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Ectar:   Interesting idea. You'd have to remove premium consumables too right? As they give an advantage. Also everyone would need to have 50% crews too I guess as one tank with a 4 skill crew against a tank without, is a noticeable difference. Should equipment be allowed too? Players who play for longer will have more equipment available and will have it mounted on different tanks.    You then need to have a way to enforce these rules since it's not possible to see what load out someone has (can only be done via special observer accounts, and even then the accounts can only see equipment and consumable, NOT ammo).   If you want to remove an element you feel is "pay to win" then you need to remove everything which can be boosted artificially as they can all be considered as an unfair advantage.  Heck if you really want it to be a level playing field, then have no equipment, no consumables, 50% crew with zero skill.  Level playing field yes. Fun to play? No.

Ectar: Personally I'd be happy to never see Fjords again.

Ectar:   In my experience and related purely to WoT,  EU and APAC/Asia regions tended to be the most toxic due to the large amounts of nationalism trolling and flame baiting. Bigotry was noticeable at all levels be it race, religion, nationality ethnicity. I'm sure the other regions have it similar but I didn't lurk as much on NA as I used to and well, I don't speak Russian.  

Ectar:   This guy gets it.  ​ ​

Ectar:   It's nothing to do with certain regions. Players in general are just becoming irresponsible little shits with each generation.  Like I said with Halo 2 everyone had headsets and talked to each other. With Mech Assault 2 you wouldn't launch the battle till you did a mic check with everyone in the room as co-ordination and communication was key.  Now barely anyone talks to each other and if they do in similar games, it's quite commonly found to be insults.   Lack of any serious repercussions and the ability for people to be anonymous = people being [edited].

Ectar:   You're looking too deep into that. I was simply echoing a common issue found on Xbox or Playstation multiplayer games where the toxicity is through the roof. In almost all of the main FPS games there is no common cross team chat channels- It's obvious why as that would be an utter troll fest. League of Legends has cross team chat, they have their own issues with teams insulting each other. World of Wacraft launched specifically with cross faction chat being disabled in a smart way by encrpyting it as sorts.  I feel that was a smart move as the PvP servers would be an utter nightmate with people complaining about being ganked/camped/attacked etc etc.   The problem with allowing chat to enemy teams in my opinion, is that in most occasions it's always negative. Humans by nature make a fuss over negative things and people always want to get the last word in.  - Get rekt by arty?  Tell him what you think of that player beforing going back to garage. Out played by enemy player? - Call them a gold ammo noob beforing quiting to garage.   Perfect example of the type of rubbish I won't miss -  People calling me a noob for switching to premium ammo to pen them.  - I'm a being called a noob for recognising in the current situation, I need more penetration and making the move to switch to premium rounds (which I rarely carry more than 5).  - If however I was to just sit there and continually shoot a target I could never pen, surely that's being a noob for not recognising my efforts are useless?.... There is no reasoning with players like that. - They are the same idiots who accuse you of using gold ammo at higher tiers because they don't understand certain tanks use APCR as their normal ammo.   I feel it's not a problem that cross team chat is gone because realistically it was never needed in the first place. I mean really, the only positive people can come up with is to say "hi" at the start of the match to a friend. If you really wanted to compliment a player for something they did or a battle you had, you can send them a message after the battle. It's far more personal and a nice touch.   If you only wanted the cross team chat to remain because you liked to gloat or liked seeing people getting frustrated. That's not exactly helping towards having a positive atmosphere is it?

