Developers posts on forum

Tanitha: Clan recruitment thread closed, for a new one to be put up. /Tanitha

Vallter: The maintenance works are scheduled for May 17, from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM UTC . The game will be temporary unavailable. Please refrain from purchasing gold during maintenance time.
Reason: 0.6.4 patch release

Overlord: Estimated downtime for US server: 9:00 - 18:00 UTC

ARGO: With apologies to the OP I must close and move this thread to prevent further degredation of it's content and or meaning due to possible trolling.
ARGO

Vallter: We decided, that people with draw should earn more. We will add 750 Gold to your accounts.

Vallter: We decided, that people with draw should earn more. We will add 750 Gold to your accounts.

Vallter: We decided, that people with draw should earn more. We will add 750 Gold to your accounts.

Overlord: Did I put it that way? Nope, you are taking a part of the reply out of the context practically omitting the question (its tone).

Overlord: That was a point to ponder on, which was eventually given up.

Vallter: The event has ended, the results will be announced on Tuesday.

Vallter: The event has ended, the results will be announced on Tuesday.

Vallter: The event has ended, the results will be announced on Tuesday.

Overlord: Yes, most likely. To be totally sure wait for the announcement on the website.

Tanitha:

Tanitha: Hi Guys / Gals.
To increase the player numbers within the Oceania timezones, for the purpose of gaining more clanwars and competition support for the timezone...
I would like your help in finding Oceania timezone gaming websites that WOT can hookup with and advertise on.
So if you could please reply with..
Website name:
Website link:
Targeted Country/Timezone:
Number of viewers/members:
Current WOT advertising on the website:
Any Suggestions:
I'll try to follow them all up, and get some advertising onto them.
Regards/Tan..

ARGO: Ode to World of Tanks
By ARGO
With a mean set of tracks and a S-70 gun
The IS4 is 46 tones of courage and fun
Tanks that want to fight it better bring back up
Because when its cannon starts talking dead tanks are gonna stack up
Bring your Heavies, Mediums, or Scouts because the Tigers can’t wait
To reach across the map and brush them off like Colgate
And if they try to sneak in the base the Hetzer has a plan
To melt their tanks armor with a 10.5 tan
So you better plan real well when you come out fighting
Because the Artys gonna storm like its thunder and lightning
So you wanna fire on a Maus, then you’re messing with the wrong dog
It’s going to bang on your turret until your crew looks like eggnog
When IS7 hits the field you had better be trying
Cause the only sounds you’ll hear is tanks running and dying
So if you want fight here you better have the skills and ranks
Cause this isn’t Nintendo son this is World of Tanks

Overlord: 7.5k gold each.

Overlord: T32 was too strong, and the adjustment was needed. Will see how it works out.

Overlord: May 2011, I believe.

Overlord: Skins will come later, not in the patch that comes after v.6.4. Unfortunately.

Vallter: We are starting new poetry contest! We are offering you to compose a poetic text dedicated to your best battle in World of Tanks. It doesn’t matter if you come up with a Shakespeare-style sonnet, use Dante’s “Divine Comedy” tercet style, or even practice in blank verse. What matters most is that your poetic dedication should be captivating and emotional. And it might be funny as well! In a word, we are looking for something really outstanding.
The contest will last till the 28th of May.
The winner will get 6,000 Gold.
The runner-up will be awarded with 4,000 Gold.
Finally, 2,000 Gold will go to the third place.
Attention! The Administration reserves the right to cancel or prolong the event without announcing their reasons. According to Chapter 3 Section D. of WN Terms of Service: if you upload any photograph, video, or audio file to or through any WN Communication Feature, you grant to WN the non-exclusive, worldwide right to use, post, publish and display such material, without royalty or compensation of any kind, expressly waive any and all rights of privacy, moral rights or rights of attribution and integrity.

Vallter: We are starting new poetry contest! We are offering you to compose a poetic text dedicated to your best battle in World of Tanks. It doesn’t matter if you come up with a Shakespeare-style sonnet, use Dante’s “Divine Comedy” tercet style, or even practice in blank verse. What matters most is that your poetic dedication should be captivating and emotional. And it might be funny as well! In a word, we are looking for something really outstanding.

The contest will last till the 28th of May.

The winner will get 6,000 Gold.

The runner-up will be awarded with 4,000 Gold.

Finally, 2,000 Gold will go to the third place.

Attention! The Administration reserves the right to cancel or prolong the event without announcing their reasons. According to Chapter 3 Section D. of WN Terms of Service: if you upload any photograph, video, or audio file to or through any WN Communication Feature, you grant to WN the non-exclusive, worldwide right to use, post, publish and display such material, without royalty or compensation of any kind, expressly waive any and all rights of privacy, moral rights or rights of attribution and integrity.

Vallter: We are starting new poetry contest! We are offering you to compose a poetic text dedicated to your best battle in World of Tanks. It doesn’t matter if you come up with a Shakespeare-style sonnet, use Dante’s “Divine Comedy” tercet style, or even practice in blank verse. What matters most is that your poetic dedication should be captivating and emotional. And it might be funny as well! In a word, we are looking for something really outstanding.

The contest will last till the 28th of May.

The winner will get 6,000 Gold.

The runner-up will be awarded with 4,000 Gold.

Finally, 2,000 Gold will go to the third place.

Attention! The Administration reserves the right to cancel or prolong the event without announcing their reasons. According to Chapter 3 Section D. of WN Terms of Service: if you upload any photograph, video, or audio file to or through any WN Communication Feature, you grant to WN the non-exclusive, worldwide right to use, post, publish and display such material, without royalty or compensation of any kind, expressly waive any and all rights of privacy, moral rights or rights of attribution and integrity.

