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Subject: Feedback Wanted! Common Test 1.14 - Specific Topics
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Subject: The Chieftain's Random Musings Thread
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Subject: Crew 2.0: Join the New Sandbox Test!
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Subject: Crew 2.0: Join the New Sandbox Test!
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Subject: Crew 2.0: Join the New Sandbox Test!
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Subject: Global Map: Thunderstorm Regulations
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Subject: Global Map: Thunderstorm Regulations
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Subject: Why Does MM Keep Stacking Teams?
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da_Rock002, on Jul 19 2021 - 14:38, said: speaking of BS   It's BS to say "win more at the expense of others"  since every player in every battle is responsible for his contribution.    Just about ZERO battles are won or lost by ONE player.     You constantly create spin in threads with noise devoid of logic.    There is no expense of others...   Because there are no "others".    All 30 are responsible in every case.     And follow BS with your mind reading....    "You expect SBMM to.... blah blah"    So you read his mind to know what "behavior" he expects.  Almost all of us have been clear that fixing the unbalanced matchups to be fairly balanced will produce outcomes the same as MM allows that were balanced to begin with.   No better no worse.     

Subject: Why Does MM Keep Stacking Teams?
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SimplyPzB2, on Jul 18 2021 - 22:06, said:
Won't matter.   A 61% player will still win more than a 54% player.  I toon with many good players.  Over time I've noticed the toonmates that are slightly better than me, pull out more wins than I do.  And I pull out slightly more wins than the toonmates I'm slightly better than.  - This happens because there is far more than 'just skill' involved.  While skill is, by far, the most determining factor.  It's not the only factor.  One of the guys I toon with has just 1% better winrate.  I know why he does, he's slightly more patient than I am.  And patience tends to win more battles than being aggressive. (fyi, patience and camping hard are two different things - he doesn't just camp hard). - This is why you are so wrong all the time.  You are so focuses on trying to beat reality to fit your textbook definitions/expectations - you can't see what's really going on. - The best example of you failing on this is your use of 'battle duration' to say there is 'no difference' between balanced and unbalanced battles - because you say they take about the same time.  Thing is, they don't really.  In reality, the battle is 'over' rather quickly in unbalanced battles - but because of things like 'map size', 'tank spread/slow vs fast tanks', and 'last couple of good players stretching the battle out' - THEY APPEAR to last the same amount of time BECAUSE ALL YOU ARE LOOKING AT is when the clock stops.  In another post I showed a perfect example of this.  The game was 'over' about 3 minutes in (we were up by like 7 kills), but it still took a few minutes to finish the game out.   So while anyone playing/watching the game new the game was over in 3 minutes, you didn't.  You thought the game ended at 6 minutes.   I suppose the analogy would be a football game where one team is up by 3 touchdowns at the start of the 4th quarter.  Anyone playing/watching knows the game was over at the end of the 3rd quarter.  But not you, you saw they 'played' a full 4 quarters - thus proving (in your mind) that that blowout 'played the same' as a close game. - -  

Subject: query: Minefields and FrontLine and wheeliEbola..oh MY!
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Subject: Who asked for High Explosive shell Rework?
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valeman12345, on Jul 19 2021 - 07:38, said: Removing splash (as that`s point being called High Explosive ) extremely favoring 279(e) and Cheiftan/FV..others Too much favoritism suppose not happen. I just wondering

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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Maniac57c, on Jul 19 2021 - 03:49, said: I'd say the vast majority of players could care less about SBMM. But most of them get tired of the instafail battles. Anything that would reduce the chances of these instant blowouts would go a long way toward improving the game, regardless how it is done. What is needed is the crux of the argument.

Subject: Is WG'ing SABATOGING Frontline on PURPOSE?
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GaryPoole, on Jul 18 2021 - 17:02, said: One rule of thumb in the internet: anytime someone posts a QUESTION using ALLCAPS it means that answer almost ALWAYS no.  

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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Subject: Srongholds hacking
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BE_Wiggsy, on Jul 19 2021 - 01:03, said: Sadly you look like a fool to all those who read the Posts that Wargaming has made about hacking bans and lists of players banned that they published. 

