Developers posts on forum

Ectar: To clarify any speculations about this. In the situation of a charge back, what happens is essentially fraud.  You cannot keep goods when they have not been paid for.  You cannot also simply return the goods which haven't been paid for and say "I don't want it anymore". Purchasing goods is not a "try before you buy" system.  What Wargaming as a company has done is no different to any online company who has a similar purchase system for goods.  If we didn't do this, our company and any other company would incur massive losses every year due to fraudulent payments made on stolen creditcards and dishonest people screwing the system with charge backs and no repercussion for those actions.   If you're angry at us for freezing your account, please direct that anger to the "friend" who did this to you. They are the one who said they paid for your gift, they are the one who got you in this situation.   There is far to many "They do this" style replies in this thread from people who clearly have no experience with on-line billing nor have they ever worked in a customer support department that deals with financial transactions. I would advise those people to be very careful with what you say as some people really have no idea what they're talking about.      

Ectar:     Sorry to hear this, our server guys are working on the issues as we speak as a high priority

Ectar: Greetings Commanders,   We are currently investigating an issue affecting the EU 1 server which is causing players to drop from battle or experience high ping/lag.  This is also having an affect on EU 2.   We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused and we're working to get this fixed asap.  Thank you for your patience and understanding during this time. When we have any further information we'll update this thread and post as soon as we have it.   Regards,     EU Community Team.

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for general fixes and additional feedback with test update 8.11. Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   Chat and voice chat in team battles were fixed Fixed the ftp drop issue occurring when zooming at some Japanese tanks Motion blur effect performance was optimized Ricochets were reworked graphically Fixed the issue with replays not saving / saving with errors

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for the new map: Windstorm Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   New map “Windstorm”, 1000x1000m, city map (European landscape, winter)

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for the new map: Ruinberg on Fire Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   New map added “Ruinberg on fire” – Ruinberg with rainy weather & fires around the map

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for the new map: Winter Himmelsdorf  Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   New map added  “Winter Himmelsdorf” – winter version of the existing map "Himmelsdorf"

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for other changes to existing maps.  Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   A bug allowing vehicles to enter the building inside the cap area in "Himmelsdorf" "Encounter mode" fixed Game performance improved on "Fisherman’s Bay", "Serene Coast", "Severogorsk" and "Ensk" Excessive brightness of some effects was fixed on several maps "Port" map completely removed Gameplay adjustments made to the following maps: Erlenberg, Redshire, Highway, North-West

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for National Battles.  Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   New game mode added: “National battle”, where teams are balanced by nations (USSR vs Germany, USA vs France etc) China and Japan excluded from the mode due to their vehicle type limitations

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for the garage user interface changes (UI when you're in your garage and not in a battle).  Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   Group crew operations were added: mass retraining of the entire crew (for the new tank), 1-click returning of the old crew Improvements were added to the mission/discount window Right click on a tank in garage now prompts you straight to its statistics You may go to a tank in hangar right from its research window by clicking a new icon Fixed the way visual camo works:  gold camos can be stored now, and later used for another vehicle Modifiers that influence crew’s skill level are now displayed (personal window) Standardized the rank insignia for crewmen of all nations

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for the new battle user interface changes (In-game UI changes). Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   Battle chat disable option added (only text messages such as commands and mini map pings will remain) "Chat history" view option added "Tank is on fire" icon added, similar to the "sinking" icon Post-mortem kill cam disable option added (a view on the tank that killed you) Fire extinguisher may now be activated with left-click on "fire" icon (left lower corner on the monitor) In post-mortem mode, the camera now cycles to your platoon members (all other tanks after that) Reload time counter added to the “reloading” message New markers added to the aim reticule settings

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for the new awards/medals and the changes to existing awards.  Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   New “Battle Hero” medals were added: “High Calibre” (damage infliction) and “Tanker-Sniper” (causing damage at distances over 300 meters)  “Sniper” medal was moved to “special” category. Players will be able to see how many Sniper medals they have and on which vehicles. The previous "Sniper" medal is now no longer available. Several new awards added especially for team battles (Genius for War, Armoured Fist, Tactical Breakthrough, King of the Hill, Wolf Among Sheep) Raiseiniai Heroes medal reworked An issue causing some Mastery Badges to disappear has been fixed.