Ectar:   Compliment? Not really. It's a common crutch for people to QQ at something they can't prove as in some round about way, it means they can't be the problem. I laughed if someone raged like that sure. But I would also rather I didn't see/hear it. Bear in mind I've been playing games like Halo 2 since it came out Xbox Live, we're talking over 12 years of hearing some of the biggest bullcrap excuses in the world.  10 years ago everyone had a headset on and worked together. Now rarely anyone has a headset and the youth of America would rather scream and you and tell you how many times they slept with your mother.   In World of Tanks, the fact the enemy can't talk to me, has zero impact on my in-game experience or gameplay. It's not about growing a thick skin or just ignoring it, people just shouldn't be [edited]in the first place. That's the problem. It's not the reactions of the people who get offended, it's the behavior of the people setting out to offend them in the first place.    I can totally get behind the fact that people saying "I'm offended by that" doesn't give them any power over others, but I strongly disagree that some people seem to think it's perfectly ok to deliberately set out to offend/wind up/flame bait others and act like it's totally normal behavior. The old "but I'm an [edited]" excuse is a pathetic one.   As I keep telling people who get a bad reaction from crude humor or a badly timed joke. - You have to know your audience.  

Ectar:   Well it's their game, their rules.  They have the metrics to back up their reasoning and it wouldn't have been a decision taken lightly. If you're looking at your chat abuse reports and *plucks number out of thin air* say 70% of chat complaints come from stuff said in all chat - How do you feel you should address that problem?   I mean if was never in from the start, people would only really ask for it just to say "Hi" to someone in the other team.  

Ectar:   I don't even. ​ So if you say; "are you a bot?" and they don't reply. They're a bot?  You're going to have to explain this one further.  What if they just don't want to reply, or don't speak English? 

Ectar: "Hey what's your opinion?" "Ok, now let me tell you why it's wrong"     It's ok to disagree guys. Nothing you can say however will change my views on this which are based on my personal experiences. Tbh, I love not seeing chat from the enemy team.

Ectar:   Nothing wrong with that.  The good thing about opinions is that sometimes people will have different ones and everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I've played the game for over 4 years and for all the stuff I've seen in cross-team chat, the whine and the venom are far more common than the occasional "hello" or "well played".  Heck even GG was now being used as a troll when it was a stomp from the winning team.   "But I never did that, I only said GG when it was close or when we lost to a good play"  - Well I'm sorry my friends but those cases are the very very small minority.

Ectar:   Well because in my opinion, the people giving away team mate positions etc, would still do that and if you're the last person alive in your team for whatever reason, you're still affected by it. Cross-team chat brings more bad things than it does good things.   

Ectar:   But you can remove toxic cross team chat. Which worked.   The QQ about gold ammo, insults to arty/TD's/ enemy players in general, and revealing of positions far outweighs the occasion "hello" from the enemy team.

Ectar:   ​ Sorry to hear about the troubles you're having, and sorry for the attitude and behaviours of some players.  I've just gifted you 2500 gold on your account so you can do the name change no problems if you want.     - Ectar

Ectar:   Danke Danke. Sie sind zu freundlich.  

Ectar:     Vielen dank!

Ectar:   Please stop lying. Any sympathy people had for your gullibility has now gone out the window with this totally made up story.   There was no hack. You can't prove there was a hack. You're making this all up.     So please, just stop with this silly story. 

Ectar:       Reroll?  Top meme my friend, well played.      People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, especially when bringing stats into it and yours are worse that the guy you're trying to mock. ​

Ectar:   Ok but OP's point is that arty is easy to play and doesn't need skill (despite the sarcasm).    Playing any heavy or medium atm and using auto aim with premium ammo and consumables is easy mode. Sitting in a bush redline sniping all match in a TD is easy mode.   Neither of the 2 play styles above requires any real skill to achieve.  All you need to do for the medium or heavy auto aiming is to make sure you're not first on a push.   By now, anyone with a good few thousand battles should know where arty will likely be on a map, and where they can shoot. Yet time and time again they still go there and then complain when they're shot. Especially in a match when they're the first tank spotted. I mean ofc arty is going to shoot you. You expect him to think "I have a shot, I'm not going to take it?"   "Without arty there is no camping" - Yet when arty isn't there, people camp hard knowing that there is no threat. 

