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MrVic: I think that can be arranged

MrVic: I think that can be arranged

MrVic: Thanks for linking them so easy to find. I think i have close to 2 million exp
The spreadsheets are actually pinned in this forum section http://forum.worldof...post__p__104842
They are close to current exp values, Tho not updating them much anymore as I know a few others have moved the data to more easier UI systems. I made them long ago for the last soft wipe primarily.
Time for others to take up the torch

MrVic:

merig00: The match-making system does not take into account modules and equipment you have installed on your tank. Please read the FAQ on the match-making system http://forum.worldof...-making-system/

Overlord: http://forum.worldof...post__p__249065
http://forum.worldof...post__p__249053
Tiger II mantle armor for top turret: 65->100
105mm_Howitzer_M2A: -15% aiming time
90mm_Gun_T15E2M2: dispersion 0.33->0.32, increased accuracy during movement and traverse.

ARGO: Then it is our job as good/veteran players to do right by the newcommers and lead by example to teach and help rather than complain when they turn out bad and really ruin the game...

Overlord: In different sources, the max speed values are different.

Overlord: ok, let me see if I got this .. you're saying that the bug occurs randomly?


Have no idea why you think so. The armor bug is permanent.

Overlord:

Overlord:
Don't punch me too hard on this.

Regarding IS4

http://lh4.ggpht.com...sXVM/is4e.jpg  

The inscription says: Amror scheme for IS4

On the basis of the above:

upper armor plate 120->140mm
driver's lug 120->160mm
upper after-plate 120->100mm

These changes will take please in the upcoming update.

Sorry for off-topic.

MrVic: Going to get the next issue done early this week. Also hope to cover much of what was asked above.
Let's steer clear of the language conversation in this thread. This is not the place for it. Plus it will go down a road that usually ends badly

MrVic: Going to get the next issue done early this week. Also hope to cover much of what was asked above.
Let's steer clear of the language conversation in this thread. This is not the place for it.  Plus it will go down a road that usually ends badly

MrVic: Going to get the next issue done early this week. Also hope to cover much of what was asked above.
Let's steer clear of the language conversation in this thread. This is not the place for it.  Plus it will go down a road that usually ends badly

ARGO: How many times have you sat in a burnt out tank cursing, screaming at your monitor, wondering why you were stuck on a fail team? How many times have your whispered to yourself that a chimpanzee could do a better job than the arty on your team? Ever have one of those days?
Now what if I told you a way to improve your success rate, would you listen? The answer is so very very simple and it costs you nothing to have it.
I have seen how just simple communication between players can be a gamechanger but why in some games does it not happen? why? It's because players sometimes forget they are part of a team, they don't have a mindset beyond their platoon mates or clan mates. Some want to gloryhound while others hide and try to scavange kills. Some, are just there to chat. This kind of team is an epic fail waiting to happen everytime.
I have watched players go out there and rack up 6 kills only to watch their team implode at the last minute. And let me tell you it ain't a good feeling. So, I have a few tips that can help you greatly improve your chances even when your on an outmatched team.
Communication is absolute key for victory.
Not just to your pals but to the whole team. Forget about the guy in the Leo who owned your arty in the last match he's on your team now and he's trying to help you win. Forget about the other guy in the clan you hate because again, he's on YOUR team now and let's face you don't loose by yourself in WoT.
Communication, Communication, Communication,
Take the time as that counter is ticking to talk to your arty and each other regarding a game plan, a defense plan and for God's sakes people stick with the plan! I can all but guarantee you that you WILL get more EXP and creds when you whole team wins. When you do get killed, take the time to report your position and what killed you to your team and don't just sit there brewing, Your IS4 may want to know where that Maus is that just one shotted you so he can exact some revenge.
Heavies: Let your scouts get you a clear picture of the battlefield before you roll out. Nothings worse then rolling up one side and the enemies entire team is rolling down the other and right into your base.
Wolfpack mentality:
Mediums: Have your ever seen how wolves fight? That's how you should fight, in a pack...surround and pound. I have seen a hundred battles where there is a super heavy left and your team has 8 scouts/mediums and what do they do? they go out one at a time to fight it and get pawned one at a time while their team mates are waiting to see if he wins. This is a definate fail so in that situation you all get out there and use the surround and pound method, and even if you don't win you will at least earn you enemies respect.
Another thing to remember. I see a lot of is lack of support when a tank is being ganked, Don't just sit there and watch or attempt a pot shot, get in there and bail your friend out after all, you would expect no less if you where him wouldn't you?
Scouts/Mediums: Help your arty..If your arty can't get a fix try and lure your enemy into the open for arty to pick them off. And also remember that we all love those top gun awards but it's not cool getting one at your teams expense so keep in mind that any kill is a good kill even if you didn't get the last shot. Be thankful it's one less tank you will have to fight later.
Remember when your in a bind, any vehicle can be a scout. God knows how many time I have used my IS4 as a sacrifice to punch a nice big whole in the enemy arty who are heavily defended. Remember if your afraid to get your paint scratched, your in the wrong game.
TDs: Ever seen the scenario where all the heavies / Mediums are hung up fighting other heavies hiding behind rocks and playing Peek A Boo? Well TDs make the perfect distraction for this by taking the heavies place thus allowing them to flank and maul them prison style.
I am sure many of you also have some good tips and battle tactics you may want to add so feel free!

