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Hambijon: 2v2: Saturday Tank Toons!   SCHEDULE: Registration Start: 1/4 at 08:00 PST | 10:00 CT | 11:00 EST Registration End: 1/12 at 07:00 PST | 9:00 CT | 10:00 EST Tournament Start: 1/12 at 08:00 PST | 10:00 CT | 11:00 EST   RULES: 2/10 Format 2v2 Tier 5 8 teams per group Encounter on Ensk Cap time is 45 seconds Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 8 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks No tie breakers ROUND ROBIN: Teams earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. Ties in points will go to the player who beat the tied player in the series ​Player 1 and Player 2 are tied for points During the series, Player 1 beat Player 2 and is therefore the winner of the tie. Bonds are manually credited and can take up to 1 week after the tournament finishes to be fulfilled. Gold, Credits, and Free XP Prizing is always split among the entire team based on the AMOUNT OF BATTLES A PLAYER participated in unless specified otherwise. A player must participate in at least 1 battle to qualify for prizing. All tournament details, scheduling, rules and regulations are subject to change without notice. Breaking EULA or Game Rules will disqualify your team from the end results with no prizing.   PRIZING:  

Jambijon: Hello Everyone! To follow 1984BigBrothers lead, I'll get this weekends tournaments posted up separately in hopes of better organizing our feedback, suggestions, issues, or concerns for each tourney. 7v7: Friday Night Fights! SCHEDULE:Registration Start: 1/4 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 EST Registration End: 1/11 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 EST Tournament Start: 1/11 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 EST RULES:7/42 Format 7v7 Tier 6 8 teams per group Standard Cap Standard on Overlord Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 10 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks No tie breakers ROUND ROBIN: Teams earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. Ties in points will go to the player who beat the tied player in the series ​Player 1 and Player 2 are tied for points During the series, Player 1 beat Player 2 and is therefore the winner of the tie. Bonds are manually credited and can take up to 1 week after the tournament finishes to be fulfilled. Gold, Credits, and Free XP Prizing is always split among the entire team based on the AMOUNT OF BATTLES A PLAYER participated in unless specified otherwise. A player must participate in at least 1 battle to qualify for prizing. All tournament details, scheduling, rules and regulations are subject to change without notice. Breaking EULA or Game Rules will disqualify your team from the end results with no prizing. PRIZING:  

BigDaddyLaxative: Hello Everyone!   To follow 1984BigBrothers lead, I'll get this weekends tournaments posted up separately in hopes of better organizing our feedback, suggestions, issues, or concerns for each tourney.   7v7: Friday Night Fights!   SCHEDULE: Registration Start: 1/4 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 EST Registration End: 1/11 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 EST Tournament Start: 1/11 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 EST   RULES: 7/42 Format 7v7 Tier 6 8 teams per group Standard Cap Standard on Overlord Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 10 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks No tie breakers ROUND ROBIN: Teams earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. Ties in points will go to the player who beat the tied player in the series ​Player 1 and Player 2 are tied for points During the series, Player 1 beat Player 2 and is therefore the winner of the tie. Bonds are manually credited and can take up to 1 week after the tournament finishes to be fulfilled. Gold, Credits, and Free XP Prizing is always split among the entire team based on the AMOUNT OF BATTLES A PLAYER participated in unless specified otherwise. A player must participate in at least 1 battle to qualify for prizing. All tournament details, scheduling, rules and regulations are subject to change without notice. Breaking EULA or Game Rules will disqualify your team from the end results with no prizing.   PRIZING:    

Hambijon: Hello Everyone!   To follow 1984BigBrothers lead, I'll get this weekends tournaments posted up separately in hopes of better organizing our feedback, suggestions, issues, or concerns for each tourney.   7v7: Friday Night Fights!   SCHEDULE: Registration Start: 1/4 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 EST Registration End: 1/11 at 16:00 PST | 18:00 CT | 19:00 EST Tournament Start: 1/11 at 17:00 PST | 19:00 CT | 20:00 EST   RULES: 7/42 Format 7v7 Tier 6 8 teams per group Standard Cap Standard on Overlord Round Robin - 1 battle each Battles will last 10 minutes max. There will be 5 minute staging/round breaks No tie breakers ROUND ROBIN: Teams earn 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. Ties in points will go to the player who beat the tied player in the series ​Player 1 and Player 2 are tied for points During the series, Player 1 beat Player 2 and is therefore the winner of the tie. Bonds are manually credited and can take up to 1 week after the tournament finishes to be fulfilled. Gold, Credits, and Free XP Prizing is always split among the entire team based on the AMOUNT OF BATTLES A PLAYER participated in unless specified otherwise. A player must participate in at least 1 battle to qualify for prizing. All tournament details, scheduling, rules and regulations are subject to change without notice. Breaking EULA or Game Rules will disqualify your team from the end results with no prizing.   PRIZING:    

Felipe6666Original: Paso simplemente para avisar que estamos comenzando tímidamente a debatir esta idea (la considero buena, dicho sea de paso), pero no tomen esto como una promesa o posibilidad de concreción. Son varias cosas a evaluar (sobre todo con los cambios que irán llegando paulatinamente este año).   ¡Saludos!