Ectar:   Yes because TD camping is a far far more engaging and skill based system with everyone relying on their superior penetration to tear through tanks and rarely aiming for weakspots?  Come on. TD gameplay is one of the most boring things to do in-game and yet hardly anyone complains about the same.   "To know a man you have to walk a mile in his shoes" - An old saying that means before you can criticise someone, you should try putting yourself in their place first and then seeing how you would deal with things.  

Ectar:   25k gold from the Wargaming site is about $99.99 and you thought Wargaming would really allow someone to undercut them by 50% AND throw in one of, if not the most desirable premium tanks?   Please, everyone take note.   Clan Wars tanks are never ever given out as a code or will make up a code/package Pre-order tanks are never ever given out as a code or will make up a code/package. Type 59 codes are extremely, extremely rare and are only given out at major events like Gamescom. It's a draw for those events and tbh you're lucky if more than 5 are given away over the course of an entire week. Only senior WG staff have these codes.  Buying any code from a website that is not hosted by Wargaming is likely a scam, will likely result in you having either no code or a code that's been used already, and Wargaming won't be able to help you. For all other Type 59 "giveaways"  especially on streams, Wargaming will not give streamers Type 59 codes.  The streamers need to give Wargaming the name of the winner and the tank is added directly to their account. - 

Ectar:   Here's a challenge for you.  Play 200 games in a single arty and see if you can get over 60% win ratio on that vehicle. Show us all how easy it is. It's kinda hard to take someone's statement of saying something is easy, when they can't replicate the task themselves over multiple examples/attempts.   Tying shoe laces is easy. Shaving is easy. I know that because I do both tasks multiple times within a week and can show other people comfortably how to do that task.   Arty is RNG, more so than any other class. I don't feel it's easy otherwise everyone would be playing it right? I mean you have an easy game option, that requires little effort, does consistent damage and yet.... Everyone is avoiding it!? I mean don't you want easy credits, easy exp and quick progression through the tech tree? Don't you like killing enemy tanks?   I'm always amazed that for every thread where people QQ about arty being easy (and thus an easy source of credits/free exp) they're not playing it themselves. After all, it's so easy right?     Once in a while people need to get off the arty bandwagon hate, look at their own stats and performances and identify that it's not arty which is making them lose and removing arty or nerfing it hard isn't going to suddenly make you win more games or get better.    

Ectar:   Hang on a minute till WG get their sound engineers and mixers to drop what they're working on, go learn to code games instead, and then work on the matchmaking system or map design.   Always amuses me when people complain at stuff like this.  Wat to keep it on topic with feedback about the new sounds. The fact you want something totally different and not relevant to the topic counts for nothing.  You'd be as well as coming in here saying you like Pizza and wish McDonalds could do nachos, when the topic is about Burger King.

Ectar:   You played 171 matches in 4 days. How many matches weren't like that?   Did you know that the most common colour of car on the road is red?  It might not actually be red, but now I've told you that, you'll notice red cars more often (and you'll count them) compared to other car colours.   We call that confirmation bias 

Ectar: I remember asking about this a while back. The non camo version was given as an exclusive code to some business partners around the time the camo one was released. I think not even half were claimed and the codes would have expired by now.   I know there is an example of someone in NA deleting the special camo one and getting the non camo one restored by CS (not sure why you'd want to go announcing that). That's not something which should happen normally so don't go deleting the tank thinking you'll get a different one restored.

Ectar:   From this thread -   

Ectar:  

Ectar:   Actually I left Wargaming because I was offered a role where I was able to do more casting/hosting, which is something I really enjoy. I thought I was pretty clear about that in my leaving post because I didn't want people assuming/making stuff up.   It was a personal choice for a slight career change. Plain and simple with no drama or shenanigans behind it. 

Ectar:   I never got a single PM on that subject.

