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Felipe6666Original:   Les recuerdo por las dudas que los votos ya no sirven de nada con lo ocurrido en el concurso pasado. Los ganadores se determinarán por jurado interno.   ¡Saludos!

MA77:   Dois ganhadores, Jeffmendes.

DomoSapien: I don't write these names, y'all. Let the record reflect that. Anyway, something else kind of interesting to share with y'all: we've got an unprecedented free XP Conversion discount happening this weekend.
"Hold on Domo, what are you talking about we've had plenty of Free XP conversion discounts"  yes, we sure have. But our free XP Conversion discounts were always 35 Free XP per 1 Gold, (compared to the standard, non-discounted 25) but this weekend you'll convert 40 Free XP per 1 Gold. Of course, we would have a free XP Conversion discount right after I converted all my XP but hey, maybe some of you are more fortunate than I am.
If you're unfortunate like me, we've got ya covered. XP Fever Missions for Premium and Tier X Vehicles, awarding 50% extra vehicle XP when you place in the top 10 XP Earners on your team + win the battle.
Do that 25 times in a tier II-V Premium, you get an extra 15,000 XP.In a tier VI - VII Premium, it'll get you 30,000 XP.In a Tier VIII Premium or Standard Tier X Vehicle, you'll get 50,000 XP. Long story short, play and win a bunch of battles and earn a bunch of Elite XP, then enjoy some discounts on converting that Elite XP.
But that's not all! 
Barracks slots, Crew Skill Resets, Crew Training and Retraining are 50% off!
Free XP to Crew XP Conversion will give you 10 Crew XP per 1 Free XP!
Read this article! 

DomoSapien: As a concept I believe the intended selling point of presales in general (for us anyway) is getting access to the vehicle earlier than the rest of the server. They don't necessarily always include an 'extra' incentive, although personally I think it would be nice to have some extra incentive included in the presale bundles whenever we release them. Happy to pass your feedback on to our money folks!

DomoSapien: Tankers,
We've got some balance tweaks coming up for the SPG Stun mechanic.
Check out the video below or head over to the article for all the details, but the long and short of it is this: 
Cumulative stuns will not 'stack' the same way they do currently; if you're stunned while you're already stunned, the duration of the additional stun time that gets added on is effectively halved.  What do you think? Too much? Too little? A step in the right direction, at least, hopefully? Please leave your feedback below.

1984BigBrother: Tankers, We have been looking at the cap times for the tourneys we run. Currently, we do 45 seconds on a 1v1 and 60 seconds for over.  The suggestion I am getting is making it higher for over 2v2s, like this: 1v1 - 45 Seconds2v2 - 60 Seconds3v3 and up - 75 Seconds All of the tournaments that are set will not change and before we implement this I want to hear what you all think. GL HFBig

The_Chieftain:   You mean that playing WoT hasn't taught you that it's not the amount of  damage you do which results in wins, it's how, when and where you do that damage?   I'll happily stipulate that he's the highest-scoring tank commqander of all time. Go play tier II in a MicroMaus, you'll get more kills, probably, than a very good player in a Tier VIII light. Who's the more successful player? Kill tallies for tankers are an interesting stat, but they rely very heavily on the situation. For example, let's say that all of Knipsels kills were of tanks only. Not SPGs, TDs, half-tracks, or whatever. Doing a quick tally, the Soviets had about 85,000 tanks, the British about 17,000, and the Americans 53,000, some 150,000 if one counts the startpoint in late 1941 plus wartime production. So Knipsel was responsible for the destruction of 0.11% of the possible enemy tanks to kill.  Lavarenko is credited with 58 tank and SPG kills, they don't specify type. If you wanted it to be of the entire German tank production for the war, that would be 0.15%. Granted, there would have been some SPGs (But not too many, the Germans hadn't gotten really big into the SPG department in 1941 yet), but on the other hand, Lavarenko did that ratio in two months while Knipsel's kills were over 4 years. Even more so, if you look at the forces Lavarenko faced, he alone was responsible for the destruction of a full percent of the German tank and SPG  forces which invaded the Soviet Union. Similarly, it is estimated that some British tankers also got some silly amounts of kills, for example, Alfie Nichols may well have killed 40 tanks in North Africa alone (And doing some quick reading, apparently is claimed to have killed three Tigers with three shots from his Sherman), but the British strongly discouraged individual kill counting, and so we can't be sure just what his final total was. But if he did  so (And the Italians only add some 2,500 to the German total of some 43,000 tanks), then on a ratio of kills-to-targets, there is a good argument that Nichols was also more successful than Knipsel.   Then you have the question of local force ratios. Knipsel spent pretty much the entire war on the Soviet Front. So some 85,000 tanks (Plus a few thousand lend-lease). So Knipsel destroyed just shy of 0.2% of the enemy's provided tank force. Compare that to Radley Walters or Lafayette Pool, who scored 18 and 12 tank kills respectively in the ETO, the Germans having, what, 2,500 tanks in total facing the Western Allies? Let's say 3,000. That means that R-W killed 0.6% of the enemy's provided tank force, and Pool 0.4%, three times or twice, respectively, Knipsel's ratio.  And in the cases of Lavarenko, Nichols, R-W and Pool, their side won.   So, all of a sudden, 'success' becomes very much a matter of perspective, as opposed to a simple kill tally which is objective.

