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Subject: Archives\Junkyard\[FINISHED] Server Stress Testing, January 12-15
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Subject: Archives\Beta\Level 10 mediums
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blilov, on 12 January 2011 - 09:28 PM, said: There was a resent meeting of the Developers and super test participants in Minsk and on the russian forum there are short interviews with some of the guys. One of the super testers got this question:
- What was the most most important information you have received from developers? Why it so is important for you?
ars17: - About development of level 10 medium tanks.
I want that in my life!

Subject: Archives\Beta\the so called 'broken' spotting system
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Temstar, on 13 January 2011 - 02:24 AM, said: In a lot of the threads people refer to the spotting system as "broken" or unfair or what have you, I'll like to clear a few things up.
First thing first: devs never 'broke' the spotting system with any patch, the system's we have now is the same system as from before the warp/American tank patch. The only change since is the recent tier 9 medium tank patch where they made heavy tanks more visible. Before the warp fix long range combat was pretty much impossible and people just changed at each other in the open, so the spotting system was not as important in a fight.
Second thing: there's nothing unfair about spotting, the same spotting system works for both teams so if you don't learn how it works and get spotted when your opponent uses camo properly and stay hidden than you deserve to be shot at. Most people don't know about the three viability ray check and how you have to have both your hull and turret completely hidden behind translucent cover from the rays to be invisible. So they park their tank inside the bush instead of behind it, in which case you have no one to blame but yourself.
Lastly: you can argue that spotting system should work in some other ways such as when you fire you become visible regardless of any other conditions, but the current system is not broken in that it works consistently within its own rules. Yes tanks can show up right in your face, but even that has a good reason: spotting checks are done once every few seconds and cannot be done more often due to server load. If you understand the system then you know if you drive at break neck speed through a forest you run the risk of people showing up in your face due to the distance you cover in between spotting checks. Blaming the system doesn't work just because you don't understand it is not constructive.

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\Low-Tier Games and Maps
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Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\Low-Tier Games and Maps
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NOA, on 13 January 2011 - 12:43 AM, said: Well, title says it, I've found that if you play in tiers 1-3, you'll never come across the newest 6 maps.
This is quite to my annoyance because I particularly enjoy Abbey and Sand River, and I've found a low-tier tank which is particularly enjoyable (the Hotchkiss) to play. There's not a single valid reason I can think of to restrict the lowest tiers to the oldest maps, aside from maybe making the newer maps an aspirational incentive for grinding (but that's just a really, really dumb reason).
So, how come low tiers can't go to the new maps? Is there a reason for this? Could you change it?

Subject: Archives\Beta\Suggestions\Change of the form of the gun mantel of the KT
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Hornet331, on 10 January 2011 - 05:30 PM, said: In short:
This is a suggestion to change the current half-sphere shaped gun mantel of teh KT henschel turret to a form that is more inline how it really looks.
The original suggestion was made in this topic by Otto_matic_Reiffel:
http://forum.worldof...post__p__355444
and I provided an alternative form:

As you can see this form eould provide way better slopes when attacked fron the front and would offer better protection, even with only 100mm of armor.

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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grdja, on 12 January 2011 - 10:12 PM, said: I know this isn't the topic about it but sorry. About Panther 2. Will any buffs to it be separate from decreasing its incorrect size? (Its too big in game, Devs acknowledge it on Russian forum)

Subject: News from the Front\World of Tanks Newsletter\WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Kieme, on 11 January 2011 - 09:24 PM, said: Thanks for the newsletter.
One of my replies to the latest poll said a bad thing about MrVic and I hope to see most of the others decided to reply in the same way I did... yet, it was a joke reply and I do hope MrVic won't be offended.

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Kieme, on Jan 11 2011 - 20:24, said: Thanks for the newsletter.

One of my replies to the latest poll said a bad thing about MrVic and I hope to see most of the others decided to reply in the same way I did... yet, it was a joke reply and I do hope MrVic won't be offended.

Subject: WoT Newsletter Volume #7
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Kieme, on Jan 11 2011 - 20:24, said: Thanks for the newsletter.

One of my replies to the latest poll said a bad thing about MrVic and I hope to see most of the others decided to reply in the same way I did... yet, it was a joke reply and I do hope MrVic won't be offended.

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\The Axis Powers vs... The Axis Powers!
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Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\German Crew Ranks
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Blizzard36, on 12 January 2011 - 09:47 PM, said: They're the same at 75% efficiency too, just recruited some for my PzIII.

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\Account question
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Cmdr_Keen, on 12 January 2011 - 09:24 PM, said: Thx for approving the topic by the way ... .
With my second question I wanted to know: If I change my nickname, can other WoT-players somehow see the former nickname when looking at someones profile?

