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Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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tuccy, on 10 January 2011 - 01:40 PM, said: What does "quite close" mean, approximately? Month? Two? Just so that I know whether I'll get my T-44 and IS now or in the full version and whether I should use gold to get another month's Premium or just some Premium tanks for the heck of it.

Subject: In-Game Vehicles\German Vehicles\Heavy Tanks\I loathe the VK4502p
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strata89, on 10 January 2011 - 01:32 PM, said: When you think you could realese it? Still Q1 2011? I cant wait to start geting tanks i wont loose.

Subject: I loathe the VK4502p
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strata89, on Jan 10 2011 - 12:32, said: When you think you could realese it? Still Q1 2011? I cant wait to start geting tanks i wont loose.

Subject: I loathe the VK4502p
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strata89, on Jan 10 2011 - 12:32, said: When you think you could realese it? Still Q1 2011? I cant wait to start geting tanks i wont loose.

Subject: Archives\Beta\Larger Platoons please
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Masterofm, on 10 January 2011 - 03:36 AM, said: The Platoons are too small to effectively play with friends. It would be nice to at least be able to have more then 3 people on a team. This is the main reason why I would buy a premium account, and If I can't play with my friends I don't really want to play it. Have larger platoons please. at least 4, 5 would be best, and 6 would be a little too much.
Most every game for playing with friends revolves around groups of 4.

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\Why do the devs NEVER seem to respond to bug reports?
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Asyranok, on 10 January 2011 - 02:43 AM, said: Hello WOT team,
I am wondering why you seem to never respond to the bug reports that people post. How are we supposed to know if you read it?
If I don't start getting an acknoledgement from devs for my bug reports, I am likely going to stop. Why post them if - for all I know - you aren't readign them?

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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fefris, on 09 January 2011 - 04:04 AM, said: Quoting overlord
"There is no technical necessity in soft wipe at this stage. When it is needed everything will be announced in advance"
in this topic
http://forum.worldof...2p/page__st__40

Subject: In-Game Vehicles\German Vehicles\Heavy Tanks\I loathe the VK4502p
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sharpeh, on 09 January 2011 - 11:22 PM, said: What would you consider near? Will there be one this month possibly?

Subject: I loathe the VK4502p
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sharpeh, on Jan 09 2011 - 22:22, said: What would you consider near? Will there be one this month possibly?

Subject: I loathe the VK4502p
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sharpeh, on Jan 09 2011 - 22:22, said: What would you consider near? Will there be one this month possibly?

Subject: Game Discussion\Game Guides and Tutorials\WoT Secrets (english version)
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Subject: Archives\Beta\MrVic's Wall O Text
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Blizzard36, on 10 January 2011 - 01:22 AM, said: I can only speak for myself on this, but it is due to the way I read Overlord's post. Along with admitting there seemed to be issues with the IS-4 and 7, he said at the same time that the nation as a whole was balanced and made no mention of any plans to change it. To me, this indicated that since everything was balanced as a whole, no changes were planned. Which caused me to make my follow-up post about the importance of maintaining balance in the last two tiers if no where else.
As for the small sample size of polls on the forums, I would like to point out that it was shown in one of my classes last year that only 40 people were needed for an accurate (enough to be used) random poll of the US population. Obviously participants in the polls on the forums here self-select quite a bit, but they key point I've seen in all of them is that the majority of players in every one has felt that Soviet tanks are superior. That sort of consistancy can not be discounted. Things easily may not be as bad as the polls indicate, but clearly there is a problem to cause those sorts of results.
As for the numbers of tanks used Overlord quotes, I would be curious to know how the numbers shape up by tier. I am not surprised that German tanks lead the way in overall use, in my experiance new players are far more likely to try out them followed by US. The Soviet line is the most common 2nd line, and with the ability to just get new tank bays in your garage there is no need to toss away the tanks of your first nation which means they continue to add to the stats. However, I would be very surprised if there is not a large discrepency when comparing the overall numbers to the numbers for the top tiers only. I generally only see a Maus a week if not even rarer, T-30's every other day at least, but I see multiple IS-7's every day. Things are not as bad with the Mediums, but still bad. While I do see Pershings daily, and Panther II's in multiple matches each day, there are often multiple T-54's in single matches. If a softwipe were to happen to day, I am confident we would see a large shift from German to Soviet, and away from SPGs in general.


Overlord, on 30 December 2010 - 03:47 PM, said: Amending and revising tech tress require much time and effort from several departments, including history tank experts, game design, artists, 3d modelling, programming, tech writing.
That's why before making any changes we think twice. The current US tech tree is not perfect, especially this aplies to top heavy line from T-29 to T-30. Some of the suggestions posted in this thread are very likely to be implemented in future as well as some of our own ideas.
All 3 current tech tress are going to modified and improved, the changes affect vehicle tier, type, specs etc, moreover some completely new models are going to be added. US tree will undergo the most substantial changes.
Can't reveal much at the moment, apart form the following:
- Super Pershing. Might be added as a separate tank or as a set of upgrades for Pershing itself.
- M103. Likely to be added.
- T58, M47, M48. Have some ideas on them.