Subject: I'm Still Playing WoT
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TheRealSerapth, on Jul 19 2021 - 00:46, said: Is it somewhat ironic that dweeb is about the most dweebish thing a dweeb could say?

Subject: Srongholds hacking
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BE_Wiggsy, on Jul 18 2021 - 21:02, said: Hacking is rampant in Strongholds, is anything ever going to be done. There are certain teams that have players that drop your ammo rack and crew members with EVERY shot. We still manage (BE & KRPOW) to whup them but not always and we play clean. Very annoying to watch them get away with it night after night! Embarrassing that lame players even need to cheat... Hoping something gets done one day soon!

YOU HACKING LAMES KNOW WHO YOU ARE! YOU WILL BE THE 1st ONES DENYING IT HAPPENS!

Subject: Tundra in an LT?
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Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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SimplyPzB2, on Jul 18 2021 - 22:37, said: "effectively guaranteed" win/loss.  That is what the 99% comment was saying.  While in reality if I play 100 25%ctw battles, I might win 15-20 of them - I've "effectively" lost all of them.  As it's such a low low low winrate for 100 battles.  If I'd played wot for 1,000 battles, and only won 150-200 of them - I'd have stopped playing the game.  No one likes to lose that badly. - So over the course of 10,000 battles - random mm give you about 2,000 battles rigged against you.  THAT'S A LOT OF 'EFFECTIVELY' guaranteed losses.  Which is the point.  It's not just that playing a rigged/guaranteed loss battle sucks.  It's that over time, we play thousands of them.   (And it's not just the auto-losses, it's the auto-wins as well.  While they don't have the sting of an auto-loss, the are still really boring/un-challenging).  - So I wasn't 'exaggerating', I was simply using 'shorthand'.   - -  

Subject: Tier 9 Frontline? ;~;
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mrtanker58, on Jul 18 2021 - 13:03, said: So far, on the TS, you lose money with a decent game in tier 9's.  You only make money if you have a VERY good game.  I forgot about RENTALS.  You will get RENTALS and good ones, Conq and E50.


mrtanker58, on Jul 18 2021 - 13:04, said:

Subject: I love the HE changes!
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The_Next_Penetration, on Jul 18 2021 - 22:06, said: KV2 is now parked. T49 is sold. Luckily the buff everyone was waiting for on Chieftains has finally arrived.

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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Mojo_Riesing, on Jul 18 2021 - 21:46, said:   Predictably you get it wrong.  Statistics inform, they do not "think".  They promote or provoke thought and in my experience when a given researcher always finds his personal notions proven...it's a good head's up to be suspicious.

Regardless, it's just a joke that sounds like hit a nerve.

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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SimplyPzB2, on Jul 18 2021 - 21:48, said:
Point 2 stated that a good team does not always blow out a bad team.  That's a fact.  It's common for the bad team to have a couple of good players that prevent a full on blowout.  Or it's also common for a bad team to camp hard, preventing a full on blowout, as digging them out takes time/hp/tanks - even with a good team.  That you don't know this speaks to your limited knowledge of gameplay. - SBMM is not about blowouts - BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT WINRATE EITHER.  Sbmm is about a "level playing field AT THE START of every battle".  Nothing more.  It's the random mm fanboys who have their panties in a bunch about win rate - not sbmm proponents. -

Subject: I'm Still Playing WoT
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Subject: 3 marking a tank with 40% winrate
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Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 08:43, said:   Kid, surely your mother didn't teach you to have manners like that. 

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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Mojo_Riesing, on Jul 18 2021 - 19:51, said:   I've heard it said that Actuaries are just Accountants with a sense of humor, and that Statisticians are Mathematicians with an opinion.

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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Siege_Engine, on Jul 18 2021 - 17:10, said:   That's great!  Pretty much sounds like what's happening in this forum.  I guess the only way to prove that the tree is green here would be with 1,000 technicians, each using 1,000 different spectrophotometers, each calibrated by 1,000 different labs, each producing 1,000 different graphs, and each graph analyzed by 1,000 different analysts.  Hahaha!  