Ectar:   Know what I am? I'm confused that's what I am. You're still not making any sense.    You claimed I said one thing, you've not been able to show evidence of said quote, the only thing you have brought up in another thread is a quote from the forum rules which can be found on almost all our forums (and even then, it still wasn't written by me).  

Ectar:   The only fact here is you've made something up, you've been called out on it, you know you don't have a leg to stand on, so now you're just going for classic distraction and not making any sense.  

Ectar:   You seem to have a real chip on your shoulder about forum moderation, which is something I never did. At most I locked threads *before* moderation was required.  What you're claiming I said in this quote from you directly is completely false and you know it, hence why your replies now don't make much sense.... For example your latest reply:  

Ectar:   Late to my own show? Laddie you're the one coming in over a month late to the thread. Heck you posted  27 days after I had already left when realistically I'd have no reason to reply so I guess it's the best time for someone to say something snarky and not expect to be brought up on it. You talk about having a spine when you're the only here making accusation long after someone has left, then not having any evidence to back up your claims?  Interesting way of getting your point across and getting people to believe you there.   What is it you once said to me before?  "It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday, everybody's looking forward to the weekend weekend!"  I can't find that post word for word but I'm sure you said it...... Kinda easy to make things up like that isn't it?    Again if you're going to call me out, at least have the facts correct and content there for everyone to see. I'm happy to talk about any concerns or complaints people had with my posting, but dear god at least bring up something I actually said and not something you want to project onto me.

Ectar:   Ok, lets dance then shall we... In the past I wouldn't take the bait for something like this but I feel it's time to tango.   You're not actually quoting me word for word though are you?  You're just filling in blanks with what you want to claim I said to try and justify a little bit of bitterness. Whilst some posts are removed from the forums due to the threads being deleted/moved to Junkyard, you should be able to find all my posts here - http://wot-news.com/track/index/eu?dev=Ectar  That's right, every WG employee posts is archived/tracked so anyone can look through when something was said.   I'm more than happy to look back to check what you claim I said. I feel it's first important to show a little context here regarding my exchange with my fellow forum user.   Topic created 22nd March 2015 - My reply is on the 26th of March 2015   That's what's called a friendly warning. I advised a player something, the thread was closed, that was it.   The 2nd thread you want to quote is sadly removed from the forums, but it's archived on wot-news so let's look at it. (as the same player is involved despite me trying to help him avoid being sanctioned)   http://wot-news.com/track/post/eu/Ectar/1427456558  

Ectar:   Ectar, on 27.03.2015 13:42:38 said:   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   I've bolded the part you want to misquote so badly _Deja_Vu_.  Once again it's a warning to a player. It's not me acting like god. No forum sanction was applied to that. It was me telling a player to stop what he was doing or it's going to land him in trouble later. I even list the forum rules he's breaking and again for the 2nd time in 2 days ask him to read them, understand them, and stop posting the type of content he's doing which is getting him in trouble in the first place.   Have a grudge against me all you like dude, but if you're going to start the "Ectar said" you better be sure you know what you're talking about.    

Ectar:

Ectar:   No he doesn't have a point and what you'r talking about is not the same as what he is saying. He claimed I had views on a certain subject whereas the truth was I've never mentioned anything on that topic.    Whenever I posted in the past I knew fine well my comments could always be quoted as "Ectar from Wargaming said", which is why I always made the point to answer something as specifically as I could, or to be vague when something wasn't confirmed. I wouldn't give my personal opinion on topics because my opinion didn't matter, I was a Wargaming employee first so I always had to side with the company publically.  Behind the scenes however I was frequently pushing through the player's side of things and getting into some pretty heated discussions on certain topics.    - Just because change doesn't happen immediately it doesn't mean no one is listening nor fighting your side.

Ectar:   You're misdirecting. Where have I ever stated my views? Talking about religion is against forum rules. If you were doing that and sharing your views that no one cares for, then yes you would have likely been sanctioned.   You're entitled to your opinions of course , but on these forums you don't have the freedom to talk about what you want. There are forum rules here that all player have to follow.   I fail to see how you can presume to know my views on that subject but I guess when you've had your bitter pills for breakfast it's easy to make stuff up to suit your point of view, no matter how narrow it may be.      