Subject: News from the Front\World of Tanks Newsletter\WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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boilerrat, on 10 January 2011 - 12:57 AM, said: I honestly hate the questions given to us on that survey.
It's obviously poorly translated from Russian, and you aren't going to get consistent and accurate answers when the questions are so hard to understand.
Most of the questions aren't even important, a lot of them are just jokes.

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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boilerrat, on Jan 09 2011 - 23:57, said: I honestly hate the questions given to us on that survey.

It's obviously poorly translated from Russian, and you aren't going to get consistent and accurate answers when the questions are so hard to understand.
Most of the questions aren't even important, a lot of them are just jokes.

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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boilerrat, on Jan 09 2011 - 23:57, said: I honestly hate the questions given to us on that survey.

It's obviously poorly translated from Russian, and you aren't going to get consistent and accurate answers when the questions are so hard to understand.
Most of the questions aren't even important, a lot of them are just jokes.

Subject: News from the Front\World of Tanks Newsletter\WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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BigCheese256, on 09 January 2011 - 11:56 PM, said: "Will you forgive MrVic for screwing up and not getting all the survey questions posted last week?"
"No: He is a lazy bum."
Best question in the survey.

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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BigCheese256, on Jan 09 2011 - 22:56, said: "Will you forgive MrVic for screwing up and not getting all the survey questions posted last week?"
"No: He is a lazy bum."

Best question in the survey.

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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BigCheese256, on Jan 09 2011 - 22:56, said: "Will you forgive MrVic for screwing up and not getting all the survey questions posted last week?"
"No: He is a lazy bum."

Best question in the survey.

Subject: Archives\Beta\MrVic's Wall O Text
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tuccy, on 09 January 2011 - 11:11 PM, said: Just to make a historical reference...
German and US torpedo designers also had their statistics and their tests and they all showed the torps are working and believed that sub crews are incompetent whiners. Cold, emotionless numbers don't lie, eh? And if the crews complain that the torps are not exploding, mean just they're missing the target.
And these aren't by far the only cases of numbers "lying". I hope the devs realise it.

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Polskie Forum\Off-Topic\Sygnaturka Ze Statystykami
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Subject: Archives\Junkyard\What's a softwipe?
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Sormus, on 09 January 2011 - 05:31 PM, said: Its a type of a wipe that resets you to a starting point where you only have the first tanks unlocked.
The difference with soft wipe to a total account is that soft wipe transfers all of your exp, used and unused, in to free exp and refunds all your used gold and credits.
Hard wipe makes you start over properly, with the same amount of resources you had when you first made your account
Account wipe would delete the accounts too and they'd need to be remade.

Subject: Archives\Beta\MrVic's Wall O Text
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ComfortablyApathetic, on 09 January 2011 - 10:42 PM, said: I'm sorry if it's already been asked Overlord, but are there any balance changes planned for the patch? T34 needs a little love and the T-54's front armor might be a little excessive considering it has no real disadvantage to make up for it.

Subject: Archives\Beta\MrVic's Wall O Text
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f2k, on 09 January 2011 - 10:24 PM, said: Of course beta-testers should be responsible for the outcome - that's what they're there for!
The developers release the first beta of the game. The beta-testers play the game and give their feedback. Based on this the developers modify the game and release a new version, asking the players to test the new features. The beta-testers then test this and give their feedback. Based on this the developers modify the game again and so it goes on and on through a number of iterations until the developers and the testers are sure that the bugs have been removed and that the game is fairly balanced.
As I said above, what we're doing now feels somewhat closer to a stress-test than a "proper" beta-test as our feedback, except for the server side logs, is apparently neither needed nor wanted...

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\G19 app
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tazmanyak, on 09 January 2011 - 11:28 AM, said: By G19 and similar, does it mean that monochrome screens will be supported too? (G15 for example)
Could a list of planned features be posted somewhere pls Overlord?

Subject: Archives\Beta\MrVic's Wall O Text
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jimk, on 09 January 2011 - 01:47 PM, said: Any idea when the next patch notes will be up?

Subject: Archives\Beta\MrVic's Wall O Text
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f2k, on 09 January 2011 - 09:45 PM, said: And I never denied that they might be wrong.
In any case, the spin goes both ways. Reporting that 75% of responding players felt one ways is quite correct. On the other hand, reporting that 0.29% of all players feel that way is also correct. As I said: lies, damn lies, and statistics...
I did not mean to imply that you were the only one to spin the numbers (truly sorry if I came across as saying that), I merely wanted to point out how easy it was to spin the numbers...

