Developers posts on forum

MA77: Vapor, você utliza/já utilizou algum mod nessa instalação do WoT?

MA77: O bônus de créditos foi apenas na semana passada.   Esta semana você ganha consumíveis apenas. 

TheTrustedLlama: Greetings Tankers! A micro-patch will be going up Thursday, October 25th 2018 at 02:00 AM. The downtime will be roughly one hour. The official posting for it may be found here.

MA77: LSS09, você poderia entrar em contato com o nosso Suporte para que eles possam lhe ajudar com este ocorrido?

Gnomon:    ​   Never. 

1984BigBrother: We are looking for other suggestions for Tournaments. This could be, format, style, prizes anything you would like to see in the in-game Tourney system.

1984BigBrother: I know I have a post asking if strikes should be removed. For this let's assume that Skrikes cannot be removed and will be available in all of the modes they are currently available in. Should they be rebalanced? Here are some of the suggestions I have got so far: Increase cooldown time to 3-4 minsRemove bonus you get for using Arty:reduce damage and RNG (make it cover the whole circle)add stun Air:make it a damage over time circle that makes tanks get small amounts of damage for sitting in the circleChange to scout plane from frontline Again I don't know how easy any of this would be to implement but I would like to hear your ideas

1984BigBrother: No vote on this one just looking for feedback. I think that we should open stronghold skirmishes earlier. I don't think 24/7 is the right answer maybe starting at 10 am ET with just one of the tiers. Opinions?

Gnomon:     ​

The_Chieftain:   It's... a known problem, and why folks who think about it will usually consider the Bren to be a better section weapon than the MG-42. In a defensive position, with stockpiled ammo, it's awesome. But for a section in attack, all that ammo has to be transported somehow, and that limits the ability of the squad to operate a bit. Further, as section machineguns are supposed to be more suppressive than killing, you just plain don't need that rate of fire.   Again, another case of people looking at paper stats, and not thinking about how well a weapon fits into the larger war.

Gnomon:   ​Hiya! I'm in the process of updating our Knowledgebase articles, but this one explains a little more about Clans and Strongholds: FAQ for WoT PC Clans   Also, here is an interactive Stronghold guide that should explain things as well: Stronghold Guide   This page explains Skirmishes for Strongholds and the vehicle Tiers per Division: Skirmishes   Hope this helps! Let me know if any clarification is needed. 

1984BigBrother: TGN > everything   I recently started watching The Orville and I really like that. TOS feel with updated jokes

Gnomon:   ​

Jambijon:   You are correct!  The start of the month is always the 1st!  The delay that I mentioned was caused from the majority of my team will heading to Twitch Con for an event.  The tournaments are still happening, and they are scheduled to publish on the tournaments page at least 1-2 weeks in advance so you will have plenty of time to review them.   Friday evening (10/26) at 6pm pst | 8pm Central | 9pm est all of the tournaments from November 1st to November 11th will be published and on the tournaments page. After that, we'll get the rest of the schedule posted on the 9th of November. If anything changes, I'll be sure to update everyone! 

BigDaddyLaxative:   You are correct!  The start of the month is always the 1st!  The delay that I mentioned was caused from the majority of my team will heading to Twitch Con for an event.  The tournaments are still happening, and they are scheduled to publish on the tournaments page at least 1-2 weeks in advance so you will have plenty of time to review them.   Friday evening (10/26) at 6pm pst | 8pm Central | 9pm est all of the tournaments from November 1st to November 11th will be published and on the tournaments page. After that, we'll get the rest of the schedule posted on the 9th of November. If anything changes, I'll be sure to update everyone! 

Hambijon:   You are correct!  The start of the month is always the 1st!  The delay that I mentioned was caused from the majority of my team will heading to Twitch Con for an event.  The tournaments are still happening, and they are scheduled to publish on the tournaments page at least 1-2 weeks in advance so you will have plenty of time to review them.   Friday evening (10/26) at 6pm pst | 8pm Central | 9pm est all of the tournaments from November 1st to November 11th will be published and on the tournaments page. After that, we'll get the rest of the schedule posted on the 9th of November. If anything changes, I'll be sure to update everyone! 

1984BigBrother: It really depends on the map, but here is my opinion   15 player Meta: 277(more) SConq (less but some for sure) 430U BC 25 907/140 Strv (hold the flank)    More situational: Type 5 5a 50b/other autoloaders TD's (most have there purpose 1-4) LT (105 and lt100 1-2) Arty (CGC > other 1-2) 

Jambijon: Another little update.  The November tournament schedule will be delayed until around the 9th.  Tournaments will still be happening during that time.

