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Subject: Journal Hebdomadaire #17
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Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Спам-уголок\Колыбельная
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mAxzik, on 10 February 2012 - 01:29 PM, said: конкурс за который дают 300 голды? Ну ладно, пацаны то подумали что они на халяву получили. Причем со слов Лианы Сильвервинд это звучало именно так

Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Спам-уголок\Колыбельная
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mAxzik, on 10 February 2012 - 01:29 PM, said: конкурс за который дают 300 голды? Ну ладно, пацаны то подумали что они на халяву получили. Причем со слов Лианы Сильвервинд это звучало именно так

Subject: Hunt us Down #2
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ValkoinenKuolema, on 10 February 2012 - 02:06 PM, said: i killed wg_community_charlie but i have a problem how to upload screenshot

Subject: International Forums\BY, RU, UA Community\Спам-уголок\Колыбельная
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mAxzik, on 08 February 2012 - 04:04 PM, said: Фокси хватит задрить, найди уже себе парня
Лемос подкинь голды которую тебе Лис отсыпает :>

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Cromaq, on 10 February 2012 - 09:36 AM, said: Hi Overlord,
we have some rumors in CZ community about earning factor of premium T34 tank.
Please would you tell me what is your idea:
1) It will be classic premium 8 tank? You can buy it in store for golds and it will have premium coefficient like T59 or Lowe? Good for money making
2) It will be "just" premium status tank. Earning coefficient same as now.
3) You will slightly increase earning factor of T34
One more question. Is there any time you have to own this tank before patch 0.7.2? I'm asking because last bulletin is little bit confusing.
Thank you very much. I would like to know it clearly. You must know it patch is aproaching

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 MaximusGR, on 10 February 2012 - 09:04 AM, said: Hi there Overlord and thanks for taking the time to answer so many questions.
Here is one i have since reading the latest news bulletin :
It is mentioned that the T34's swap to premium is done to reward players for having grinded it. However, many players researched and bought it after grinding T32 and now have it collecting dust in their garage in a stock condition. Why do you feel they should be rewarded for not playing at all with the tank and getting all its upgrades for free when it turns premium? Shouldnt that benefit apply only to those that have elited T34 at the time of the patch already?
Thank you

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Trent, on 10 February 2012 - 05:54 AM, said: (emphasis mine)
Does it mean that MM will try to put my tank in various battle tiers with the same frequency?
For example:
Tier 4 medium can join 5 different battle tiers (4-8).
So after - let's say - 100 battles in that tank, I should have around 20 battles in each of 5 battle tiers on my account?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Laughter, on 10 February 2012 - 02:38 AM, said: I heard from support that some hardware was removed from EU server and used to create RU3 to support Russian speaking players closer to Europe then Moscow, this is the reason why the game becomes near unplayable (if you play accurately) when 70k+ people are online..

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Snortsch, on 10 February 2012 - 01:47 AM, said: Hi Overlord,
I was surprised to read, that the second German TD tree is planned for Q2 2012.
I expected it much later.
I believe I read something about the Jagdanther II not being in that patch.
Is this still true (was it ever true?)? Read about quite a while ago.
If the Jagdpanther II isn't part of the second German TD patch, how do you get
to the JT after the patch?
Thx for for the ST-1 screens in the 11. answering session. It looks like
it is a variation of the IS-6.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Trent, on 09 February 2012 - 10:43 PM, said: (emphasis mine)
I thought changes to HE mechanics didn't affect damage done by penetrating shots?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Panocek, on 09 February 2012 - 09:59 PM, said: So HE will be more or less effective?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Orkel2, on 09 February 2012 - 09:53 PM, said: Is it possible to release the HE buff as a serverside fix or does it require a client patch?
If I remember right changing from old to new HE mechanics didn't need a patch download.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 sargapeter, on 09 February 2012 - 07:47 PM, said: Hi Overlord!
When (in which Q in 2012) will you add the new christie tanks, or t70 light russian vehicle, or the other france vehicles in the game?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 smokerdog, on 09 February 2012 - 07:12 PM, said: about customization, will there be signs on turret ,like the kv in beta with "for families" ,will there be paint on wheels ? sand camo and grey wheels look weird ,maybe some numbers on turret ? or kill marks for top guns scored on the tank or some other kind of decals
thx for answers :]