Subject: Archives\Beta\MrVic's Wall O Text
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f2k, on 09 January 2011 - 01:20 PM, said: Impartial? Perhaps... But utterly useless...
Without understanding why the numbers are what they are, no amount of statistics are going to help you balance the game. And to understand the why, you need to talk, not to mention listen, to your players – something which is sorely lacking in this beta-test...


Quote This, unfortunately, just proves my point...
75% of players responded that they felt that they prefer Russian tanks. And yet, you immediately twist that by saying that it’s just .29% of the players responding, thus invalidating the entire poll.
Yes, it’s a very small sample size and it’s taken from an uncontrolled group of players. But that does not mean that it’s invalid. In truth, it doesn’t mean that it is valid either, but that’s one of the big problems with statistics...
In any case, this highlights why you need to talk to your players.

Subject: News from the Front\World of Tanks Newsletter\WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Frehelias, on 09 January 2011 - 01:51 PM, said: Nice to see the results of the survey.
The new tank pictures sure do look nice but all are those tank getting into the game or are they just there to show them?

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Frehelias, on Jan 09 2011 - 12:51, said: Nice to see the results of the survey.
The new tank pictures sure do look nice but all are those tank getting into the game or are they just there to show them?

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Frehelias, on Jan 09 2011 - 12:51, said: Nice to see the results of the survey.
The new tank pictures sure do look nice but all are those tank getting into the game or are they just there to show them?

Subject: News from the Front\World of Tanks Newsletter\WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Profilexero, on 09 January 2011 - 03:38 PM, said: where is my " A look to the future " part ?

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Profilexero, on Jan 09 2011 - 14:38, said: where is my " A look to the future " part ?

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Profilexero, on Jan 09 2011 - 14:38, said: where is my " A look to the future " part ?

Subject: In-Game Vehicles\German Vehicles\Heavy Tanks\I loathe the VK4502p
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Schneider, on 09 January 2011 - 12:46 PM, said: Cant thoose sirs not simply answer a ?
Softwipe yes or no ?
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Subject: I loathe the VK4502p
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Schneider, on Jan 09 2011 - 11:46, said: Cant thoose sirs not simply answer a ?
Softwipe yes or no ?
...

Subject: I loathe the VK4502p
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Schneider, on Jan 09 2011 - 11:46, said: Cant thoose sirs not simply answer a ?
Softwipe yes or no ?
...

Subject: In-Game Vehicles\German Vehicles\Heavy Tanks\I loathe the VK4502p
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Mike_Hammer, on 09 January 2011 - 04:46 AM, said: This is interesting. Could you share details on how much better IS-4 performs compared to VK45 and T34?
Did this change with the front armor buff?


Mike_Hammer, on 09 January 2011 - 02:02 PM, said:
Yes, and in these stats IS-4 is not doing better then either T34 or VK45, like I said, so why do you post them? 1.5% higher xp (then VK45) is too small difference to matter, survival is lower then VK45, and win rate is the same.
Btw you can link a specific post as well, the number in the upper right corner of every post is a link to that specific post.
So that is why I am asking OVERLORD when the situation changed and how much it changed.

Subject: I loathe the VK4502p
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Mike_Hammer, on Jan 09 2011 - 03:46, said: This is interesting. Could you share details on how much better IS-4 performs compared to VK45 and T34?
Did this change with the front armor buff?



Mike_Hammer, on Jan 09 2011 - 13:02, said:

Yes, and in these stats IS-4 is not doing better then either T34 or VK45, like I said, so why do you post them? 1.5% higher xp (then VK45) is too small difference to matter, survival is lower then VK45, and win rate is the same.

Btw you can link a specific post as well, the number in the upper right corner of every post is a link to that specific post.

So that is why I am asking OVERLORD when the situation changed and how much it changed.

Subject: I loathe the VK4502p
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Mike_Hammer, on Jan 09 2011 - 03:46, said: This is interesting. Could you share details on how much better IS-4 performs compared to VK45 and T34?
Did this change with the front armor buff?



Mike_Hammer, on Jan 09 2011 - 13:02, said:

Yes, and in these stats IS-4 is not doing better then either T34 or VK45, like I said, so why do you post them? 1.5% higher xp (then VK45) is too small difference to matter, survival is lower then VK45, and win rate is the same.

Btw you can link a specific post as well, the number in the upper right corner of every post is a link to that specific post.

So that is why I am asking OVERLORD when the situation changed and how much it changed.

Subject: News from the Front\World of Tanks Newsletter\WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Echo_Sniper, on 09 January 2011 - 06:31 PM, said: MrVic, can you fix that typo in the help wanted part?
The one saying''we are currently looking for members to RIGHT...'' I taught it was write...