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Gaea: You have chosen your favorite tank models! Thank you all for taking the time to participate in this contest, we received so many excellent submissions that choosing our finalists was a very difficult and long task!

Here are the winners chosen by you:


1. ARGENTVS - 99 votes

                    
http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24899

http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24902

2. Ak73 - 51 votes

                    
http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24871

http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24874

3. BLIMEY007 - 49 votes

                    
http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24827

http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24829

4. Seras_Victoria - 27 votes

                    
http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24857

http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24861


5. ne2n-hto - 26 votes

                    
http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24865

http://forum.worldof...attach_id=24867


Congratulations all of you! And thanks to all the other players that participated! Seeing the excitement around this contest, we will definitely be doing many more! Keep a close eye on the news!

You can see all of our finalists here.

GeneralDirection: It's usually ~2 weeks before the test starts. I'll request more info, but it's likely that I'll get it around the time we're actually announcing the public test start, since that's coming soon.

GeneralDirection: That'd be hard to do (Google Translate is proof :P), but we can discuss the idea of replicating a "dev tracker" of sorts on Twitter.

Mugsy_: Hello! Thank you for welcoming me. I look forward to getting to know you all and being as helpful as possible. I want to make sure our community feels heard and involved in shaping their own gaming experience. Our players are our experts and I look forward to learning from you. ~Mugsy_

GeneralDirection: Yeah, they'll happen before 7.5's release. But not the public test.

GeneralDirection: If we posted news every single time Storm, Serb or anyone else on the team made an informative post, it'd be impossible to keep up with the news section.

GeneralDirection: There are changes to the IS-4, Maus and E-100 in version 7.5. I recommend checking them out on the public test before making a decision. You should have that opportunity later this week.

GeneralDirection: Tankers!
Please join me in welcoming the newest member of our Community team. As part of Wargaming.net's ongoing efforts to improve the quality of your playing experience we’ve added a Community Manager to work directly with our Clan players. Mugsy_ is here to listen to the community's needs, ideas, concerns, feedback, etc. and convey them to the game's developers--all in an effort to improve your Clan experience.

GeneralDirection: I think we'll take the gold in that competition.

GeneralDirection: These changes are being made because of the matchmaker changes also in 7.5. If those listed tanks were left alone, they would dominate pretty hardcore with a lower tier spread.

GeneralDirection: Yes. Keep in mind that there may still be special cases for high tier lights, as well as SPGs. But the goal is to bring the majority of battles into a more competitive experience. Right now some tanks are simply not competitive in a large number of their battles.
This is a change we've been pushing for based on your feedback--as well as our own experiences playing the game--for a while now.

lord_farquad: I always do
They do not roll over manually.

lord_farquad:
I always do

They do not roll over manually.

Gaea: Check the news here!

Gaea: Check the news here!

Gaea: Check the news here!

Tanitha: Well especially if you are reporting that 1/2 the time there is no lag, but sometimes there is.
When you are having lag is when you need to be running ping plotter to see where the lag is coming from.
Regards
Tan

Tanitha: Its shareware, you don't need to buy it.

Tanitha: Yeah, as per the example above.
There isn't much point running ping plotter when the freeway/highway is clear, and then being told there is no traffic jams and no lag.
When you are having connection issues and lag, is the best time to run the program to see where the lag is coming from.
Then ping-plotter will show you if the lag is at your ISP, at our server, or at a Internet freeway/highway in between.
Regards
Tan.

Tanitha: Another way of phrasing this.
If you would allow me to set the scene for you..
Its Friday night, You make a booking at a posh theater in the city 50 Km's away.
Get dressed up, pick up the girl friend, then proceed to drive to the theater.
Along the way you come across a traffic jam caused by a accident on one of the freeways that you took to get to the theater.
After hours of not moving anywhere, you decide to turn around and head back home.
Then you ring the theater company and abuse them for the excessive traffic you had to get to their theater, and how their service is shocking.
The other 1000 people attending the theater that night, had a great time and arrived quickly and safely.
It was only the 5% of the people who took that particular highway, that had issues, due to that highway being blocked.
Explained like this, do you understand that your complaint is not really correct?
Of course players usually don't like listening to staff. Which is why we suggest and recommend to players who are having Internet lag issues for them to use a program such as Ping Plotter. Ping Plotter will analyze your connection from your house to our server, and provide you a detailed breakdown of exactly where lag is happening between YOU and our server.
Running this program, you will be able to see with your own eyes, exactly where the issue is.
Information on running ping plotter can be found here.