BigDaddyLaxative: Another little update.  The November tournament schedule will be delayed until around the 9th.  Tournaments will still be happening during that time.

Hambijon: Another little update.  The November tournament schedule will be delayed until around the 9th.  Tournaments will still be happening during that time.

Felipe6666Original:   Ahí los agregamos. Gracias por el aviso   ¡Saludos!

KRZYBooP:   the lights don't do very well with tracking your tank, so moving your tank back and forth is a good way to avoid getting hit.   

KRZYBooP:   The level cap is unlocked daily so you can skip a day and catch up if you want to. 

Jambijon: Hello Everyone!   Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the updates that are being made to our Tournaments.  As most of you have noticed we've been slowly moving towards a more automated service in terms of tournaments.  We first started with prizing which shortened the crediting time to a couple hours for regular tournaments rather than the old 1-2 weeks after the tournament completion.  Also, we worked on automating group/bracket creation that failed for our first attempt but after working with our Tournament System devs we have worked out the kinks.  Below is the changes you will see for the upcoming tournaments:   Automated prizing will be faster and will credit immediately after the tournament finishes. Gold will now be split among the team depending on the amount of battles a team mate played Meaning we will have reserve players coming back and players will be awarded based on their contribution (battles played) to the team. Automating registration With this automation we are able to keep registration open until 25 minutes before the tournament starts (even on weekends) to give more time for players to sign up. Automation of grouping/bracket creation This will give us enough leeway on the complexity of the tournaments we create.  This means we have more tournaments that span multiple days, multiple stages, playoffs, rounds to final stages, etc.  It doesn't sound too exciting now but this allows us to do things that would normally require a whole team to accomplish and manage till now we can do it with just a couple of us here.   All in all, we will be able to have more tournaments with a wider variety of formats.  This is all the information I have at the moment but once I get some more updates I'll update all of you!     Also, with TwitchCon around the corner, I will be out of the office for the event and will actually take some time off after that to visit my California brethren.  If you run into any tournament issues, please follow the new CS format as I won't be able to respond to PMs for quite some time. 1984BigBrother will be around so the tournaments won't be left unattended.  For those attending twitchcon and/or our happy hour, come say hi or have a drink with me!   That's it for now! Thanks and GLHF!       

BigDaddyLaxative: Hello Everyone!   Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the updates that are being made to our Tournaments.  As most of you have noticed we've been slowly moving towards a more automated service in terms of tournaments.  We first started with prizing which shortened the crediting time to a couple hours for regular tournaments rather than the old 1-2 weeks after the tournament completion.  Also, we worked on automating group/bracket creation that failed for our first attempt but after working with our Tournament System devs we have worked out the kinks.  Below is the changes you will see for the upcoming tournaments:   Automated prizing will be faster and will credit immediately after the tournament finishes. Gold will now be split among the team depending on the amount of battles a team mate played Meaning we will have reserve players coming back and players will be awarded based on their contribution (battles played) to the team. Automating registration With this automation we are able to keep registration open until 25 minutes before the tournament starts (even on weekends) to give more time for players to sign up. Automation of grouping/bracket creation This will give us enough leeway on the complexity of the tournaments we create.  This means we have more tournaments that span multiple days, multiple stages, playoffs, rounds to final stages, etc.  It doesn't sound too exciting now but this allows us to do things that would normally require a whole team to accomplish and manage till now we can do it with just a couple of us here.   All in all, we will be able to have more tournaments with a wider variety of formats.  This is all the information I have at the moment but once I get some more updates I'll update all of you!     Also, with TwitchCon around the corner, I will be out of the office for the event and will actually take some time off after that to visit my California brethren.  If you run into any tournament issues, please follow the new CS format as I won't be able to respond to PMs for quite some time. 1984BigBrother will be around so the tournaments won't be left unattended.  For those attending twitchcon and/or our happy hour, come say hi or have a drink with me!   That's it for now! Thanks and GLHF!       

