Developers posts on forum

Ectar: Yeah this thread isn't going to continue.    If you see someone breaking the rules in-game, report it.  If you're looking at screenshots of something from a blog article over 6 months ago that doesn't show when the screenshots were taken (or shows what happens as a result of those screenshots being reported to Wargaming), I'd advise you to chill out. The last time a clan or certain players were in the spotlight like this, I did my own investigating and the screenshot quotes happened months before they were posts online and the players had already been sanctioned by Wargaming. One player in fact was already perma chat banned. We'll aways take action against rule breakers provided they are reported to us.    - Ectar

Ectar: This issue is resolved now so I'm closing the topic. Our server team is continuing to monitor the situation to make sure everything is running properly.

Ectar:   It's 2x exp which applies to a set amount of wins (not just any match, win lose or draw).  Again I have to stress that October will still have regular bonuses for other nations etc.

Ectar:   The E-25 has nothing to do with this event. It won't be available in September as a Marathon. For October it's highly unlikely also. Whilst I understand some players want to get this tank for free, many players bought it not too long ago on the impression it wouldn't be available again any time soon.   Regarding that Storm quote. I'm going to have to ask you for a source to that. And by a source I don't mean FTR, Armoured Patrol or Status Report as all three of those blogs don't quote/link the sources to stuff they post.  

Ectar:   The unlockable mission for October has bonuses only for German Tanks.  Regular weekend bonuses for October will still happen for anyone who doesn't play German vehicles.

Ectar:   The special bonuses in October for completing the missions in September are available to read on the Asia forums. Tanitha the Producer there has shared the information way in advance outside of normal time-scales for announcements. I skipped the part in the quote about premium vehicles because they're not linked to the event (You'll know about them separately whenever they become available). You should know by now we never normally reveal tank release dates in advance (or how they'll be available).    I don't want to post the October details in advance on the forums like Tanitha has done because only a small amount of players will see that information and it's about 4 weeks away.  If it helps calm down the forum regulars who atm seem to be going from topic to topic sharpening their pitchforks and farming tools, then yes, I can say Asia and EU are on the same page regarding the Earning your Stripes event and the respective bonuses related to that for next month.

Ectar:   Ok done.  

Ectar:   Ok for that too.  

Ectar:   I can't really say much now, however.... 

Ectar:   If I may, what do you feel would be an acceptable mission requirement?

Ectar: Greetings Commanders! We're currently experiencing some issues with the EU2 server which is them, having a knock on effect on the EU1 server running properly.  The issue has been identified and our server team are working to get the issue fixed asap. We apologize for the delay.  

Ectar:   This ^^   The missions are the same each weekend too, so once you've done one weekend, you'll know the requirements for the other weekends.  More info will come on Friday regarding the specific requirements. 

Ectar:   The marathon tank will be tier 8

Ectar:   There will be a marathon mission for the EU region this month also.

Ectar:   You're correct. But they also told me "You can say it's coming, but you can't say how" See the predicament that puts me in?  Do I tell players it will be possible to get, knowing I can't say how. (Which will alleviate some frustration) Or do I stay quiet and say nothing (which helps no one)? Again I tell players information as soon as I'm able to. Sadly sometimes I'm limited with regards to what I can and can't say and there is certain factors I can or can't influence.  I'm more than happy to show you what happens if I was to stay silent instead.  

Ectar:   I tell you what I'm able to tell players. It's not by personal choice that any information is restricted.  I can assure you the  "telling you nothing" would be a much much worse option.

Ectar:   This comment/thread?  

Ectar:   It was a simple answer to players asking why they may see the Type 59 Patton on the EU servers.   I get that you have a grudge against me, however please at least source your quotes when trying to call someone out.  I'd have thought by now with you being such a fan huge fan of an external blog, you'd appreciate the difference of proven sourced information with links to when/where something was said and in what context;  Rather than stuff that's made up with no source, no reference and is obviously created to suit a personal agenda/vendetta.

