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Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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ogremage, on 06 June 2012 - 06:07 PM, said: Please stop with the random insults.
Overlord is a good guy, probably the best we've seen from WG so far. It is very good he is still answering our questions, especially as he is the only one who does.
Say what you want about WG and the company and their management (who have lost my respect since they posted Soviet apologism and glorification on the Russian forums), but give credit to Overlord where credit is due, he does a difficult job and does it well.

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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KhornateMonkey, on 06 June 2012 - 08:19 PM, said: Hey there Overlord!
Will you be taking in the communitys interests regarding the E-75. E-50 and KT nerf? I'm referring to this topic by the way.
Regards, Monkey.

Subject: Tulkojums
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Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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fattoler, on 06 June 2012 - 03:10 PM, said: I'm sorry Overlord but I'm having a great sense of foreboding about the British tree. I feel as though we will become an inverted version of France. To be honest I never saw the point of giving nations "characteristics", it's not as though we have nation Y vs. nation X battles yet. Plus, to be frank I'd prefer it if tanks had their own individual characteristics rather than being modifed to fit a national trope.

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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Abonimus, on 06 June 2012 - 03:08 PM, said: Can we have Leopard 2 instead of E100 ?
Just case of historical accuracy and such stuff there...

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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Ghettoforce, on 06 June 2012 - 02:16 PM, said: Thank you for your anwser, but I have to ask this follow up:
I don't quite understand why this is still an open question. Wiouldn't it just be a case of making your accont "premium" an option on a central point (like changing your password on the portal and not in game now)? Then the "premium status" of your account would be part of the information your client has to receive when you log in a game (the same way it has to receive the information now your password is connected to your log in name).
Being able to use free xp on all games sounds more difficult, seeing it can come from 3 different titlles and changes dynamically with every battle played

Subject: Conspiracy Theory: the reason of (not only) E-series nerf
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Panzerpiggy, on 07 June 2012 - 09:42 AM, said: Offtopic; Liana, when did ya lose ya mod status? :( :(
Best Mod ever! <3 :(

Subject: Twitter Quiz #19
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freggelz, on 07 June 2012 - 08:08 AM, said: Can't wait to see the results. Is there an E.T.A.?

Subject: Закинул голд не на тот аккаунт/Сколько времени ждать ответа от саппорта?
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Subject: Интерестно? Прочитай! Обсудим или "взвоем плачем"?
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Subject: do we need this buff?
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Quote QuoteWANTES (05 Июн 2012 - 13:19) писал:
уважаемые и все же ответьте.
С чем на тесте связанно увеличение брони советского танка т-28 ?
Он появился давно и уже отбалансирован.
И спустя года он вас чем то не устроил.
Связано с ошибкой ввода данных. Будет исправлено - только что потроллил уже не игроков :-)


Quote WANTES (05 Июн 2012 - 13:19) писал:
уважаемые и все же ответьте.
С чем на тесте связанно увеличение брони советского танка т-28 ?
Он появился давно и уже отбалансирован.
И спустя года он вас чем то не устроил.

Subject: Conspiracy Theory: the reason of (not only) E-series nerf
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Hoffmannov, on 06 June 2012 - 06:25 PM, said: and what about the french?

Subject: Türkçe Mürettebat Ses Paketi
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Subject: Интерестно? Прочитай! Обсудим или "взвоем плачем"?
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OldFox, on 04 June 2012 - 06:47 PM, said: Думаю, повторится старая история: все кинутся качать французскую арту (я так обязательно!), в боях будет по 5-6 САУ с каждой стороны, танкисты поднимут плач, арту через месяц порежут.

Subject: Hunt us Down: Next Session
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dukecrom, on 01 June 2012 - 07:43 PM, said: Hm, how can I see whom I killed/defended of the WoT team or do I have to watch all the replays of that timeframe?

Subject: Türkçe Mürettebat Ses Paketi
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BiRBaBaHiNDi, on 06 June 2012 - 04:03 PM, said: ingilizceden türkçeye cevrilmiş bir şekilleri varsa daha rahat yardımıcı olunur , tarzanca ceviri değil ama ;), cs deki gibide  olmasın ama :D(let's go!)hayda beree,ya allah vb yapılırsa bana kalsa daha süper olur ;) bende elimden geldiğince yardımcı olmaya çalışıcam.. kolay gelsin

Subject: Why don't you buff AMX 40 instead of the T-28?
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TwilightSparkle, on 06 June 2012 - 04:32 PM, said: Lianna, are you really so blind to believe what you wrote?

