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Ectar
Special: Grand Finals Are On!
24.04.2015 12:24:30
Subject: Special: Grand Finals Are On!
Link on message: #10592829
Sylverwolf, on 24 April 2015 - 05:59 AM, said: I checked the game a few times in the last few minutes,and i think
i saw right. " 30% discount on the following standard
vehicles: 
VI 
59-16
VII 
Tiger
I 
VI 
T37
VII 
M41 Walker
Bulldog
" So,where is my Bulldog discount,nor do i see the T37 one
either ,relogged a few times just to be sure,coz sometimes the
missions simply just dont load in ....
Link on message: #10592829
Sylverwolf, on 24 April 2015 - 05:59 AM, said: I checked the game a few times in the last few minutes,and i think
i saw right. " 30% discount on the following standard
vehicles: VI 59-16
VII Tiger
I VI T37
VII M41 Walker
Bulldog
" So,where is my Bulldog discount,nor do i see the T37 one
either ,relogged a few times just to be sure,coz sometimes the
missions simply just dont load in ....Ectar: Hi guys, Getting this fixed asap so the
discounts should be applied correctly.
Ectar
Update 9.7 slight delay for EU server
23.04.2015 18:01:56
Subject: Update 9.7 slight delay for EU server
Link on message: #10589015
siramra, on 23 April 2015 - 01:46 PM, said: Well. Next time plan a little better. U knew about this and still u
guys posted a topic yesterday that the patch would be released
today. And that irritates people, me included.
Shade1982, on 23 April 2015 - 02:42 PM, said: My biggest issue is the lack of planning. The date for the WGL
finals have been known for quite some time, yet the original
release was still published. Maybe double-check before posting?
Other than that, I really don't care about a few days...
4bZurd, on 23 April 2015 - 01:54 PM, said: The big problem here isn't really that the patch gets delayed. We
could all live with the additional days. But somehow, there is
ALWAYS a reason to release the patch on the RU server on
time. So, please explain again how it is so hard to release
the patch on all servers in one week? Sorry, but the
excuse of WGL finals is understandable in all regards, except the
important one: Why do you keep differentiating between the regions?
Link on message: #10589015
siramra, on 23 April 2015 - 01:46 PM, said: Well. Next time plan a little better. U knew about this and still u
guys posted a topic yesterday that the patch would be released
today. And that irritates people, me included.Ectar:
Shade1982, on 23 April 2015 - 02:42 PM, said: My biggest issue is the lack of planning. The date for the WGL
finals have been known for quite some time, yet the original
release was still published. Maybe double-check before posting?
Other than that, I really don't care about a few days...Ectar: Can you guys please link the article/forum thread you're
referring to so I can double check this? We had no
publications yesterday on our portal.
4bZurd, on 23 April 2015 - 01:54 PM, said: The big problem here isn't really that the patch gets delayed. We
could all live with the additional days. But somehow, there is
ALWAYS a reason to release the patch on the RU server on
time. So, please explain again how it is so hard to release
the patch on all servers in one week? Sorry, but the
excuse of WGL finals is understandable in all regards, except the
important one: Why do you keep differentiating between the regions?
Ectar: It's very common for any major game with regional servers to
deploy game updates on their home/largest server first. The
most obvious reason for this is because our developers along with
our QA, data and server teams are all in office at those
hours and can react to any issues immediately. Also if there
is any major issues they can be addressed before the other regions
experience the same problems. With our updates it's normally
all done within a 48 hour period with updates happening
midweek. You don't drop an update in the middle of the night
for a server when you have no staff available to communicate with
players or your server teams.
Ectar
Update 9.7 slight delay for EU server
23.04.2015 15:37:17
Subject: Update 9.7 slight delay for EU server
Link on message: #10588160
Sidonisis, on 23 April 2015 - 12:26 PM, said: Who cares about such a event like WGL finals is ? The matches are
booring like hell. Only bonus codes are worth it, but like always
WG doesnt care about EU. What about make one more server only for
E-sports ? Ahh sorry i forgot you are making money for SerB moon
base.
Link on message: #10588160
Sidonisis, on 23 April 2015 - 12:26 PM, said: Who cares about such a event like WGL finals is ? The matches are
booring like hell. Only bonus codes are worth it, but like always
WG doesnt care about EU. What about make one more server only for
E-sports ? Ahh sorry i forgot you are making money for SerB moon
base.Ectar: You don't have to care about the Grand Finals, you don't
even have to like them or watch them. You just need to understand
that the patch for EU is coming next week and not this week.
If the Grand Finals was in another other region when a patch was
dropping, It would also be delayed. This is nothing new for
updates when there is either a major eSports event or a regional
office won't have staff available to fully monitor the patch roll
out. As an example the NA region had a delayed patch recently
when all the staff were at PAX and proper coverage wasn't
available. If we just said "Patch is delayed for a week" and
left it at that, the first questions players would ask is "Why?".
Now you know.
Ectar
Update 9.7 slight delay for EU server
23.04.2015 15:15:40
Subject: Update 9.7 slight delay for EU server
Link on message: #10588025
Link on message: #10588025
Ectar: Greetings Commanders, Please be aware that update 9.7 will
be slightly delayed in the EU region for the following reasons:
We are hosting the Grand Finals this weekend
and want everything to run smoothly. Updates before a major event
is not a good idea, if there is any issues this can seriously
affect the event We are aiming for the 28th of April as a
patch date. Please note however this is date is subject to change.
Ectar
Will World of Warships damage WOT?
22.04.2015 13:24:23
Subject: Will World of Warships damage WOT?
Link on message: #10581502
Schepel, on 20 April 2015 - 10:33 AM, said: This. But you missed the best part: according to the
devs, the RN was not significant enough to put it into the game. We
are going to get the Russians instead.
Link on message: #10581502
Schepel, on 20 April 2015 - 10:33 AM, said: This. But you missed the best part: according to the
devs, the RN was not significant enough to put it into the game. We
are going to get the Russians instead.Ectar: Not true that it wasn't significant enough. The Royal
Navy is coming to the game. As I stated on the Warships forum
the size of an army/fleet/airforce isn't a automatic guide on when
in features in a game. The Royal Navy has always been planned to be
added to Warships, it just wasn't planned to be a starting nation.
No matter how players want to break it down, the game has to
have some nations in at the start and others added later. It
doesn't matter what order they're added in, players related to
specific nations for whatever reason (nationality, history, fan of
the ship designs) will be upset "their" nation isn't next. That's
unavoidable. As also explained on the Warships forum the
game is being developed to appeal to our already existing
established playerbase. When roughly 70% of that playerbase who
hold Wargaming.net account and already player our existing games
are Russian it's going to affect your game
development. If 70% of our already existing playerbase was
European I'm pretty sure that would affect the development of the
game differently. We have a Royal Navy premium ship coming
very soon and the rest of the fleet won't be too far behind it.
Ectar
Clans wanted for some super serious testing stuff
21.04.2015 16:29:36
Subject: Clans wanted for some super serious testing stuff
Link on message: #10576280
Sangvinikis, on 21 April 2015 - 10:58 AM, said: 1) Some information about predicted time for testing would be good.
2) And is it on an actual client? Or we will need to download test
client, like it was with SH some time ago? Anyway, as Muppe
sad, if the testing happens in reasonable hours count SENSE in too.
Loekie5500, on 21 April 2015 - 01:19 PM, said: It's necessary that the clan has to has experience with CW?
Link on message: #10576280
Sangvinikis, on 21 April 2015 - 10:58 AM, said: 1) Some information about predicted time for testing would be good.
2) And is it on an actual client? Or we will need to download test
client, like it was with SH some time ago? Anyway, as Muppe
sad, if the testing happens in reasonable hours count SENSE in too.Ectar: 1500 to 2100 CEST It will be on the Supertest
Client
Loekie5500, on 21 April 2015 - 01:19 PM, said: It's necessary that the clan has to has experience with CW?Ectar: Yes, due to the nature of what we're testing it would
be required
Ectar
Clans wanted for some super serious testing stuff
21.04.2015 13:00:38
Subject: Clans wanted for some super serious testing stuff
Link on message: #10574785
StronkArtyNerf, on 21 April 2015 - 09:44 AM, said: Do we have some reward like in the stronghold test? Time is
gold ectar 
Link on message: #10574785
StronkArtyNerf, on 21 April 2015 - 09:44 AM, said: Do we have some reward like in the stronghold test? Time is
gold ectar Ectar: We're looking for Clans interesting in providing direct
feedback and to test something. If you're just looking for
gold then this isn't for you.
Ectar
Clans wanted for some super serious testing stuff
21.04.2015 12:39:11
Subject: Clans wanted for some super serious testing stuff
Link on message: #10574664
Link on message: #10574664
Ectar: Greetings Commanders! We are looking for some clans to help
us test an upcoming Clan realted feature for World of Tanks between
the 4th and the 11th of May. Each clan would need to have a
minimum of 3 players available and a maximum of 5. Each player
involved in this testing would also be required to fill out an
NDA. If you and your clan are interested in helping develop
our game, please reply to this thread by 1700 GMT
today. Please note stating your interest doesn't not guarantee
participation, each application will be reviewed by Wargaming and
Clan Commanders will then be contacted individually. for now
I'm afraid I can't disclose more information regarding what you'll
be testing, other than it's something pretty cool and we need
directed feedback specifically from Clan Wars players only.
Regards
Ectar
Ectar
16.04.2015 19:18:16
Subject: Ectar
Link on message: #10548029
BelizariusCZ, on 16 April 2015 - 03:40 PM, said: Isn't that the way a certain someone got his blog started?
His account got deleted (granted, the decision was overturned after
a few hours), after he made a naughty thread. As far as
evidence goes, that thread he made contained private messages
between him and a Czech forum community leader (or some other
pompous title), in which they were discussing how they're going to
personally pick the winners of the contest - contest being a quiz
about tenks. How could you forget this? It was one of the
most entertaining periods in this forum's existence 
Ectar, on 16 April 2015 - 03:05 PM, said: What thread, what player name, and what evidence?