Felipe6666Original: En verdad, son todas cosas que ya hacemos por nuestra cuenta o para las que contamos con un socio (bueno, excepto por lo del álbum de figuritas). En todo caso, puede debatirse la viabilidad de que esos productos puedan ofrecerse en el mercado latinoamericano utilizando socios locales, pero lo veo poco probable en el futuro próximo por una simple razón: ni siquiera los Estados Unidos cuentan con su propia versión de la Wargaming Store, sino que ofrece la europea.   ¡Saludos!

MA77: Saudações!

Gostaria de lembrá-los que a categoria 2D (Digital) não é semelhante a do mês passado, a "Montagem". O trabalho 2D (Digital) é semelhante ao criado pelo ​Creep_Ace.

Smallock, ​DarkEmperorGodlike____o7 e ravazi​, vocês tem até o final do prazo para refazer a participação de vocês, caso contrário, não serão válidas. 

MA77:   ​Já tentou a reinstalação do seu driver de vídeo?

Felipe6666Original: Paso para aclarar que ustedes también podrán sacar sus propias conclusiones con datos más duros cuando salga la Prueba Común, no es algo que estará habilitado solo para mí   ¡Saludos!

Felipe6666Original: Bueno, parece que sobrevivimos el primer fin de semana del año sin problemas. Veamos cómo nos va en el segundo:   7 vs. 7: Lucha de viernes por la noche: https://worldoftanks.com/es-ar/tournaments/1000000873/ - Nivel VI 2 vs. 2: Pelotones de sábado: https://worldoftanks.com/es-ar/tournaments/1000000870/ - Nivel V 3 vs. 3: Incursión de suministros de sábado: https://worldoftanks.com/es-ar/tournaments/1000000871/ - Nivel VII 4 vs. 4: Maestría de domingo: https://worldoftanks.com/es-ar/tournaments/1000000872/ - Nivel IX   Por cierto, las misiones de los torneos debería haber funcionado correctamente este fin de semana (es decir, no se debería haber reiniciado el progreso logrado), pero sería bueno que alguien pudiera confirmar esta información. De cualquier manera, ahora se requiere completar cuatro misiones para obtener el premio mayor, no las seis.   ¡Saludos!

TeriyakiTanker:   Yup this is correct.

TeriyakiTanker:   They want you to buy boxes or complete one set.

TeriyakiTanker:   Well I use the following mods 1.  In garage carousel lets me have 4 rows of tanks 2.  Yaesen Krasen session stats 3.  MoE tracker
  None of those provide any in game information or benefit at all, so why would you have a problem with them?

Volier_Zcit: Please send a ticket to our Customer Support Team. Locking this thread.

KRZYBooP: Congrats to the Winners for the December 2018 From the Forge Contest.   1st: Righteous_Reaper 2nd: Physhtanks  3rd: Aph1139    

TeriyakiTanker:   I wasn't convinced looking at the 257 stuff but after that there are multiple points where it is pretty obvious he actually is using an aim bot.  Of course he hasn't been banned yet either.  Its a shame and it does make you wonder.  Dudes reticle is jumping all over vehicles including to a cupola early on too.  Look at him leading the vehicle through the village you can clearly see the aim bot jumping around while the vehicle is behind a building.

KRZYBooP:     Sure thing. My apologies for missing it on the initial post. 

KRZYBooP:   Aww thanks and have fun with your weekend project!   I have a negative post count due to me breaking the forums and posting the same thing like 300 times. I removed all the posts and it put me in the negatives.    Bright side is that I am slowly digging my way up to positive. I was at -200 earlier today. 

DomoSapien:  

DomoSapien:     No current plans for those gentlemen specifically yet, but we've got some stuff on the horizon that will make getting people like meathead, chieftain etc added as crew substantially easier for us. That's all I can share about that at this time though

As for Steven: showing you guys what Steven actually looks like would ruin the mystery! I can assure you, however, he is a real person.   Although I guess we could make his portrait look like this:    

DomoSapien:   ​I hear ya. It's definitely on the roadmap, but right now our main focus is on key issues like gold ammo, matchmaking, etc.    Fun fact: remember the Contact List issue back in... 2016, 2017? That was a result of changes made to some completely unrelated part of the Client UI. It has seen several facelifts, but WoT has been around for a long time. Sometimes, changing something seemingly simple turns out to be a much bigger challenge.    Tl;dr - Eventually, yes, the barracks is likely to see a facelift as well, but that will come after we work on balance and MM.

