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ElPozoleOlmeca: Y este topic? 

PollotheDestroyer: Y este topic? 

ApolloArtemis: Y este topic? 

ElPozoleOlmeca: Yo no tengo duda de que si estaríamos al tu por tu con los Clanes de EEUU las cosas serían diferentes. Hay varios clanes latinos que veo pueden quedar dentro del top 10 a nivel servidor (y quizá a nivel mundial). El chiste de mi mensaje es que nada más tomen la noticia como un rumor. Y después de investigar el ticket que le mandaron a Claukivero nada más era para informarle que un servidor (más bien un cluster) es una posibilidad que hemos pensado, pero de ahí no era nada seguro ni una promesa de que va haber uno.    Poniendo algo como un servidor o hasta un cluster no es algo que se puede hacer de un día para el otro. Para empezar, hay varios pasos de investigación (que países pueden soportar esta infraestructura, cuales son las leyes de caída país en donde esto es una posibilidad, que país seria un candidato para darles el servicio más optimizado). Esos primeros pasos pueden tardar meses, y una vez que tengamos un país ahora se viene el problema de tener que instalar/poner los servidores, optimizar las conexiones para que el ping/lag sea lo más mínimo posible. 

PollotheDestroyer: Yo no tengo duda de que si estaríamos al tu por tu con los Clanes de EEUU las cosas serían diferentes. Hay varios clanes latinos que veo pueden quedar dentro del top 10 a nivel servidor (y quizá a nivel mundial). El chiste de mi mensaje es que nada más tomen la noticia como un rumor. Y después de investigar el ticket que le mandaron a Claukivero nada más era para informarle que un servidor (más bien un cluster) es una posibilidad que hemos pensado, pero de ahí no era nada seguro ni una promesa de que va haber uno.    Poniendo algo como un servidor o hasta un cluster no es algo que se puede hacer de un día para el otro. Para empezar, hay varios pasos de investigación (que países pueden soportar esta infraestructura, cuales son las leyes de caída país en donde esto es una posibilidad, que país seria un candidato para darles el servicio más optimizado). Esos primeros pasos pueden tardar meses, y una vez que tengamos un país ahora se viene el problema de tener que instalar/poner los servidores, optimizar las conexiones para que el ping/lag sea lo más mínimo posible. 

ApolloArtemis: Yo no tengo duda de que si estaríamos al tu por tu con los Clanes de EEUU las cosas serían diferentes. Hay varios clanes latinos que veo pueden quedar dentro del top 10 a nivel servidor (y quizá a nivel mundial). El chiste de mi mensaje es que nada más tomen la noticia como un rumor. Y después de investigar el ticket que le mandaron a Claukivero nada más era para informarle que un servidor (más bien un cluster) es una posibilidad que hemos pensado, pero de ahí no era nada seguro ni una promesa de que va haber uno.    Poniendo algo como un servidor o hasta un cluster no es algo que se puede hacer de un día para el otro. Para empezar, hay varios pasos de investigación (que países pueden soportar esta infraestructura, cuales son las leyes de caída país en donde esto es una posibilidad, que país seria un candidato para darles el servicio más optimizado). Esos primeros pasos pueden tardar meses, y una vez que tengamos un país ahora se viene el problema de tener que instalar/poner los servidores, optimizar las conexiones para que el ping/lag sea lo más mínimo posible. 

ElPozoleOlmeca: Por favor pon un traceroute 

PollotheDestroyer: Por favor pon un traceroute 

ApolloArtemis: Por favor pon un traceroute 

ElPozoleOlmeca:   Si! Si te registraste nada más espera que te llegue un correo 

PollotheDestroyer:   Si! Si te registraste nada más espera que te llegue un correo 

ApolloArtemis:   Si! Si te registraste nada más espera que te llegue un correo 

Lert: Did you just call me old?   You'd be right.

Lert: And then you still don't tell an absolute beginner at "Here's what you need to do to be in the top 10% of worldwide". That just discourages.

Lert:   If you set realistic, attainable goals relative to your current performance, you get a lot more motivation. It's all relative to your current performance.   Example:   For someone averaging .5 times his hitpoints, telling him to aim for 1.5 is too far a goal. Start with .75, and if he manages that, 1. After that, he can aim for 1.25. That way he has realistically achievable goals and he can feel good about himself for each and every one. It works a lot better to keep motivated that way.