Link on message: #10548029
BelizariusCZ, on 16 April 2015 - 03:40 PM, said: Isn't that the way a certain someone got his blog started?
His account got deleted (granted, the decision was overturned after
a few hours), after he made a naughty thread. As far as
evidence goes, that thread he made contained private messages
between him and a Czech forum community leader (or some other
pompous title), in which they were discussing how they're going to
personally pick the winners of the contest - contest being a quiz
about tenks. How could you forget this? It was one of the
most entertaining periods in this forum's existence Ectar: Are you even reading what I'm linking to? What you
quoted from me was that exact scenario and the contest freeze
happened as a result of that... The WG staff member involved
no longer works for the company and the reason the player
involved was banned on the forums was explained above... He
even accepted that himself on his blog at the time. No
account was ever deleted. The player involved was banned from the
forums and then later reinstated on a final warning. I know this
specifically because it was me who issued the ban and then later
lifted it with the final warning then added to the account.
Now going back to my original question:
Ectar, on 16 April 2015 - 03:05 PM, said: What thread, what player name, and what evidence? Ectar: Or was what you were trying to bring up, was the 3 year old
incident involving Silentstalker/CzechOut that had a rather
public and visible outcome?
Ectar
Ectar
16.04.2015 18:05:09
Subject: Ectar
Link on message: #10547559
BelizariusCZ, on 16 April 2015 - 01:59 PM, said: Oh, but we did. When some of the WG staff were accused of
rigging competitions, the thread in which the evidence was posted
got deleted, and the guy that posted said evidence got his profile
deleted (not simply banned, but deleted).
Link on message: #10547559
BelizariusCZ, on 16 April 2015 - 01:59 PM, said: Oh, but we did. When some of the WG staff were accused of
rigging competitions, the thread in which the evidence was posted
got deleted, and the guy that posted said evidence got his profile
deleted (not simply banned, but deleted).Ectar: What thread, what player name, and what evidence? I'm
calling you out on this straight up dude. Please present your
information and claims here for everyone to see. I give you my word
you won't have any action taken against your account for posting
this evidence. I take every claim of WG contest rigging
very very seriously and every single time I ask players to share
their rumors, nothing is ever posted. It's always "I heard"
or "This guy who's name I don't know" or "People said
that..." Then nothing. Nothing but
stories rumours and lies with no further evidence.
Over 2 years ago there was a nasty situation where a WG staff
member was accused of running contests that weren't clear and
potentially preselecting winners. When that happened all
WG EU contests were stopped until every contest was reviewed. A
player involved in this at the time was banned from the
forums, but that was because they shared personal details of a WG
employee on the forums. That's a rather serious breach of
forums rules which can lead to much more serious issue down the
line with potential legal implications: 2.2 Distribution of real
life information and real-life threats Postings and
discussions which have users’ personal data (such as addresses,
telephone numbers, emails, other contact information) - regardless
of whether this is their own or that of other users - will be
removed. Users who publish this type of content on the forum will
be warned or suspended by an administrator or a
moderator.
If a thread or post is in violation of the forum rules, users are encouraged to use the report button on the post and provide information as to why the thread or post is in violation.
No rude or disrespectful posts to or about any forum moderators or Wargaming.net employees, as well as no release of real-life information about moderators or Wargaming.net employees are allowed on this forum.
Real-life threats include both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which refers to violence in any capacity that is not directly related to the game world
If a member is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
• Be temporarily banned from the World of Tanks forums
• Be given a final warning, any further violations may result in permanent ban from the forums Their ban from the forums had utterly nothing to do with "exposing contest rigging" - It was because they shared some very personal information of a WG employee. We don't allow players to break forum rules (especially very serious sections of those rules) because they have something else to say. I would love to know who apparently got his account erased for exposing us because that is a pretty serious claim and if someone in our company is doing shenanigans like that, I'd like to see them out the door.
If a thread or post is in violation of the forum rules, users are encouraged to use the report button on the post and provide information as to why the thread or post is in violation.
No rude or disrespectful posts to or about any forum moderators or Wargaming.net employees, as well as no release of real-life information about moderators or Wargaming.net employees are allowed on this forum.
Real-life threats include both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which refers to violence in any capacity that is not directly related to the game world
If a member is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
• Be temporarily banned from the World of Tanks forums
• Be given a final warning, any further violations may result in permanent ban from the forums Their ban from the forums had utterly nothing to do with "exposing contest rigging" - It was because they shared some very personal information of a WG employee. We don't allow players to break forum rules (especially very serious sections of those rules) because they have something else to say. I would love to know who apparently got his account erased for exposing us because that is a pretty serious claim and if someone in our company is doing shenanigans like that, I'd like to see them out the door.
Ectar
Hot and popular topics within the community
15.04.2015 20:03:11
Subject: Hot and popular topics within the community
Link on message: #10541798
Link on message: #10541798
Ectar: Greetings Commanders! As some of you may have noticed we've
removed some pinned threads recently. There was multiple
reasons for this which I'll go into a bit of detail. 1 -
Some of the threads were now redundant due to out dated information
1 - Some of the threads required upkeep that wasn't regular enough,
there was also issues with the quality of content submitted 3
- We want to try and reserve pinned threads to be ones only created
by WG staff. This is to help avoid situations were we end up with
more pinned threads than player created threads on the first page.
We don't want players to feel that their created content
isn't worth sharing however, which is why this thread will help
keep their topics visible. What will happen now? This
thread will serve as a resource of popular threads on our forums,
not just in the General Discussion section. From this single
thread you'll be able to 1 click onto the most popular/well known
topics on the forums. This will help players keep up to date
with fast moving threads and have a library of player created
content available from a single spot. This post will be
updated on 16/04/2015 with the initial pass of threads I've been
watching for a while, after that It's then open to the community
which threads they'd like to see added here. Please note the
threads need to be more than at least 2 weeks old and have either
substantial activity/content or extremely useful content. As
an example of some threads that will be linked here:
Pull up a chair! An extremely popular thread based
around British tanks
Which forums members have you seem in random battles? One
of our most active threads on the forums with forum users
recognising each other in battle.
Forum warriors in-game channel - Looking for a platoon or
just somewhere to chat in-game with some familiar names? Join
the forumites channel and get started!
Terrible E-100 Driver - Some of the best World of Tanks
related gifs and memes have spawned from this.
Last person to post, wins. - A fun new thread since
Ectar cheated on the last one.
Ectar
Ectar
15.04.2015 19:31:11
Subject: Ectar
Link on message: #10541585
BelizariusCZ, on 15 April 2015 - 04:15 PM, said: So, SilentStalker basically tells Rita what to write on her blog,
and she is one of your Community Contributors. Knowing how you rate
SilentStalker, how does that make you feel?
Link on message: #10541585
BelizariusCZ, on 15 April 2015 - 04:15 PM, said: So, SilentStalker basically tells Rita what to write on her blog,
and she is one of your Community Contributors. Knowing how you rate
SilentStalker, how does that make you feel?Ectar: Well... Silentstalker by his own
admission is prevented from doing anything that benefit's his
employer's competitors. I'm sure he's not the kinda of person to
say one thing and then do another.
Ectar
Ectar
15.04.2015 18:31:41
Subject: Ectar
Link on message: #10541190
BelizariusCZ, on 15 April 2015 - 03:16 PM, said: I'll be really happy when Minsk will run amok through WG EU, and
all these incompetent buffoons get their back sides handed to them.
iScending was a fun guy to have around here. Sadly, he got
demoted/promoted. By the way, seems like they're
giving Community Contributor badge to everyone these
days.
BelizariusCZ, on 15 April 2015 - 03:16 PM, said: By the way, seems like they're giving Community
Contributor badge to everyone these days.
Link on message: #10541190
BelizariusCZ, on 15 April 2015 - 03:16 PM, said: I'll be really happy when Minsk will run amok through WG EU, and
all these incompetent buffoons get their back sides handed to them.
iScending was a fun guy to have around here. Sadly, he got
demoted/promoted. By the way, seems like they're
giving Community Contributor badge to everyone these
days.Ectar: I'd be really happy when people didn't believe everything
they read from an un-verified anonymous source, as
that's basically a free pass to write whatever you want and
never having to accept any responsibility/accountability when
content turns out to be totally fabricated.... Sadly as the
Rolling Stones once told us we can't always get what we want.
BelizariusCZ, on 15 April 2015 - 03:16 PM, said: By the way, seems like they're giving Community
Contributor badge to everyone these days.Ectar: That seems to be a rather specific dig. If you feel
that someone isn't deserving of that title please PM me with your
reasons why, and based on what our Community Contributors do and
represent, give me at least 1 player name you feel is deserving of
that title. Whilst Contributors are set by Wargaming we also review
players who are suggested to us by the community. I feel I
also need to make it very clear that Community Contributors are NOT
Moderators and will never ever be asked to participate in forum
moderation.
Ectar
Seal Clubbers
15.04.2015 13:50:05
Subject: Seal Clubbers
Link on message: #10539200
_II_Elite_II_, on 14 April 2015 - 06:18 AM, said: Low tier battles should be free from heroes with fully equipped OP
tanks and fully trained 3-4 skills crew!
Link on message: #10539200
_II_Elite_II_, on 14 April 2015 - 06:18 AM, said: Low tier battles should be free from heroes with fully equipped OP
tanks and fully trained 3-4 skills crew!Ectar: 
Ectar
Forum Moderation
15.04.2015 13:30:44
Subject: Forum Moderation
Link on message: #10539066
TheJumpMaster, on 14 April 2015 - 08:56 PM, said: The thread
Moderator Professionalism For the following reasons The
discussion of disciplinary or player sanctions is NOT allowed on
the forum.
Link on message: #10539066
TheJumpMaster, on 14 April 2015 - 08:56 PM, said: The thread
Moderator Professionalism For the following reasons The
discussion of disciplinary or player sanctions is NOT allowed on
the forum.Ectar: It's the 2nd line you posted here. If you wish to
appeal against moderator action, please contact Mr_Kubrick.
We don't handle appeals in an open kangaroo court.