Overlord: http://forum.worldof...-first-edition/
this is BS!
I have proven in the video I posted a few pages back that the US heavy armor, for at least the T29 is absolutely not bugged

any other speculation regarding turret armor rating are unfounded due to MrVic's post (see above link)

I really like to hear an explanation for this


Unfortunately/fortunately the bug persists. First off, we are to fix it. Balance issues come afterwards.

Overlord:

Overlord:

What you are suggesting requires too much work and looks like complete rework/redesign. At this stage, we can't afford that.

Overlord:
I really could not stand the irony, nothing personal.

Tanks are tanks, but russian tanks have to be better?

I just got my M6 and all I can say about american tanks so far:
- comparable to germans, weaker than russian
- KV with its 107mm and KV-3 are at least one-tier better (overall) than american tanks fo their tier (T1 heavy/M6)
- Sherman M4A3E8 is signifiacntly weaker than T-34/85 with its 100mm gun (by the way, what's the idea of putting tier-8 gun on tier-6 tank?)
- T-29 is dangerous when you meet him face to face, especially in hull-down conditions, besides that it's big box. It bites but IS bites harder.
- T-32 quite tough guy, but I would discuss is this tank really sooooo much harder than KT or IS-3. Haven't seen him too many times to have an opinion.

Welcome to the "World of overpowered soviet tanks and freakingly accurate laser-guided artillery".  

I do believe that it's not that Soviet tanks are too strong currently, but that German and US vehicles don't come up to expectations of the majority here.

T-34 and T-30 will get significant boost in accuracy and decrease in aiming time.

Overlord:

Overlord: VK4502 is going to see mantle armor increase:
- stock turret 120->160mm
- top turret 120->180mm

Overlord: Timelimit is set to 5 minutes.

Overlord: Probability depends on vehicles of which tiers dominate in waiting line.

ARGO: This gave me an idea, I am toying with the idea of just keeping crews in barracks when I sell a tank so I can always have a 100% crew if I go back to a tank I liked. Seriously when you think about it a lot of players tend to get into something they don't like then get the old double whammy on EXP when they return to the previous vehicle.

Tanitha: Hmm, decisions...
Id guess I'll dump my Mouse and vk4502 and replace it with a IS7 and IS4.
Dump the T44 and replace it with the American T23. (But then again there might also be T9 mediums by then so that will effect my choice.)
Grab a hotchkiss, I've not played one in a game yet, only in the training room testing.
With the left over EXP and cash.. I suppose I better grab a arty and start playing that more. So probably a S51, or maybe something higher tier if they are out by then..

Overlord: Behold Contest Results

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Overlord: ugh. bad idea, it should default to push to talk.

Got to second this.  I can hear people swearing at their: Teammates, Spouses, Kids, Luck, etc.  I don't want to hear that sort of stuff.

It will be push-to-talk system on default. I was speaking about the possibility to change default push-to-talk button.

Overlord:

Overlord:

MrVic: Closing, This is not useful and basically a trolling thread. No action at this time, this is a just a warning at this time.

Tanitha: There is some mod and dev convo in this thread.. that was linked above.
http://forum.worldof...riously-broken/
Pretty much all posts on this topic go into there. So i'll merge this thread into there too.. And pm you to tell you ive merged the post..

Tanitha: Yep.. sorry some people like that exist in game, but as above, you need to send the screenshots and email in to support.
Since its looks like a pretty obvious case from that screenshot (IE two platooned guys both on -2) I would have jumped the cue and forwarded it onto support myself. But there is noone on in support at the moment. So please email them in like the rules say to..
Locking this thread..
Regards..