CabbageMechanic: Definitely not intentional, should be working now

CabbageMechanic:   CoH? 

The_Chieftain:   That's one of two similar problems. The other is that of airline pilots. Walking through the airport yesterday, I saw a pilot who looked under 20. Good for him, though he's probably saddled with  an unGodly amount of debt, but he was a rarity in a field where most look well into their 40s and 50s, and folks have been warning about a looming shortage for a few years. The Air Force feeder system is much smaller, and more pilots are going to hit retirement. I have considered it as a backup career, as I already have the first stage (a license for small aircraft), but the money just isn't worth it. Have you  seen how much a new pilot gets paid?  

The_Chieftain:   36 whats? Forgive me.  

The_Chieftain:   I see no reason they can't be handled like drones today.  Operators at the start/departure point, maybe a bit like harbor pilots, with the long bit in the middle being handled by less responsive systems....   I did see an interesting note about automation, which I had not considered. The autopilot needs to be able to understand that a policeman or construction worker standing in the intersection overrides traffic lights, and then must be able to interpret the hand signals. It makes perfect sense, and is an interesting challenge, apparently some companies have already figured it out.   Primarch,  that 256 looks a little out of scale compared to the rest of the vehicle, all right.

Felipe6666Original:   Ante las dudas, lo que establecen las reglas prevalece siempre. De cualquier forma, este error es algo que no podemos corregir. Ya que preguntaste, paso a explicar: algunos mapas "nuevos" (Pueblo Fantasma no es 100% nuevo, por eso las comillas) no tienen todavía su imagen correspondiente cargada en el sistema de torneos, y esto es algo que depende de quienes desarrollan el programa (sino ya lo hubiéramos cargado nosotros), lo que explica que la imagen no coincida con el texto que se muestra sobre ella. El problema, más allá de ese, es que no podemos no utilizar ciertos mapas por este problema porque nos limitaríamos los recursos a nosotros mismos a la espera de que se solucione.   TL;DR  Se juega en Pueblo Fantasma.   Dejame revisar lo de los premio con BigBrother. Cualquier actualización, la publico.   ¡Saludos!

Jambijon: SCHEDULERegistration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/24 at 13:00 PST | 15:00 CT | 17:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/24 at 14:00 PST | 16:00 CT | 18:00 ETRULES3/21 Format 3v3 Tier 7 6 teams per group Standard Cap Time Encounter on Ghost Town Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks PRIZING:  1st:  1,600 Gold+ x4 - 50% Credit (1hr), x4 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  2nd: 1,000 Gold+ x3 - 50% Credit (1hr), x3 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  3rd: 500 Gold+ x2 - 50% Credit (1hr), x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr) 4th: x2 - 50% Credit (1hr)+ x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  

BigDaddyLaxative: SCHEDULE Registration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/24 at 13:00 PST | 15:00 CT | 17:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/24 at 14:00 PST | 16:00 CT | 18:00 ET RULES 3/21 Format 3v3 Tier 7 6 teams per group Standard Cap Time Encounter on Ghost Town Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks   PRIZING:    1st:  1,600 Gold+ x4 - 50% Credit (1hr), x4 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  2nd: 1,000 Gold+ x3 - 50% Credit (1hr), x3 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  3rd: 500 Gold+ x2 - 50% Credit (1hr), x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr) 4th: x2 - 50% Credit (1hr)+ x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)    