/thread closed. - Ectar
Ectar
Does anyone have any idea when FV4202 is being replaced?
08.04.2015 12:46:22
Subject: Does anyone have any idea when FV4202 is being replaced?
Link on message: #10495834
brownape, on 08 April 2015 - 09:21 AM, said: Best WG con ever. "Quick the FV4202 is becoming tier 8
premium, use all your free Exp NOWWWWW". 10 months
later.........................................................................................................................
Link on message: #10495834
brownape, on 08 April 2015 - 09:21 AM, said: Best WG con ever. "Quick the FV4202 is becoming tier 8
premium, use all your free Exp NOWWWWW". 10 months
later.........................................................................................................................Ectar: In fairness it was mentioned by one of our Developer (not
sure exactly where as sources are never quoted) either on a
personal blog or the RU forums that the FV4202 may be
replaced. Our Developers change their mind about future
content quite frequently and just because something is mentioned or
brought up, doesn't mean it's coming any time soon. As
always I tell players to wait until something comes on the test
server and even then that doesn't mean it's guaranteed until the
release notes are published. If there was to be any changes
to vehicles in-game this would be mentioned in advance with players
being given enough notice. Nothing was stated official
regarding any timescales and a lot of what may happen to the tank
was guess work by a third party. You can't really blame
Wargaming because someone else said "I think this will happen, so
do this". This is one of the problems when there is "leaks"
as they never paint the whole picture and you have no way to follow
up any lines of questioning. If there is any changes to be
made on tanks in-game, I can only advise players to wait for
official announcements, for example - Portal news articles.
Ectar
Anyone seen the MGT-20 on tour yet this year?
08.04.2015 12:34:49
Subject: Anyone seen the MGT-20 on tour yet this year?
Link on message: #10495762
brownape, on 08 April 2015 - 07:22 AM, said: Yeah thin but thanks. Perhaps they haven't planned it yet?
Link on message: #10495762
brownape, on 08 April 2015 - 07:22 AM, said: Yeah thin but thanks. Perhaps they haven't planned it yet?Ectar: We have multiple events planned with the MGT-20 for 2015,
normally it's not announced until everything is 100% confirmed. Our
first events start happening in quarter 2 with then a load of
events in quarter 3
Ectar
The Grand Finals Check-in
07.04.2015 13:02:17
Subject: The Grand Finals Check-in
Link on message: #10489463
Delta21A, on 07 April 2015 - 09:30 AM, said: Best post ever from Ectar, no more free tanks... lol
Link on message: #10489463
Delta21A, on 07 April 2015 - 09:30 AM, said: Best post ever from Ectar, no more free tanks... lolEctar: To clarify the situation. Entrance to the event is
free, however there is a limited amount of spaces available for
spectators. The signups via the Eventbright portal are only for
people who are planning to actually attend the event in Warsaw and
the signups are limited as a result of that. We had no idea what
the interest for the event would be which is why the deadline ran
until the 25th of April. It appears the demand is actually quite
high and all the slots have been filled within a matter of
days. "Bots" signing up to get CBT keys are
redundant because they have no way to claim the CBT Warships access
unless someone is planning to attend the event pretending to be
multiple random players. If anyone has any serious evidence
of shenanigans regarding registration, please forward this evidence
on to me via PM. Not that "Registrations were filled by the
time I tried to sign up" is not evidence. This article went out to
all of our supported language teams and Polish players make up one
of, if not the largest single nation World of Tanks players. I'm
sorry to hear that some players may not be able to attend the
event however we have increased amount of spectator slots
significantly from last year. The awards are credited to
accounts within 2 weeks of the finale. - To claim the
tank and CBT Warships access you need to physically attend the
event, successfully scan your code and present your ID to confirm
that you are the ticket holder. Again this is an additional measure
to prevent players from signing up just to claim the tank and CBT
code as they still have to attend the event.
Ectar
The Grand Finals Check-in
07.04.2015 12:26:26
Subject: The Grand Finals Check-in
Link on message: #10489250
Link on message: #10489250
Ectar: Hello guys, Sadly the event registration is now closed as
all available spaces have been filled. Thanks
Ectar
Introducing - World of Tanks: Operation Undead
02.04.2015 15:09:16
Subject: Introducing - World of Tanks: Operation Undead
Link on message: #10459911
Link on message: #10459911
Ectar: It's addictive, I can see me getting distracted at work with this
and the ships one!
Ectar
Pz 2 J @ Premium Shop
02.04.2015 13:12:41
Subject: Pz 2 J @ Premium Shop
Link on message: #10459061
wugwugs, on 01 April 2015 - 09:18 AM, said: Dont be fooled guys, I think they sell it because there is upcoming
change so the players with more battles will not have
"sealclubbing" mm, which basically means that if you have more
battles, you will get BAD mm with this most of the time.
Hokum15, on 01 April 2015 - 09:34 AM, said: "WHAT'S THAT? PZIIJ YOU SAY? I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE
SOUND OF GOLD BEING LOADED INTO MY FCM PAK40!"... Why pay 99
euro when you can get an op tier 3 FCM for about 5euro?
mortalsatsuma, on 01 April 2015 - 03:09 PM, said: This does seem to be the case tbh. Very salty forum today
with people trying to make out that the PZ II J is crap and can be
killed by most other tier 3s easily, but if that's the case then
how come the PZ II J has an almost 70% average W/R according
to Wotlabs? (Which btw makes it the highest average W/R tank
currently, yes, even before the SU-76I. Shocker I know).
Nebulosa, on 02 April 2015 - 09:56 AM, said: Thing is, in the last year, I have found out that with some changed
policies, for my style of playing it has become a bad idea to buy
lots of gold, because I just can't use it up: In the beginning, you
could buy every regular premium tank via the in-game store, so
there was a natural drain of gold for a collector; I bought Premium
tanks whenever they were reduced, and thus spent quite a bit of
cash on this game.
Link on message: #10459061
wugwugs, on 01 April 2015 - 09:18 AM, said: Dont be fooled guys, I think they sell it because there is upcoming
change so the players with more battles will not have
"sealclubbing" mm, which basically means that if you have more
battles, you will get BAD mm with this most of the time. Ectar: You won't get "BAD mm" - You'll be matched with players who
like you are not new players. Think of it as a sort of skill based
MM at low tiers for experienced players.
Hokum15, on 01 April 2015 - 09:34 AM, said: "WHAT'S THAT? PZIIJ YOU SAY? I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE
SOUND OF GOLD BEING LOADED INTO MY FCM PAK40!"... Why pay 99
euro when you can get an op tier 3 FCM for about 5euro?Ectar: PZIIJ players should learn to fear this TD. Whilst it's
being removed from the store, it's not being removed from the game
and this TD will chew through your armour like a hot knife through
butter.
mortalsatsuma, on 01 April 2015 - 03:09 PM, said: This does seem to be the case tbh. Very salty forum today
with people trying to make out that the PZ II J is crap and can be
killed by most other tier 3s easily, but if that's the case then
how come the PZ II J has an almost 70% average W/R according
to Wotlabs? (Which btw makes it the highest average W/R tank
currently, yes, even before the SU-76I. Shocker I know). Ectar: Because you have to look at the people who have access to
the tank and how many there is. - Most PZIIJ players got their
codes over 2 years ago at Gamescom 2012. The only other PZIIJ
owners got them from purchasing an RU special edition package which
was likely an expensive thing to do. - New
players/inexperienced players are not likely to shell out that kind
of money for a rare tank. This then means that pretty much
all the PZIIJ owners are veteran players, many of which purely use
the tank with gold consumables, ammo and multiskilled crew.
It's great when it's top tier, it's pretty bad when it's low
tier. - As it's something very rare most people don't know
where to shoot it and it's win ratio stems from a time when gold
ammo wasn't so readily available.
Nebulosa, on 02 April 2015 - 09:56 AM, said: Thing is, in the last year, I have found out that with some changed
policies, for my style of playing it has become a bad idea to buy
lots of gold, because I just can't use it up: In the beginning, you
could buy every regular premium tank via the in-game store, so
there was a natural drain of gold for a collector; I bought Premium
tanks whenever they were reduced, and thus spent quite a bit of
cash on this game.Ectar: 500 gold converts 12,500 free exp. You surely must
have a truck load of free exp sitting about?
Ectar
Sky Traffic
01.04.2015 18:21:20
Subject: Sky Traffic
Link on message: #10454501
Link on message: #10454501
Ectar: Hi guys, if you're experiencing problems with the game please
remember that because it was a micro patch, certain add-ons like
XVM may not run properly now.
Ectar
Premium Shop: Only Today – Panzer II J
01.04.2015 18:07:47
Subject: Premium Shop: Only Today – Panzer II J
Link on message: #10454386
Link on message: #10454386
Ectar: Part of the reason for the package price, is so we don't offer the
tank available for what would be deemed lower than the retail
package it was part off. It was the same for the BTSV, this
is why the package has the gold with it so you're essentially
buying a gold package (which is a decent deal) and then getting a
rare tank on top of it. If you know you're going to be using
the gold, then this deal makes sense. If you're a tank
collector then this deal is for you to decide if it's worth it or
not. If you expected to pick up a PZIIJ for something like 20
euro, I'm afraid this isn't up your street. Packages we
offer are not always going to appeal to everyone, and we're sorry
that not everyone can take advantage of every offer. In the future
the tank could always be made available again, but then it might
not. It's highly unlikely it would be available for a reduced price
than what you see now. I wish I could give you a guarantee on that
but in 6 months, a year, 3 years times our policies and goals could
have completed changed. All I can confirm now is that the
tank is only available today, as part of this package, and there is
no short term plans to sell it again any time soon.
Ectar
Developer Diaries: Modern Vehicles
01.04.2015 17:52:32
Subject: Developer Diaries: Modern Vehicles
Link on message: #10454248
Link on message: #10454248
Ectar: It's just a joke guys, happy April 1st.
Ectar
Overlord Map: Panoramic Overview
01.04.2015 17:26:04
Subject: Overlord Map: Panoramic Overview
Link on message: #10454023
Link on message: #10454023
Ectar: Looking forward to seeing how the battles develop across this map.