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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FrostDX, on 12 January 2011 - 07:45 PM, said: Truth to be told - Panther II is awful tank (and I really like German tanks in general, i play only with them), and it is no surprise that you lose credit with him... Panther I and II are my favorite enemies while I hate when i stumble at T54
It's just a bad tank, and I think it should be even more expencive - so people will just stop playing with Panther II...

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Gold for XP reset
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Subject: Archives\Beta\Feedback on Server Stress Testing, January 12-15
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strata89, on 12 January 2011 - 05:40 PM, said: Great timing, we have finally anounced first round of absolute league play-off and we can expect server problems during battles...


jackal40, on 12 January 2011 - 05:42 PM, said: Well, that should help you beta test the servers and the league at the same time. Can't think of a better way to provide the devs with server performance information that to have a whole lot of folks trying to play at the same time.

Subject: In-Game Vehicles\German Vehicles\Medium Tanks\Panther II
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KevSt, on 08 January 2011 - 08:14 AM, said: I've just found a topic on a Russian community forums, which I believe describes some Panther II model size mismatch. And here it is. Looks like Panther II must actually be a little smaller than Panther, but as for now it's even bigger than Tiger II

Subject: Panther II
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KevSt, on Jan 08 2011 - 07:14, said: I've just found a topic on a Russian community forums, which I believe describes some Panther II model size mismatch. And here it is. Looks like Panther II must actually be a little smaller than Panther, but as for now it's even bigger than Tiger II

Subject: Panther II
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KevSt, on Jan 08 2011 - 07:14, said: I've just found a topic on a Russian community forums, which I believe describes some Panther II model size mismatch. And here it is. Looks like Panther II must actually be a little smaller than Panther, but as for now it's even bigger than Tiger II

Subject: Archives\Beta\Feedback on Server Stress Testing, January 12-15
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Subject: Archives\Junkyard\[FINISHED] Server Stress Testing, January 12-15
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Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\How does HE damage actually work?
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captking, on 12 January 2011 - 04:19 PM, said: I ask, because the Priest has a damage from 308-513 i rarely ever see those values. i am getting on avg 150 which makes the damage displayed in the hanger misleading.
Now when i spend Gold on the Prem Shell, it will go right through and i will get a 200-250 damage. This just re-enforces that who ever has the biggest wallet will win. Free to Play, Pay to Win. This business model will make money short term, but will ultimately fail long term. MMOs make money because expectations are set and people know going in what to expect. While the $$$ will give you an edge.
I'm not a fan of misleading customers, its about setting expectations and right now all i see are numbers that mean very little. I have higher expectations because of the numbers in the hanger.

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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ShadowStalker887, on 12 January 2011 - 03:53 PM, said: After release will we still have to have premium to be in a platoon?

Subject: Archives\Beta\Suggestions\New Game Modes - Assault and Domination
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sindroms, on 12 January 2011 - 01:51 PM, said: I'd rather see a Deathmatch map, where you respawn in your base... A timer of 5 minutes and pure mindless fun.

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\Account question
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ST61, on 12 January 2011 - 01:18 PM, said: What about after-split moment? If someone want to have two clients and two accounts - NA an EU, can they be registered on this same e-mail?

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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cover_man, on 12 January 2011 - 01:44 PM, said: Overlord, some of us still want to try diferent tanks/trees, when +/- hard wipe with full relese will be ? End of february ? Beggining ? This is important also for a month premium account users.
Can we expect some pacth before full ?

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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Raptor, on 12 January 2011 - 01:43 PM, said: When you say everybody you mean all players from all servers right? Not just Europeans and Russians as was stated before?
So after clan wars release there will be Europeans, Russians and guys from North America fighting (and spanking ) together in one single common global map right? Thx from advance for answer.

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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Gorzki, on 12 January 2011 - 01:04 PM, said: This one is important to me:
Victor Kislyi told us personally that they are going to wait some time to European guys to level up to the russian beta players and then merge the servers (bad idea imho).
Of course it was a long time ago and many things changed in between.
So about clan wars map:
1. Are there going to be 3 different clan wars maps (on russian, american and european servers) so players from russian and europeans servers will never fight against each other?
2. If 1 is true, will each server have it's own whole world or the clan wars map on american server will have only Americas, European servers will have only Europe (+ north africa, caucasus and middle east) and russian will have asia?

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\German Crew Ranks
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Detseggus, on 11 January 2011 - 09:52 PM, said: Dear devs.
The german crew ranks are all the same rank when recruited at 50% competency. Compared to the Russian and American crews, the tank commander, gunner+driver and loader+radioman have different ranks.
Will this minor detail be ironed out or is it already as intended? Thank you for your time.

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\How does HE damage actually work?
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Azmodanrom, on 12 January 2011 - 11:08 AM, said: i think there are two parallel discussions here.
the topic and overlord answers (i guess) are mostly about HE fired directly - by tanks or TDs. not artillery.

