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Ectar:   Not heard anything official regarding that. If there is any changes to tanks like that it would be announced way in advance.

Ectar:   I think 2014 might bring a few surprises for many players. 

Ectar:     Can you give me a link to where you're seeing this on the "SEA" server?? I have the World of Tanks Asia gift shop open right in front on me and there is nothing like that available.   If you're referring to World of Tanks China the game itself isn't actually ran by Wargaming. It's out game but it's hosted/managed by another company. (Same way Warcraft, and LoL are). What they have available there is not something we have much control over and Gaming in China is pretty complex regarding how things are ran.

Ectar: The Japanese art from the Polish players is awesome!

Ectar: Ah yes......  Quickybaby is tracking me and the Cromwell and his shot lands where the Cromwell would have been...... If I didn't stop.

Ectar: Most popular tank doesn't equal best tank nor does it equal best win ratio. Many people play those thanks due to to the fact they're easy to play.  The KV is popular because it's fairly quick and easy to get to and has a high health pool so it's forgiving. It's gun is ok but nothing special and to be honest it doesn't really require any skill or understanding to play. You just soak hits and hope the enemy doesn't know where you shoot you.  At tier V you'll more than likely find skilled players in vehicles like the Stug III, T49 or the S35 CA.   The KV-1S is popular because it's directly after the KV. People are attracted to it due to it's alpha damage. Many skilled players prefer the Hellcat at tier VI as that required a fair bit of skill and understanding to get the best out of it.

Ectar:   Tiger players, T29 players, Jagdpanther players, SU 152 players, T71 players will disagree with you regarding the "best T7 tanks can only be bought with money" statement.   The E25 has a strong camo factor as it's a low tank. It's gun whilst it can shoot fast it suffers from low penetration and struggles to pen heavies frontally at it's own tier with standard ammo. Whilst you can shoot premium rounds due to the rate of fire of the gun, it can quickly end up being very expensive and isn't recommended. It certainly can't be played exclusively with premium ammo as you'll still make a loss every game unless you're killing about 8 tanks a game solo.  

Ectar:     It was 5x first win exp. 

Ectar: Glad I could help out and everything is good now.

Ectar: Congratulations to OM and the new teams who have came up.  Sad to hear about SPALE 

Ectar: Hi guys, this contest is now over. Thanks everyone for their submissions and we'll update the news details with the winners later.

Ectar:   The full cost of the tank value in gold.
EDIT: If you buy a bundle with a tank you already own, then you will get compensated based on the current value of the tank. If, for example, you own the Löwe and buy a bundle with the Löwe in it you would be compensated with 10625 gold. Why? Because it's on a 15% discount at the moment (12500 - 15% = 10625 gold).  

Ectar:   the Type 59 is not planned to ever return to the shops. This can be discussed all day long but the answer won't be any different.  

Ectar:   You could purchase those tanks only as a pre-order package on EU.  In short, they were only available as a limited time offer and players were assured those tanks would not be made available again. In RU region there was no pre-order package available so players were never given the opportunity to buy them.  If you want to be treated like the RU players you can always play on the RU server where you can enjoy all the things that brings you for that region.  Within any global company that sells good there is sometimes regional differences to appeal to different markets. 

Ectar:   The money you spend in game has no relationship to your access on the forums.  Forum access for players is a privilege and not a right. It's not essential to your game play and many thousands of players will never visit official forums during their time playing a game. Any player can read the forums without having to log on, so access to the information is never removed from players.  What is removed is their ability to post content or access to their forum account. This happens after multiple warnings or can be related to first time offenses for categories such as racism, nationalism and any form of deliberate and direct bigotry aimed at causing unrest. As has been said before there is only so many times you can ask someone to stop doing something before it's clear they're not listening. Removing someone's forum access is a last resort. Sadly sometimes players just don't care or like to think they're something special and the rules don't apply.  Top tip, no one is above the rules and even WG staff have been sanctioned/warned regarding content of their posts.   If you don't like the rules applied on our forums, you're correct that you have the choice not to use them. If you disagree with the type of content you'e allowed to post on our forums again, you have the choice to go else where. Our stand regarding what is ok and not ok to post on our forums will not change. Some topics will forever remain out of bound because at the end of the day this is a forum for a computer game and not a open area for people to spew forth their person views and agenda's to insult and provoke people due to boredom, spite for "for the lulz".   Simply deleting a post doesn't solve the issues of an angry player because with no repercussions or punishment for their actions they'll just continue to post more of the same. there is consequences for your actions. It's not different to "other forums". The serial offenders on our forums would last just as long on other official forums also.  That's something players seems to also forget, official forums and fansite forums cater to totally different players and fansites will always have more relaxed rules because their target audience isn't the entire game's playerbase.

