interview.

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Jeremy Taylor: You will not see American tanks at the very beginning of the World of Tanks beta. However, American tank tree will be ready long before the release.

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Jeremy Taylor: Enjoy riding that "tractor" before changing it for Pz.III, Luchs or Wespe.

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Jeremy Taylor: The World of Tanks box version will contain some bonus content including "box" special tanks and additional gold.

Jeremy Taylor: Let's take the Soviet tree as an example. The Soviet "due-to-release" tank tree represents the fighting vehicles from USSR you'll see in the release version, Fall, 2010. The full Soviet tank tree includes more panzers that will be added to the basic release tree gradually. Thus, you'll see 36 Soviet vehicles in the release and 25 more will be added later on. And by the way, almost all the release panzers from Germany and USSR will be available in the beta.

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Jeremy Taylor: Epic! I feel lack of words describing how awesome that video is! Many thanks for the video and especially for the subtitles showing your tactics. Great battle, great work - thank you!

Jeremy Taylor: "The best compromise between gameplay and realism" - our game designers would hug you and cry on your shoulder from feeling of gratitude for these warm words . Thank you, this is really nice work.

Jeremy Taylor: Yes, Lord, you truly are . I like it.

Jeremy Taylor: Don't worry about it. As soon as beta starts and you join in, we will assign the winning credits to your profile.

Jeremy Taylor: Hi and welcome aboard!
The game balance is designed in such a way, that the situation you've described is hardly possible to happen. To be honest, I can’t recollect such situations during the Russian closed beta testing. Anyway, even if the player is that much short of credits that can't even repair his panzer, there are always two 1st level tanks (MS-1 and Leichtetraktor at the moment) at his garage that cost nothing and can be used for leveling up from the start.

Jeremy Taylor: Actually, I should have deleted these videos from the Russian closed beta as they are submitted in the open forums. However, I like those vids and see no harm if others watch them. I will just ask you to bear in mind that these are the fan videos taken from the Russian closed beta test.
P.S. Lots of players consider Leopard to be the best light tank in the game

Jeremy Taylor: First off, there's only an ongoing Russian closed beta of World of Tanks. The European and American versions will be launched later. I think that your problem is better to be discussed through private messages.

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Jeremy Taylor: Let me use this thread as the opportunity to remind others that the game is free. The revenue needed to keep the project afloat and improve in what follows will be generated from micropayments. In outline, players will be able to purchase for real money such items as:
- Premium accounts; the premium gives +50% to credits and gold per battle to the owner. Premium account is a very good thing for players who don't have enough time in real life to dedicate to their favorite game. Still however, this account will not give you any advantages in battles. I mean, Tiger achieved through playing with premium will be absolutely equal to Tiger achieved without any investments. The only advantage is your time saved.
- Premium tanks; these are some prominent special tanks that will be a kind of jewels in the crown of your collection.
- Gold; players will be able to purchase some additional gold to be later exchanged into ingame credits
- Custom features; some personal drawings, insignias, custom camouflage and clan emblems available for money.
Still, we believe that majority of players will be getting tons of fun playing World of Tanks without investing a penny.

Jeremy Taylor: Hi and welcome!
The game is based on free-to-play concept. That means that the player doesn't have to subscribe or buy boxes. That issue has indeed been discussed on these forums before. Some details you can find here http://forum.worldof...s-game-is-free/ or here http://forum.worldof...cription-game/.

Jeremy Taylor: - Yes, undoubtedly
- Some tastiest territories will bring additional revenue in gold (I can't tell the frequency of gold assignment). Moreover, there is also some “economy” and “crafting”, along with monetary revenues; clans can build factories, which produce special tanks and tank components/ammo over time.
- Hardly possible, World of Tanks is a PvP-focused game
- The clan may include up to 100 players. Each player is visualized as a chip on the clan war map. By moving these chips through territories, the clan commander is splitting forces and will giving orders to attack/defend this or that territory
- The clan will get its landing zone again and will try to get back its territories. There are some other options as joining other clans or become mercenaries. There is a Mercenary market, where Clan Masters can recruit such players for reinforcing their clans in Clan Wars or other events.

Jeremy Taylor: As far as many of you know, we have a limitation on the number of players in a team in the Russian closed beta and this limitation is equal to 15. Still, the number of players for a team will be increased up to 30 depending on a map; thus some clan war battlefields will hold up to 60 panzers accordingly.