Plenty of options both for digging in and flanking.
Ectar
Top of the Tree: IS-4
31.03.2015 19:43:19
Subject: Top of the Tree: IS-4
Link on message: #10447266
Cobra6, on 31 March 2015 - 02:30 PM, said: When are we finally going to get the Object 263 as top of the tree?
You know.......pretty much the only tank that has not been
top of the tree yet while others have been multiple times.....
Cobra 6
Link on message: #10447266
Cobra6, on 31 March 2015 - 02:30 PM, said: When are we finally going to get the Object 263 as top of the tree?
You know.......pretty much the only tank that has not been
top of the tree yet while others have been multiple times.....
Cobra 6Ectar: We've passed this on and it's should be coming in a future
slot but I'm afraid I can't say exactly when.
Ectar
"Thank you" ECTAR, (yet for nothing)...
27.03.2015 13:42:38
Subject: "Thank you" ECTAR, (yet for nothing)...
Link on message: #10421517
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:36 PM, said: On 2nd thought Mr Ectar, just close this thread, like many others
before, you can't bring in nothing new on the issue, 'cause I guess
that's the way you like it, with trolls with 800 posts and 30
games, hijacking threads with "hard" thought 2 sentences
posts.
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to read the posts (history doesn't
make for facts)?
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to judge them?
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to see if I have threads deleted
latelly?
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to see the threads above and bellow
mine (banned) and to see their fate?
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to talk with the moderator(s) that
gave those warnings?
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to see if that moderator is in some
personal well timed vendetta against some forumers here (by the
numbers of bans/ warnings) awarded?
Link on message: #10421517
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:36 PM, said: On 2nd thought Mr Ectar, just close this thread, like many others
before, you can't bring in nothing new on the issue, 'cause I guess
that's the way you like it, with trolls with 800 posts and 30
games, hijacking threads with "hard" thought 2 sentences
posts. Ectar: Sure I can do that. Always happy to close a thread when the
person who started it asks for that to happen.
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to read the posts (history doesn't
make for facts)?Ectar: I read your post history before I made my reply. I can see
every post you make on the forums along with every down vote and
upvote. When I check your warning history I can see who applied the
warning, what specific post it was for and what thread it was in.
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to judge them?Ectar: Yes, I looked at what you were warned for and felt the
moderator took the correct course of action at the time.
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to see if I have threads deleted
latelly?Ectar: Yes going back about 10 month out of your past 50
topics created 10 have been closed by various different moderators
for pretty much the same reason each time: Creating threads for the
sole purpose of causing unrest on the forums Making
non-constructive posts, or creating threads on non-constructive
topics
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to see the threads above and bellow
mine (banned) and to see their fate?Ectar: I don't understand what you're trying to get at with that
question
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to talk with the moderator(s) that
gave those warnings?Ectar: Nope, as I said on checking your warning history all
your recent sanctions have been warranted and in honestly, you've
been let off lightly.
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 08:03 PM, said: Did EVER Ectar ever bothered to see if that moderator is in some
personal well timed vendetta against some forumers here (by the
numbers of bans/ warnings) awarded?Ectar: In your situation no. Your previous post targeted a
specific moderator who hasn't been responsible for even half of
your warnings so there was no need to speak him.
Every single one of your past 50 topics is either a complaint at
the game, complaint at Wargaming staff or a complaint against other
players. Not one topic has you talking about anything
positive, constructive or aimed at having an
actual discussion. I'm amazed that you can't see you're your
own worst enemy. As I told you earlier, read the forum rules
and understand them. If you continue posting topics where all
you're doing is complaining about stuff with no evidence ( for
example you do this a lot claiming XYZ happened to you in a
match and never provide a replay), then I'll make sure your next
sanction gives you a longer forum vacation. By reading through
your past topics I honestly don't understand why you're still
playing the game if you claim to hate it so much. Please consider
your next topic carefully because you're on thin ice here sir.
Thread closed for the following reasons: 2.5 Off Topic,
spamming and trolling This category includes:
• Creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forums
• Causing disturbances in forum threads, such as picking fights, making off topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters
• Making non-constructive posts, or creating threads on non-constructive topics - Ectar
• Creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forums
• Causing disturbances in forum threads, such as picking fights, making off topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters
• Making non-constructive posts, or creating threads on non-constructive topics - Ectar
Ectar
What would you do?
26.03.2015 19:48:15
Subject: What would you do?
Link on message: #10418147
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 04:39 PM, said: I just found out that there's an Ectar person here, in the forum, I
would really love to know his thoughts and actions if he would have
such a moderator as the fictional Paolozzi above...
Link on message: #10418147
TankMilitia, on 26 March 2015 - 04:39 PM, said: I just found out that there's an Ectar person here, in the forum, I
would really love to know his thoughts and actions if he would have
such a moderator as the fictional Paolozzi above...Ectar: He would say that after reading your warning history
the sanctions were justified. He would then recommend you
familiarise yourself with the forum rules before you end up
breaking them again, as further sanctions will not be as lenient.
/thread closed.
Ectar
On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
24.03.2015 19:51:13
Subject: On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
Link on message: #10405775
Schmeksiman, on 24 March 2015 - 05:10 PM, said: "My forum". I never asked for anything, please do find one
reference in this entire thread about it. Do I really make an
impression as all this is just to promote myself, to achieve
"internet fame" or whatever? If I'm the issue here please tell me
so and I won't bother anyone here ever again. It's just sad that
from everything said in this thread it came down to accusing me of
pursuing my personal goals. I felt like something needed to be said
about the subject, I did not ask for a personal section or promote
my own fansite. I strictly wanted for this forum to be better and
therefore expressed my concerns which apparently other people
noticed too. I'm sorry if an honest approach bothers you but I
think I have the right so say so.
Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: if not at least gives us a dedicated forumites
section open to anyone willing to be a part of a healthy and
non toxic community where you don't have to worry about positive
threads spamming yours.
Schmeksiman, on 23 March 2015 - 10:57 PM, said: So do you really think we don't deserve a few pinned threads or a
section so we could be even more helpful and make this forum even
more awesome? I find that hard to understand...
Schmeksiman, on 24 March 2015 - 01:53 PM, said: Would a "Forum warriors" section be such a burned to you, such
annoyance to create? A place where those topics could be pinned
without interfering with your official ones but still getting at
least a portion of the traffic and more than they do now? If you
would create a forumites section where every single person would be
welcome and for some reason the fragmentation you described would
happen, you can hold me personally responsible, you can lock the
section or delete it, warn me, ban me, limit me to only post
in "Issues with matchmaking", whatever if that's the price of
having something positive and permanent here. I'll guarantee you
that I won't ever bash anyone purely based on my stats, number of
posts or whatever without reading through what he said and replying
as politely as possible. And I think others would do so too based
on my experience.
Link on message: #10405775
Schmeksiman, on 24 March 2015 - 05:10 PM, said: "My forum". I never asked for anything, please do find one
reference in this entire thread about it. Do I really make an
impression as all this is just to promote myself, to achieve
"internet fame" or whatever? If I'm the issue here please tell me
so and I won't bother anyone here ever again. It's just sad that
from everything said in this thread it came down to accusing me of
pursuing my personal goals. I felt like something needed to be said
about the subject, I did not ask for a personal section or promote
my own fansite. I strictly wanted for this forum to be better and
therefore expressed my concerns which apparently other people
noticed too. I'm sorry if an honest approach bothers you but I
think I have the right so say so.Ectar: You're asking us to make a special sub forum just so you can
choose what topics get pinned there.
Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: if not at least gives us a dedicated forumites
section open to anyone willing to be a part of a healthy and
non toxic community where you don't have to worry about positive
threads spamming yours. Ectar:
Schmeksiman, on 23 March 2015 - 10:57 PM, said: So do you really think we don't deserve a few pinned threads or a
section so we could be even more helpful and make this forum even
more awesome? I find that hard to understand...Ectar:
Schmeksiman, on 24 March 2015 - 01:53 PM, said: Would a "Forum warriors" section be such a burned to you, such
annoyance to create? A place where those topics could be pinned
without interfering with your official ones but still getting at
least a portion of the traffic and more than they do now? If you
would create a forumites section where every single person would be
welcome and for some reason the fragmentation you described would
happen, you can hold me personally responsible, you can lock the
section or delete it, warn me, ban me, limit me to only post
in "Issues with matchmaking", whatever if that's the price of
having something positive and permanent here. I'll guarantee you
that I won't ever bash anyone purely based on my stats, number of
posts or whatever without reading through what he said and replying
as politely as possible. And I think others would do so too based
on my experience.Ectar: At least 3 times in this thread you've asked for us to
create a subsections called "Forumites" or "Forum Warriors" - The
basis of either naming/grouping is "People from the forums who
recognise each other in-game". Now considering we have a
Newcomer section, Guide Guide and Tutorial Section, Platoons &
Companies section, General Discussion section, Off Topic
section.... What is wrong with "forumites" using any of those
already existing sections to discuss their topics? why would we
divert players from the guides section to a "forumites" section for
information? Why would we direct newcomers out of that
section to the forumites sections to ask their
questions? Cobra 6 goes on to say a forumite is pretty much
anyone with over 500 points. Why would we create a single sub
forum for everyone with over 500 posts when there is an entire full
forum for them to use? The only reason you are really giving
here is so that you can choose which topics get pinned, something
that if a new section was ever created, wouldn't be up for the
players to decide!
Ectar
On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
24.03.2015 18:32:38
Subject: On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
Link on message: #10405214
Schmeksiman, on 24 March 2015 - 03:50 PM, said: Apparently it's not "some people", your entire community wants
recognition What are you talking about? What distinguishment?
