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Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\New Crew Skills leaked?
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san_tropez, on 05 November 2011 - 02:45 PM, said: I am pretty sure i heard, that you will be able to retrain your crews secondary skills (given it was 100%??) for a small fee, eg. gold.

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Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Raptor, on 05 November 2011 - 02:47 PM, said: What about this idea (I think that Victor Kislyi was talking about this in some interview) concerning several clan wars divisions with seperate maps/provinces/income? I'm sure that many inexperienced clans which can't get on the map but still have a lot of members would like to try in other CW division for example with junior or champions leagues rules regarding allowed tanks' tiers. Of course "better" clans wouldn't be interested in fighting on map with less profitable provinces but still it would be a chance for those hundreds of clans to actually play. A the guy above said right now we have a small dominating majority which is effectively stopping any attempt to enter the map for clans who are not a part of some big alliance or very, very skillful. And ever powerful clans have troubles reentering the map because CW is getting harder every month due to sheer number of clans who are getting better. It's good for old clans but terrible for those new which doesn't even have the chance.
The only exception is Africa where we can see a bigger (in comparison to Europe) clan rotation. So the answer is simple. If we, If You want to let this vast majority of players have more fun from end game content instead of them growind more tired and frustrated of not being able to even land in the Bir Gandus (do you have an idea how many jokes about that province and desperadoes trying to land at least there every day are telled in powerful clans? ) you have to create more Africa like provinces, or maps. And here it comes the idea of CW divisions. Absolute for the best clans. Champions for mediocre ones. And Junior for those who maybe won't gain too much gold (the best provinces could give gold such as in Africa or even worse, people wouldn't care as long as they would have an impression they aren't useless pice of crap and they can actually achieve something) but still will have their share of fun. Right now only we, good clans and big alliances are having a good time, and gold, lots of it. You said you hope to develop this game for 10 years so I think that you want your player base grow steadily over next several years at least. So tell me how are u going to change the fact that only 72 clans, let's say 720 people, a less that 1% of the whole clanbase are having fun, and the rest is just headbanging on the big walls called starting zones protected by big NAP alliances and little provinces number wall? And there's gonna be more players and more clans and getting on the current map will be even harder for those who will join later. Even right now sometimes there are so many participants in starting zones tournaments (1/32) that the last battle with owners is about 11 PM in Europe. And what's gonna happen when there will be more players? 1/64 tournaments ending at 00:00? 1/128 ending at 1 AM? It will be troublesome for everyone. That minority still deserves to have fun (getting obliterated every night on starting zone is not too enjoyable ;] ) too in my opinion.
So my question is: When can we expect CW divisions?

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 X1376, on 05 November 2011 - 11:34 AM, said: Q: Can you please shed more light on the change in HE mechanics?

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 ABC_Przyrody, on 05 November 2011 - 10:49 AM, said: Ain't it the same thing after all?
You have done already whole checking for modules/availability of tank in garage as well as adding new vehicle. Now it'd be just using combined method. And frankly speaking, I can't belive that adding completly new tank makes difference.

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 sonlox, on 05 November 2011 - 03:35 AM, said: Are these completely non-functional? overlord If so when will we see them?
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Subject: Game Discussion\Newcomers' Forum\Average stats?
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SastusBulbas, on 04 November 2011 - 06:33 PM, said: Sorry, I don't think win ratio is anything on it's own (just take a look at the Hall of Fame to see why, there are players with 50% in the top ten), I believe many thousands of battles with a general spead of results in damage, hit ratio, xp, etc all make a rounder picture of a players performance. As such I believe the majority of regular players participating in mainly random battles will always have a 50% -+ average.

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Subject: A lot of french tanks.
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Subject: Journal Hebdomadaire #3
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dagann, on 05 November 2011 - 12:41 AM, said: Lien très interessant. Merci.

Donc le 68t est un char bricolé de toutes part. Ils auraient mieux fait de faire le 70t comme proposé dans l'arbre révisé.

Et quel est l'interêt du T10 par rapport au T9?
Ok la tourelle du T10 est différente, mais elle apporte quoi ?
En plus ils ont le même canon...
Un T10 avec un canon T9

J'espère qu'il y aura le chargeur auto et vu la taille de la tourelle : 2 barillets.

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Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Snib, on 04 November 2011 - 09:17 PM, said: We'll see what the upcoming changed bring, they seem to have increased competition on the US server but they were not really prepared for them, either, because you caught them by surprise with that change, so situation here might be different.
It might be interesting to get a blog entry about what WG's projected goals for the global map, the metrics you apply and are hoping to see, maybe with some pretty graphs and such. I have a mostly complete dataset from the data I grab from the UC server myself (there are some blanks in that data) but there will not be many others that have that and would appreciate some official information, and personally I'd love to see some of the information I have no access to either, i.e. average team composition per map (which tanks, or at least tank types/tiers), etc. Add some marketing language to get more people into clan wars maybe, never a bad thing.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\EU Questions & Answers
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 Plasma_Fire, on 04 November 2011 - 08:12 PM, said: Overlord are the developers any closer to solving the problem with the PzIV or are they concentrating their efforts on the new tanks and features?