KRZYBooP:   They don't tell me very far in advance when things are going on sale. There is a supply raid happening this month so you can get more consumables. I know I got a bunch from the loot boxes. Yes that's not the same as a consumable sale but I am always one to find that silver lining.    

KRZYBooP:   no hard set dates, but stay tuned for later in Jan.  

KRZYBooP:   This weekend and throughout the month you can consumables for free during the supply raid missions.      

KRZYBooP: Duuuuuddddeeee! Where you learn to GIF like that?!  xD    I love the way you deliver Christmas Camo wrapped Cheer. 

DomoSapien:   Charlotte Wells is a fictional Character created specifically for the Twitch Prime promotion. Pretty sure her portrait is based off of a model that was hired for that purpose. No special significance outside of the Twitch Partnership

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockies!  Sadly there will not be a formal January Preview on our news portal this month. In the mean time I have found some Fun Facts to share with everyone concerning some of the things to look forward to in January.  1Jan - 1Feb:     Buy 30 days of Premuim and get the M3 Light tank + Garage Slot + 100% Crew Free.      T-45 Tank on sale: New Bundle Added every week.  Tanks of the Week:     4Jan - 11Jan: FV4202     11Jan - 18Jan: M46 Patton KR     18Jan - 25Jan: 8,8cm PaK 43 Jagdtiger     25Jan - 1Feb: M4A1 Revalorise Weekly Deals:     3Jan - 14Jan: Type 62 + Schmalturm     7Jan - 14Jan: Super War Chest     21Jan - 28Jan: Triumvirate     Events:      1Jan - 1Feb: Play your Tank Class Right     1Jan - 1Feb: Tournament Missions      4Jan - 7Jan: x3 Crew XP Weekend      7Jan - 10Jan: x1.5 XP Weekend + Supply Raid     18Jan - 22Jan: x4 XP Weekend     22Jan - 1Feb: Super Awesomely secret Battle Event      25Jan - 28Jan: x2 Crew XP Weekend      On Tracks:     9Jan - 28Jan: On Track to the T57 Heavy      30Jan - 18Feb: On Track to the STB-1 Tank Mastery:      4Jan - 14Jan:            XM551 Sheridan           TVP VTU Koncept           KV-1S           Jagdpanzer IV     11Jan - 21Jan:            VK 28.01           WZ-120            Black Prince                  Object 263     18Jan - 28Jan:            WZ-132A           M4A3E2  Sherman Jumbo            T1 Heavy Tank            StuG III Ausf. G      25Jan - 1Feb:             T37             Leopard Prototyp A             Tiger II             T110E4 All Information above is subject to change without notice. 

DomoSapien:   All valid points, I really don't like throwing my colleagues under the bus, and I don't have control over the news portal or events, so I try to focus on the positives and clearing up any misinformation (you know, when I'm not the one spreading the misinformation like I did a bit earlier today!) I can. I certainly didn't do the best job of articulating myself about it either, so needless to say I appreciate all you fine folks in the community keeping me on my toes!

That said I don't think "wind-down" mode is really an accurate description. Wargaming helped me relocate to Austin, and I know for a fact that moving to another state isn't cheap. "wind-down" implies we are moving towards closure, which is not in our plans for the future. In fact, we're moving to a bigger office some time this year so that we have space for additional staff.

EDIT: This just in! KrzyBoop managed to bribe the website overlords with an offering of 100 battles in the Churchill Gun Carriage, and has blessed us with this month's overview!

DomoSapien: Are you planning on publishing one of these for each nation? If so, would you mind compiling them in a master thread afterwards and PMing me a link so I can pin it to the newcomer's forum?

DomoSapien: So, this thread reminds me of a really cool hat pin I got at Electric Forest Festival last year. I wish wore that hat to the office today so I could attach a gif, but essentially the pin has a single word on a cool rainbow-colored background, but the word is on a swivel so it rotates.

It's also written in a sort of gothic/medieval style. One way it says "Forest" and when you spin it around it says "Family."   So the writing on the T26E5's barrel could definitely be open for interpretation
 

DomoSapien:   Interesting, this could be the case. I probably shouldn't generalize the Sandbox community as being representative of all other regions Thanks for pointing that out!