Hambijon: Hello Everyone!   Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the updates that are being made to our Tournaments.  As most of you have noticed we've been slowly moving towards a more automated service in terms of tournaments.  We first started with prizing which shortened the crediting time to a couple hours for regular tournaments rather than the old 1-2 weeks after the tournament completion.  Also, we worked on automating group/bracket creation that failed for our first attempt but after working with our Tournament System devs we have worked out the kinks.  Below is the changes you will see for the upcoming tournaments:   Automated prizing will be faster and will credit immediately after the tournament finishes. Gold will now be split among the team depending on the amount of battles a team mate played Meaning we will have reserve players coming back and players will be awarded based on their contribution (battles played) to the team. Automating registration With this automation we are able to keep registration open until 25 minutes before the tournament starts (even on weekends) to give more time for players to sign up. Automation of grouping/bracket creation This will give us enough leeway on the complexity of the tournaments we create.  This means we have more tournaments that span multiple days, multiple stages, playoffs, rounds to final stages, etc.  It doesn't sound too exciting now but this allows us to do things that would normally require a whole team to accomplish and manage till now we can do it with just a couple of us here.   All in all, we will be able to have more tournaments with a wider variety of formats.  This is all the information I have at the moment but once I get some more updates I'll update all of you!     Also, with TwitchCon around the corner, I will be out of the office for the event and will actually take some time off after that to visit my California brethren.  If you run into any tournament issues, please follow the new CS format as I won't be able to respond to PMs for quite some time. 1984BigBrother will be around so the tournaments won't be left unattended.  For those attending twitchcon and/or our happy hour, come say hi or have a drink with me!   That's it for now! Thanks and GLHF!       

Felipe6666Original:   El error está en pensar que los bots serán tan fáciles de matar Además, los bots están pensados para jugadores de nivel bajo (niveles I-V), no para jugadores experimentados. Ahora, que los jugadores experimentados jueguen en nivel bajo para obtener medallas fácilemente es otra historia.   ¡Saludos!

DomoSapien: Sorry to hear you won't be able to attend

TwitchCon is definitely a bit pricy but I hear it's one of the cooler industry conventions since it's geared primarily towards streamers and players, rather than gaming industry executives like E3. 

Either way, we'll have folks streaming from our booth virtually the entire time! If you can't make it, tune into the livestream twitch.tv/wargaming

1984BigBrother: Can I see a Ping Plotter? Or WG check tool?

DomoSapien:   There is a space available on the eventbrite page for you to add a +1 when signing up

Understood, though, I'll pass the word along to Tragic. Can you please send me a PM with the name you used to sign up for the event?

DomoSapien:
Actually several of our best players started in (and some still are in) Customer Support. _Irony_, Algray_Solipso, 1984BigBrother.

Some of the great players from our old office also were in or started in Support, like Goshism and PizzaStorm.   As for 1984's level of passion: him, Irony, myself, and Goshism won a corporate WoT tournament by beating all the teams from all the NA offices a few years ago. We flew to Wargaming HQ in Cyprus to compete with the winning teams from other regions. When 1984 met Victor Kislyi, he fervently shook mr. Kislyi's hand and went on a slightly inebriated rant for several minutes about how thankful he was that Wargaming had made his favorite game of all time.

Believe it or not, your Customer Support Reps are human beings too. They may seem a bit robotic because their job requires them to be, but they're gamers looking for a way into their dream industry, just like the rest of us were.

1984BigBrother: So I have received this bit of feedback from multiple sources. A lot of clans would like to see strong skirmishes at tiers 5, 7, 9, and 10. However, I don't think it would be a good idea on our server to allow all of these at the same time. So what I would suggest to the Dev team is rotating tiers (I also must say I am not sure how easy this would be to implement). So one-week tier 6 and tier 8 are available for strongholds the next week tier 5 and 7 are available the next week 7 and 10, and so on. I don't know if a week is the right amount of time and would like your feedback on this suggestion.

1984BigBrother: I have received a few requests to open Tournaments in the AM on weekend. I don't see an issue with this but would like your opinion.

TragicLoss: Thank you for everyone who was interested in our Happy Hour Gathering!   All invites that went out have been filled. We appreciate everyone who reserved a space and hopefully anyone who didn't make it into the invite list we will see another time.