What personal criteria? Everyone can access any section and thread
on this forum, why would this one be any different? You're talking
like we asked for a section where only certain people would be
welcome but it's exactly the opposite, a section where anyone would
be welcome, anyone could post freely without being trolled or
bashed like in general discussion and without all the whining and
toxicity. A place that would encourage new people to post and
participate, something game and forum related but with much more
relaxed atmosphere, in-between general discussion and off-topic
Schmeksiman, on 24 March 2015 - 03:50 PM, said: But if this is really end of the line here's the summary: Threads
stay removed, 2/3 likely to slowly disappear No change in forum
moderation CM presence will be kept as usual, down to bare minimum
Contests we liked will stay unavailable No info from devs in sight
due to "language issue" (even though I know some sections at WG
decided against it due to costs and inefficiency) No supertest for
EU people No love for forumites, people who actually cooperate,
help out others and keep the forum afloat amongst all the hate,
trolling and whining Everything stays the same regardless of your
community But hey, at least we managed to hear from our favourite
CM in 3-4 posts, that doesn't happen often. So if all this
was in vain and you don't care/don't have time to care about the
english community, how can you say it's not a step back?
#disappointed
Link on message: #10405214
Schmeksiman, on 24 March 2015 - 03:50 PM, said: Apparently it's not "some people", your entire community wants
recognition What are you talking about? What distinguishment?
What personal criteria? Everyone can access any section and thread
on this forum, why would this one be any different? You're talking
like we asked for a section where only certain people would be
welcome but it's exactly the opposite, a section where anyone would
be welcome, anyone could post freely without being trolled or
bashed like in general discussion and without all the whining and
toxicity. A place that would encourage new people to post and
participate, something game and forum related but with much more
relaxed atmosphere, in-between general discussion and off-topicEctar: How can you possibly say you're speaking for the entire
community? I said earlier to be careful about using "we" and now
you're speaking for everyone? You are the only person
asking/demanding for a separate forum section that you
appear to want to self moderate and control who posts what.
what you're asking for is your own forum and I can't provide you
with that here. If you want to create a fansite and run it the
way you see fit, you're entirely entitled to do so. We don't have a
reddit sub forum, we don't have a wotlabs subforum, we don't have
tanknet subforum. Players are free to use other forums based on
their own preferences and run those fansites however they choose.
Schmeksiman, on 24 March 2015 - 03:50 PM, said: But if this is really end of the line here's the summary: Threads
stay removed, 2/3 likely to slowly disappear No change in forum
moderation CM presence will be kept as usual, down to bare minimum
Contests we liked will stay unavailable No info from devs in sight
due to "language issue" (even though I know some sections at WG
decided against it due to costs and inefficiency) No supertest for
EU people No love for forumites, people who actually cooperate,
help out others and keep the forum afloat amongst all the hate,
trolling and whining Everything stays the same regardless of your
community But hey, at least we managed to hear from our favourite
CM in 3-4 posts, that doesn't happen often. So if all this
was in vain and you don't care/don't have time to care about the
english community, how can you say it's not a step back?
#disappointedEctar: You're putting words in my mouth here, I never said all
of that list above is a step back. You're also now grouping up
different topics and rolling into 1 thing. Forumite in-game
channel can highlighted in a new official sticky post Who did
you see in-game can also be highlighted in the same post MM
statistics can also be highlighted in that same post. All 3 of the
above however won't get their own pinned threads at the top of
the General Discussion section. Contests like "Hunt us Down"
ended almost 2 years ago. Making issues about it now is rather
pointless. I've explained why it won't come back, you seem to think
something different so it's impossible to get through to you on
that. It was discussed for a very long time internally and player
feedback at the time was taken on board. - Bringing it up now won't
have a different result. No WoT EU supertest. Totally out of our
hands. If you want to blame someone, blame the guy who encourages
the leaks and promoted it. You keep saying "forumites" as if there
is an obvious group of players who belong to under that title. What
you keep describing is something any player could be and any player
has full access to our current forums and subforums. We are
already doing something regarding noted helpful
players with regards to the Forum Contributors program
however that doesn't mean Forum Contributors get their own forum
section to control, moderator and decide who gets to post
there. Everything doesn't stay the same, however
as explained previously the structure and control of our
forums isn't a player democracy decided by a self elected group of
players.
Ectar
On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
24.03.2015 16:08:18
Subject: On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
Link on message: #10404183
Link on message: #10404183
Ectar: Creating a different forum section just because some people want
recognition isn't going to happen. We're not going to create a
section where players can distinguish themselves from other forum
users based on their own criteria. The structure is set by
Wargaming.net as it always has been. I'm sorry if you disagree with
that but it's not going to change. I get where you're coming from
here Schmeksiman but the structure of our forums and the
directions of our community team isn't something that is done via a
player democracy from a small select group of players. There is
various different things we're working on and there is various
different things we do, but none of it will ever be just because
you and some other players demanded it based on your personal
preferences.
Ectar
On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
24.03.2015 13:25:40
Subject: On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
Link on message: #10403228
jabster, on 23 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: To put it simply what was the point of unpinning the topics in the
first place as I fail to see how this could have been in anyway
considered an improvement - we're too busy doing other more
important things but we'll make just enough time to pee forum
regulars off. What's even stranger is at the same time saying that
the forum regulars have to help make the forum better. Well if the
forum staff aren't doing that why should we bother?
krazypenguin, on 23 March 2015 - 08:47 PM, said: It's not like WG couldn't afford 1 full timer to manage the
English speaking forum section, the largest section of the forums
and the most commonly spoken language in the EU. At least
make an effort. Go see the DayZ forums - yes their active
user base is much smaller than WoT's yet they somehow manage to
have significantly more active admins and bad posts/threads get
hammered immediately and offenders actually get punished.
Schmeksiman, on 23 March 2015 - 10:57 PM, said: Okay but if such a problem existed why was it even announced in the
first place? Also Reddit Q&A you did was well accepted, but
sadly that only happened twice if I'm correct. Hunt us down is the
same case as I mentioned above, we'd rather have something than
nothing. I've never seen any of you in that event but it didn't
matter to me, it was not something you expect but a small gesture
that you care. Number of players doesn't change that, you chances
of seeing one were always low but knowing there is a chance made
you feel like you were doing it for the community. You choose if
you want to hang out or not, I don't expect you to do so if you
don't want to in your free time or when you have other business,
but these days we only see moderators locking threads so from
everything you've said the conclusion is your team is stretched too
thin.
Schmeksiman, on 23 March 2015 - 10:57 PM, said: Not this part is simply unbelievable to me. You're not going to pin our threads because we, the community need to get a habbit of posting in them? We forumites need to promote good gameplay, share good stories, help each other and not complain? Did I read this right? You consider us to be the problem, the issue here, the reason why you unpinned those topics, the source of problems, you say we are the whiners here?! Personally I've been helping every single person that asked a question, answering in the newcommers section, writing a full guide there, going against MM conspiracy theorists and haters, always tried to provide constructive feedback, honest answers and post correct information and that's the core problem? I hope other forumites write their list as well because I have seen nothing short of that from them as well and now this is labelled as something negative and not appropriate on the forum? Basically that's what you said, we only complain here and I can not disagree with you more on this matter. We want this forum to be awesome, we want it to be friendly, constructive, helpful, a place where people are welcome to share their stories, questions and experiences but we need YOU on board, we need you to help us a bit, to make these goals easier to achieve, to at least show a little gesture saying thank you, not unpin our threads and call us whiners. Forumites are not some elitists, you don't need certain WN8 to join, certain number of battles, win rate, tanks, not even forum posts, anyone with a good attitude and willingness to join in is a forumite, from newbies to superunicums, it does not matter. So do you really think we don't deserve a few pinned threads or a section so we could be even more helpful and make this forum even more awesome? I find that hard to understand...
Sgt_Guffy, on 24 March 2015 - 09:00 AM, said: If WG staff do not have the time to spend on the forum then yes,
taking into account the size of the WG empire, they need more
staff. The don't have to be full time staff. They could work on a
part time basis. On some forums I've even known poachers turn
gamekeepers where veteran forum contributors were asked to
help on a voluntary basis. If Ectar wants members of the forum to
discipline themselves and the
quality of contributions to improve then that would
be a way to do it. Like many games, I think a lot of the
veteran contributors have left to do other things, not because they
are disgruntled with the forum. Players come and go, it is
something that just happens on the internet.
Cobra6, on 24 March 2015 - 09:20 AM, said: Thanks for that massive wall of text explaining the situation, it
indeed crit me for 9000 +1 Now, briefly on the
quote I've highlighted: I was a supertester myself during that
period and indeed there were some leaks, there were however leaks
before that and there have been more leaks after EU supertester
program was shut down. This indicates that it was not only the EU
program that was leaking in the first place. Secondly, if
the leaks are happening anyway now without an EU supertest
department you might as well re-open EU supertesting as it would
not make a difference anymore. That way we can all continue to
contribute to the further development of this game.
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jabster, on 23 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: To put it simply what was the point of unpinning the topics in the
first place as I fail to see how this could have been in anyway
considered an improvement - we're too busy doing other more
important things but we'll make just enough time to pee forum
regulars off. What's even stranger is at the same time saying that
the forum regulars have to help make the forum better. Well if the
forum staff aren't doing that why should we bother?Ectar: Firstly, we're not just "forum staff". Whilst I'd love to
spend all day just browsing the forums and replying to posts that's
just not possible. From trying to do that previously on just a
single forum, it's a huge time sink that actually has little
return. Posting on the forum multiple times just for the sake of
having a presence doesn't really add anything to the forums. At no
point has anyone said unpinning the threads would make the forum
better. As I stated the threads were unpinned because we want to
keep pinned threads limited to official staff posts. The
thread Which
forum members have you seen in random battles? is
one of the most active threads on the forums and is updated daily.
It doesn't need pinned as it's activity will keep it on the front
page. The thread Idea:
Forum warriors in-game channel was never pinned previously
until I did it in January as an attempt to encourage players to
find people to platoon with for personal missions. Prior to
that the initiative had almost died out with occasional posts of
"is this channel still up". Now I'm all for creating a new
topic and pinning it, but the activity of the channel is not
something I can control, so when something like no more than 10-20
people use this channel, it's hard to justify why it should be
pinned.
krazypenguin, on 23 March 2015 - 08:47 PM, said: It's not like WG couldn't afford 1 full timer to manage the
English speaking forum section, the largest section of the forums
and the most commonly spoken language in the EU. At least
make an effort. Go see the DayZ forums - yes their active
user base is much smaller than WoT's yet they somehow manage to
have significantly more active admins and bad posts/threads get
hammered immediately and offenders actually get punished.Ectar: Again when you're comparing the EN section of our forums to
another game you're taking the structure of Wargaming.net out of
context. Compare DayZ's next biggest language section after
English to this forum section then you have your comparison.