Hambijon: SCHEDULE Registration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/24 at 13:00 PST | 15:00 CT | 17:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/24 at 14:00 PST | 16:00 CT | 18:00 ET RULES 3/21 Format 3v3 Tier 7 6 teams per group Standard Cap Time Encounter on Ghost Town Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks   PRIZING:    1st:  1,600 Gold+ x4 - 50% Credit (1hr), x4 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  2nd: 1,000 Gold+ x3 - 50% Credit (1hr), x3 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  3rd: 500 Gold+ x2 - 50% Credit (1hr), x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr) 4th: x2 - 50% Credit (1hr)+ x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)    

Jambijon: SCHEDULERegistration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/23 at 15:00 PST | 17:00 CT | 18:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/23 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 ET RULES1/6 Format 1v1 Tier 6 6 teams per group Cap time is 45 seconds Standard on Widepark Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks No tie breakers PRIZING: 1st:  600Gold+ x4 - 50% Credit (1hr), x4 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  2nd: 400 Gold+ x3 - 50% Credit (1hr), x3 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  3rd: 300 Gold+ x2 - 50%Credit (1hr), x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr) 4th: x2 - 50%Credit (1hr)+ x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr) 

BigDaddyLaxative: SCHEDULE Registration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/23 at 15:00 PST | 17:00 CT | 18:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/23 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 ET   RULES 1/6 Format 1v1 Tier 6 6 teams per group Cap time is 45 seconds Standard on Widepark Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks No tie breakers   PRIZING:  1st:  600Gold+ x4 - 50% Credit (1hr), x4 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  2nd: 400 Gold+ x3 - 50% Credit (1hr), x3 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  3rd: 300 Gold+ x2 - 50%Credit (1hr), x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr) 4th: x2 - 50%Credit (1hr)+ x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  

Hambijon: SCHEDULE Registration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/23 at 15:00 PST | 17:00 CT | 18:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/23 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 ET   RULES 1/6 Format 1v1 Tier 6 6 teams per group Cap time is 45 seconds Standard on Widepark Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks No tie breakers   PRIZING:  1st:  600Gold+ x4 - 50% Credit (1hr), x4 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  2nd: 400 Gold+ x3 - 50% Credit (1hr), x3 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  3rd: 300 Gold+ x2 - 50%Credit (1hr), x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr) 4th: x2 - 50%Credit (1hr)+ x2 - 100% Tank Xp (1hr)  

Jambijon: SCHEDULERegistration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/22 at 15:00 PST | 17:00 CT | 18:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/22 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 ET RULES2/12 Format 2v2 Tier 6 6 teams per group Cap time is 60 seconds Encounter on Ensk Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks PRIZING: 1st:  1,200 Gold+ 14,000 Free XP  2nd: 600 Gold+ 8,000 Free XP  3rd: 300 Gold+ 5,000 Free XP 4th: 5,000 Free XP 

BigDaddyLaxative: SCHEDULE Registration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/22 at 15:00 PST | 17:00 CT | 18:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/22 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 ET   RULES 2/12 Format 2v2 Tier 6 6 teams per group Cap time is 60 seconds Encounter on Ensk Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks   PRIZING:  1st:  1,200 Gold+ 14,000 Free XP  2nd: 600 Gold+ 8,000 Free XP  3rd: 300 Gold+ 5,000 Free XP 4th: 5,000 Free XP  

Hambijon: SCHEDULE Registration Start: 3/15 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 ET Registration End: 3/22 at 15:00 PST | 17:00 CT | 18:00 ET Tournament Start: 3/22 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 ET   RULES 2/12 Format 2v2 Tier 6 6 teams per group Cap time is 60 seconds Encounter on Ensk Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks   PRIZING:  1st:  1,200 Gold+ 14,000 Free XP  2nd: 600 Gold+ 8,000 Free XP  3rd: 300 Gold+ 5,000 Free XP 4th: 5,000 Free XP  

ApolloArtemis:   A ST mod for tanks?