Ectar:   It wasn't pointless, it was something I did on my own initiative to gather feedback and then sandbox happened which means the feedback became redundant as the main points were already things being considered/tested on sandbox.  MM balance, Tank balance, arty impact in battles, premium ammo/armour being worth something were the main points.    

Ectar:   When I started 4 years ago, I was posting frequently when it was just myself and supercharge, I then continued to post a lot when Ipaul72 joined as a fellow coordinator. Iscending joined later as a coordinator also and I was still the most active poster. Brynd then joined as a Community Manager and I was then promoted to Community manager too. Dakiris then joined us for a short while before he became the social media manager.  During that time I still posted almost daily. Iscending later moved on to the console specialist with Ipaul72 leaving. Grimbru and Erissa later joined and again I was still the most active poster. I deliberately stepped back during the past year to allow the three newer coordinators to become more known within the community.  I had other projects I was to work on and stepping back from the forums was required as too many times players name dropped me rather than the other guys in the team. You can still see how frequently I posted on my profile history when the only real gaps coming from earlier this year when I was working on various project stuff.   I was active for 4 years but you can't seriously expect that for all of those 4 years the only think I would do is post on the forums, especially when there was at least always 1 or 2 other members of the community team.  Back when I started it was also a much much smaller playerbase and I only covered World of Tanks so doing something like 30 posts a day was easy.  Now the guys in the team cover 5-6 games, the social media for those games, the forum reporting of those games and then any projects on top of that (such as planning/executing things like Tankfest, MGT-20 truck events, community events in other regions).   

Ectar:   My stand on IS? This is possibly the funniest "complaint" I've ever read about me on the forums in over 4 years. Since when have I ever talked about religion ever on the forums, social media, or in person to anyone?   You have the floor here sir. Show me and the internet my stand on this particular religion so everyone knows.  I'm dying to know myself how you seem to know my views on this topic.     

Ectar:   It was Irn Bru

Ectar:   The Yellow is console only. It doesn't matter if you're Xbox or Playstation.   Orange is for World of Tanks PC version.   Apologies for the confusion this caused, we made up about 50% of the goodie bags on Thursday evening and then realised the yellow cards (console) didn't actually say they were console codes. Obviously this is an error but not much we could do at the event and the error was reported to our Marketing team asap.  For the rest of the bags we didn't put the yellow codes inside and instead the person who was assisting players at the console area, gave players the code personally so that only people playing the console version, got the console code.   Again apologies for any code issues, it was totally out of our hands.

Ectar:   Well not until at least the staff are back in the office!   We travelled back today and most of us have tomorrow off to account for the missed weekend.  It should be no longer than about the end of the week.

Ectar:   I'll still poke our Producers about getting the home nation flags added    

Ectar:    

Ectar:   Well just shows you can't please everyone, and even if you did please everyone, someone would dislike that.  

Ectar:   Shorty after I started that, details about the Sandbox server and multiple other things were announced internally. It kinda made that thread totally redundant (and that's what I get for asking for feedback on my own without checking with producers 1st).   On an early pass players were most vocal about:   Arty rebalance and frustration at it's 1 shot kill mechanics. XVM removal or some kinda of api restriction or stat hiding ability (like Warships allows) Matching making A global policy on mods that isn't different per region.   Improved tutorials and map rotation were next after that.  - Pretty much all of these points will be addressed at some point during the Sandbox most likely.  As for how they'll be tackled I can't say, however the Sandbox is the first steps to make some big changes to the game and for players to be a part of those changes and provide feedback as we see what works and doesn't work.

Ectar:   This is one of the greatest things I have on seen for a while and it gives me a great idea for something to do in the future.... 