As I said earlier please remember that roughly 70% of our
playerbase and the mainly spoken language of the game is Russian,
not English.
Schmeksiman, on 23 March 2015 - 10:57 PM, said: Okay but if such a problem existed why was it even announced in the
first place? Also Reddit Q&A you did was well accepted, but
sadly that only happened twice if I'm correct. Hunt us down is the
same case as I mentioned above, we'd rather have something than
nothing. I've never seen any of you in that event but it didn't
matter to me, it was not something you expect but a small gesture
that you care. Number of players doesn't change that, you chances
of seeing one were always low but knowing there is a chance made
you feel like you were doing it for the community. You choose if
you want to hang out or not, I don't expect you to do so if you
don't want to in your free time or when you have other business,
but these days we only see moderators locking threads so from
everything you've said the conclusion is your team is stretched too
thin.Ectar: The reddit Q&A was done because reddit has a good
structure for doing the AMA/AMAA and it can be done in English
there without having to worry about the issue regarding
translations. As I've mentioned previously we support 7 different
languages in this region including English. Providing content for
only English speaking players kinda defies the whole point of
having that multi language support. You need to be be careful using
the "We" term here. Hunt us Down stopped based on community
feedback. We were doing all we could to extend that event and
it wasn't enough. It had changed from a 1 day event over 4 hours to
a
5 day event. The community feedback for those events wasn't
favourable and we had very little interaction or visibility.
Schmeksiman, on 23 March 2015 - 10:57 PM, said: Not this part is simply unbelievable to me. You're not going to pin our threads because we, the community need to get a habbit of posting in them? We forumites need to promote good gameplay, share good stories, help each other and not complain? Did I read this right? You consider us to be the problem, the issue here, the reason why you unpinned those topics, the source of problems, you say we are the whiners here?! Personally I've been helping every single person that asked a question, answering in the newcommers section, writing a full guide there, going against MM conspiracy theorists and haters, always tried to provide constructive feedback, honest answers and post correct information and that's the core problem? I hope other forumites write their list as well because I have seen nothing short of that from them as well and now this is labelled as something negative and not appropriate on the forum? Basically that's what you said, we only complain here and I can not disagree with you more on this matter. We want this forum to be awesome, we want it to be friendly, constructive, helpful, a place where people are welcome to share their stories, questions and experiences but we need YOU on board, we need you to help us a bit, to make these goals easier to achieve, to at least show a little gesture saying thank you, not unpin our threads and call us whiners. Forumites are not some elitists, you don't need certain WN8 to join, certain number of battles, win rate, tanks, not even forum posts, anyone with a good attitude and willingness to join in is a forumite, from newbies to superunicums, it does not matter. So do you really think we don't deserve a few pinned threads or a section so we could be even more helpful and make this forum even more awesome? I find that hard to understand...
Ectar: No, I said I wasn't going to have those threads pinned
because we want to limit pinned threads for official posts only. On
top of that at least one of the threads is extremely active and
doesn't need pinned for visibility in the first place. The
very last thing that will ever happen here is further fragmenting
the forums into different groups because some players feel they
should have more attention or more focus than other forum users.
I'm sorry but this attitude is exactly what kills communities when
everyone wants special titles or ranks to separate themselves from
other users. All it does is breed a group mentality and elitist
attitude against people who're then not part of "the group".
The group then starts to feel they're the only people that certain
people should listen to and when they don't get their way, things
become disruptive.
Sgt_Guffy, on 24 March 2015 - 09:00 AM, said: If WG staff do not have the time to spend on the forum then yes,
taking into account the size of the WG empire, they need more
staff. The don't have to be full time staff. They could work on a
part time basis. On some forums I've even known poachers turn
gamekeepers where veteran forum contributors were asked to
help on a voluntary basis. If Ectar wants members of the forum to
discipline themselves and the
quality of contributions to improve then that would
be a way to do it. Like many games, I think a lot of the
veteran contributors have left to do other things, not because they
are disgruntled with the forum. Players come and go, it is
something that just happens on the internet.Ectar: We're already taking steps to do this - http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/486004-forum-contributor-program/
we respect that there is some very helpful people on the
forums and we acknowledge that we can't be everywhere at one.
Cobra6, on 24 March 2015 - 09:20 AM, said: Thanks for that massive wall of text explaining the situation, it
indeed crit me for 9000 +1 Now, briefly on the
quote I've highlighted: I was a supertester myself during that
period and indeed there were some leaks, there were however leaks
before that and there have been more leaks after EU supertester
program was shut down. This indicates that it was not only the EU
program that was leaking in the first place. Secondly, if
the leaks are happening anyway now without an EU supertest
department you might as well re-open EU supertesting as it would
not make a difference anymore. That way we can all continue to
contribute to the further development of this game.Ectar: There was a very small amount of leaks prior to the EU
supertest and the most you'd find out is the supertest patch notes
a week before the test server was live. When the EU supertest
was active everything was leaked. Stuff that wasn't added to the
game until 8 months later was leaked. It was ripped open and no
care was given to what was shown. Afterwards as I said leaks
still continue and sadly that's partly due to the encouragement of
certain individuals to do so as it's a very good source of
traffic to their sites. I've never said that EU was solely
responsible but EU did start the ball rolling. The only way EU
supertest would return would be if the supertest stuff was
discussed openly in advance by Wargaming. As I said earlier
sadly the trust is broken and too many people are just waiting to
get in now and either leak everything, or just have a nosey round
without any intention of helping test content.
Ectar
On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
23.03.2015 21:10:36
Subject: On unpinned threads, WG EU attitude towards forumites
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Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: But a few things anger me here. First off I did PM Ectar as soon as
this happened and until now I haven't received an answer (and I'm
not expecting one today or tomorrow. Somehow I'd expect he'd be
available for discussion right after but apparently not...
Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: But what gets me is the reason behind unpinning - apparently WG EU
now want only official posts pinned in general discussion. So let's
see: 
A useless pit of
whiners, conspiracy theorists, basically a general matchmaker whine
thread that lost its point ages ago and is ignored with a good
reason. 
Exactly the same what I
said about the first one, you complain, nobody cares.
Hey, at least one that
makes a bit more sense but no official response or any data to back
up what is said there. 
This one I call useful
but to be honest general discussion is not the place where it
should be. It's not about discussion but appealing against your
warning points. This need a special section along with forum rules
and similar topics (but since I don't have any warning points I
didn't really visit this one). 
Good initiative but it
stops there, hasn't been updated, some info is misleading, some is
missing and some just isn't active anymore. Basically someone is
needed who would maintain this thread regularly to make sense.
A good idea but again
this is not the place and not maintained by people who should be in
charge of historical stuff. But what do all these threads
have in common? Total lack of support by forum management, not one
community manager posted anything constructive since the first
page, never participated in a discussion, never offered any
information, shared their thoughts, policies or contributed in a
way it would be expected. Half of those are general whine areas,
where people should cry without making a new thread so forum staff
wouldn't have to actually log in and actually manage the forum.
Other topics are just not maintained, nobody bothers to spend some
time on something that might have potential. And those
topics are "official" apparently, those are worth being pinned so
more people could safely be ignored with minimum effort required.
So what kind of message does that send WG EU? If something that is
supposed to be official is in such state then something seems to be
wrong or not working as intended. Don't get me wrong, we need those
topics. But the fact is half of them could have been locked after
the opening post and would still serve their purpose in a dedicated
section.
Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: But Schmeks, why such a fuss about a few threads? If it was only
about that I would not spend more than an hour writing this. But
when you consider everything I've seen and witnessed through my few
years here, how this forum (at least the english section) went
downhill, how even those few from WG that cared suddenly stopped
when the chair got more comfortable, how one whole dimension of an
official forum - being able to communicate with developers, get
your ideas through, get official info just disappeared over time
and any outside attempt was again axed and undermined, drowned in
empty promises of an EU Q&A, EU news that matter, EU supertest,
EU player support and staff player cooperation. Heck, this reminds
me of pre-parliamentary election period... This is the only
way I could make someone from WG EU notice it, a lengthy drama
post because any other channel is ineffective or simply doesn't
exist. And I can't do much else, none of us can. I'm 95% sure this
thread will get locked tomorrow noon with locking post coming from
some community manager denouncing half of the stuff said here and
promising the other to happen in very distant future. And that's
it, the final instance, after that is back to the old ways, let's
pretend everything is fine if we ignore enough issues, right? Oh
well...
Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: This is the only way I could make someone from WG EU notice it, a
lengthy drama post because any other channel is ineffective or
simply doesn't exist. And I can't do much else, none of us can. I'm
95% sure this thread will get locked tomorrow noon with locking
post coming from some community manager denouncing half of the
stuff said here and promising the other to happen in very distant
future. And that's it, the final instance, after that is back to
the old ways, let's pretend everything is fine if we ignore enough
issues, right? Oh well...
Grimdorf, on 21 March 2015 - 09:45 PM, said: And now my not so polite post......who ever made such a
puerile childish decision should be sacked forthwith as they
obviously have absolutely no idea about customer satisfaction. It
seems that WG EU just go from one blunder to another and that the
entire customer related staff in paris have simply given up and
don't give a shite any more.
Schmeksiman, on 22 March 2015 - 11:12 AM, said: Since Overlord left things just slowly stopped moving, that Quasar
guy who was supposed to replace him has not been seen here for
years. There used to be contests running, stuff like "Hunt us down"
where we had to find and kill WG guys in randoms but these days it
seems they entirely lost interest, not even spending an hour for a
simple event like that. I would expect someone to devote some time
and effort for the company they work for, not just the minimum
required.