Ectar: Hello,   Sadly due to economic issues affecting Greece, there is various restrictions in place regarding the transfer of money from Greek bank accounts, especially to use Paypal.  This isn't something Wargaming has any control over.

Ectar:   I think people should wait for something to be on the public test serve and to then try it for themselves to see what they think. Additionally they should then wait till the final stats are published prior to when the new vehicles is introduced. but hey, don't let that get in the way of acting like a vehicle is coming tomorrow rather that currently going through it's first round of testing to what should be an internal and behind doors test phase to assess it's initial performance.    Your reaction here is a perfect example of the problems that leaks cause.  

Ectar:   You read it right, but I didn't read it before I posted it.  I meant to say "The tier of the tank is higher than that". Sorry for any confusion.

Ectar:   What I said about September was in reply to a thread about collectors gem of the week:  

Ectar:   It wasn't a hint with regards to a marathon mission it was regarding something in the premium shop.  We have no plans to have a A45 marathon mission in EU.  A marathon mission for another tank however... Well you'll just have to wait and see.  

Ectar:   I never said it would come as a marathon mission.  What I said was:  

Ectar:   I chose my words carefully as I knew it would be for sale only. Sadly sometimes there is limits as what information I can and can't release.

Ectar:   Every time I see this image, I get sad.  Here, use this instead  

Ectar:   No, we will tell you exactly when it will apply to the EU server, which is when we have our next marathon.  Making an announcement now when a marathon mission doesn't happens till weeks/months later means everyone forgets the announcement. Furthermore there is a massive difference in the amount of players who visit the portal compared to the forums.  

Ectar:   Well after feedback from our last marathon mission the requirements next time around will be a bit easier and the tier of the tanks isn't higher than that.  

Ectar:   It's a global change, so all regions are affected.

Ectar: This change also applies to the EU servers. It hasn't been stated yet as it will be announced when we do our next marathon mission so players can see it in the terms of the event.

Ectar: Double post, so thread locked - Ectar

Ectar:   2.1 Forum etiquette   Users are not allowed to abuse others, make personal attacks or behave disrespectfully. This prohibition applies to both public threads and private messages (PMs). Disrespect can include:
2. Making non-constructive posts, or creating threads on non-constructive topics   Thread locked. - Ectar

Ectar:   The Type 59 Patton along with some other vehicles have been made available to contributors for the purpose of reviews.

Ectar:   And it is there. You break the rules you're removed from the game. The fact you have premium time or not on your WG account doesn't make any difference to the penalties applied. We will never have a tiered system where players with premium account are treated separately.   Getting banned for a week is a pretty serious offence and doesn't come from just one or two team kills. Remember any actions you see from a single player in-game, you have no idea of his past actions or the frequency of them.

Ectar:     Premium time added to your WG account is is active across all our products. You pay for a month's premium time and you get a month's premium time added from that moment.  Premium time on account is never "suspended/frozen".  If you decide to only play for 2 days it doesn't mean you have 28 days waiting to be used at a time of your choosing.  If you get yourself banned from World of Tanks due to your actions in-game, the premium time is still on your account and could be used in World of Warships or World of Warplanes due the unified account system.    You broke the rules, your access to the game removed due to punishment. Your actions in-game have consequences, next time hopefully you'll think about your actions in-game before breaking our rules.    