Overlord: Clan leader or its deputy will be able to distribute gold from the clan treasury to any clan member. All other functions will be added later.

Vallter: Gold enrolled to winners accounts.

Vallter: Gold enrolled to winners accounts.

Vallter: Gold enrolled to winners accounts.

ARGO: 4. Inappropriate conduct in game
The following actions are prohibited in game:
4.01. Intentionally damaging vehicles belonging to a player on the same team (team damage).
4.02. Intentionally destroying vehicles belonging to a player on the same team (team kill).
4.03. Intentionally blocking (blocking from front and rear) vehicles belonging to a player on the same team.
4.04. Intentionally propping (blocking on one side, where the other side of a user's vehicle touches a fixed indestructible obstacle, preventing free movement.) vehicles belonging to a player on the same team.
4.05. Intentionally informing participants of the opposing team through battle, or voice chat, the location of vehicles belonging to players of the same team.
4.06. Using bots, clickers, macros, keyboard and mouse recorders, or any other similar methods to accumulate credits and experience without the participation or with passive participation of the player within the battle.
5. Rules Enforcement
The "Automated Anti-TK Reporting System" is the system that actively scans the game logs searching for players who massively cause damage to vehicles of their own team (team damage), or intentionally destroy vehicles of their teammates (team kill).
5.01. Based on combat logs for a particular period of time, usually several days, the automated system finds players involved in friendly fire and team kill incidents. The calculations are quite complicated and the main factor that is taken into account is damage inflicted to allies to total damage ratio.
5.02. If the above ratio for a particular user exceeds a certain fixed threshold value, the system identifies the user as a violator, since his main target is doing damage to allied vehicles.
5.03. If the damage ratio for such user exceeds the verifying coefficient, introduced in order to make distinction between intentional and accidental team killers, such user is identified as an offender and goes onto the suspension list.
5.04. While calculating damage to allies / total damage ratio only the battles with team kill/damage incidents are taken into account.
5.05. In connection with the introduction of Automated Anti-TK Reporting System), listed below are set uniform measures that can be taken against offenders:
*. First detection of a user as a team killer and team-damager leads to 3-day game account suspension.
*. Second detection of a user as a team killer and team-damager (recidivism) leads to 10-day game account suspension.
*. Multiple detections of a user as a team killer and team-damager (systemic recidivism) leads to permanent game account suspension.
5.06. The Automated Anti-TK Reporting System is not meant to substitute Technical Support service; the system aims at making their work easier. The most difficult cases thereby will be solved individually via Technical Support service.
You know the rules, and if you don't, Here they are. I strongly suggest you read them....And may the TK tracker have mercy on your sole.....THREAD CLOSED< LOCKED< JUNKED
ARGO

Overlord: Simultaneously - yes. Tuesday is the most probable release date.

Overlord: 1. You are twisting things a bit actually. If one says he solely plays vehicles of one particular faction, how can he compare, I wonder?
2. And there will always be players observing disadvantage of playing tanks of certain faction, class, tier. It's normal. Not saying the mission is impossible, but it's hard to please millions.

Overlord: Blindly following user feedback in terms of achieving better balance won't do any good. Especially if you are playing solely German vehicles.
As for historical truth, you won't find it in the game, because it is a game.
We are not sorry for the balance, it far from being perfect, no doubt, but is constantly getting better.

Hypnotik: I think the tier setup is fine, but the matches are too early. They're at 6:00 PM on the west coast, way too early when people generally get out of work at 5:00 in the US.

Vallter: You are free to try.

Vallter:
You are free to try.

Vallter:
You are free to try.

Vallter: The patch will be released at the beginning.... of the next week. Russian server has received it already, but we found a bug and want to fix it before updating the European server.
If you continue the 'patch flood' in the contest topic, Moderator's team will have to take appropriate sanctions against you.

Vallter: The patch will be released at the beginning.... of the next week. Russian server has received it already, but we found a bug and want to fix it before updating the European server.

If you continue the 'patch flood' in the contest topic, Moderator's team will have to take appropriate sanctions against you.

Vallter: The patch will be released at the beginning.... of the next week. Russian server has received it already, but we found a bug and want to fix it before updating the European server.

If you continue the 'patch flood' in the contest topic, Moderator's team will have to take appropriate sanctions against you.

Tanitha: Here is a section/thread for the sharing of Oceania related skins, garages & artwork.

Vallter: We are starting a contest of a brand new type. Everyone knows about some special smileys in Skype, which are not listed in the official list (bug). Now we want you to make your own smileys for our game.
The contest starts immediately and will end on the 5th of June 23:59 UTC.
Important requirements and notes about creating smileys for the contest:
• Every user can take part in the contest;
• Players should make smileys that suit our forum and have a tank theme. (you can use current smileys as an example);
• Each user can submit up to five different smiles;
• The smiley has to be animated (GIF format), do not exceed the size of 20Kb;
• Each smiley should have a tag (Example: :contestsmile: )
• Each smiley will be taken into consideration;
Each smiley, that we will consider suitable and good enough for our forums will be probably added to official smiles list. User will receive 500 Gold for each smiley of above-mentioned type.
Attention! The Administration reserves the right to cancel or prolong the event without announcing their reasons. According to Chapter 3 Section D. of WN Terms of Service: if you upload any photograph, video, or audio file to or through any WN Communication Feature, you grant to WN the non-exclusive, worldwide right to use, post, publish and display such material, without royalty or compensation of any kind, expressly waive any and all rights of privacy, moral rights or rights of attribution and integrity.