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 08:41, said:   You will once you complete your elementary school education     I'm not the one getting butthurt about this "weird wonderland"   Goodnight kid.

Subject: WG please punish arty for stunning allies.
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Whistling_Death_, on Jul 18 2021 - 07:29, said:   SPG's can not do team damage.

Subject: How far behind the tracer is the arty?
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Whistling_Death_, on Jul 18 2021 - 07:32, said:   Reported.

Subject: This new game meta is getting old fast.
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My_Friend_Kermit, on Jul 17 2021 - 21:23, said:   Sorry. Missed a letter in your name. You have 2000 battles and a 66% winrate. You are a reroll with no tanks higher than teir 6 and your most played tanks are a Churchill III, Valentine and Pz. II.. So I really don't care what you have to say. Sorry I wasted my time on you. Bye.

Subject: query: Minefields and FrontLine and wheeliEbola..oh MY!
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Grillo_Parlante, on Jul 17 2021 - 21:12, said:   But did you give yourself your well deserved pat on the back?  When I was dying in the hospital from a horrible flesh eating disease, the first thing that was on my mind, and on the minds of my family members, was that someone like you would go around and inform people on a tank game forum about this new language taboo, and that it was mandatory that they agree with it, and they submit to you, lest they be labeled uncivilized.   

Subject: I love the HE changes!
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Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 06:57, said:     Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 06:57, said:   Don't know what kind of luck you were rolling, but the KV-2's accuracy was never good. Nowadays, I barely roll 200 against anything with armor thicker than 90mm no matter where I hit.   You must love playing the shill.     


Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 06:57, said:   Don't know what kind of luck you were rolling, but the KV-2's accuracy was never good. Nowadays, I barely roll 200 against anything with armor thicker than 90mm no matter where I hit.   You must love playing the shill. 

Subject: Did not know there was this spot
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Subject: 3 marking a tank with 40% winrate
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Treeburst, on Jul 18 2021 - 08:20, said:   That tells me you didn't really understand what was written. Anyway, another session ended with 5 losses in a row (4 blowout losses), with my "random" team averaging 1.5 players over 50% and the enemy teams averaging about 7. All totally "random" of course.   It is funny, I read once on these forums something about loss streaks. I can't remember who typed it up, it may have been Lester. Anyway, they said something along the lines of "Even a GREAT player (~60%, which I used to be) will see a five game losing streak on average once a week."   I see a five game losing streak practically every night I play.

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 08:35, said:   No, I was referring to make a comparison to a online video game suggestion to people ingesting cleaning products as idiotic.    This isn't Uno kid where you can deflect it back with a "No U"    You better get some sleep, it's past your bedtime. 

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Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 08:17, said:   Saying something like this really does justice to an old saying my grandfather used to tell me:   "It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."   Grandpa was right of course.    It's always a pleasure to see people on the forums (and in life in general) get butthurt when they hear ideas they don't like, and go on tantrums. 

Subject: I love the HE changes!
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Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 08:08, said:   Not a victim of anything, but you are indeed a WG shill. 

Subject: I love the HE changes!
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Edselman, on Jul 18 2021 - 06:57, said:   Don't know what kind of luck you were rolling, but the KV-2's accuracy was never good. Nowadays, I barely roll 200 against anything with armor thicker than 90mm no matter where I hit.     You must love playing the shill. 

Subject: Why do Some Argue Against Skill Based MM?
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SimplyPzB2, on Jul 18 2021 - 06:38, said:
On blowouts. - Point 1, blowouts will still happen between two equal teams.  But BOTH TEAMS have the opportunity to generate that blowout. - Point 2, blowouts don't always happen when a good team stomps a bad team.  Map size, a couple of good players making a solid last stand, etc.can prevent a blowout.  But when a good team plays a bad team, it's 99% locked in the good team will blow out the bad team.  (That "one time once" where a bad team blew out a good team in no way negates the 99 times the good team stomps the bad team). - Additionally.  sbmm is less about blowouts, and more about 'guaranteed' results.  The greater the skill imbalance, the more likely the result is predetermined.