Jeremy Taylor: As I started receiving more and more private requests on revealing the information about the clan wars in World of Tanks, here I will provide some updated info on that exciting mode. In outline, let's imagine a global map (Earth 1940’s, similar to that of Hearts of Iron or Total War) divided into hundreds of provinces. At the very beginning, we will start from the western boards of Germany to Volga and from Scandinavian countries to Romania. There are some several economic categories of provinces, from basic ones to “capitals” that will give most monetary benefits to their owners. Once per day Clan Masters declare attacks on neutral or enemy provinces, and a corresponding number of battles are scheduled and take place accordingly. The bigger your clan is, the harder it gets to repel attacks and expand your empire. That’s why diplomacy plays an immensely important role. Clans can sign treaties, non-aggression pacts, become vassals, etc. The exact distribution of Clans’ forces among captured provinces is not visible to opponents (thus, many battles will have the element of surprise), but the game allows special recon and anti-spying techniques, which increase/decrease the “strategic visibility”. Having a couple of solid alliances will help protect the Clan’s flanks and rear. But we also expect a lot of treachery, changing alliances, double-agents, stubbing in the back and other political tricks. New clans enter the map by having a chance to fight a battle for one of the “coastal” provinces. If they kick the owner out, that province will be their new home, from where they will expand deeper into the continent. The more panzers you have the more powerful your clan is, but in order to start fighting and capturing the provinces you should gather a team of 15 players. Clans can also participate in Clan Tournaments; those will last for much shorter time: from a couple of hours to a couple of days.
We will gradually add various fascinating features and options into the World of Tanks clan war mode to make it run for years.

Jeremy Taylor: In World of Tanks, the main mode is the third person view. The game also features the sniper mode for tanks and the “howitzer” mode for long-range artillery. Actually, we see no necessity in adding binocs view into the core gameplay.

Jeremy Taylor: At least two modes will allow players to choose the maps to fight on: team mode and training mode. The purpose of random fights is to help newcomers get the understanding of the game, its controls, and concept, etc. Mature players are polishing their individual fighting skills and practice team cooperation during random battles. But random fights will obviously be edged out by more exciting team mode when it is ready.

Jeremy Taylor: Congratulations to the winners and huge thanks to all the participants! Honestly, that was a great reading.

Jeremy Taylor: The Best Tank Crew Contest is over
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Jeremy Taylor: The bigger distance from a player to the cluster, the more often a player uses auto aiming . However, manual aiming is more efficient. At this moment we have one server in Germany. Using an auto aiming is often a necessity for American players who have higher pings and play in the Russian beta. Still, the problem of high pings in America will be solved easily when we install the additional cluster in the USA.

Jeremy Taylor: Actually, this is rather a common question about World of Tanks and I'll try to give as comprehensive answer as possible. To make a long story short, World of Tanks has its leveling system. Referring to Germany, the player starts with a historically accurate small tank called Leichtetraktor and then upgrades to the top tank Maus of the 10th level (famous super heavy prototype). Player may choose one of several tech trees or may level up different types of fighting vehicles at the same time. Moreover, player may level up different panzers of different nations. Then, we will implement the crew system where each crew member is upgraded individually. Each fighting vehicle has a number of modifications to be upgraded as well like turret, guns, tracks and radio. And each module modification stays within the bounds of historical correctness (no chance to install the turret from Tiger on the Soviet tank).
Each MMO game has its system of custom features and World of Tanks is not an exception. Players will be able to have custom drawings or clan insignias on their tanks.
Talking about persistent world, we are putting a very strong emphasis on Clan war mode in World of Tanks. In the clan war mode, there is a global map (Earth 1940’s, similar to that of Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, or Total War) divided into hundreds of provinces. If a province is not occupied by other clans, it will be captured by a clan with no losses. If a province is occupied by another clan, a newcomer will have to fight for it. We believe that this mode will assume multiple aspects of diplomacy and merchandising.

Jeremy Taylor: World of Tanks is not purely a simulator, even though it includes some simulator features. We are focusing on making an action game, easy to play and understand but with no harm to the historical accuracy. We tried to reach perfect balance between realism and gameplay, because once either of the parameters is just a bit too much, the game would lose its X-factor. Thus, World of Tanks is not a hardcore simulator where you’d have to spend minutes learning how to get those huge panzers at least moving and aiming. The game’s difficulty should depend on applying your tactical skills and coordinating moves with your teammates not struggling with overwhelmingly complicated controls. At the same time, we have implemented a sophisticated damage model which allows using peculiar tactics against different vehicle types or even deal higher damage to a particular tank model knowing its weak points. We even have terrain effects, we calculate shell travel time, we have destructible objects and many other great features that make game realistic. Each panzer's module has its own individual specs that correspond to their real prototypes.
We have increased a bit the panzers' speed, acceleration rates, turret rotation and reloading rates. Otherwise, it would be extremely boring to command your vehicles and it would hurt the action aspect in the game deeply.

Jeremy Taylor: I'll go and get some popcorn. Enjoy watching!

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Jeremy Taylor: We will definitely provide the game tutorial to newcomers along with the Tank Encyclopedia that will contain the detailed description of each fighting vehicle model represented in World of Tanks. Moreover, in the release version, players will be able to play the PvE training mode against bots.

Jeremy Taylor: Different types of terrain do affect vehicles' motion. Vehicles’ performance on various terrains depends on the type of a terrain, panzers’ tonnage, type of engine and track. For instance, swampy terrain decreases the panzers' speed and acceleration rates as well as mobility.

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