DomoSapien: Tankers,
You may have noticed some changes in our Competitive Gaming teams recently. 1984BigBrother has joined us as the Competitive Gaming Manager. This is good news for you, and good news for me. As you all may know, JambiJon and I have been conducting most of the Tournament operations for WGA, starting about last June. Since then, we have seen tournament participation continue and continue to grow. We're quite proud of our community for stepping up and helping revitalize our competitive gaming scene via this overwhelming tournament participation. Seriously, you guys rock. However, with this growth there have been some growing pains. There are simply too many tournament inquiries for Jambijon and I to handle via private messages on the forums. With this in mind, Customer Support will be handling all tournament inquiries via support tickets starting on October 26th.
For Instructions on how to submit a ticket to our tournaments department in Customer Support, check out this handy guide that TheTrustedLlama wrote up. Tournament administrators will still be answering your tickets, but doing so via our ticketing system will allow us better tracking for inquiries that are on hold, in progress, resolved, etc. _____________________ This is also a good opportunity to mention something on a more personal note. I have been doing so gradually, but I should let everyone know that I am moving away from working primarily on Tournaments. (No, it has nothing to do with tournaments having technical issues lately, I'm not being forcibly removed from my position or anything like that.) I've been presented with some opportunities to work on some projects that allow me more room to utilize my creative skillset, and get experience in management and event planning: Over the last few months I have been getting involved in managing our Community Contributor program, and will be getting more involved with our CC's in the coming months. Additionally, I will be engaging more heavily in feedback reporting, as I've been playing this game for over 6 years and can definitely relate to the player perspective. 
To clarify, I am not leaving the Community Team. But I'm no longer your go-to-guy for tournament inquiries. It's not you, it's me. Okay, it's also you a little bit there are just too many of you guys and I can't keep up with all your questions while carrying out the rest of my job functions! I'm not gone for good though. I'll periodically be checking up on tournament tickets and helping resolve your questions as my workload permits.
1984BigBrother is probably the most passionate WoT player I've ever seen. I've known him since he started when we were both in Customer Support, and I understand he's been making quite a stir in our competitive gaming scene already. Together with JambiJon, who has so valiantly been handling most of the logistics for building and running tournaments, I'm confident that you're all in good hands.
I'll still be around on the forums, and you'll still be able to catch me potato'ing up our Community Livestreams on the Wargaming Twitch Channel& World of Tanks NA Facebook page. So... y'know... don't send me angry PM's about tournaments anymore. I'll just tell you to submit a ticket <3

TeriyakiTanker:  Tier I and II are a waste of time, you should get them over with as fast as possible.  Reality is the best tier to learn the game is 5, it also happens to be one of the best tiers for grinding credits without a premium tank.   Tier III isn't bad because of the protected MM now but there is no reason to stay at tier I and II any longer than you need to.  Gameplay at those two tiers specifically doesn't resemble later tiers either so what is the point?  There really isn't anything you cant do at Tier I or II that you cant do at Tier V.  Do yourself a favor and get there as soon as possible. Also on a side note you cant research Tier II vehicle components with a Tier I tank so unless you are going to spend money on converting your experience from that Tier I to free exp there really is no point in doing what you are describing.  And yes I have gone from Tier I to Tier X in a lot more lines than you have so I do at least have some idea what I am talking about!

1984BigBrother: Any suggestions that you would like to be included in Tournament Feedback subsection please link it below and I will review it

1984BigBrother: Any suggestions that you would like to be included in Strongholds Feedback subsection please link it below and I will review it

1984BigBrother: I have received a lot of different feedback on Artillery Strikes and Airstrikes in Stronghold battles and if they should be included in certain modes.   This post is just what game modes you what like to see Artillery Strikes and Airstrikes in. You can select multiple modes.   If you would like to voice your opinion please post below.  

1984BigBrother: As stated in the previous post we have created this new section of the forums to better gather initial feedback for the Development and Production teams and better understand the player feelings about the Competitive aspects of the game.   This will be a tempory section (probably a month or so) Right now there are two subsections that have been added to Operation Feedback. Tournaments and StrongHold this are the 2 area's that I feel are a good place to start I will look at adding more each week.     How will this will work  I will be creating posts for each of the current sections based on the feedback I received during the first meetings I had. You can all leave comments (and vote if applicable) on those.   If you would like to get something added to one of the subsections in Operation Feedback create a post in the Clan Forums wait for it to get some feedback. Then I will create a post in this section for each of the subsections link any post that you would like added in the correct subsection post.   Moderation I will be personally moderating this section on top of the current moderation staff and removing posts that are irrelevant, off-topic, or confrontational. These out of policy moderations will not make your accounts receive strikes unless you need to be excessively moderated by me (before I do this I will PM you and your clan commander trying to correct the behavior).     I do not want these to be an argument (there are plenty of sections for you to argue in currently), So please no "counterpoints", just state your opinion and upvote, you probably don't need to post more than once per topic.    

TheTrustedLlama: Greetings Tankers, As the tournaments have continued to grow, we will now be offering full CS ticket support for tournament issues starting October 26th. We have created a template for you to follow when submitting these tickets, which you can find below.  The category you will place your ticket will be Game and Gameplay à Missions and Specials à Missions à Game Event Missions 
When submitting your ticket, please include the following information:
Team name and link to team:
Tournament name:
Date of tournament:
Issue:
For roster change request, include
Players to add:
And/or
Players to remove:
Added players WoT profile page: Please note that any roster change requests must be submitted 12 hours prior to the start of the tournament. We will not be able to correct tournament rosters if the requests are submitted to our team past that point.
For rewards issues, include
Placement in standings:
Expected rewards:
For rules violations, include
Replays of tournament battles:
Rule violators team name and link to team: Please let me know if you have any questions