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 Listy, on 04 November 2011 - 08:56 PM, said: So its the same effect as a "Vent's for Camo" only available for gold, and doesn't use a module slot?

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 ArtyomSTALKER, on 04 November 2011 - 07:51 PM, said: Also i have 1 more interesting question to ask:
Since WoT CEO stated that your developer team wants to develop WoT for a 5 or 7 more years ,what will the future WoT updates focus on ,adding new tanks?,adding new mods?,fixing bugs(5 years)?,etc ?little clue there if can be shared with lovely community?

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 damo74, on 04 November 2011 - 07:31 PM, said: Not a healthy or fair situation is it?
Any comments Overlord?

Subject: International Forums\Deutsches Forum\WoT: Diskussionen zum Spiel\Dear Players, WoT Administration warns you...
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Flanx, on 04 November 2011 - 07:12 PM, said: Hallo
Also ich finde es eine absolute Frechheit leute zu Bannen oder sie als Betrüger zu bezeichnen und das an Hand einer Statistic.
Ich deffe z.b. gerne die Ary´s und stell mich hinten rein und warte auf scouts.
Sehr oft stehe ich in der Tankliste ganz unten.
Das heisst ich habe einen der schlchtesten Panzer in der Schlacht, kann ich nicht beinflussen weil es das Spiel macht.
Dadurch werde ich auch sehr oft geonehitet.
Wenn ich tod bin, verlasse ich den Kampf und spiele mit meinem zweiten Panzer weiter, da ich nicht 10min. rumstehen will und zuschauen.
Es kommt auch sehr oft vor das im Kampf kein Ziel treffe da die Panzerung der Gegner zu stark ist.
Am Schluss bekomme ich um die 80-120 Erfahrung obwohl ich im Kampf war.
Wenss gut läuft mal 300-400 pkt.
Und für so etwas wird man des Cheaten und Betrugs beschuldigt!!
Für mich betreibt hier die Firma den Betrug.
Wieso werden Spieler nicht aus den Matches geworfen wenn sie nur rumstehen und nichts machen.
Wo ist das Anticheat Programm was sehr viele andere Online Spiele benutzen?
Damit könnte man wirklich beweisen das jemand Programme benutzt bzw diese gleich Blockt.
Doch nur Anhand einer Statistic die man ohne Probleme auch ohne Bots zusammenbekommt die leute Bannd ist für mich der wahre Betrug.
gruss

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 FrostDX, on 04 November 2011 - 07:53 PM, said: I was just about to ask this Maybe when I buy Maus - it's icon will be without external fuel tank
As for real question:
I've heard that lower plates of all tanks are actually modeled to be at 90° from horizontal, we just visually see them as sloped, is this true or nonsense?

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Vallon, on 24 August 2011 - 07:37 PM, said: Erst Hirn einschalten, dann Unsinn schreiben. Natürlich könnte man sich nun aufregen, dass es je unfair wäre und irgendwie ziemlich link, man kanns aber auch lassen und der Frau ihren Spaß gönnen anstatt zu flamen!
EDIT: Hier mal die anderen Accounts zum ansehen...
http://uc.worldoftan...56-WG_Banelord/
http://uc.worldoftan...34415-WG_Tuccy/
http://uc.worldoftan...395-WG_Vallter/
http://uc.worldoftan...xXNightShadeXx/
http://uc.worldoftan...37-WG_Laughter/
Die haben einfach die Tanktrees freigestellt bekommen, damit sie am eigenen Leib gewisse Dinge testen, oder aber einfach mal Spaß neben der Arbeit haben können. Ob das nun den Aufreger wert ist?...

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 bgabor911, on 04 November 2011 - 07:03 PM, said: "Q: When do you plan to integrate the well awaited artillery restrictions? The optimal solution would be no more than two artys per side, maximum four artys in a battle."
So you dev guys are still in the 'considering' phase in this matter? Well then I think you are not familiar with the scale and importance of the arty problem.
High tier artys make heavy tanks useless, knocking them out with one shot. If there are more than two artys in the game, espacially high tier artys, the game just freeze. Everyone are camping, no one dare to move an inche. If someone moves or shoots, he is immediately killed by the artys. Too many artys (more than four in the battle) just wipes out all fun out of the game, they are completely ruining the game experience. The players play this game for fun, not for being target practice for artiletty.
All of the non-arty palyers are suffering because of the arty problem, especially in higher tiers. And players that are constantly frustrated about the totally inbalanced artilerry are often leave the game. That means much less fun for us, players, and much less money for you, developers. So restricting the SPGs are everyone's interest.
Some of us tank players even joking about that if there would be SPG-free games for gold, they would pay for it immediately. And I totally agree with them.