Ectar:   We will not be able to track everyone's individual scores due to the way data is pulled from our servers. It is pulled from our database then has to go to head office to go through an anti cheat system then comes back to us to be filtered. Due to the timescales involved in this it's not possible to provide a real time tracker.  

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Ectar:   Troll platoon isn't allowed. We consider this going against the spirit of the contest and manipulating the matching making system to give a low tier tank an advantage.  This is easy to check when reviewing results (it's a simple as seeing the battle tier of any specific match).   Whilst this is something that is ok in normal game rules. For this contest doing troll platoons will void your entry.  

Ectar:   Still no answer because it's late at night and sadly our staff don't work 24 hours a day.  

Ectar:   Yes, we do expect you to believe. How many past "Art of War" contests in Europe have had cheating claims?  1 and after further investigation (and with player submitted evidence) that player was found to have not cheated. (though they did troll platoon). It wasn't just Wargaming that was suspicious of the result as a popular fansite also called this player a cheater and later apologized for the wrong call.   If we suspect a player has cheated their score is not included in the announced results and we contact the player directly to ask for further evidence. They will still be included and added into the contest results if their matches prove to be legit.  There is multiple checks we do on matches and we don't state what they are because we don't want to tell players what they need to avoid... Many players like to think they're the next Sherlock Holmes/Batman/Hercule Poirot when it comes to investigating contest entries. Sadly most of the time their "evidence" boils down to "Well I couldn't get that score, therefor that person cheated" - Or even "I didn't take part in the contest but I want to cause aggro on the forums, so I'll say that person cheated". - Bear in mind these keyboard investigators don't have access to any server info and haven't seen a replay. They just see a score and "pow!" investigation complete.   I don't know why you added your last line in a smaller font.  If you want to know about stuff on the NA server you should contact NA customer services (Who in fairness will tell you they can't comment on another player's account) or search the NA forums for any threads created during that time. As I recall I'm sure the whole event was covered on a popular fansite.  If you have any concerns about how the event was handled that's not something we can comment on here as the EU office doesn't service NA accounts nor administer NA contests.

Ectar:   It will be interesting to see how people sell the keys when all that will happen is your account is flagged for access when the Beta is open.  Same with the Type 59. You don't get a code, it's simply added to your account.  

Ectar:     The highest score you can get with base exp. No premium or special event bonus is added.   Scores are taken automatically from our database as with the Art of War contests.

Ectar:   Random battles only, premium tanks excluded.  It's basically the same rules as any "Art of War" contest.  

Ectar:   The intention of the contest is to have a top prize for each of our respective games, so there is an incentive for everyone regardless of what they play. You don't care about planes, but then other players might not care about a Type 59 (As they would prefer a Warships beta key or the ME 209 V). If you all want is a Type 59 and all you want to do is play World of Tanks, that's cool, there is plenty of other contests you can take part in such as the Art of War contest for Japanese tanks.   To have the best chance of winning the contest, players are encouraged to play both games. It's not essential however and you could always get points by entering one of the smaller contests which won't always be in-game related. Cross promotion will always happen with any games company that runs multiple games. When we have over 75 million registered accounts, it's pretty stupid not to try and get some of those players into our other game, especially when it is also free to play.  

Ectar:   Not really, remember Warplanes is also free to play and your free exp in World of Tanks can be used there to help you advance up the tech tree quicker if you desire. Heck if you use free exp a lot in World of Tanks then you can take advantage of the fact that in World of Warplanes right now there is 5 x free exp.  Warplanes is a great game to pick up and play a few games in a short period of time. Personally I play it most days to get my dailies done and it provides me with extra free exp to use in World of Tanks.   If you are a really good World of Tanks player, you can win this contest just by playing tanks alone.