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for the tier X tank destroyer changes. (And also adjustments to some French tank destroyers).  Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   Fixed the armour of Foch 155, Foch and AMX AC 48 Parameters of the following vehicles: Foch 155, T110E4, T110E3, Object 268, WT E-100 were rebalanced - Please note further details regarding specific changes will be available later in the test.

Ectar: Greetings Commanders!   This is the specific feedback thread for general vehicle changes and fixes. Please note this section is not for the TD changes, that topic can be found here. Please keep your posts as clear and constructive as possible - irrelevant/off-topic entries may be deleted or moved to another section.   Thanks in advance.   Fixed the sizes of Type 59, T-54, WZ-120, Nashorn Increased profitability of the following tanks: Lowe, T34, 112, T-34-3, FCM 50t, M6A2E1 Matchmaking balance weight of artillery reduced by 10% Standardized the details of suspension damage models for: T29, T32, T34, M37, M41, Chaffee, Pershing, T92, Hellcat, M4A2E4, M46 Patton, M103, T57, T110E5, T26E4, T110E4, T110E3, M44, M53/M55, T69, M60 Speed indicator for backward movement was fixed Fixed the issue with M44 drowning too fast

Ectar: Remember guys if you don't want to use 10 Large Repair Kits you can sell them for 10,000 credits each which means 100,000 credits. 

Ectar: Greeting players.   As our game grows so does our player base. Over the last few months we have noticed a steady growth in players logging into the game from the Netherlands and Belgium. This has also resulted in a very noticeable and sustained amount of visits to our portal and our forums from players located in both of these countries.   As a result of this we are please to announce that we will soon be adding a new language subsection to our forums both on World of Tanks and World of Warplanes for Dutch speaking players. Before this section can be created however we need moderators to be in place and ready to help monitor this new subsection.   If you are interesting in applying for this position, please send a PM to Mr_Kubrick with the title: "Moderator Application - Dutch Subsection" with the following details: Your real name Your age When you are available to moderate? (Days of the week & hours) Any relevant previous moderation experience.   Please note that being able to speak & type fluent English and Dutch is required. Also this position is only available to players who are over 18. If you have any further questions about the role please ask in your application and Mr_Kubrick will be happy to answer.   We are always reviewing and checking the numbers regarding where people are from when they play the game or visit our forums/portal.  We're well aware that other players may feel their country/language deserves their own subsection too. Please note this is not the thread to debate that.  If we feel there is a need to add a new section we will do so after careful review. There is no need for players to "push" for us to create a new section as this is something we monitor closely month to month.       

Ectar:   More details about that here: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/342486-mousesports-becomes-lemming-train/

Ectar: As requested in the last article guys, now you can get involved!

Ectar:   "is pretty much the exact same as the NA special. going forward for all future specials EU and NA will be pretty much doing the exact same"   http://en.wiktionary...iki/pretty_much   Please lets not go down this route. I'm well aware what I wrote at the time and since then there has been multiple further posts clarifying that there might be slight differences. 

Ectar: Guys a heads up and a reminder. Whilst this is an "Off-Topic" thread, normal forum rules still apply. So keep your posts clean or you'll be taking a vacation from the forums in the naughty chair to think about what you've done.   Ok?  

Ectar:   Crew re-training (the option to train crew from 1 tank to another) is 50% discount for gold only. We are going to update the portal to reflect this. 

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Ectar:   I'm pretty sure we've never said they'd be identical. Terms that were used were "pretty much the same" "almost the same" or something like "very similar". This is because we knew that sometimes there would be little differences like this. At the same time as this weekend special is active you also have the monthly missions active that reward lots of credits for kills which any player can take part in. We felt this mission would cater more to the higher tier players who tend to welcome crew training boosts more than lower tier players. At higher tier, especially tier IX and X, 3k damage can be quite easy to achieve. Small differences like this may sometimes be present in specials. Weekend missions won't always cater for everyone and sometimes they may be targeted for a specific group of players.  