Ectar:   Please don't advice players to make false claims to Paypal. Premium time is not exclusive to a single game and in this situation the player got exactly what they paid for. They paid for premium time and it was added to their account as requested. The fact it couldn't be accessed on World of Tanks specifically was due to the actions of the player getting himself banned which he freely admits to. The player didn't pay for access to World of Tanks.  I would advise you to check our terms of service regarding this specifically:   8.1 The Services may permit you to purchase virtual items, virtual currency (so-called “Gold” or time-limited premium memberships (virtual items, virtual currency and premium memberships together "Virtual Goods&quot.  8.2 The following provisions apply to the purchase of Virtual Goods. To purchase Virtual Goods, you need to have an Account. a) To conduct a purchase of Virtual Goods at the Site, you have to click on the “Get Gold” button. Once you get to our premium shop you can then choose the Virtual Goods, which you would like to purchase. The respective price in Euro, US-Dollar or the currency applicable to your region, for the Virtual Good you would like to purchase, will be displayed. You then may choose a payment method and enter your respective payment details. b) Before you confirm your purchase by clicking on the “Purchase Now” button (or a likewise conspicuously labelled button concluding the purchase process), or by fulfilling another action required (e.g. sending a message, etc.), you will have the opportunity to review your purchase details, i.e. the particular Virtual Goods including its amount, if applicable, and respective total price including all taxes, and to correct any errors. To correct any errors you should go back to our premium shop, e.g. by clicking on the “Back” button of your browser. c) By clicking the “Purchase Now” button (or the likewise conspicuously labelled button concluding the purchase process), or by fulfilling another action required (e.g. sending a message, etc.), you are sending an order to us to purchase the confirmed amount of Virtual Goods. If you have provided valid payment details within your Account, we will process your order. You will be notified of our acceptance or denial of your order by us on your screen within a few minutes from the moment of clicking the “Purchase Now” button (or the likewise conspicuously labelled button concluding the purchase process) or fulfilling the respective other action required (e.g. sending a message, etc.). d) In case we accept your order, we will directly thereafter credit the purchased Virtual Goods to your Account and we will charge you via the selected payment method. You will also receive a confirmation of your purchase via e-mail, containing the contract details (the “Purchase Contract” and these Terms of Service. Other than that, we will not store the Purchase Contract text and wording and it will not be accessible to you after conclusion of the Purchase Contract. e) The Purchase Contract will be concluded in the language of the country where you live, or in the English language, unless otherwise provided under the applicable consumer protection law. 8.3 We set out below the rules that apply to Virtual Goods: a) Virtual Goods may only be redeemed for other Virtual Goods where permitted in the Services; b) once you have purchased Virtual Goods, those Virtual Goods are non-refundable and non-exchangeable (whether or not you use them), except as set forth in these Terms of Service, or as it is required under the applicable law;    

Ectar: I think that's enough for this thread.   - Ectar

Ectar:   Please don't troll and attempt to take this thread off topic.   

Ectar:   On checking the logs, your clan got influence points from skirmishes last night. If you can't see this I would recommend contacting our support team. 

Ectar:  

Ectar:     Hi guys, what time did you do your matches at? - http://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/pc-browser/cw/clan-wars-new-map-release/   "We are pleased to announce that on 19 August at 04:00 CEST (UTC+2), the new Global Map will be open for business!  Important: All Influence Points acquired by clans during the Open Beta Test will be wiped. All clans that have at least one player will be credited with 1,000 Influence Points when the New Global Map goes live. This way, everyone will have the same chance."    

Ectar:   There wasn't really a taboo. It was a vehicle always set aside for retail promotion. The package that was initially put together was for retail in the RU region only. It was always possible we were going to release a similar package for EU/NA but we weren't sure if it would work.  If the vehicle is offered in future it's more likely it will be only on special events, and the price won't be lower. (We can't lower the price as it can't be made available in a package where it costs much less than the original retail package).  

Ectar:   The IV/V and other pre-order tanks won't be sold in EU. This topic has been covered multiple times. We made it available in the past over 3 years ago and it was removed within a day,  It was wrong to have made them available.  Players who pre-ordered these tanks were promised they would not be available at a later date and we will stick to that. When it comes to pre order vehicles for Warplanes or Warships, it was made clear to players who pre-order that those vehicles would only be exclusive for 1 year.  Tanks never had that allowance so the pre-order vehicles for the EU region will remain exclusive to players who picked them up during pre-order.   It's different on the RU region because they didn't have a pre-order period, so they had no prior opportunity to pick up those tanks. Players joining the EU server after the pre-order period have no entitlement to these vehicles what so ever. It was a limited time offer and that limited time has been and gone.