The_Chieftain: I actually got asked about that directly by PM by a Russian player, and it's interesting how external viewpoints can challenge what you think you know. The question was "What is a Hellcat? Opinion here is split between a witch and a cat. Both seem to have merit"   I had never thought about it. So, I decided to go looking it up. And, bizarrely, if you look at a dictionary, such as http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellcat , you get "witch" or http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/hellcat "a violent, spiteful woman." What you don't get is anything referring to felines, ferocity or flames of punishment.   Now, I happen to think that when Buick and Grumman came up with the names "Hellcat", that they had in mind a fierce feline, the cat from hell. But that's my personal opinion formed by years of always thinking that a Hellcat was a fierce kitty. I have absolutely nothing to back that up. On the other hand, according to Webster's, "Hellcat" has meant "witch" for about four hundred years. It's entirely possible that the Russian interpretation of the name is actually more correct than ours.  

The_Chieftain:   It's simple. I disagree with them.   I suspect much is due to philosophy and point of view. Most of the arty complainers are commenting on how artillery affects the individual player on the battlefield at any particular point in time in the game, and not on the overall effect of artillery in a team game of fifteen vehicles of different types per side over the course of the game.

ElPozoleOlmeca: Por favor no hagan compra de Oro/tiempo premium o cualquier otra cosa de Wargaming si no lo están haciendo dentro de la tienda oficial.   La pagina casi se ve verdadera....pero si te fijas no tiene ninguna pestaña para cambiar idiomas ni nada. 

PollotheDestroyer: Por favor no hagan compra de Oro/tiempo premium o cualquier otra cosa de Wargaming si no lo están haciendo dentro de la tienda oficial.   La pagina casi se ve verdadera....pero si te fijas no tiene ninguna pestaña para cambiar idiomas ni nada. 

ApolloArtemis: Por favor no hagan compra de Oro/tiempo premium o cualquier otra cosa de Wargaming si no lo están haciendo dentro de la tienda oficial.   La pagina casi se ve verdadera....pero si te fijas no tiene ninguna pestaña para cambiar idiomas ni nada. 

Lert:   Yeah ofcourse goals should be higher than what you're currently doing, because they are goals. But they should also be realistic - you don't tell someone who jogs 30 minutes every night to aim for olympic gold medal times either do you?   OP is beginning. He's still learning the absolute basics. And here are people just cheerfully telling him "yeah, just do this (should be easy!) and you'll be in the top 10% of players worldwide." without actually giving him any specific usable hints about how to go about doing that.   How do you win a gold medal at the olympics? "Yeah just move one foot in front of the other faster than the other guy. Easy!" ....

Lert:   No. I'm not kidding. You vastly underestimate how stupid the playerbase in general is, and how good you are in comparison. It's like a reverse dunning-kruger. Stupid people don't realize how stupid they are, and players like you who think they are 'barely above average' are far better than that.   Look it up. Look up your ratio of damage done to own hitpoints and compare it to serverwide averages. Doing your own hitpoints in damage already puts you in the top 15% of players. That's how bad the playerbase is. You can think you're 'only slightly above average', but the fact remains that you're in the top 10% of players worldwide easily.   Think about it this way: If the top 7 or 8 players on a single team do 1.5x their own hitpoints, the enemy team would be dead and there would be no hitpoints left for the rest of the winning team to farm. So how could 1.5x your hitpoints be 'average'?

Lert:   Please give him realistic goals. 1.5x your own HP in damage is the top 8% of players, not 'average' or even lemon (yellow).

pizzastorm: Tankers! To get into the spirit of PAX (Penny Arcade eXpo), we would like to get back to the roots of Penny Arcade's webcomic series with a number of comics from our community!  We would like for you to make a tutorial comic that you could use to teach a newer player more about World of Tanks.   Here are a few examples from one of our very own Wargaming staff members:   How to join the contest: Create a World of Tanks tutorial comic (This can be of any length. Even just one cell long) Include your in-game name somewhere on your comic Post your comic picture to this contest thread!   Rules: All players are welcome to join the contest, but each player can submit only one entry. The creation must be designed exclusively for this contest. Entries will be judged on creativity, quality, etc. The image requirements are as follows: format — JPEG, PNG, or GIF The image must comply with the moral, ethical, and legal standards, as well as with the Forum rules. Wargaming gains exclusive rights to the contest image when you post it on the forum, as outlined in the “10. User Generated Content” section of the Terms of Service. 
  Winners: 1st place: 12,000 Gold + 1 week of Premium Time  2nd place: 10,000 Gold + 1 week of Premium Time 3rd place: 8,000 Gold + 1 week of Premium Time 4th-6th place: 6,000 Gold + 1 week of Premium Time 7th10 place: 4,000 Gold + 1 week of Premium Time   The submission deadline is Monday, March 16 at 9:00 AM PST (March 16 5:00 PM UTC).