Ectar:   Just because you can't easily do this mission doesn't mean you shouldn't play light tanks all weekend that's taking it a bit extreme. After all you'd be missing out on the 2x experience for every win on Sunday. Sometimes there is missions where getting a scout or pathfinder medal bring rewards.  We try to add as much variety as possible   

Ectar:     As has already been said, the nation battles are not tier battles. You still have regular tier split. Your tier 6 tanks could get into just as many games against tier 8 tanks as they could when they're top of the team.

Ectar: We just wanted to clarify any questions/comparisons that may come up regarding this event and being compared to the current RU event which rewards 2x exp for wins and losses during the same date.   We though long and hard about this in EU and felt that rewarding everyone for losing would not encourage a productive atmosphere for playing during Sunday. By giving players 2x exp only for every victory it means that you have a goal to work towards and winning feels more special. If you knew you were getting double exp regardless of the outcome of the match, this could lead players into not caring if they win or lose and battles not being "played to win" which is not something we want to encourage. Additionally only the top 10 players in the winning team qualify for this bonus to prevent anyone from going afk or just charging blindly across the battlefield to die quickly, going into their next battle hoping their team carries them to a win.   We hope you understand where we're coming from regarding the difference in the events and wish you all the best of luck during the weekend and especially on Sunday.  Should this type of bonus prove popular with the community it's likely it will feature more often.  

Ectar: Helpful information for players looking to specialize in light tank play. "Don't shoot unless you really need to" is one of the hardest things to stick to when playing a tier 1 or higher tier light who is spotting but hasn't yet been detected.

Ectar:     We're sorry if the title gave you the impression the Type 59 would be available. At the same time we'd have hoped by now it's been said more than enough times regarding the fact it's never coming back to the gift shop for this to be clear. As has been said before the gift shops isn't a discount shop. It's an alternative way for players to purchase in-game good or to purchase them for other players.

Ectar:   Wow. This is what I was suggesting since version 0.4 or so. It must be really tricky to code this! :)   Different things have different priorities. Also some issues are not as big as some players like to make out.    Premium ammo is a handy crutch for people to blame any loss on. "There is no way I could have been shot, he must have used gold" or "My add on said it was gold so it must have been". Premium ammo has always been there. Playing with all your tanks loaded with premium rounds isn't sustainable.  As much as you claim it's unfair people shoot you with gold, there is nothing to prevent you from having a few shells yourself to throw back.  We monitor the usage, sales and frequency of premium rounds and if certain tanks/guns become too powerful due to overuse, they get adjusted (M4 Sherman, Pz IV, VK2601 and other HEAT shell using tanks).   The spotting system has been covered many times. If there is plans to change that the devs will let players know in advance.   MM has also been covered many times. Less players at night = potential for weirder matches as the system tries to make teams. It's a 2 tier spread and works. Having everyone fight at the same tier doesn't work and there is no plans to introduce a skill based system as you'd still have a 2 tier split, be back where you started, and instead would be complaining about how your rating is wrong and it's not "your" fault it's at that level. (Anyone familiar with players complaining about "ELO hell" will understand this).   Regarding the coding issue. If you could speak Russian you could always apply here - http://wargaming.com/en/careers/office/1/#vacancy-list-182  If you didn't speak Russian but had an awesome resume I'm sure they're consider you seriously if you knew your stuff and could show clear aptitude, ability and knowledge.  Everyone has their own list of "must fix" or "must add" features to the game. 1 click crew shifting is a cool addition but was hardly a game breaker without it or a massive inconvenience. Again going back to the first point different things have different priorities.  

Ectar:   As I understand it works on a per tank basis (Similar to how it works in World of Warplanes).  I'll see if I can get more info about this.  

Ectar:   You should still have normal MM. Meaning there will be a 2 tier split with plenty of tanks that can take each other out.  

Ectar:   There isn't any plans to offer players this option. We're no different here to pretty much every other MMO game that has a subscription based system. 

Ectar: As you can see guys we've been listening to a lot of your feedback and acting upon it. 8.11 and then the following update will bring some really big changes to the game.  9.0 when it comes will be awesome and we look forward to sharing that information with your when it's ready and answering your questions about it.

Ectar:   Ah I understand. The missions announced today are the equivalent of "monthly missions" they just happen to run for only the back half of the month due to the active IS-6 missions. As for what comes in February you'll just need to wait and see.    