Ectar:   I have no idea why it was active on the calendar. Possibly due to an old template being copied over.  During this weekend the New Year bonuses are still active and there wasn't supposed to be a different weekend special as there is already a truckload of active bonuses for players to take advantage of.  I'm sure tomorrow they'll probably be threads asking about news for the weekend special because people won't take the time to check what's already active.    02/01 - 04/01  x2 crew experience 04/01 – 07/01 x3 crew experience Item Discount Premium Account 3 days for 350 gold (47% off)
7 days for 680 gold (45% off) Garage Slots       50% off Crew Training/Re-training* Crew Skill Reset* Crew’s Personal File Reset Consumables* Barracks Slots * Valid for both the Gold and Credit purchase options. These discounts will be available from Monday 16th December 2013 at 06:10 until Thursday 16th January 2014 at 06:00 CET (GMT+1). Turn of the Year Sales Even more discounts! Item  Discount Premium Account 6 and 12 months 15% off   Premium Vehicles Tier II – V 50% off Tier VI – VII 30% off Tier VIII 15% off Equipment 50% off Camouflage, Emblems and Inscriptions* Up to 50% off * Valid for both the Gold and Credit purchase options. These discounts will be available from Wednesday 25th December 2013 at 06:10 until Wednesday 8th January 2014 at 06:00 CET (GMT+1).   All tier VIII to tier X tanks are currently discounted by 15% as part of the March of Nations event which lasts until the morning of the 16th.  From the morning of the 31st to the morning of the 4th British tanks are discounted at 50% for tiers II-V and 30% for tiers VI-VII From the morning of the 4th to morning of the 8th Chinese tanks are discounted at 50% for tiers II-V and 30% for tiers VI-VII    

Ectar:     Which missions specifically? For the first half of the month the IS-6 mission is still active. There is no other missions during this time. From the 16th Jan till the 1st of Feb there is a mission active for 2 month (A half monthly mission) Missions IS-6 Anyone? A set of very challenging missions but with a grand prize! Rest of the Month Missions. A real tanker is always ready to accept new challenges. Find out now which duties you will be keeping in mind during the second half of the month. Weekly Missions. Every week brings new exciting tasks and new rewards. Can you complete them all?  

Ectar: It looks awesome! the STB-1 is going to be a popular tank.

Ectar: There will be missions but not for all of January. They come into effect from the 16th of January and run for 2 weeks. There is multiple ways for players to earn credits from the missions.

Ectar:   All of the Community Managers and the Community Coordinators  

Ectar:   The threads are visible only to admins for multiple reasons. The main ones being:   To prevent players copying each other's ideas/images To prevent players from downvoting rival images.  The upvote/downvote does not have any factor in this contest and we do not want player's forums reps to be altered just because they entered a contest.

Ectar:   Because the contests is for the introduction of the Japanese tanks.  

Ectar:   Courageous resistance doesn't count.  Daily bonuses and special bonuses do not count.   It's only your base exp from a battle, without premium.  That way the contest is open for everyone and the highest scores don't only come from a specific weekend.  

Ectar:   As stated on our website: "The contest will run from 23rd December until 24th January"   Results will be announced as soon as we can once the contest ends.

Ectar:   Weekend events are never planned week to week, they're planned out for the entire month.  If asking players not to expect the same stuff in January as you got in December is being unreasonable, then nothing else I can say will change your expectations for that.  It's a 2 way process and some players need to stop thinking their specific needs are the only thing we should cater for.   I'm advising you here and now that January is going to be nothing like December. I'd have thought that would be pretty obvious to most players and expectations can be managed accordingly without further input from myself or my team members. I'm sure later in January I'll still see requests for things like equipment sales or tier 8/9/10 discounts regardless, or players saying the entire event is "rubbish" because that 1 single thing they want isn't there. It's the never ending circle of weekend special announcements.  

Ectar:   I think it's fair to say that a few players need to manage their expectations. December had some huge end of year bonuses and some first time events. Players can't expect tier 8,9 or 10 discounts every month, nor things like equipment sales so quickly again.   There is still cool stuff planned, but nothing on the level of what has came at the end of December.

Ectar:   It's being worked on. No timescales are being quoted because players take that as set in stone.  Looking forward to that suspension changes, tank rocking causes me to miss so many clutch/important shots  The updated models look so much better than the old ones.    That T29 at the the end lost his turret in the excitement!

Ectar: That pesky sledging T95 nearly had me!

Ectar: Update, the server has been restarted and players should be able to log in and play normally now. Once again apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Ectar: Please note this will also cause issues with the log in server as people try to switch to EU2, this also has a knock on effect on the forums as anything from 20,000 to 90,000 players suddenly come here looking for an official response.   We're working to fix this as quick as we can and would like to thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. Please note before anyone rages or fires in with sarcastic replies/statements, that doesn't help the situation nor speed it up. The issue is just as frustrating for us as we don't want situations where people can't play.

Ectar: Greetings,   We're currently experiencing issues with EU1 and are working to get it fixed asap. We apologize for any inconvenience caused during this time.