ElPozoleOlmeca: Hoy comienza el Beta Cerrado de World of Tanks Generals. Si todavía no se han registrado entonces no se lo pierdan:   http://wotgenerals.com/

PollotheDestroyer: Hoy comienza el Beta Cerrado de World of Tanks Generals. Si todavía no se han registrado entonces no se lo pierdan:   http://wotgenerals.com/

ApolloArtemis: Hoy comienza el Beta Cerrado de World of Tanks Generals. Si todavía no se han registrado entonces no se lo pierdan:   http://wotgenerals.com/

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Lert:   Considering the fact that I'm usually staring right at the [edited] of my tank at the moment it explodes, something like this gets noticed yeah.

Hypnotik:    

Hypnotik: Yes, me and vegan are for the semis and the finals.

The_Chieftain: I have officially given up on trying to save for a Tesla, and have bought one of the most plain, unexciting cars it is possible to acquire. A Passat Diesel.   Now, I understand why Diesels haven't really taken off in the US. The fuel is more expensive per gallon than petrol, and the base cost of the car is higher than that of the petrol. The higher base cost is the same argument why hybrids haven't taken a bigger bite off petrol as well.   What I don't understand, however, is why so many people are buying hybrids instead of diesels. The E250 or Passat are substantially bigger cars than a Prius or Insight, and get better on-the-road mileage. Passat is the same price (Actually a touch cheaper than a Prius). Other converted vehicles like the Fusion Hybrid see cargo space taken up by batteries. If you want a small car, get a Golf TDI. If you don't live in a dense city like Manhattan where the start-stop has the battery make sense, and never take road trips, why go Hybrid?

The_Chieftain: It seems to me that the obvious solution is to find a Churchill I, and apply a tape measure to it.I'm hoping to go to Borden later this summer... There is no getting around the fact that the dimensions of Churchill I in the current HD game model matches the dimensions listed in the Churchill I's operator's manual. It's possible the manual is wrong or inaccuate. It is also possible the manual is correct.

ElPozoleOlmeca: y quien te dijo eso? Por ahora no hay planes de poner un servidor en Latinoamérica. De que hay posibilidades en un futuro lejano de poner uno? si  por ahora ese articulo solamente son especulaciones hechos por un tal "insider" 

PollotheDestroyer: y quien te dijo eso? Por ahora no hay planes de poner un servidor en Latinoamérica. De que hay posibilidades en un futuro lejano de poner uno? si  por ahora ese articulo solamente son especulaciones hechos por un tal "insider" 

ApolloArtemis: y quien te dijo eso? Por ahora no hay planes de poner un servidor en Latinoamérica. De que hay posibilidades en un futuro lejano de poner uno? si  por ahora ese articulo solamente son especulaciones hechos por un tal "insider" 

Lert:   Two visual bugs with the destroyed model:   - One of the two round 'bicycle wheels' hatches on the rear of the vehicle is shown open, yet roughly 1/3 of the hatch is still shown in closed position - Likewise, the engine access hatch on the back of the vehicle is shown open, while still being closed on the model.   I've highlighted them on this next pic:     I doubt they're going to spend resources in fixing a bug this small on vehicle this rare, but since the hull of the ISU-130 is basically just a copy-paste of the ISU-152's hull, it might affect the ISU-152 as well. I just don't have one to check it on. Can someone confirm / deny?

Lert:   I would. And did.    

HBFT:  

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HBFT:   Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.  The deadline should read as "Tuesday, March 3", not "Monday, March 2".  This has been updated in the original post.  Thank you for the heads up and my apologies for the confusion!    P.S.  These interviews are looking awesome!  I can't wait to check them out...maybe with a bag of popcorn and some tea. "tea" hee hee

Lert:   What do I care what SerB calls me? No, seriously, why should I provide an airborne copulation? Oooooooh someone called me a [edited]. Surely that shall affect my life negatively for eternity!   Buncha whiners. Grow the [edited] [edited]ing [edited] [edited] up.