DomoSapien: I've been informed that the issue was just fixed. Fingers crossed!

ApolloArtemis: This topic should be revived,   ST: TNG IS THE BEST

DomoSapien: Hmm, interesting. Not sure if this was intentional, I'll add it to the 1.4.1 feedback report I'm currently working on.

Theoretically you can still see how much XP you have left before being able to research a new tank, but that's only if you're on the last leg of your grind and having the preceding modules unlocked. If you do, you can click the 'research' button on the next tank and a pop-up will show up telling you how much XP vs Free XP you will be using.

Conversely, if you don't have free XP available I'm not sure if it's possible at all.   I can promise you this, though: It's going in the feedback report as a potential bug!

DomoSapien: So I'm getting mixed reports - some players have told me that they are able to access the vehicle via the article links, others are reporting that it is necessary to go to the 'vehicles' tab in the premium shop to access the Lansen C presale. Others are still unable to access it altogether despite having an active premium account.

Money guys are still trying to work out all the kinks but, in the interim - if you have a burning desire to pick up this Swedium ASAP, our lovely folks over in Customer Support would be more than happy to assist you.

DomoSapien: I removed a bit of profanity in your original post, but we don't actually censor people for having negative opinions about us or our products as long as the feedback is shared in a manner that doesn't violate the forum rules.

To answer some of your questions: GoG, Epic, Steam - all of these are third party platforms and require substantial revenue sharing, API access, contracts, and additional obligations. It's not off the table (WoWS is on Steam so it wouldn't be an unprecedented move) but not in the current plans at this time, at least to my knowledge.   Why does WGC install Russian Spyware: to my knowledge, it doesn't, but if you have any concerns you are more than welcome to submit a ticket to our Customer Support team for review. Your information security is among our utmost concerns.   Why does it constantly update the game or the launcher: Well, it updates the game whenever the game is updating. If you have more than one Wargaming title installed, you're going to see more frequent updates since we don't typically synchronize our release cycle with our other products.   !!A note about automatic updates!!: You can disable all of these via your settings. If you click the gear icon on the lefthand side of the launcher, then open up the 'updates' tab, make sure that 'automatically update installed games' and 'download updates in advance' are unchecked.

As to what was wrong with the old launcher/why we've been developing WGC for a few years: The old launcher was.. well, old. It doesn't look very great because it's been more or less unchanged since 2011, but WGC also provides a few advantages to players and a few advantages for us. For players, it offers the ability to have all your Wargaming titles under one centralized launcher that automatically keeps them up to date for you. It also offers the ability to save multiple accounts to one launcher and easily hotswap between them. If there is more than one Tanks player in your home using the same device, this feature might be useful to you. I use it to switch between my main account and Sheriff account when I'm streaming. 

As for the advantages it offers us: including making all of the above more convenient for you, it gives us a more robust functionality for how we serve and spotlight content/news articles, and gives us better tracking metrics for clickthrough rates and traffic being driven from the launcher to the news portal.   Essentially, it gives us a better idea of how many people are being directed to various news articles via the launcher, and improve the ways we publish new information so that it's more relevant to our players. 

So, in a way, you're right: But the only thing we're spying on is what articles you are clicking on via the launcher.

DomoSapien: Spoke with the money folks, they are investigating a technical issue with the presale offer. Sorry, jumped the gun a bit.

Will post an update once it's resolved!

DomoSapien: Fortec is one of our Spanish-speaking Community Contributors, and they all got access to the vehicle a few days early to prepare their content for the vehicle.

The Lansen C Presale offer is also live on the Premium Shop.

DomoSapien: To my knowledge, there are no current plans to add stat bonuses to crew skins. We toyed with the idea of adding bonuses to emblems and inscriptions back in Rubicon and the community was very vocal with feedback about the potential bonuses so they were never implemented. 

The 'quality' of the crew skins will likely have to do with extra cosmetic features such as custom voiceover for your commander.

