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GeneralDirection: I'm not seeing you on the list of teams from IGN -- are you sure you got confirmation from their signup that the teams were added? At any rate, we can fix the teams for you if you'd like the original team. Please include:
Team name (or a link to the team on the tournament page if it's already included)
Names of the players you would like to have added
Keep in mind teams are limited to 7 participants, so you'll need to also include names of players you want removed from the teams too.

GeneralDirection: You'll want to add your reserves (2 players) before clicking Apply. Apply changes the status of your team -- essentially submitting it for approval by us. It's the step that finalizes your team, telling us "Alright, we're ready for the tournament!"

GeneralDirection: Thanks, I'll take a look at the data and see where that fell through the cracks.

GeneralDirection: Yep! There are no restrictions on tanks -- premium or not -- aside from the tier III maximum, tier II maximum for SPGs and TDs.

GeneralDirection: Got 'em added to my email I'm about to send off to our Events Manager!

GeneralDirection:
The latest Q&A about the World of Tanks development plan is now available! This week we focus on clans and ultimate conquest.
We took questions directly from your posts on the “You Ask, We Reply” thread and sent them to the World of Tanks developers to be answered. The result is the Q&A you see below – a set of 15 questions asked by you, the players.
Stay tuned to the News and Information forum tomorrow, October 4th, for the next thread we’ll open to collect questions. For a refresher on the format we’re following now with the “You Ask, We Reply” series, be sure to read this news article from last week.
You Ask, We Reply: Clans and Ultimate Conquest
1. Will there ever be a point (or tier, etc) limit for tanks in CW? Like in company battles.
No, there won’t be any Tier limits for the Global Map
2. When will "mercenary" units of other clans be implemented?
We are currently working on the ‘mercenary’ system. Before introducing it we will try out a lot of different mechanics and find which is best for the players. One of the work variants is the following.
After reaching any Tier 7 tank, or Tier 6 SPG, a mercenary option will be unlocked for the player. Once the player places a ‘tick’ near this option they will then be entered into a lottery every time a ‘riot’ begins, or a clan leader decides to pick random mercenaries for CW. After the lottery ends a certain amount of ‘volunteers’ will be randomly selected from players with the ‘volunteer’ option turned on. ‘Volunteers’ will either fight as a civilians during a riot against the tyranny of certain clan or fight with a attacking/defending clan.
In the case of a victory within a riot, ‘Volunteers’ will receive a certain amount of gold from the game system. If the victory is obtained while fighting for a clan, the gold will be received from that clans treasury.
Clan leaders will be able to either select random volunteers, or invite specific mercenaries proposing them a certain amount of gold. It would then be up to mercenaries to fight for this clan leader, or find someone, who will pay more.
More info will be released on 16-17th of October
3. Will there be any plan to localize World of Tanks server for SEA (south east asia) and New Zealand audience? With the game being a worldwide game and myself obviously being from australia, will there be any chance to pick the time of the CW? because main siege time is around 11am our morning and most of our clan members are at work.
Yes, when the Global Map will be united and expanded, every timezone will receive enough provinces to fight for.
4. Which update will include the N. American map, and for what time will those battles be scheduled? Also are the new game maps going to be added to the UC map?
Yes, we will add all maps to the Global Map. The American maps will be introduced with the North American continent in Q2 of 2012
5. Maybe have clan wars for the lower tiers as well, but instead of earning gold, maybe some silver is the appropriate reward?
As it was mentioned above, there will be no low tier Global Map. But we will probably use Tiered Company battles for some kind of automatic tournament, participating in which you will be able to win certain amount of credits or gold. But this is still not decided firmly.
6. Can you list all the clan wars changes happening next patch please
Fog of war on Global map:At the beginning of a battle, the team won't see the number and names of enemy vehicles. The enemy tanks will appear only when detected by teammates.
Destroyed tanks freezing on Global map:Any tank, destroyed on Global map, will be detained from Ultimate Conquest battles for a certain period of time, depending on the tank type and tier. But you'll still be able to partake in other battle modes with no restrictions: in random battles, in tank companies, in championships and tournaments.
Provinces, not connected with the Capital, won’t provide gold to the owner;The owner of the province will fight only with the winner of the tournament, and not with all attackers;Clans, which have the provinces on the continent, cannot apply for landing.
7. Why do you give gold as a reward in Clan Wars instead of normal credits??
It makes it possible for a non-paying player to earn some gold. If some clan occupied a big territory and receives gold for it, good for them. To conquest a province is a hard objective and if they succeed, they should be rewarded.
8. Will there ever be "official" non-agression pacts, alliances etc. that could be implemented in Clan Wars?
Yes, they will be implemented. Probably, in the next update after 7.0 we will give more info about this on 16-17th of October
9. What was the general consensus on the opposition of the tank locking (or, cooldown period)? A lot of smaller clans will be very negatively effected by this.
Big and small clans will be affected in the same manner. With no Top Tier tanks big clans will not be able to use an army of 15 Maus tanks. Also, for small clans, freezing feature will not affect landing provinces.
10. Why is Europe so much more profitable than Africa?
Because Africa is mainly sand and desert-) Talking seriously, we intended to make Africa a region for new and small clans to train their skills, before trying their forces on the rest of the Map. Because of the small revenue big clans are more interested in the European provinces and do not fight for Africa, leaving it to the smaller clans.
11. Are the hours designated now for encounters/attacks/defense going to change to be more time efficient and forecasted? If so, what is the estimated model for improvement?
After the introduction of the server-united Map we will have all time zones similar to the real ones.
12. Are the current formats for the landing schedules going to change in an effort to reduce the prep time between battles?
There are no changes of this kind planned, because we are satisfied with current schedules.
13. can you make clan wars earlier for central and eastern standerd, to late for me to start cw and finish cw, or move the chip moving done one hour earlier?
See answer on question 12
14. Can you implement some system to break monopolies?
We are currently working in this direction. But we won’t interfere with the current CW situation. We are out of the Global Map and clan’s politics. If one alliance is dominating Europe, why not form another alliance and struggle against them?
15. Can you reward those who at least try to participate in these hopeless CW's? As I said, our only reward currently is expensive repair bills. That is why so few other clans are even trying. Check out a CW between one of the monopolies and a "normal" clan. One of two things will most often occur: 1) The doomed team (i.e., the non-monopoly team) will not show, or only one
tank will show), or 2) The doomed team will bring Tier 1 tanks only. There currently is no incentive to try.
Only clans that successfully take and hold land will be rewarded. See point 5.
We'll also be sharing on the World of Tanks NA Facebook page and the World of Tanks NA Twitter account once the new “You Ask, We Reply” thread is available, so be sure to follow us!