DomoSapien:   I agree! Hopefully the new customization system is indicative of the direction we're going in with non-essential personalization features. I really like being able to mount and dismount my camo patterns, emblems, inscriptions, paints, and mount them on a different vehicle with no additional cost. Happy to add your suggestion to my next report

DomoSapien:   Most definitely! I will do my best to put in a good word with the Monetization and Events guys, I certainly wouldn't mind some tech tree discounts as well

DomoSapien:
It always warms my heart to see players disagree while maintaining some level of civil decorum. +1 for both of ya's! Not to worry, WC, I'm not dead yet

DomoSapien:   I noticed something similar with my Map Mondays guides (those should be starting back up soon, by the way!) :

First, I would post them in general discussion. However, once I moved them to the Newcomer's forum, they started averaging much higher in pageviews.

Many new players interface with the forums precisely like I used to when I was a new player: For each person who comments on the thread, there are hundreds that simply open it, read it, enjoy it, and move on.

Felipe6666Original:   Veo que ya lo corregiste  

Felipe6666Original:   Utilizando la flechita verde que figura en el márgen inferior derecho de cada comentario   ¡Saludos!

Felipe6666Original: Chicos, por favor, bajemos los ánimos que tenemos que discutir pacíficamente. Entiendo perfectamente que hay jugadores que ni siquiera quieren escuchar hablar de este posible cambio y otros que lo quieren mañana mismo, pero no vamos a llegar a buen puerto si no es con respeto.   Todos tienen derecho a opinar por el simple hecho de que este es un juego dinámico, con renovación constante de jugadores, no algo estático que tiene a los mismos desde siempre. Claro que quien juega desde hace 5 o 6 años conocerá mucho más del juego o podrá fundar su opinión de mejor forma, pero eso no quita que el que juega hace 2 o 3 años no pueda dar una perspectiva igual de válida, sobre todo porque experimentó el juego de otra manera, completamente distinto a lo que vivimos los más viejos cuando arrancamos.   La Prueba Común para este cambio comenzará pronto y va a ser una actualización MUY cargada de contenido, estoy deseoso de probarla para sacar conclusiones basadas en lo que veo (está bien que el test tampoco es perfecto para eso porque se tiende mucho a probar cosas en lugar de jugar seriamente, pero igual es un buen campo de pruebas).   ¡Saludos!

DomoSapien: Quite likely, yes! I'm not sure if Jane White is in fact modeled after Peppidy but it's definitely a possibility. 

In fact, several of the crew portraits for certain nations are modeled after Wargaming Chicago Staff.

DomoSapien: This is excellent feedback, thank you for sharing!  I will definitely echo Ortinoth's sentiment: Keep in mind that the MM tweaks for SEA were in fact a test. A test that provided us with a lot of really valuable information, and really valuable feedback.

Reginaldesq is correct: most of the feedback I gathered about the MM tweaks was overwhelmingly positive. I'm optimistic that the dev team is taking this feedback into consideration when working on the next wave of MM tweaks.

 

DomoSapien:  
My original comment actually should be gone entirely, but not the subsequent block quotes.

DomoSapien:   Got a bit ahead of myself there, you're right, we just still refer to the concept as a whole as "tankrewards" but it will likely be different, operationally and functionally. Regardless we are definitely keeping past experiences with TR in mind and hopefully we will be able to create something that is easier to keep track of and understand
 

DomoSapien:   ​Hmm, well I'm in community so I'm not involved in planning the sales. I wouldn't take me being dumb and linking an EU article because I have too many near-identical tabs open from when I was trying to find our Holiday Ops 2018 article as evidence of oversight on their part

I'm just dumb.

DomoSapien:   You're absolutely right, that was most certainly a goof on my part. Redacted to avoid further confusion!

DomoSapien:   Once upon a time, KrzyBoop broke the forums by somehow posting the same thread several thousand times with one mouse click. Deleting the threads resulted in a substantially negative post count.

DomoSapien:   Lebwa streamed on NA recently for like 12,000 viewers and it was really interesting to see his reaction to the NA playstyle. Our region plays much campier and more conservatively than the CIS or EU regions. 

I experienced this myself when I was trying out ranked battles beta on Sandbox; Ranked battles in NA are extremely campy, whereas players from other regions are much more likely to yolo in or orchestrate an organized push. 

I think Zero hit the nail on the head: our ecosystem is unique insofar as the fact that you're much more likely to run into pro-level players in your Random Battles in our region than others.

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As for OP's feedback, I'm happy to pass it on in my next report. I'm honestly not entirely sure why we split the servers for special events but I believe it may have something to do with server load and making sure connectivity is good during a period of time that generally brings back a lot of casual and returning players. The initial reason for the split during the Dark Front event was "To facilitate the creation of additional battle arenas for the Dark Front mode" but I do understand how this can be an unsatisfactory answer. 

DomoSapien: Theoretically, it resets every second of every day. 

It's a sliding scale going back 1 week. So one minute from now, any battles that ended one week and one minute ago will no longer be factored into the total (math isn't quite right there but you get the point)