Ectar: Ok this was written for our Community Contributors and is mainly aimed at Youtube but a lot of it still applies..   I c wat u did thar! Spend some time on making your page/site look pretty. The more professional your channel looks, the more people will think they're in for a good show and think you're taking things seriously. Get a good "offline" image and set a background. This small bit of work can make the difference to people hanging around to see what's up, and skipping on to the next generic and bland channel.   Plan streams, theme streams, and talk to your audience! Watching/listening to someone sit in silence for long period of times quickly becomes boring. Explain to your viewers what you're doing, even if it's just 2 of your friends watching get the practice in and be comfortable talking. Walk through your actions, what you're planning to do and how you see the battle going. If you have music playing (recommended) make sure it's not too loud and for bonus awesome points, have an overlay to show what tune/band is playing (players always ask this). Alternatively if you're playing from a set list, have a link somewhere on your page where players can get that list.
Think about what you want to show in your streams. Are you grinding a specific tier or nation? Are you doing platoon or solo? Do you want to do an interactive guide on a tank showing players how to use it on multiple maps? Be entertaining! I'm not saying to act like an idiot with silly sound effects but you want to give players a reason to stick around and come back each week/day.   Playing with WG Occasionally we get asked to stream with people. We have no problems doing this and love playing with you guys but sometimes We're really swamped with work. Please can you let us know roughly at least a week in advance if you want any of us to join in. It then helps us plan other work we may have around it and it also helps us to then give you guys appropriate coverage and promotion.   Respect other players and streamers Please please try to keep your comments respectful to other players and other streamers. I know matches can be frustrating but when you're doing a steam with hundreds of viewers and you highlight someone and say "look at this asshole" or something similar, it can prompt a viewer into sending that player a nasty message. That may seem like quite an outlandish claim but please remember people watch you because they like you, which means they'll jump to your defense and sometimes this defense is misguided. We're not going to, and don't want to censor streams and video's but if you're going to constantly insult other players all the time, it would be hard to support or promote you.   Be prepared for common questions. What country are you from? When do you stream? What mods are you using? What's your favorite tank? Do you play with people in chat? Will you play xxxx tank? This list isn't comprehensive and it's not a "do this and succeed". I'm sure people who stream will have additional input to help out. Hope what I can provide is helpful. Another point i'd always recommend is greet people joining the stream and let them know you're aware of them coming to see you. It's little things like that which bring viewers back when you're growing an audience. When you start getting more people watching you, veteran viewers will offer to help moderate the chat. (I recommend disabling links in chat)   Again a lot of this is more aimed at livestreamers but some of it can also apply to Youtube channels.

Ectar: Annnd off to the off topic section...

Ectar: Always cool to see what's going on in other regions!

Ectar:   Yes, they're struggling with the bad weather atm sadly.

Ectar: The tank will come. We've asked for a timescale and are waiting on a reply. 

Ectar: Muppe_SPALE has a new personal theme tune..  

Ectar: Will eventually get one as it looks amazing with it's brown and blue desert camo.   It played well on the test server, atm I'm closing on the Leo1 and don't want to push down a new tree until it's unlocked and blocked. 

Ectar: Hi guys,   We're getting this checked out on the server side. The 2x exp should be active and this isn't a portal error. We're working to get the ingame bonus activated asap.

Ectar: It could be 8.a then 8.ab, then 8.abb  (omg! why not 8.abc! That's how the alphabet works!)     It's simply a number of an update.  Our devs could call it update 8.banana if they wanted and it wouldn't make a difference. The update numbers relate to the content that comes with it and sometimes it has to be spread over different patches so a new number is used.  It's not like if you add 8.9 and 8.8 you get update 17.7    You're looking at the numbers too specifically/mathematically.  They represent a patch version. That's all.

Ectar:   We've requested that for any future changes to portal news, what is changed is more obvious along with a short explanation why if possible.   When you start a sentence with "Apologies if I sound rude" it's like starting a sentence with "No offence, but..."  - You know what you're about to say is hostile so sometimes it's better not saying it or thinking how to work it better. Adding it in with any kind of ending like "we pay your wages" always comes across as you're talking down to the person you're asking for help from and is very condescending. Being on the receiving end of a comment like that is not appreciated under any circumstances.   There is limits to what some of us can and can't do within out roles. We pass on information and suggestions to the relevant departments regarding issues that affect players. We're sorry that the information was changed the way it was. Discussing our company's internal processes is not something for the forums and as always if there is players who feel they can do a better job then by all means apply for a position in our office and show us.