GeneralDirection: Yeah I was able to reproduce this, it takes place after clicking "Apply" -- I'm not sure if we'll be able to reverse that action or not, but in the worst case you can try recreating the team if all of your team members are available to apply again.

GeneralDirection: That is probably worded a bit poorly and was mostly intended for players new to the game that started playing as part of the IGN Prime promotion. You can play a tier III or lower tank in the tournament regardless of when you purchased it.

GeneralDirection: As a quick update for the El Alamein special, we will not be increasing the chances of playing on Sand River and El Hallouf. We'll be doing something else instead, which we'll have more details on soon.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

GeneralDirection: When did you sign up? I'm not seeing the team in the most recent file I received from IGN, which contains all teams registered through last night. You'll probably want to create the team again to make sure you're included in the tournament.

GeneralDirection: The reason it's limited to tier III is because the tournament is part of a promotion with IGN to bring new players into the game. That's what the intent behind the free M3 Stuart, 750 gold and a week of premium was. So we also set up a tournament for those IGN Prime members who would become new players, and knew that it wasn't reasonable to expect them to have a comfortable experience with higher tier vehicles in the tournament.
The premium tanks aren't the only rewards for placing in the top 4 teams, though -- there's also a full compliment of nice PC hardware.
That said, I'm sorry you weren't interested in the tournament. Perhaps the next one we plan will be more enticing for you.

GeneralDirection: I've sent the request to our team that is managing the tournament. It's possible they won't be able to fix it until tomorrow morning though; they're based out of Belarus so it's late at night there.