Ectar:   If there was even a shred. A whisper, a strand of truth in that above statement.... Why the heck don't any of our employees have this and especially me?  I mean really.  Go look at the Wargaming clan and check the average stats there.  If we really could manipulate people's stats then who do I need to speak to, so I get all the good matche and why am I being "punished"?       There is no secret settings that can be changed.  This is something people make up because it's easier to blame something you can't prove, than to accept that perhaps you're not as great as you think you are at something.  It happens in every game out there.  People will always blame their misfortune in-game on something impossible to prove, because they feel in control that they have a source/reason for the fail.  It's not because of RNG, it's not because of reaction time, it's not because the other guy against you might be better.... Far easier to say it's "the system making you lose".   TL;DR There is no secret wargaming settings. This is nothing more than another conspiracy theory thread/I quit thread. /Thread closed.   - Ectar

Ectar:   Please don't restart threads over 1 year old. - Ectar

Ectar:   Yes and no.   In most situations players focus on damage/weakspots first and areas like fuel tanks/engines second. I can't think of a normal game where I would aim for a fuel tank rather than a known weakspot I can pen (yes I know I'm missing out). For higher tier German tanks it's still hardcoded into my head to shoot lower front plates, however for many other tanks I have no idea specifically where the engine is located on the damage model (note I say damage model, I know where the actual engines are on tanks ).   It's a mission that takes you out of your normal mindset for how you approach a match.  The advice up above is good stuff. I'd also recommend not tunnel visioning on the mission and trying it in batches/limited attempts so you don't feel overwhelmed.

Ectar:   The topic is still open.    You're free to talk about other games all you want, It's just that the discussion belongs in the off topic section.

Ectar: And I think this thread has more than ran it's course...   - Ectar

Ectar: Moving thread to off topic as it's basically a pro Armoured Warfare topic.   We have no issues with players talking about other games, however a thread like this isn't for the General Discussion section.   Please remember that any threads encouraging players to play another game and quit World of Tanks is against forums rules and will be removed.   2.3 Advertising   Users are not allowed to post threads or comments here that advertise or solicit any non-beneficial, non- World of Tanks related businesses, organizations, or websites. Explicit advertising and solicitation in signatures are also prohibited.
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Ectar:     1) They do actually.  They just don't have a visible presence by replying to topics. - I along with my fellow Community Managers and Coordinators from other language teams pass on weekly feedback from the forums. The moderator has always been here also. The difference is that the moderators are here to deal with forum violations and help players follow the rules. They're not expected to maintain a super active posting presence (as most of the time they're moderating). Sadly there has been a noticeable increase in forum violations which take up our moderators time. We are actively adding new moderators however selecting new moderators who wish to actually help the community and don't just want to go on a power trip, isn't as easy as some people think.   The LoL tribunal system has been considered with regards to us having something similar, what works for one game however doesn't automatically work for others (otherwise everyone would be using similar LoL style tribunals).

Ectar:   Welcome to my world  

Ectar:   You do realise we have one already right?  By default everyone has the chat filter active and they have to manually turn it off.  The forums also have a chat filter.    In the European region we have something like 30 different countries all with their own swear words.  Now when you block a word, the naughty people who want to use those terms quickly look for ways around the block.  The common method is to add characters from other languages. Shit becomes Shít by adding an i-acute that's used in Hungarian Icelandic, Czech and other languages.  It's not a word in those languages but the substitute letter get the meaning/word across in English.  - So if we ban the word "shit" then have to ban all spelling variants of the words in the swear filter... for all languages.   All of a sudden totally innocent words in other languages are blocked because of that. A perfect example being that the French word for grated (as in grated cheese) which is râpé, is banned because people of poor judgement who use the term "rape" in game look for ways to misspell it to get around the word filter. This is all also before we even get into regional insults within the countries....   We're always looking at how to remove chat toxicity from the game, however there is limit as to just how much chat can be censored.