Sgt_Guffy, on 22 March 2015 - 11:34 AM, said: I think WG staff have not really grasped the idea that a forum
belongs to the player base, who choose to make use of it, and it is
managed by the management staff. That is how forums work
and that is the catalyst to make them thrive. In other
words the forum belongs to us, not Ectar! There was a
time Ectar and other staff positively participated on the forum.
Not now. I can understand if that is motivated by the view whatever
they put on the forum will be shot down in flames, but they have at
times made valid points and they, like any other player, are
entitled to their opinion. An opinion I think a lot of us would
like to see! I've been on many forums and on all of them,
without exception, moderators and staff have participated, even
if it's only to correct comments which are clearly wrong.
Seekless, on 23 March 2015 - 05:30 PM, said: Hmm.... Ectar replied back to me several times on a PM as did
several other mods of the WG staff, maybe he has some days
off?
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Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: But a few things anger me here. First off I did PM Ectar as soon as
this happened and until now I haven't received an answer (and I'm
not expecting one today or tomorrow. Somehow I'd expect he'd be
available for discussion right after but apparently not...Ectar: You PM'd me on Friday afternoon and I was then on my
weekend. Atm I've very involved in helping promote World of
Warships. I don't work weekends so couldn't reply to you. I
have also advised players many times that out of all the things I
have to do each day, answering forums PM's is sadly low on my list
of priorities. I did however reply to you today once I had
time to clear out the 30 or so PM's waiting to be answered. I
would like to ask all other players to please take notice of this.
I get sometimes really really rude messages from impatient players
who seem to thing the PM system works like skype chat or instant
messenger and I'm available 24/7. That isn't the case.
Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: But what gets me is the reason behind unpinning - apparently WG EU
now want only official posts pinned in general discussion. So let's
see: A useless pit of
whiners, conspiracy theorists, basically a general matchmaker whine
thread that lost its point ages ago and is ignored with a good
reason. Exactly the same what I
said about the first one, you complain, nobody cares.
Hey, at least one that
makes a bit more sense but no official response or any data to back
up what is said there. This one I call useful
but to be honest general discussion is not the place where it
should be. It's not about discussion but appealing against your
warning points. This need a special section along with forum rules
and similar topics (but since I don't have any warning points I
didn't really visit this one). Good initiative but it
stops there, hasn't been updated, some info is misleading, some is
missing and some just isn't active anymore. Basically someone is
needed who would maintain this thread regularly to make sense.
A good idea but again
this is not the place and not maintained by people who should be in
charge of historical stuff. But what do all these threads
have in common? Total lack of support by forum management, not one
community manager posted anything constructive since the first
page, never participated in a discussion, never offered any
information, shared their thoughts, policies or contributed in a
way it would be expected. Half of those are general whine areas,
where people should cry without making a new thread so forum staff
wouldn't have to actually log in and actually manage the forum.
Other topics are just not maintained, nobody bothers to spend some
time on something that might have potential. And those
topics are "official" apparently, those are worth being pinned so
more people could safely be ignored with minimum effort required.
So what kind of message does that send WG EU? If something that is
supposed to be official is in such state then something seems to be
wrong or not working as intended. Don't get me wrong, we need those
topics. But the fact is half of them could have been locked after
the opening post and would still serve their purpose in a dedicated
section.Ectar: The MM thread has been there for a while and there was a
thread before it. It's there for the same reason we used to have an
arty thread. To try and contain all the common complaints and
misconceptions to one area. Without dedicated threads all you
have is each day 4 or 5 more topics about the same thing. If
you'd rather have everyone create a new thread each time they
wanted to talk about MM then sure, we can unpin that and let the
same conversations loop round each week. I agree that there could
perhaps be more presence in those threads but when we appear in
threads we also have to consider what we're actually adding to the
conversation. Posting for the sake of posting make look like
we're active, but when half the content isn't actually adding any
value, it's counter productive. The team kill and team
damage thread was to let players know how it works. It's not for
players to appeal in, so saying we "don't care" by not replying in
that thread is not really fair. The Community Team don't deal
with in-game sanctions or penalties and the answer is going to be
the same from us each time. - "If you feel somehow wronged, please
contact customer support who will investigate it" Along with
"It doesn't matter if he shot first, if he's not blue, don't shoot
a team mate" - If the comeback is then "We don't have faith in
Customer Support" then you're still at square one because the
Community Team isn't able to do anything. Forum warning
points was to let players understand how to appeal against them.
There is really no need for us in that thread other than to keep
reminding players to read the first page. Museums and Events
in your region is due to be taken down soon, and the Focus on Fans
and Contributors is also going to be taken down and then restarted
with certain criteria before a site/channel/stream can be
submitted. They are both in the General Discussion section
because it's the highest traffic section of the forums. We wanted
to know who players watch and what resources they use, and we
wanted to know about events or locations in different countries to
help plan events. I for example as someone from the UK has no idea
about military events or locations in Hungary, Romania or Italy for
example. It's not possible for our company to employ someone from
every country in the European continent which is why we ask our
players who are from all over Europe.
Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: But Schmeks, why such a fuss about a few threads? If it was only
about that I would not spend more than an hour writing this. But
when you consider everything I've seen and witnessed through my few
years here, how this forum (at least the english section) went
downhill, how even those few from WG that cared suddenly stopped
when the chair got more comfortable, how one whole dimension of an
official forum - being able to communicate with developers, get
your ideas through, get official info just disappeared over time
and any outside attempt was again axed and undermined, drowned in
empty promises of an EU Q&A, EU news that matter, EU supertest,
EU player support and staff player cooperation. Heck, this reminds
me of pre-parliamentary election period... This is the only
way I could make someone from WG EU notice it, a lengthy drama
post because any other channel is ineffective or simply doesn't
exist. And I can't do much else, none of us can. I'm 95% sure this
thread will get locked tomorrow noon with locking post coming from
some community manager denouncing half of the stuff said here and
promising the other to happen in very distant future. And that's
it, the final instance, after that is back to the old ways, let's
pretend everything is fine if we ignore enough issues, right? Oh
well...Ectar: Ok lets back up here a few moments. I've been posting on the
EU forums for almost 3 years now. There was no "glory days". When I
started there was only the World of Tanks forums and a fledgling
World of Warplanes Alpha forum. There was an "Ask the
Developer thread" that Overlord answered when he felt like it and
he was never in communication with the EU team. There was
pretty much no other presence on the forums apart from Supercharge
who had only started about 3 months before me. Now instead of
just the World of Tanks forums, we have a full World of Warplanes
forums, World of Tanks Xbox, World of Tanks Blitz, World of Tanks
Generals starting up and World of Warships that all need an element
of presence. It's not just appearing in forums it's also
creating all the weekly reports for each forums AND covering the
social media elements for each of these products. Loop in the
programs like the contributor programs, keeping on top of
our own product knowledge and playing our own games with
either official or personal accounts, working on planning community
events, and working on any other project work... There isn't a lot
of time to just "hang out" on the forums like days of old. We
do that in the English section with a team of 4. We wanted
to do an EU Q&A and tried it for a while. Sadly when we do
stuff for the EU community, that means all our players. Not just
the English speaking players. I've said this time and time again
and each time people just gloss right over it. Wargaming.net
is the reverse of pretty much every other game you play. Our
developers speak Russian, our game was launched to the RU players
almost a year before NA and EU, our largest playerbase by alomost
70% is Russian speaking. The developer interaction that you
all demand is there, it's just sadly not in English. I know you'd
all love for translations to be provided instantly, however our
developers post as and when they choose, either on the RU forums or
on their personal blogs. That's not something we have any control
of here in EU and it never will be. EU Supertest was given
after being pushed for by myself and Tuccy, and then within 2 weeks
everything on the Supertest was leaked to an external source who
encouraged people to leak more. We said "Trust us" and then
sadly a minority showed that we couldn't be trusted at all.
Now sadly leaking future content on the Supertest is rampant
and if it ever came back to EU there is countless players in queue
ready to be the new cool kid who leaks all the stuff. - Prior
to EU Supertest there was pretty much zero leaks and stuff that was
to be tested was tested and revealed in time. Yes it was a
minority, no it's not fair to tag everyone with the naughty brush,
but the trust element was well and truly broken and it's unlikely
ever to come back.
Schmeksiman, on 21 March 2015 - 08:46 PM, said: This is the only way I could make someone from WG EU notice it, a
lengthy drama post because any other channel is ineffective or
simply doesn't exist. And I can't do much else, none of us can. I'm
95% sure this thread will get locked tomorrow noon with locking
post coming from some community manager denouncing half of the
stuff said here and promising the other to happen in very distant
future. And that's it, the final instance, after that is back to
the old ways, let's pretend everything is fine if we ignore enough
issues, right? Oh well...Ectar: It wasn't the only way to get someone to notice it. I've
spoken to you personally at length face to face at Croatia, and
have replied to any PM you've sent me in the past. This is
the only way you can create a little drama though and you knew
that. You then set up some options where it doesn't
matter what we do, it's already wrong as you've given us a loaded
selection. All really because I haven't replied to a PM
within a few days. That really isn't fair.
Grimdorf, on 21 March 2015 - 09:45 PM, said: And now my not so polite post......who ever made such a
puerile childish decision should be sacked forthwith as they
obviously have absolutely no idea about customer satisfaction. It
seems that WG EU just go from one blunder to another and that the
entire customer related staff in paris have simply given up and
don't give a shite any more. Ectar: And here is where things get rather unreasonable. As some of
you have noticed we've pulled back our presence on the General
Discussion section. It was noted that on a good few threads where
we did reply, our messages went unnoticed or unacknowledged. There
was also a good spat of personal attacks and rather petty and silly
messages directed at staff whilst players were acting like they
were taking the high road. Now I accept people might be
grumpy at me because of what I say, but I'm always just the
middleman. What I write is rarely my opinion unless things are
getting out of control. Saying someone should be sacked
because a thread is unpinned is getting a bit out of control.