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Failchilles, on 09 February 2012 - 06:25 PM, said: Will T30 get the same module research tree as T95, with 105mm AT Gun T5E1 as stock gun, 120mm AT Gun T53 as middle gun and 155mm AT Gun T7 as top gun?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Orkel2, on 09 February 2012 - 03:27 PM, said: Saw this post in another thread.
So when can we expect the SU-26 to be balanced with the other same tier arty? Throw a message to your "balance guru" because the difference in WR is huge.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Folterknecht, on 09 February 2012 - 01:21 PM, said: Hi Overlord!
I d like to draw your attention to the fact that the EU WoT server is currently running into its limits in the evening hours. Yesterday ~70k players were online which resulted in a sudden disconnection for roughly 5k of them (I belonged to them). Luckily it was before our CW battles started and we were able to play. We also didnt had to suffer from (bigger) lags beeing a german clan in opposite to these guys here:
http://forum.worldof...n-wars-battles/
I m aware that you guys cant just rent an other/bigger server from one day to the over BUT please find a solution for players involved in CW, because loosing half of your team during battle because of disconnects/lags screws CW big time. We dont want easy wins because of that, we want to slaughter ours adversaries on the virtual battlefields.
Folterknecht
If I remember correctly the Abrahams has top speed of 90 km/h+ but has an inbuilt speed governor that reduces its top speed to 67 km/h (reason: reduce wear and tear).

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Tarskin, on 09 February 2012 - 12:22 PM, said: I have a question regarding the in-game value of armor-thickness for tank sections which in reality would have an armor gradient, for example the M103's front plate goes from 70mm (60-67 angle) at the top to 160 mm (60-67 angle) closer to the front. The question basically is, will WoT use a single armor value for the entire front plate or can WoT handle these armor gradients?
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Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Tarskin, on 09 February 2012 - 12:22 PM, said: I have a question regarding the in-game value of armor-thickness for tank sections which in reality would have an armor gradient, for example the M103's front plate goes from 70mm (60-67 angle) at the top to 160 mm (60-67 angle) closer to the front. The question basically is, will WoT use a single armor value for the entire front plate or can WoT handle these armor gradients?
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Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 shiftypowers2002, on 09 February 2012 - 11:28 AM, said: Howdy Overlord.
I know there's a been a couple of questions on your above answer, which you may well come to regret typing, but i though i'd through my one in there.
So does this 20% reduction mean:
A ) There's 20% less chance that the HE shell will be absorbed by the Tanks armour,
or
B ) If the HE shell penetrates the Armour it will then do 20% more damage post patch?
Or
C ) There is 20% more animated birds in every game meaning more chance they will fly infront of aformentioned shell and absorb it!!!
Hoping at least two of the above statements make some resemblance of sense!!!

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 DerZivilist, on 09 February 2012 - 11:27 AM, said: Hi Overlord while we're on the topic of HE absorption coefficients...
Prior to 7.0, you stated something about considering to drop the coefficient from 1.3 to 0.9, but as we all know, sometimes changes don't go into patches as described prior to deployment.
Q1: Are we currently using 0.9? If not, what figure are we using?
Q2: Do all tanks use the same figure, or are there some that have higher or lower coefficients?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Rollup, on 09 February 2012 - 11:19 AM, said: Will this effect the ability of low caliber guns to damage higher tiers ?
(The problem with HE is that it is never a good option against higher tier tanks when using an AP gun. It just bounces or does 0 damage. As a consequence there is little point in carrying it.)

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Szalona, on 09 February 2012 - 10:32 AM, said: Thanks
The rest of the questions - will you have possibility to answer them when you are back from trip or we have to wait for WoB forum?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 p3990013, on 09 February 2012 - 10:18 AM, said: HE will be a little more effective. Hopefully

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 posthumecaver, on 09 February 2012 - 10:12 AM, said: I know I will get negative rep for this....
But did the arty income nerf isn't little bit overdone...
Yesterday, I was playing with my Obj 212, while there is so few arties lately, I was the only arty in the game for my side and it is a battle tier XI match with 2 Tier X and 4 Tier IX heavies....
I survived the whole match and I shoot 22 shots (that is quite a up time for Tier 7 arty....) I damaged T30, E-100, T-34, Jagtiger, I didn't have a complete miss, every shot was at least splash damage...
I earned a wooping 24K silver after it.....now I can understand that after the income nerf but then I played with my Obj261 I didn't do half of the damage, shoot max 8 shots and only half of them were direct hits and I earned 39K silver....
Now isn't it little bit broken that a Tier 8 arty winning more then Tier 7 arty only doing may be half of the damage and the hits that I scored were against Tiger II and so....
I don't care arty income nerf, I play it while I enjoying it, never to earn credits but isn't it little bit overdone?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 molan1976, on 09 February 2012 - 10:09 AM, said: Ok, and for thoese of us who dosen't quite understand "absorption coefficient", does is mean HE will do more damage or less damage?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 molan1976, on 09 February 2012 - 10:08 AM, said: What about hitpoints, it's rather low as is at tie 9, let alone tie 10?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Szturmi, on 09 February 2012 - 10:05 AM, said: In summer 2011 quite many people were writing that with new games coming out in autumn/early winter WoT days are counted because of terrible MM, spotting, 0 dmg criticals and so on. Then we had around 35k players in the evening on EU server. New games were released, MM, spotting and 0 dmg crits are the same but doomsayers were wrong. WoT still exist and has now 70k players on EU in the evening. You know why? Because most people have fun and understands that "you can't always get what you want" .