Tanitha: Another situation with "lag" is when it isn't Internet/server lag (IE When the ping plotter report shows no Internet lag or server issues),
Then the lag is then usually related to computer performance and the players computer not keeping up.
The best indicator of this situation is noting your FPS in game, anything less than 30 could do with adjustments being made with the graphic settings in game (turning graphics settings down) to get the computer and its graphics card, keeping up better.
Feel free to reply with a ping plotter screen-shot, and your FPS rating.
But without those two, assistance is not possible.
Thread moved to the error reporting section of the forums. /Tan
Regards
Tan.

lord_farquad: I am glad you enjoy the competition so much and we want to keep the competition top notch. Part of the concern is that lower prize pools could potentially result in less competition.
As always we're open to suggestions, and we know that some parts of the league need to be shortened. If players are willing to compete in a somewhat shorter league with smaller prize pools, we are more than willing to consider that option.

lord_farquad:
I am glad you enjoy the competition so much and we want to keep the competition top notch. Part of the concern is that lower prize pools could potentially result in less competition.

As always we're open to suggestions, and we know that some parts of the league need to be shortened. If players are willing to compete in a somewhat shorter league with smaller prize pools, we are more than willing to consider that option.

GeneralDirection: That is 30,000 peak concurrent, not total.

lord_farquad: This is not the case. Yes there are several clans (mainly -G-, and FORGE) who fit that scenario, but take SIMP for instance, or Team Fail. SIMP is a clan which almost exclusively plays tournaments (and is just now trying CW). Team Fail is composed of multiple clans, meaning that their team as a whole is not making a lot of income from CW. In addition, unless the clan is giving an entire day/week/month's income to one member, then the tournaments award are much different from CW.

lord_farquad:
This is not the case. Yes there are several clans (mainly -G-, and FORGE) who fit that scenario, but take SIMP for instance, or Team Fail. SIMP is a clan which almost exclusively plays tournaments (and is just now trying CW). Team Fail is composed of multiple clans, meaning that their team as a whole is not making a lot of income from CW. In addition, unless the clan is giving an entire day/week/month's income to one member, then the tournaments award are much different from CW.

GeneralDirection: Sent a note to the PR team.

Gaea: Multiple entries are fine. Although only one will be chosen, so if there is one that you prefer to be taken into consideration more than the others, please add that in your email. One submission per email please.

Gaea:

Gaea:
Multiple entries are fine. Although only one will be chosen, so if there is one that you prefer to be taken into consideration more than the others, please add that in your email. One submission per email please.

Gaea:

Gaea:
Multiple entries are fine. Although only one will be chosen, so if there is one that you prefer to be taken into consideration more than the others, please add that in your email. One submission per email please.

Gaea:

Gaea: I agree.

Gaea: How about we limit this to screenshots of tanks in the game

Gaea: We will be choosing our finalists (usually between a top 10 - 15) and have you vote on the top 5.

Gaea:
I agree.

Gaea:
How about we limit this to screenshots of tanks in the game

Gaea:
We will be choosing our finalists (usually between a top 10 - 15) and have you vote on the top 5.

Gaea:
I agree.

Gaea:
How about we limit this to screenshots of tanks in the game

Gaea:
We will be choosing our finalists (usually between a top 10 - 15) and have you vote on the top 5.

GeneralDirection: Well, the thing is that would reduce the overall prize. One of the reasons the prize is so high is the time commitment it takes. So, if everyone is fine with a smaller prize for each season then we can consider having two rounds a week.

Tanitha: Happy Independence Day
Great news article team, and some beautiful photos of Argentina too!.

Tanitha: Nice photo, Have fun!.
Tan.

Tanitha: Scouting has changed over the time.
Scouting at one stage (before warping as fixed) used to be fun rushing in, killing an artillery or two, then dieing, resulting in reasonable amounts of EXP and credits, and doing your part for the team, then moving onto the next game. But as stated fixing the warping made this nonviable.
Suicide scouting is reasonable for credits when you are credit farming, Although its a bit of a pain for your team who loses a tank too early.
But now the best option IMO is as you have described, Moving forward into a detecting range, and then camping safely while lighting up the enemy for your team mates and arty to destroy.
After all for spotting you get 1/2 the rewards usually.
And the best scout is a undetected one, so not shooting yourself is often the best way for being the most effective.
A TD with a camo crew, and camo net, help with the above, as TD's are harder to spot even before being rigged out with camo.
And a lot of the lower -> midi tier TD's are pretty quick, so nice to quickly get up into a forward spotting position.
But the main thing...
Have fun.
Who cares how other people wish to play.
Play how you enjoy.
Regards
Tan.

Tanitha: Ready?

Tanitha: Dear player.
Thank-you for your valued suggestion, I will forward it onto the development team.
Regards
Tan.

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Regards
Tan.

Tanitha: Sure but I'll fix you typos : )
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