GeneralDirection: This was added so that we could create the teams internally, as it was the only way it could be done. Because of the nature of the signup process we had to manually create each team, which requires an account to start it. It should cause no issues with the tournament, but I can request to have it removed.

GeneralDirection: Thanks, I passed that on. It probably won't take effect until tomorrow morning since the person who can alter teams on the database end is in Belarus.

GeneralDirection: It submits it for approval yeah.

GeneralDirection: I've requested more information on this from the tournament team (I'm still learning all the tools so I don't set up the tournament myself yet). For now, what players would you like added to the team? And do you have a link to the team page?

GeneralDirection: Yes, please have them apply to the team.

GeneralDirection: What browser are you using, and do you have AdBlock installed on it?

GeneralDirection: They have to register on the team, yes. If that doesn't work, please let me know.

GeneralDirection: Not that I know of, but I'll send your question to our team in Minsk for confirmation.

GeneralDirection: Is this when attempting to log in with the same information you use to log in to the game?

GeneralDirection: Do you remember what you did to break your team? I'll pass that on to the folks capable of changing things on the database side.

GeneralDirection: I sent you an email about that -- you were signed up via IGN as Ta0ism (user doesn't exist). Can you apply to the team with your account? I'll log into the IGN account currently maintaining it to get you fixed up.

GeneralDirection: You're free to register the team yourself, yes. But just so I can double check our data, what was the team name and captain name used to sign up?

GeneralDirection: I've assigned you as the captain. You can have GravesMD visit the team page to apply, here: http://uc.worldoftan...m/uc/teams/855/

GeneralDirection: Your captain signed up as GraveMD. I've already emailed the captain to get the proper username, but now that you've said it I'll look into fixing it myself.

GeneralDirection: What exactly is lame?

GeneralDirection: Hi all,
You can register your teams here: http://uc.worldoftan...tournaments/12/

GeneralDirection:
We've opened the tournament page for the IGN Prime World of Tanks Tournament. We're allowing last-minute registration for teams, and also for team captains to make any final changes before the tournament begins tomorrow. Please take this time to make any changes to your teams that you need to -- whether it be replacing players, or anything else. If you haven't yet, be sure to read the tournament rules. Also don't forget to check out the prizes that you'll have a chance to win.
Visit the IGN Prime World of Tanks Tournament page!
Sign up for the IGN Prime World of Tanks Tournament here!

GeneralDirection: You're only able to sign up one team (since you're the team captain), so one of the teams will need to have a new captain.

GeneralDirection: We're not going to post them until 10 finalists are chosen by the Wargaming America staff. Mainly because someone may see an awesome submission and try to copy it.

GeneralDirection: This looks to be an issue with the way things were altered to open signups to everyone. For some reason there was no Prime email listed for your teams (which is odd, there were teams that had a Prime email listed).

GeneralDirection: I'll work on this today.

GeneralDirection: Yep, Premium tanks are allowed up to tier III.

GeneralDirection: Premium tanks are allowed, so long as they're tier III or lower.

GeneralDirection: I'm waiting on the final list now, but if you got your team registered then you're good to go.

GeneralDirection: I'm looking into this. It looks like there wasn't something communicated properly, so I'll figure out what's going on and if there's anything we can do to resolve it.

GeneralDirection: I'm looking into this now.

GeneralDirection: Strange, that must be related to the changes made when it was opened to everyone. You guys should be fine regardless, as we're right at around 64 teams last I heard.

GeneralDirection:

Vallter: If you'd pay attention, the OP tell you about planned events only

Vallter:
If you'd pay attention, the OP tell you about planned events only

Vallter:
If you'd pay attention, the OP tell you about planned events only

Tanitha: There is already many of topics on this if you wanted to read up on what the community thinks. But to be fair most of them would be filed away now when the junkyard was cleared up a few days ago.

Tanitha: Most people can aim, without the use of skins.
Its not much different to coloring in the #20 on a dartboard in a bright fluorescent pink, It wont effect how many times you hit it, or your score.

Tanitha: Reading the manual, reading the forums, reading the game guides in the forums, or the game guides on youtube, using team speak, training, Etc there is literally 1000's of things people do to gain a advantage.

Tanitha: There has been many times. "They are legal".
Conciser that another formal statement from the people that helped make the game.