The thread is still active. It's still on the forums, and if
people continue to use the thread as it was intended for, it will
be on the front page. It's not deleted, we don't want to hide it,
and nothing has been taken from you. Calling for someone to be
sacked is just showing that people are taking things totally out of
proportion and people are really starting to become unreasonable.
Please stop for a moment guys and look through some of the comments
either directed at our staff or at other players then explain to me
how the people saying those things are the better person or are the
ones to sent an example?
Schmeksiman, on 22 March 2015 - 11:12 AM, said: Since Overlord left things just slowly stopped moving, that Quasar
guy who was supposed to replace him has not been seen here for
years. There used to be contests running, stuff like "Hunt us down"
where we had to find and kill WG guys in randoms but these days it
seems they entirely lost interest, not even spending an hour for a
simple event like that. I would expect someone to devote some time
and effort for the company they work for, not just the minimum
required.Ectar: Overlord only ever replied to the Q&A thread and did
that at random. Quasar tried to maintain an EU Q&A thread but
there was actually issues from the non English speaking players who
felt their questions weren't being answered. Again picture
here. EU community does equal English speaking community. The
Hunt us Down events because impossible to cover due to increasing
player numbers. Event when we had all Community Team members, the
Moderators and half of Customer Service our reach in-game was tiny
and there was more issues with people saying they didn't see us,
than saying how fun they found the event. Devote some time and
effort? Hanging out on the forums all day whilst it may seem like a
fun job is a tiny part of all the stuff we have to do. I'd love it
to be like when I started but the amount of work and the amount of
players has increased drastically.
Sgt_Guffy, on 22 March 2015 - 11:34 AM, said: I think WG staff have not really grasped the idea that a forum
belongs to the player base, who choose to make use of it, and it is
managed by the management staff. That is how forums work
and that is the catalyst to make them thrive. In other
words the forum belongs to us, not Ectar! There was a
time Ectar and other staff positively participated on the forum.
Not now. I can understand if that is motivated by the view whatever
they put on the forum will be shot down in flames, but they have at
times made valid points and they, like any other player, are
entitled to their opinion. An opinion I think a lot of us would
like to see! I've been on many forums and on all of them,
without exception, moderators and staff have participated, even
if it's only to correct comments which are clearly wrong.
Ectar: You make a good analysis of the forums and what you say is
true to a point. If the forums belong to the players then the
players need to start accepting a bit of responsibility for
themselves. Here is some example of what I see daily: Regular forum
users making threads when they know other exists. Why do this?
Because their thread is more important. Their thread has something
different. (In truth it almost never is). Regular forum users
post pretty much the same message in 4 or 5 different topics about
the same issue, and then later make out something is a hot topic
when reading into it you can see it's the same groups of players.
Regular forum users creating topics in general discussion about
stuff totally unrelated to world of tanks Regular haters posting
nothing but confrontational posts and negative comments no matter
what the news is. Regular forum users insulting either WG
staff or other forum members/players usually attacking their
intelligence or play skill. If you guys want the forums to
be better, you have to help create that presence and atmosphere.
The whole "Get the pitchforks out against the EU staff" is totally
uncalled for, especially when we're the guys fighting for you
internally. When you guys start attacking us and saying we
don't care etc, that's pretty hard to take, especially when the "we
don't care" is basically "they don't do what we tell them to". You
guys need to understand that there is always limitations to what we
can and can't do. I agree it sucks that some things are
unclear or may go unanswered but that not through choice. We can't
give you answers we don't have.
Seekless, on 23 March 2015 - 05:30 PM, said: Hmm.... Ectar replied back to me several times on a PM as did
several other mods of the WG staff, maybe he has some days
off? Ectar: Yes, I have days off. They are Saturday and Sunday and
during those days I'm pretty much never going to be on the forums,
answering my e-mails or assisting players. They are days off and I
like to have some time to myself as I'm sure everyone else does who
works full time. We have other staff members in the office to
assist players when I'm not there and it's highly unlikely there is
an emergency that requires my attention where only I can assist a
player.
TLDR: Wall of text crits you for over 9000. Please at least take the time to read all of what I've wrote before skimming over one or two sentences and making a snap reply. I'm sorry but I'm not going to pin threads that will always remain on the front page so long as people use them. That's something you as the community need to get back in the habit of. Promote the good game play, share your good stories, help each other. Don't just come here looking for the new thing to complain on, or the new unconfirmed rumour from an anonymous source to take as absolute truth.
I want our forums to be awesome, but I need you guys to be on board with that and help with that. It's far easier to complain about something that to praise it, lets not do that here where we can.
TLDR: Wall of text crits you for over 9000. Please at least take the time to read all of what I've wrote before skimming over one or two sentences and making a snap reply. I'm sorry but I'm not going to pin threads that will always remain on the front page so long as people use them. That's something you as the community need to get back in the habit of. Promote the good game play, share your good stories, help each other. Don't just come here looking for the new thing to complain on, or the new unconfirmed rumour from an anonymous source to take as absolute truth.
I want our forums to be awesome, but I need you guys to be on board with that and help with that. It's far easier to complain about something that to praise it, lets not do that here where we can.
Ectar
Idea: Forum warriors in-game channel
20.03.2015 13:47:14
Subject: Idea: Forum warriors in-game channel
Link on message: #10379171
Link on message: #10379171
Ectar: Topic unpinned 20/03/2015 - pinned topics in general discussion
being kept for official WG posts. - Ectar
Ectar
Patch Notes: 9.7 common test round 2
19.03.2015 18:40:33
Subject: Patch Notes: 9.7 common test round 2
Link on message: #10374741
Link on message: #10374741
Ectar: Changes in Version 0.9.7 Common Test 2 vs. 0.9.7 Common Test 1
Added 2 new tanks available for all players to test: M56
Scorpion, Tier VII U.S. tank destroyer * T-54 mod. 1, Tier VIII
U.S.S.R. medium tank System Fixed many hang-ups and crashes
of the game client. Optimized performance of the game client on
some PC configurations. Optimized performance of some special
effects. Optimized stability of game servers. Fixed issue with
felled tree trunks not being transparent in some cases in the
Sniper mode. Vehicles Fixed positioning of Emblems on the
T-15 German light tank. Removed changes to shell penetration and
vehicle characteristics added in the first Common Test of version
9.7. Fixed some issues with the visual model of the AMX 30 B. Fixed
some issues with the damage models of the following vehicles: IS-5
(Object 730), Renault G1. Removed the new visual model of the
SuperPershing in order to make improvements to it. Increased
profitability of the following special vehicles: Object 907, М60,
VK 7201, T95E6. Maps Removed the Northwest map from the
Random Battle mode. Fixed some clipping on the new Overlord map.
Fixed the issues with the visual and damage models of some
environmental objects. Fixed flickering of some objects when
rotating the camera in the Premium Garage. Interface and
Other Changes Fixed many issues with the new features of the Team
Battle mode. Fixed some issues with the new Chat features. Improved
hit and penetration marks on vehicles. Fixed some issues with
interface scaling.
Ectar
Special: St. Patrick’s Day....Disappeared on St Patrick's day ffs
17.03.2015 13:11:33
Subject: Special: St. Patrick’s Day....Disappeared on St Patrick's day ffs
Link on message: #10359525
Link on message: #10359525
Ectar: If you experience this issue, please restart the client and it
should fix it.
Ectar
Special: St. Patrick’s Day....Disappeared on St Patrick's day ffs
17.03.2015 13:02:24
Subject: Special: St. Patrick’s Day....Disappeared on St Patrick's day ffs
Link on message: #10359460
Link on message: #10359460
Ectar: Hey guys, getting this checked out
Ectar
just give me the reason?!?
16.03.2015 19:50:00
Subject: just give me the reason?!?
Link on message: #10355360
Cpt_Ljevarko, on 16 March 2015 - 05:21 PM, said: it's pointless to ban someone without putting a reason outthere. I
mean probably i got banned for team dmg, but any team dmg
that i do is with a perfect 101% reason... next time WG just
put a reason so i know, and not that i go for launch come
back and suddenly appears ban message.....
Link on message: #10355360
Cpt_Ljevarko, on 16 March 2015 - 05:21 PM, said: it's pointless to ban someone without putting a reason outthere. I
mean probably i got banned for team dmg, but any team dmg
that i do is with a perfect 101% reason... next time WG just
put a reason so i know, and not that i go for launch come
back and suddenly appears ban message.....Ectar: If the friendly tank isn't blue named, there isn't a perfect
reason. That's the only time team damage is 100% justified. If you
contact our support team they will be able to verify why you were
banned. Closing the thread now that you know where to
get your reason. - Ectar
Ectar
Cannot join a match, stuck in loading screen
16.03.2015 18:08:10
Subject: Cannot join a match, stuck in loading screen
Link on message: #10354615
Link on message: #10354615
Ectar: Hello, Have you installed any mods to the test client such
as XVM?
Ectar
10 reasons why I hate the STB-1
16.03.2015 17:38:08
Subject: 10 reasons why I hate the STB-1
Link on message: #10354442
GuzganuRozaliu, on 12 March 2015 - 06:43 PM, said: Vbaddict statistics on the STB-1 are based on 1266
people tajj7... And most of those
people that upload their dossiers on vbaddict are good players.
Unicums, passionate players, people that play in platoons. They are
not representative on how the STB-1 performs generally. Just how it
performs for those 1266 players. So those stats show nothing.
Link on message: #10354442
GuzganuRozaliu, on 12 March 2015 - 06:43 PM, said: Vbaddict statistics on the STB-1 are based on 1266
people tajj7... And most of those
people that upload their dossiers on vbaddict are good players.
Unicums, passionate players, people that play in platoons. They are
not representative on how the STB-1 performs generally. Just how it
performs for those 1266 players. So those stats show nothing.Ectar: You do realise right that this statement also means everyone
should totally disregard your stats in the tank also? If the
average of 1266 players can't be representative of the performance
of a tank, then in no way can the stats of a single player be
representative either. 
With the changes planned in
9.7 it will be interesting to see how players feel the STB-1
performs.
With the changes planned in
9.7 it will be interesting to see how players feel the STB-1
performs.Реклама | Adv