Subject: Conspiracy Theory: the reason of (not only) E-series nerf
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Plasma_Fire, on 06 June 2012 - 04:36 PM, said: LiannaSilverwind I read your OP with interest thinking it might contain something that was interesting, but I was mistaken.
What does it all mean exactly, what was your point... Do you think the nerf to the E series is justified and you provide the proof in the shape of other tanks being balanced to match the others?

Subject: Twitter Quiz #19
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brzias, on 06 June 2012 - 03:02 PM, said: They usually edit first post of this thread with list of winners day after quiz. They'll tweet a link to it.

Subject: Conspiracy Theory: the reason of (not only) E-series nerf
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Subject: Twitter Quiz #19
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Subject: Conspiracy Theory: the reason of (not only) E-series nerf
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mondog, on 06 June 2012 - 03:39 PM, said: Yeah, its not a medium, the tank above it is crap for its tier. I don't understand either the OP's logic or WG's.

Subject: Why don't you buff AMX 40 instead of the T-28?
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Quote QuoteWANTES (05 Июн 2012 - 13:19) писал:
уважаемые и все же ответьте.
С чем на тесте связанно увеличение брони советского танка т-28 ?
Он появился давно и уже отбалансирован.
И спустя года он вас чем то не устроил.
Связано с ошибкой ввода данных. Будет исправлено - только что потроллил уже не игроков :-)


Quote WANTES (05 Июн 2012 - 13:19) писал:
уважаемые и все же ответьте.
С чем на тесте связанно увеличение брони советского танка т-28 ?
Он появился давно и уже отбалансирован.
И спустя года он вас чем то не устроил.

Subject: Twitter Quiz #19
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brzias, on 06 June 2012 - 12:36 PM, said: Q: "What is the rate of fire (rounds/min) of the Heavy tank PZKpfw VIB Tiger II in stock configuration?"
A: 7.29
If the answer is 7.29, why does my TigerII have 7.84 with its stock gun (8.8 71)? (no crew, no equipment)
http://imageshack.us.../shot004kq.jpg/

Subject: D-Day ― Phase One
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Pernumbra, on 06 June 2012 - 12:48 PM, said: You say "8-10" and the calendar you point to shows "8-12".

Which is it?

Subject: D-Day ― Phase One
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supercharge, on 05 June 2012 - 03:46 PM, said: Phase two is from 8-12
here is the link:
http://worldoftanks....-june-calendar/

Subject: D-Day Contest
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Gnomus, on 05 June 2012 - 04:23 PM, said: That's pretty awfull decision. I can understand inclusion of premium, as it's hard to see. But daily double...

Then question for Community: Is it one submission per category or one submission in total?

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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Ghettoforce, on 06 June 2012 - 01:48 PM, said: When the gameaccounts are combined in one unified account for all "World of" games (meaning, one log in for all and you can use gold and free xp on all different titels), will this also be the case for premium status of the account?

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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FrankyK, on 06 June 2012 - 01:43 PM, said: Overlord:
I just can't understand that on the one hand, you are extremely precise in this matter and try to justify this nerf with historical accuracy, while on the other hand with other tanks, you ignore historical accuracy for the sake of balance and adjust guns, armour and speed values of these tanks in order to make them balanced.
In short: why don't you tell the community the real reason for this transmission change: WG thinks that it is necessary to nerf the E-Series, because these tanks are over-performing according to your stats. Justice calls for fairness and honesty, treating equal things equally and unequal things unequally.

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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abbyabz, on 06 June 2012 - 01:25 PM, said: Thats its? it does look good? so are you planning with moving it to the front still? despite no blue prints showing the transmission is there?

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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Terran_wrath, on 05 June 2012 - 12:38 PM, said: Dear Overlord,
The community has gathered some stuff about the E-series... read it please:
The E series was PLANNED to have the transmission at the back! And hence it should!

drehstab, on 02 June 2012 - 09:31 PM, said:
If we look at the transmission/engine unit Maybach and ZF designed for E-series and used for the AMX 50 series,
there is clear evidence for a rear transmission being possible:

Exactly this unit should have been used on the E-series. Source:
http://appsprod01.zf.com/Chronik/deu/1945/tn1945.htm (german),
http://appsprod01.zf.com/Chronik/eng/1945/tn1945.htm (english)
(ZF company chronicle)
There it says:
German:
I.e. the design of the transmissions for E-series and for AMX 50 is identical.
So - I think a reasonable deduction would be to leave the transmission in the rear.
Sources:
Historical declassified french blueprints (cross sections) of AMX 50 based tank destroyers which are showing Maybach HL295 with this ZF transmission:
http://i.imgur.com/jhuzI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JAyRZ.jpg
http://forum.worldof...o-canon-de-120/
I took great care when scaling the engine for the above image and took the length of the engine block itself as reference dimension:
Installation drawing of Maybach HL 295 (with dimensioning): http://www.smcars.ne...hl295-1945-.gif
Installation drawing of Maybach HL 230 (with dimensioning): http://www.panzerbas...es/hl230p30.jpg
additional drawings: http://www.panzerbas...ch-drawings.htm
rumcajsek, on 03 June 2012 - 04:23 PM, said:
Spread the word about this video:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Cc08d25N4Mk
Even game models are not capable of front transmission!
CHECKMATE
Szalona, on 04 June 2012 - 10:03 AM, said:
http://forum.worldof...ver-statistics/
from all players without restriction
TANK PLAYERS NEW OWNERS BATTLES BpP WIN_RATIO CHANGE GLOBAL_WR STDDEV
ST-I 8 10 8 24 3 54.17% --- 49.74% 30.78%
AMX 50 120 4603 1405 7142 277158 60 49.89% 0.03% 53.26% 15.32%
M103 21100 2459 30464 1110483 53 49.22% -0.04% 52.16% 16.86%
IS-8 52522 18732 62937 3982293 76 48.44% -0.12% 51.61% 16.53%
E-75 30268 5767 46437 1794362 59 48.33% 0.04% 51.36% 15.89%
VK 4502 (P) Ausf. B 6886 1979 17938 398374 58 46.98% -0.21% 51.49% 16.12%
only from players with at least 150 battles in the tank
TANK PLAYERS NEW BATTLES BpP WIN_RATIO GLOBAL_WR STDDEV
AMX 50 120 1999 228 171499 86 50.49% 53.24% 14.69%
M103 12138 711 811013 67 49.65% 52.27% 16.64%
IS-8 32485 5419 3178382 98 49.24% 52.06% 15.04%
E-75 19418 1381 1370681 71 48.99% 51.52% 15.20%
VK 4502 (P) Ausf. B 3161 359 250454 79 47.19% 51.25% 15.73%
Seems E-75 is performing too good comparing to other tanks... oh wait... maybe it is not Russian-bias. It is just only German-anty-bias.
But it is not possible that E-75 was killing someones ancestors!
drehstab, on 04 June 2012 - 01:10 PM, said:
First:
Keep this thread objective and stop offending the devs or anybody else!
Russian players are discussing this topic like we are.
On topic:
As I had to notice in the last days its quite hard work to link the little pieces of information ncessary to get an overall image of historical development for a single issue. Especially when it comes down to judging undimensioned drawings. The dev team deserves much credit for developing such overall pleasing net of reasonable relationships between all the tanks. And I actually always defended this game as NOT being russian biased, but this discussion really makes me think there is something going wrong...
Tikhonovetskij posted and translated my last post to the russian forum. Thanks for that!
http://forum.worldof...7/page__st__500
Its nice to see so many russian players also rejecting this nerf.
Some posts got deleted there, but if I got it right Storm said the drawing was too small and imprecise. (My drawing was based on one of Storm in which he actually didnt highlight the whole engine...) Then he posted a drawing of AMX 50b (dimensions unreadable...) to proove the engine/gearbox I used was too small and then stated AMX 50b was about 1 meter longer then TigerII/E50/75, which is not the case ingame (and when comparing the drawings, to my impression the game is historically accurate with this). But especially the 50b with its extra low hull uses a special engine configuration, e.g. the air filters are not mounted on top of the engine and the transmission is longer than that of AMX M4/50 100.
So searched for further drawings to get more precise and found a big drawing of AMX M4 1948: http://www.heberger-...4552_AMX_M4.png . Interestingly this one seems to be from the same set of drawings like this installation drawing of Maybach HL 295 (http://www.smcars.ne...hl295-1945-.gif ), which I used to scale the engine/transmission unit from the AMX drawing correctly.
I merged all information I could find together in one autocad drawing:

(I still have the feeling the Tiger II is scaled too small, if anyone has a larger drawing with dimensions... I used this armor scheme http://www.fprado.co...heme_Tiger2.png)
Downloads: DXF/DWG, PDF (everything clearly readable there, including dimensionings)
First of all the turret on the M4 actually isnt mounted that much more forward than on Tiger II, the front hull just was shortened because the space there was mainly needed for a front transmission.
It comes out around 25cm are missing when you try to mount the engine/transmission unit in Tiger II. First, E-Series is by far not identical to Tiger II when we are talking about such minor dimensioning differences. Also, compensating those differences would have been an easy task, even for the dumbest engineer. Either the hull could just be extended by 20-30cm (hardly visible ingame) or you could do an extrusion of the rear bulkhead for the rearmost parts of the gearbox.
A rear transmision was a designated design requirement which had to be met!
Its same like saying ooops we designed a great tank with an ultra compact turret, but have no more space left to mount the required gun - lets just go into construction phase anyway instead of enlarging the turret... only to be flabbergasted when manufacturing the prototype.
So we have to state, there is no counterproof for a rear transmission.
But we still have strong evidence that the rear transmission we find on AMX M4/50 was designed for E-series.
Source:
http://appsprod01.zf.com/Chronik/deu/1945/tn1945.htm (german),
http://appsprod01.zf.com/Chronik/eng/1945/tn1945.htm (english)
(ZF company chronicle)
So there was a gearbox design done for those tanks, detailed contruction of the anyway newly shaped hull would have considered that.
To make this clear: I am not subject to any kind of exaggerated glorification of german tank engineering, those tanks have their well known weaknesses (on topic: and dont need extra ones...). There are many admirable soviet constructions and we all know Panther in some aspects was acutally inspired by T-34. But with E-series we can also see, german engineers were able to learn from mistakes of the past and this should be reflected by this game.
Thanks for reading.
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It's on this forum
http://forum.worldof...moved-to-front/
where we wated for u to respond.
No reactions yet. Neither frm u neither from other devs. Stop ignoring the community please and stop making wrong decisions without opening up reasonable explainations to the community.
Further check out this
http://forum.worldof...__fromsearch__1
petition where ur customers signed up because they fear u wil ruin the product by bringing up unexplained nerfs long after the release of it...
I think I speak in the name of all the signers and ppl who care about this game when I say we wait for ur respond and hope it will not be as incompetent as Serbs responses.
Edit: spoiler removed for u, Overlord, read it!
Cheers!

Subject: Türkçe Mürettebat Ses Paketi
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Subject: June Calendar
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freggelz, on 05 June 2012 - 08:13 AM, said: I'm also curious as to what the D-Day contest is. As far as I can see it started this morning.

Did someone forget to post the newsitem again? :+

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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petya75, on 06 June 2012 - 12:04 PM, said: Finally something properly explained.Mind you this came out only after mountains of whine and flame from the community.Still one question remains:Why can`t you guys DO communicate your changes/decisions the same way and most importantly without having us cry and whine?
Wouldn`t it be easier and much more consumer friendly this way?

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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Panocek, on 06 June 2012 - 12:24 PM, said: Well, direct fire artillery piece is derp gun in this game.
Tho this one have mean barrel length and velocity...

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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fattoler, on 05 June 2012 - 02:25 AM, said: The only thing I will say about SerB is that I find it difficult to respect any man who has a picture of Chancellor Palpatine on his wall.
As for my question: When will the T23 be re-introduced to the game?

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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Exocet6951, on 04 June 2012 - 09:03 PM, said: I loved how Overlord was all calm about the KT change, playing coy about its existence when it was just text, but when the decompiled game info came up, he started flipping his shit, and suddenly was aware that it was real.
Oh wait, I also need to ask a question, or risk an RO ban.
WG, why are you the worst game studio I have ever seen, and decided that you did not want my money anymore?

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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HetzingHetzer, on 04 June 2012 - 07:28 PM, said: This is stupid. I hate this thread more than anyone else. Due to the massive spam and only one answering.
aka you missed my question:
WHEN WILL YOU ADD MULTI-CORE SUPPORT?

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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mr3awsome, on 04 June 2012 - 06:09 PM, said: Dear Overlord
1) will 7.5 have something Russian in it
2) will 7.6 have initial British release
3) what will replace Dickermax
TY in advance

Subject: EU Questions & Answers
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_Strider_, on 04 June 2012 - 05:48 PM, said: Overlord, any news on the 170mm of stug e100, will it work like a big derp gun (like kv) or will it be more like bl-10?