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 Detonator, on 04 November 2011 - 06:25 PM, said: Does he win anything?

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 Tank_Killer1, on 04 November 2011 - 05:41 PM, said: Just a quickie a friendly E-75 shot my KT in her back side and lit me on fire. Should I have been compensated with some silver or is that only from being rammed?

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 Trent, on 04 November 2011 - 04:30 PM, said: How is that "pay to win"? You can get *fifteen* times more effective camo by getting your crew to 100% camo skill. (Assuming it stacks by multiplying, see my question right below.) Hardly a game-breaking edge.
Question about that 5%:
Will it stack by multiplication (like with camo net or camo skill), i.e. camo value multiplied by 1.05, or by addition (like bushes, I think), i.e. 0.05 added to the camo value.
The latter (adding) will actually give something (not much, but still) to high tier tanks, while almost_nothing multiplied by 1.05 is still almost_nothing.

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 Chewie, on 04 November 2011 - 03:54 PM, said: 1. Do you realize that you are breaking the ultimate rule for "Free to Play" games? Pay to win is not, nor ever has been, good for a game.
2. In what way do you think that it will bring diversity to CWs? I am extremely curious to know how you think tank freezing will make World of Tanks a better game. That is the ultimate goal, right? Better game = better community = more players = more income.
Also, what ever happened to the discussion that came from this thread? I thought it was made abundantly clear that tank freezing was absolutely NOT good for clan wars. What changed your, the developer's, minds?

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 dktank, on 04 November 2011 - 03:17 PM, said: follow up question: then why do certain tanks (is-3/4/7, t-59) have them on? i know they don't have any gameplay effect, but why put them on some but not all tanks (or on none at all), especially when you said it's historically incorrect to have them on in battle?

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 Nisu, on 04 November 2011 - 03:20 PM, said: When we can see premium tanks like PZ V(captured) ?
And why we wont see JGtiger 88l/71 in next patch ? This tank is just copy-paste of normal JGtiger, but with gun from Ferdinant.

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 Snib, on 04 November 2011 - 03:04 PM, said: And it would be even considerably fewer clans if there wasn't the member limit.
There are 72 clans on the map because that's the number of clans that realistically fit on the map at the moment. US server has 79 clans on the same map, i.e. roughly the same number. The Russian server, which plays on 7 regions, even has only 232 clans on the map.
On our server there are only 29 landing zones, only a fraction of those accessible to those in Western Europe and the UK due to time zone issues (at least for those with a job), that naturally limits who fits on the map. The upcoming freezing of tier X tanks for 7 days plus will likely cement this only further as I would expect resources to be pooled into landing zone defenses to protect NAP land behind, in particular since landing zones cannot be reconquered while you still hold territory.
Some trivia: We currently have about 4230 clans on the server, 925 of them having participated in clan wars over time, 308 of them succeeding to land after the initial sunrise period (520 tried to land in the last month, 119 succeeded, 27 of those for the first time), only 72 of them currently on the map, most of those being divisions of a bigger clan or part of an alliance/power block.
I realize it's likely working as intended, but you could also reduce the overall gold output on the map and instead spread it out over more provinces/regions to allow more clans to fit on it without causing any inflation in gold income. Added benefit is that we'd hopefully be able to play on different maps (current landing zones span only 13 maps, most of them being on Sand River).

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FrostDX, on 04 November 2011 - 03:39 PM, said: Good point
Related question:
Why Maus icon has external fuel tank when Maus in game doesn't have it (and considering your answer it will never get it either cause it would be foolish)?

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Wriothesley, on 04 November 2011 - 03:39 PM, said: As per Forum rules, disputing disciplinary actions int he open forum is not allowed.
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StarDreamer, on 04 November 2011 - 02:46 PM, said: Are you forgetting the panther? New tier 7 panther and new tier 8 panther for those with a then tier8 panther with modules from the panther retained for the panther 2. Isn't that sort of the same thing as what will happen with the T34?

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ArtyomSTALKER, on 04 November 2011 - 02:55 PM, said: Dear Overlord i have a question:
Q:Will T54 get external fuel tank like T59, IS3, IS4, IS7 tanks? The current tank looks somewhat poor without it and i belive its not hard do fix for profesionals like you and the crew ,also big helo for the WG crew.
T54 model in game lacks external fuel tank.

Miniature model with external fuel tank.

Regards

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FahrenheitFR07, on 04 November 2011 - 01:25 PM, said: C'est quoi cette tourelle sur l'amx 13 ?

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damo74, on 04 November 2011 - 01:51 PM, said: Thank you.
How will the time-zone for North America work? Same as western Europe I presume?
Also, any idea when it's planned to merge the servers?