Felipe6666Original: ¡Buenas!   Muy pronto, el mediano sueco de nivel IX, el UDES 16 (el rezagado que estábamos ajustando todavía), ingresará al Supertest. Este vehículo se parece mucho al nivel X de esta línea dado que comparten una torreta proclive a los rebotes. Teniendo en cuenta su poder de fuego, el calibre del cañón es el mismo que del nivel VIII (105 mm), pero con un daño alfa de 390 puntos, más precisión y más penetración.   Imágenes     Por supuesto, el UDES 16 mantiene la característica principal de los nuevos suecos: el cañón puede alcanzar los -5/+15 grados de depresión/elevación, y la suspensión hidroneumática añade -7/+6 grados a esos valores. Eso significa que en total el cañón puede alcanzar un ángulo de depresión efectivo de -12. La movilidad del tanque permitirá aprovechar esta ventaja tomando posiciones clave rápidamente: la velocidad máxima es de 50 km/h, y la potencia específica es de 21,1 CV/t.   Como siempre, tengan en cuenta que todos estos valores pueden seguir cambiando de acuerdo a los resultados de las pruebas.   ¡Saludos!

Felipe6666Original: ¡Vamos que esto no termina todavía! ¡Quiero ver más creaciones!

Felipe6666Original: ¡No se olviden de seguir publicando sus ideas para que las evalúe! Sé que hay ya varias aquí, pero nunca es malo hacerse con un buen stock   ¡Saludos!

Felipe6666Original:   ¡Gracias! Bueno, no es novedad que hace tiempo se removieron las Guerras de Clanes para los niveles VI y VIII, pero no hay planes por ahora de reincorporarlas.  

Felipe6666Original:   Sí, sabemos que el servidor Central está generando algunos problemas de conexión para algunos jugadores y estamos siguiendo el problema de cerca. De cualquier forma, no me parecería una mala idea contactar con Soporte para asegurarse de que todos los puertos necesarios están habilitados.   ¡Saludos!

Felipe6666Original: ¡Buenas!   Mis vacaciones llegaron a su fin así que estaré a pleno nuevamente. Aquí van los torneos para este fin de semana:   2 vs. 2: Luchas de viernes por la noche: https://worldoftanks.com/es-ar/tournaments/1000000916/ - Nivel VI 1 vs. 1: Duelos de sábado: https://worldoftanks.com/es-ar/tournaments/1000000917/ - Nivel VI 3 vs. 3: Pelotones de domingo: https://worldoftanks.com/es-ar/tournaments/1000000919/ - Nivel VII   ¡Saludos!

TeriyakiTanker:   /No you cannot move the crew to another Russian non-premium tank without a penalty.  You can however move any Russian medium crew into it without a penalty and you could also train the Rudy crew to a Russian non-premium tank and then use the crew in the Rudy with no penalty.  Works the same as any other premium tank.

DomoSapien: Well I'm not a developer, and our developers' jobs tend to be development, not reading the forums for feedback (that's part of my job ), but contrary to your point I will be adding this to my 1.4.1 feedback report. Can you please submit a ticket with attached replays demonstrating the issue and send me a PM with your ticket ID? The more data we have to investigate reports like this one, the better.

DomoSapien: New stats for the UDES 16 incoming:

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys,  This weekend (March 23-24) is the Museum of The American GI's Living History Weekend in College Station, Texas!We've got some free tickets to give out for the Saturday portion of the event and all you have to do to get your name included at Will-Call is comment telling us which tank you're most excited to see in person. We'll reply if you won tickets!If you are interested in the event you can also enter here for the event. Saturday's schedule includes:10AM- Gates Open
10 -1PM- Guided WWI Trench Tours
12PM- Weapons Demonstration
1PM- Tank Talk
2:15PM - WWII Spectator Area opens
3PM- WWII Battle Reenactment
Food Vendors: Chef Tai, Chick-Fil-A, and Blake's SteaksSee more about the event by visiting the link HERE!Good Luck!

Einzelganger7:   Yeah, in my case I also use optics, rammer and vents. It works good with that configuration because you easily get past 445 view range if you train Recon and Situational awareness on your crew, and it is not even necessary to have those skills at 100% so the max view range could be achieved soon.

Einzelganger7: Well, these skins are kind of meaningless because only the owner can see them in the garage, even so I will try to use this new feature but how can we get new crew skins anyway? I only use German tanks and unfortunately got French and Polish crew skins.