EU Questions & Answers

Nathaniak, on 25 May 2011 - 06:54 PM, said: Did not see this answered, and I think it's gone now.
I've heard that one proposed feature for clan wars is the introduction of 'command tanks', which would be limited to one per battle, for the clan leader only, and would be able to call in an airstrike once per game.
The current tech-trees, both in game and plannedm do not show anything outside the normal lines. So I have some questions about these;
-Are they still going to be introduced? Or has WG given up on the idea
-If they are planned,
-Is there a rough ETA for them? I can appreciate that they may not be top priority, but maybe an estimate along the lines of Q3 2011/
-Will they be introduced piecemeal, or all together?
-Will they be purchasable for gold or credits? Will there be a tech-tree system where you grind to better command tanks?
-Will different factions have command tanks with different capabilities?
-Roughly when will offical info be released on these vehicles?
Thanks in advance,
Nathaniak


ian666, on 25 May 2011 - 08:44 PM, said: Overlord
Every hit with penetration from front results in permanent engine failure in Lowe. Most of time on every battle you are moving slower than KV-5 on reverse. Not even regular german tanks got engine failure so often. Probably transmission 'model' is to big or to close to edge of tank dunno how it looks from dev point of view.
Anyway you did it in purpose or there is a chance to make that engine failures less often? Should tier 6 tank be able to damage engine of super heavy '100 tons' tank in one shoot from front?


KIAEddZ, on 25 May 2011 - 10:47 PM, said: Got another question overlord, do not think its been asked before directly to you.
Are WG worried about clan wars, we see the Russian map is basically cut up by 5 large clans, all napped with each other with no fighting and just farming the huge amounts of gold that produces, keeping all taht gold among a very small amount of players relatively, does it worry you that the EU/US server will go the same way?
Are you thinking about ways of changing this, or do you see the current mechanic and the current end result as an acceptable state of play? Does this fit your economical and marketing plan for clan wars, is it wholly intentional, or do you feel a more diverse map, a larger spread of the gold riches that come with province ownership across the clanbase should be encouraged by the mechanics that govern CW?
From a clan that is only playing this game to be involved in Clan Wars, this answer as to your idea of how CW will be forced to progress by the devs is so so important to us. Don't need plans, just need stance on current mechanics and server situations


drothi, on 26 May 2011 - 11:05 AM, said: When do we get Maps in tropic/jungle style?


FrostDX, on 26 May 2011 - 12:57 PM, said: Is there any plans to change icons of tanks? I'm not sure how a 70+tons Tiger II can have such a small icon (Panther II is about 20 tons lighter, and have a larger icon than KT) + he has a small gun on icon, and the new redesigned 10.5 cm KwK 46 L/68 is quite long (maybe even longer than the one on Lowe, and the Lowe got a huuuuuge icon with big gun)... And the Maus icon have some weird stuff on the back, that the tank in game doesn't have...
Sorry if there was already this question (or similar one), but I haven't seen any...


Action_IHOP7, on 26 May 2011 - 03:10 PM, said: Wait, are you saying that we wont be able to see where enemies shoot from anymore? Please tell me I missunderstood this.


KIAEddZ, on 26 May 2011 - 02:33 PM, said: The current structure will only allow huge multi divisional clans to own any areas of consequence. Why do the devs think taht opening th map up globally is going to resolve this situation? All that will happen then is the large clans and naps will get together and carve up an even bigger piece of land, some of these clans are already making 30k+ gold per night, and this will only increase in time, it is in their interests to lock out any smaller clans and units and safely collect gold for ever and a day, this is already what has happened o the RU server, and we are only 30 days from it happening here in the EU.
Why, what drives this chain of thought? This simply is not how the playing population see it, what exactly are we missing?
Does it not worry you that long term should Clan Wars turn out to be a very small group of clans sucking up 95% of the gold, that your player base that really mostly will only play long term because of clanwars will just give up?


Jamezdin, on 26 May 2011 - 02:40 PM, said: KIAEddz doomsday predictions aside, dont you think that it is in wargaming.net's interest that only a relatively small percentage of the population gets free gold?? Since gold is their only source of income for this game.
On a slightly related note, since clanwars is really only for the most hardcore players and alliances when are we going to get new gameplay modes? Im talking about game modes for regular and casual players, are they under development at all or still in the planning stages or not at all?


Tharg, on 26 May 2011 - 02:02 PM, said: I dont know if this have been asked. Found two threads about it with search with limited discussion about the topic.
Is there any chance for a replay option?
After battle you could download a replay file and view it with client or some replay viewer. Maybe even save the replay files for limited period of time which anyone could search and download. you could see how tournaments, clanmatches or your own battles were played from different tanks (enemies or allies) viewpoints.


RimtuTiTuki, on 26 May 2011 - 04:28 PM, said: Will the T32 and american T1E1 gun get its damage back?
As I understand the gun depresion is getting rolled back, but what about damage?
Because right now it's worst in all areas compared to long 105 and BL9... worst accuracy, penetration, damage, even the RPS are lower than german 105...
And i thought the visibility was reduced 460 -> 430... but in garage in tank specs it says 460? bug?
Ty