Subject: Game Discussion\Gameplay Discussion\Official Matchmaking Discussion Thread
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wordsmith, on 11 January 2011 - 12:02 PM, said: As I said before, problem is in tier distribution. Games now are like this:

While it should be like this:

To make matches fight same tiers only is not solution, while maybe totally mirror balanced such matches would not be fun for sure. The beauty of WoT is in diversity of tanks, big variety of combinations. If this would be limited to tier battles only, then this beauty will disappear.

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\When/will party/platoon chat/friend chat be available?
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Condemned, on 11 January 2011 - 10:48 PM, said: Its a really annoying part of this game the absence of a proper chat system, all people just spam the main channel when in battle mode, this is fine if its a tank company game but if its a regular random game its really annoying.
Its not like you have any choice anyway, this often lead to people talking about comp random stuff and also to particular players whom they play with comp un-regarded to the gameplay and thats fine, I mean some social interaction is great but it should be in a private chat, for them and for rest.
This is a must have function in all mmos and its really lacking in WoT and it seems like a rather easy function to add.
So my question to the dev team is when will it be added?
/platoonchat /pc
/friend /f

Subject: Archives\Beta\Questions\Account question
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Cmdr_Keen, on 11 January 2011 - 11:40 PM, said: At the moment you can only have one WoT-account per e-mail-adress.
Are there any plans to change that in the future?
Would like to have another account but lag another e-mail-adress / don´t wanna have another one.
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Oh and one more question concerning nickname changes. When I change my nickname ... can it be somewhere tracked / looked up?

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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Sleazy, on 12 January 2011 - 12:28 PM, said: quick question since u are roaming this thread atm, Overlord. are there any plans in the future to choose the map or at least let players know in advance which one would be the next map to come ?

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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Starscr3am, on 12 January 2011 - 03:43 AM, said: Quick question.
Is there gonna be a merge with RU servers?
What i mean is, when the game will be launched, players will start playing T1 and they're gonna see those russians in they're awesome shining high tier tanks.

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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Equium, on 12 January 2011 - 01:34 AM, said: Quick question though, will the revised USA tree be made available on the live release? If not how will it be dealt with if the tree is adjusted post release?

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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cipher12, on 11 January 2011 - 11:06 PM, said: Question are soft wipes very difficult to perform?
Im a little disapointed that theres non planned anymore but at the same time I can understand if the devs don't want to carry one out if it would just be lots of hard unnecessary work for them that could be spent else where.

Subject: Archives\Beta\Fixes needed before launch
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chemicalade, on 11 January 2011 - 06:44 PM, said: If it's anything like Order of War, it will promise much but offer very little.
Dated game engine, and derivative gameplay. At least you would hope the AI would be improved by the human involvement...

Subject: Archives\Beta\Fixes needed before launch
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BoudahXL, on 11 January 2011 - 05:45 PM, said: Having a large beta like you did is good, you probably received tons of bug reports and server load tests must be good. But I'm pretty sure high maintenance cost is associated. That said I'm kinda skeptic that the game is polished enough to warrant a full paying release. I believe you should go back to beta and reduce access in order to reduce cost and come up with a very good game, because at the moment the only thing I can see is potential.
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I admire the game for what it is, and the theme used here, the simplicity and the illusion of driving something, but going the next step with the game in its current step is just fooling yourself and maybe some consumers along the way. At any rate I hope whether you agree with my point of view or not you can see it, i wish you good luck, and maybe just maybe reconsider some of those points.

Subject: Archives\Junkyard\Official Hard/Soft Wipe Discussion Thread
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Draconas, on 11 January 2011 - 07:21 PM, said: Overlord, few quick and hopefully painless questions.
1. Any word on matchmaking tweaks? there is no huge problem here, however seeing some games with 3 t-44 vs 3 tiger 2's 90% = victory for tiger 2's, more balance of high tier mediums would definitely solve this, arty and heavy balance are pretty good.
2. You have mentioned the sight/firing/camo system posed a serious problem and would be addressed, is there any word on pre/release implementation of this?
3. I see you are starting on french tech tree, now by the your earlier posts i'm not sure if it was made clear if french would be out with release, can you confirm/deny french coming out with release?
4. While you have said beta gifts were under discussion, my question is slightly different, will there be a package available to beta/players in general for gold purchasing in first month or so of release? While many beta players might feel frustrated about the wipe issue, i believe some incentive package might help quell some of these, any previous discussion on this topic?
5. Finally, you have said that February 2011 is to be estimated release of WoT, are there any plans to enable a sort of continual game mode with numbered re-spawns or separate objectives (retrieve the spy/assassinate the dignitary, etc) in the near future?