Tanitha: I'm not sure why you are so angry to be honest.
I approved the post in the first place. Replied and agreed with you, and supported your case and posts and replied twice.
Ive made my stance/case on the topic, (which is pretty much the same as yours), to the admin/devs, and other mods.
So that topic is covered and out of my hands..
I personally don't delete any posts, unless I copy paste and pm the original post back to the user with a explanation.
But I spend 12 hours a day 7 days a week modding the forums most times, and with 185,000 users, and a lack of moderators, most people don't have the time to goto that extent with every post.
They are hunting for more mods atm, so that topic is covered and out of my hands too.
The release date is down for 1st Q 2011 so that's probably 2-3 months away, and they have 150 staff/devs working on the game, often 12 hours a day or more, around the clock..
As you know the servers will split soon, USA/Europe, so that means also that the forums will split. So this suggestion might be on hold until the forums are reworked. its only a guess, I don't know exactly. but I do know they have lots to do, and its a matter of one thing at a time, and trying to prioritize that list.
As for my replies, yes I've read every word in every post in this thread. But.. There's way to many posts on the forums to do that to every thread.. I pretty much get through about 80% of every post/thread on the forums though id guess, excluding a few sections i don't read at all (like history).. So as you can imagine.. Id already read this thread. replied twice, and done everything possible regarding all the issues. So.. now its really just a matter of if the dev's want to improve the system, and when.. So knowing I've covered this thread. I'm less likely to return repeatedly because there's just way too many threads posted daily to cover things that much..
And on a not so light a note.. you will need to settle on the mod insults a bit too, they were pretty borderline so far so I'll ignore them, but still.. try to keep things constructive instead of letting things slip into abusive.. Thanks..
And regards..

Tanitha: I don't know..

Tanitha: There is many ways.
1. You were spotted by a scout/td that you couldn't see. they could see you and relay your location back to the arty with the radio.. you couldn't see them.
2. As above, and a buggy spotting system..
3. You fired HE which leaves traces.
4. You camped in a obvious spot where tanks camp every game, and were hit blind.
But as the others have said above, Ive deleted the players name. there is no cheats everything is safe serverside.
And thread locked..
The thread on the spotting issues...
http://forum.worldof...riously-broken/

MrVic: Working on the next round of info. Hoping to cover more of these topics but thing are still being finalized so full info is not complete. As soon as it's done I'll get it up

MrVic: Working on the next round of info. Hoping to cover more of these topics but thing are still being finalized so full info is not complete.  As soon as it's done I'll get it up

MrVic: Working on the next round of info. Hoping to cover more of these topics but thing are still being finalized so full info is not complete.  As soon as it's done I'll get it up

Tanitha: Its midnight Russian(Belarus) time, often most of them are still working through the night, but not tonight.. otherwise i would contact them for you.
So instead i'll PM you some contact details.
EDIT *** Lol.. ok , no i wont pm you contact details...

Tanitha: Yep you are definitely broken.. Looking into it a bit more, i'll edit this post again soon..
Edit again... Ive bookmarked this post.. I'll find someone to look/fix it as soon as someone from admin/support is online at the same time as me.
I don't know what the problem is exactly, and I don't have enough perm's to edit that side of things..
There is no forum bans in place.. so a bug of some sorts..
Edited again...
Fixed now..

Tanitha: +1'ed and moved to dev suggestions..

Tanitha: Very helpful thanks, +1 a great explanation : )

ARGO: And if you believe that would you please have a talk with my PC because I always seem to loose more battles in premium.......
No seriously, I do....

ARGO: Here you go!
support@worldoftanks.com

Tanitha: It is possible, They have done it in the creative section somewhere. Have a browse through. I'm not sure where it is though sorry.

ARGO: Go for a Dell,
I build Dells, easy to fix, Good warrenty and service. Make sure you max out it's memory and no matter what they give you for a graphics card you may want to trash it for a better one Nvidia or ATI but make sure the vid card has no less than a gig of it's own memory onboards because this will great improve your gaming. A lot of serious gamers get a PC capible of handeling a cross fire set up "2 video cards" which will vastly improve your rigs power ingame.
What do you say about the "Dell" insperon 560 and 570 then? like I said they are pretty high up on the list of candidates so far. Actualy, 560 is on top right now but I'd like to hear more reviews about it than what the website has. People review stuff like "its good" or "too slow" or "I dont like windows 7"... Not very helpful
You can't go wrong with any Dells as long as you follow what I wrote before about video cards....Also make absolutly sure when buying any PC you buy something that you can expand/add too. Nothing worse than a PC that can't grow as your needs change. Oh yeah....Stick with Pentium dual or quad core for desk tops.

ARGO:

ARGO:

Tanitha: Overlords posted previously (a week or so ago), that the Russian server was due for a upgrade, then the USA server, then the Euro server, in that order. So they are definitely different servers.
I just checked with overlord, the server info is....
The USA server is located in North Carolina.
The Russian server is located in Munich Germany.
The Europe server will also be located in Germany but probably not in Munich.

ARGO: You get a hungry Koala bear
I put in a Bacon, sausage and extra cheese pizza and a 1 liter of Coca Cola.