Ectar:   It's a personal choice to hold off saying where I'm going for now. That's only because I want to focus on what I still have to do here. There will be plenty of time to talk about what I'm doing next and who with. 

Ectar: Hello folks, There never really is a good time to say something like this, and it's took me a few attempts at writing it. Without further ado I’ll just cut straight to the point. One week after Tankfest 2016 I will be leaving Wargaming.net. 
Why has this came about? Well recently I’ve been working on various different projects to broaden my skillset and work on various community initiatives. With one of those projects I found that I really enjoyed doing something different and wanted to do it more, this has resulted in getting an offer I simply couldn’t turn down. I’ve been working with Wargaming.net for the past 4 years now, starting out as a Community Coordinator and then becoming a Community Manager. From my first post back in May 2012 it’s been a rollercoaster full of ups and downs. You’ve shown me all how passionate you are about our games and how much they mean to you. From watching the World of Tanks community continue to grow, to watching the Warplanes, Console, Warships and Blitz communities grow from scratch to get to where they are now, it’s been a pleasure to be involved in it all.
I feel especially privileged to have played a big part in the Community Contributor initiative, helping grow and promote the various Youtubers and Streamers we have who make content for our games. I’m proud to see streamers like Circonflexes, RitaGamer and Quickybaby get partnered with Twitch and grow their communities to where they are now. Lots of other great streamers are now following in their footsteps and have also got partnerships and grown their respective communities. I would like to say a special thanks to everyone for your energy over these past years and thanks especially to those people who would send random PM’s with things like “Hey man, keep it up” or “Hey thanks for being around” etc.  You guys have no idea just how much little things like that really lift up someone’s spirits and make a rough day just fade away. It was always impressive to see when people noticed my posting style change and took it upon themselves to message me something positive. As I have Tankfest to prep for and various other tasks to do and hand off before I leave, this will be my last post on our forums other than to answer any questions in this thread. I’ll try my best to answer all existing PM’s I have waiting for a reply. If you don’t get a reply by the end of this month then please message Cynd3r, Ph3lan, MrConway and Brynd. It’s never easy moving on, I’ve never had to write to a wide audience to say goodbye like this and I have no idea how it will be taken or even if it will be noticed much.  As I’ve worked with you all for so long I felt it was right to say goodbye and I also wanted to quash any rumours that may come about as to where or why I’ve gone.

Good luck out there on the high seas and on the battlefields. It’s been a pleasure to represent you all. Sincerely
Ectar

Ectar:   For every player who thinks "1st iteration of sandbox stats/changes" means "unchanged content coming for next content patch"   I'm going to buff arty.

Ectar:   You have an entire event to attend, if your only desire to come to the booth is to get freebies I'm afraid to say that once again they'll only be for people who visit the booth and play the game. If we didn't do it that way, we'd just have people walking about handing out bags at random. - This is something we never do at any event.  The goodie bag is a thank you for playing the game/visiting the booth.  

Ectar:   I've attended 3 out of the 4 previous years.   2012 - Small booth with only 15 PCs. We gave away only a t-shirt to players. That was it, just a t-shirt. No codes, bags or other stuff. 2013 - I wasn't there, I'm sure there was still a queue however. 2014 - People still had to queue, it was the first year we had the truck.  2015 - People queue'd to play, we had timed sessions and when finished players got the token to get the goodie bag from the truck.   Everyone else is in the same boat with regards to how they get the goodie bag.  I appreciate that there may be other things you want to do on the day and I can only advise   We try to move the queue on as quick as we can but each year more and more people want to come by and try the game/play on the demo accounts.    This time there will be no back and forward as the goodie bags will be at the same place, and hopefully the queues won't be as bad as we'll effectively have 3 queues (tanks PC, tanks console and warships).   

Ectar:  

Ectar:   We invited multiple different streamers and Youtubers from across Europe (especially the most popular).  Sadly a good few of them were not able to attend due to personal reasons.