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Trenk, on 09 February 2012 - 10:01 AM, said: I too have noticed increase in lag and ping since update 0.7.1b. during CW's, there is 30-50% packet lost on WoT servers every 2-5 seconds.
Q1: when are you going to fix EU servers.
Q2: are you planing to hire decent technical support? they keep asking for .pp2 files, still they do not know how to "read" them.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 TechnoViking, on 09 February 2012 - 08:53 AM, said: Seen this?
Every event WG starts turns into mindless whining.
http://forum.worldof...ne/page__st__20
q: are you going to do something to fix this game and make your players happier or is this game doomed?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Seimen, on 09 February 2012 - 08:42 AM, said: The last two nights at around 20-21 cet time, there has been about 69k players online, nice! But at the same time there has been lag og higher then normal ping, 120-150+ vs normal 50-70. Last night me and my platoon mates had a hang during battle loading, and a bit later one of my platoon mates lost connection to server and got a que message when trying to reconnect. After a few minutes he came back in and all was normal, but suddenly only 63k players was online, and no more lag/high ping gameplay.
Q: is there some preformance issue with the server (EU) when pushing 70k players? Or has there been some other known issues the last days?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 TrackLord, on 09 February 2012 - 05:00 AM, said: Will there ever be tier 11 heavy tanks?
I ask because I'm wondering what to do with the exp on my IS4; research IS7, even though I don't think I will buy it, or save the exp for modules that may be researchable when IS4 becomes tier 10. Is expansion to tier 11 likely?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 xpnotoc, on 09 February 2012 - 03:23 AM, said: Overlord, any plans to launch WoT news also in english for the EU/NA customers? (e.g. this in russian). I noticed that two of the russian community managers were interviewed too so for instance the videos could be done by filming the new guys/girls in Paris.
Thanks!
X

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 ZeZergling, on 08 February 2012 - 11:30 PM, said: When falling off a cliff perhaps; simple calculations (and laws of physics) suggest 60 kph for a 68 ton tank with 1050 HP is a little bit high.
Compare that to the M1A2 Abrams; 66.8 kph top speed, 62.1 tons, and 1500 HP turbine engine.
IS-7 has a HP/ton ratio of 15.44.
M1A2 has HP/ton ratio of 24.15.
Somehow I doubt an experimental design from 1946 somehow had similar performance to a modern, gas turbine powered MBT, even without considering the vastly inferior HP/ton ratio.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 ZeZergling, on 08 February 2012 - 11:18 PM, said: Well, there is a very strong perception of it, and with some reason.
Many WoT players that are aware of past history think both Storm and Serb are racist bigots... right or wrong, that many think that at all is a serious public relations problem for Wargaming.
Simply sticking your heads in the sand and declaring the bias doesn't exist doesn't work, as it is the perception of bias that is the problem, and that DOES exist.

Subject: News from the Front\Discussion of News Articles\You ask - We reply. Bulletin no 11
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 Mutuh, on 09 February 2012 - 08:54 PM, said: "Has a clan insigne for 7.2 been approved?"
Whats an insigne?

Subject: News from the Front\Discussion of News Articles\You ask - We reply. Bulletin no 11
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 orbit_l, on 09 February 2012 - 08:44 PM, said: Wasn't the IS-4 supposed to be replaced with the Objekt 252 (aka the IS-6)? Also, there seems to be some confusion as to whether the T-10 is the same as IS-8 or IS-10. Regardless, the T-10 is newer than the IS-7, does it make sense to have it one tier below? Or are the stats sufficiently better on the IS-7?

Subject: News from the Front\Discussion of News Articles\You ask - We reply. Bulletin no 11
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 Vintherpl, on 09 February 2012 - 08:21 PM, said: As you might know, the T34 will be replaced by the M103 and moved to Premium Tanks. Players will be able to purchase the T34 and any other premium vehicles in the in-game store. In addition, the T34 will be moved to tier VIII. We are still working on the game balance. Other new American vehicles are also being balanced. There is a high chance that they will end up on the same battle level as their predecessors, T30 and T34.
It looks like new players who will join the game after Christmas won’t be able to purchase T34. This does not mean that the Premium members will not be able to get their T34 by converting gold into experience and credits. The T34 case is not for making another Premium vehicle, but to compensate efforts in grinding for those who have already own this tank for a long period of time. And again, special offers for this tank may possibly be released at a future date.
It's getting a bit confusing..... Clarify please?

Subject: News from the Front\Discussion of News Articles\2nd February special
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 WAROFHELIUM, on 09 February 2012 - 05:35 PM, said: . . .
EDIT: wait a sec overlord? if you are here get back to your blog plz/gdamn