Ectar:   As If I really need to rep farm   

Ectar:   What missions are you expecting? You can earn over 600k a day with those missions. There will be no other tank reward missions like the IS-6 for a while. That was a unique event and isn't planned to be a regular thing with different premium tanks as a reward.

Ectar:   As far as I understand it's 50k per 10 tanks. So the max you can get is 150k.  I'll get it doubled checked and edit my post with the reply.   *edit* Ok I checked and the way it should work is that if you get 30 kills, you get 300k. Please remember that this is for random battles only. You'll also likely complete the "Quick and Dirty" mission at least once during this.  In short you have a lot of opportunities to make credits. 

Ectar: So we figured you might have spent a lot of credits recently, so here is some opportunities to get those credits back to buy more stuff!   

Ectar:     Not at all, whilst you've witten it as a joke (and I get it with the smiley face) my post was more directed at the other elements within the community who are serious when they post stuff like that. I won't say "I don't care" because obvious of people are leaving the game it bothers me. What I don't care for is the poor troll attempts to start WoT vs WT flame wars on the forums (Which a few "ex" WoT players are guilty of).   Now back on topic, I play the FV4202 a lot but that's because I use it's awesome gun depression a lot to shoot from places people don't normally expect to be shot from. I have a pretty decent win ratio with it and a lot of the games are solo.  I admit I don't play Clan Wars and can see why it wouldn't be useful there due to HESH being less effective that a premium round with something like 330m penetration.    I'm currently using all my free exp to work towards unlocking the STB-1 which will be my 3rd tier 10 after the FV4202 and Leo. In platoons I can make the Leo work, in solo I tend to get focused quickly but again my feedback on tanks is always a bit unreliable due to people knowing me and seeing the WG tag which is a big draw/goal when everyone wants to shoot you. 

Ectar:   They won't win. As an example when I see that score the first thing I'll do is look to see what battle tier the match was. When I see it's battle tier 11 or 12 as he was platoon with 2 tier X tanks. The result is then excluded.   Players don't need to report platoons like this, we can see it all in the data that is pulled which is why the results take a few days to process.

Ectar:   Come on dude, you've quoted half of the sentence and ignored the first part of and the source I'm highlighting.  

Ectar:   If we had further info it would have been shared at the time, we don't have any additional info other than what Dorjan already said in the video.

Ectar:     For Czech players - http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/341784-zapisy-pro-finale-3-sezony-v-tychy/ for Polish players - http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/341870-zapisy-na-finaly-trzeciego-sezonu-wgl-eu-w-tychach/

Ectar: It doesn't matter if it's EU, NA, Asia or RU, the reason for the video was to show off good gameplay. Some times you need to take a step back and look at what you guys are giving us as feedback.  It was content from the RU server that was adapted for EU players. There is no video production team in the EU and Dorjan is based in RU. He created this content from the RU content so that EU players have additional stuff to watch which we feel would be interesting for our community.  For once guys try to stop tearing things down and acting like victims all the time.  As other players have pointed out if you watched the whole video then you'd know this is coming for EU soon and you can submit all the replays you want.

Ectar:   It would surprise me more if all the people saying they're off to play WT actually went and played WT...  I read this statement from time to time and find it amusing that people still hang around the forums to tell everyone this. It's like going into McDonalds just to tell the staff there you're going to eat at Burger King instead. Hanging around on our forums when you don't play our game and your only contribution is to tell people you're going to play another game doesn't make much sense. it's the same with people who no longer play but still hang around the forums to constantly point out negative things about the game and yet somehow feel their opinion is the only one we should listen to.   Listening to people say they're off to play Warthunder and then trolling for a reaction is like watching people discuss LoL vs Dota2, CoD vs Battlefield, or World of Warcraft vs Guild Wars 2/SWTOR   - Each game has it's merits/flaws and unique features. They have different factors that appeal to different players. I know for many of the skeptics this is hard to understand but there is nothing to stop you playing more than one game, especially when there is so many free to play games now available to install and play.  If you're the kinda of person who can only ever play one game and for whatever reason World of Tanks isn't for you, then fair enough. Go play the other game you want to play, nothing is holding you back dude.