Players Questions and Developers Answers

fatkiddown, on Nov 01 2011 - 13:02, said: Thanks for taking the time to do this Overlord. 2 more:
1. My last fav tank game was SSI's Panzer General from the mid 1990s ('94?). In that ancient of games, you could custom name any unit. Loved that. Short question: any plans to allow us to name our tanks whether others can see it or not? (Better if others can see it). I _so_ want people to see my JDT as "Religion."
2. Any chance of a static dossier per tank? I.e., click on tank and hit "history" to see a scroll/the scroll that run active in bottom left, or some variation thereof?


Mizar_Panzer, on Nov 01 2011 - 13:33, said: Thanks for the reply.
One more question:
Since the last arty poll, what will be done to the SPG mechanics, since it has always been one of the most complained-about aspect of the game?
thanks.


pauli, on Nov 01 2011 - 17:17, said: could you please clarify this slightly? there are three premium tier 8 heavy tanks; one can't be purchased, one is 7500 gold, and the other is 12500!


Gherig, on Nov 01 2011 - 18:36, said: Overlord, this next round of testing on the Test Server, will we see the removal of the Server Tags (_US, _EU, _RU) after player names? It would be nice to see more focus on Testing each round, then Team Killing and Nationalism issues.


CaddoPuma, on Nov 01 2011 - 18:58, said: Would this be a one-time choice or could a person change which maps he excludes, based on the tanks he is running at a given time?


hinkdad, on Nov 01 2011 - 19:21, said: I have searched the forums and cannot find an answer to my following question.
Are there plans to improve the "global rating" system to better reflect the actual skill of the tanker?
As an example please look at the following tankers profile:
http://worldoftanks....35215-Deadblue/
Because of his avg exp per battle he is ranked very high on a global scale, even though he has less than 200 battles. He could leave this account alone and "squat" on that spot throwing rankings off for everyone.


Arzoo, on Nov 01 2011 - 22:50, said: Well... actual post-war features would be nice. Will it get any?
I hear that tumor on top of it was specifically designed to cause absolutely no damage to the tank when blown off. Will that feature be implemented?


sweenytodd, on Nov 02 2011 - 03:19, said: im pretty sure we understand that, why is this possible? what hit (especially a penetrating one) could damage a crew member or internal module with no other damage to the tank? and why do some HE shells destroy a module and achieve nothing else?


aVmuse, on Nov 02 2011 - 09:45, said: I'd could possibly be that even though the T-54 it has 294 pen, it also does 70 less damage then either the E-50 or Patton, and that could be balance, but it makes no sense why the pattons is worse then the E-50's and yet costs more


SAMM66, on Nov 02 2011 - 14:43, said: Overlord,
This is a yes or no question and we have a healthy debate ongoing about the topic.
Was the Type 59's game performance adjusted in any way since it was first introduced as a premium tank?


Herr_Klug, on Nov 02 2011 - 16:20, said: Might as well post this question here too.
Can we expect the premium super jumbo deluxe boxed retail copies of WoT (with special retail only vehicles) this holiday season?


Haggar, on Nov 02 2011 - 18:46, said: Overlord
A couple questions.
I don't know about anyone else, but I have concerns about the camo skin effect on the game. Last night I had a T34 disappear less than 100 meters in front of me and then reappear in another position. Which basicly means me drove right in front of me and I didn't see him. My concern is how much of a boost is the gold camo skin going to give a tank or TD hiding?
These changes were noted on your blog


Haggar, on Nov 02 2011 - 18:46, said: For 8.8 L/71 will the rate of fire be nerfed to achive this change? For which tanks? Tiger?, KT?, PII?, or E-50? or all.


Haggar, on Nov 02 2011 - 18:46, said: For IS-3 will we lose the experience we used to get T-10 turret?


Haggar, on Nov 02 2011 - 18:46, said: When are the changes for the Russia Heavies coming? I forgot what you had posted before.


Haggar, on Nov 02 2011 - 18:46, said: Thanks


Ferrumkit, on Nov 02 2011 - 22:30, said: I don't mean to sound like a downer but I am curious about how the US tree, heavies in particular, are going to cope with the new slope + penetration mechanics. I have noticed a trend of almost nill US heavies running around in most battles I get in, save for those that seem to be hell bent on grinding their face to get the premium + garage slot, What balancing measure will the US tree get to offset the many setbbacks it has compared to it's counterparts? Perhaps lower repair costs?


hiipanda, on Nov 03 2011 - 17:30, said: Overlord, I was wondering if the Tiger will get a new model when you introduce the skirt armor in update 7.0. Will the change be like comparing the panther and panther 2 where there is a visible skirt armor or will it only be implemented in a less visual way while still retaining the same ingame model?
Also has the matchmaker been been adjusted before the update to allow newly purchased tanks lower teir spreads? I just purchased an IS and i only fought tier 8s and tier 7s at times where my other tier 7s would fight tier 9s.


hazywater, on Nov 03 2011 - 22:05, said: If you're going to have a tank lockout of 7 (!) days in CW, then the US tree needs a second heavy or medium branch. With that lockout, its better to grind multiple tier 10 tanks, which is ridiculously easy for the russian tree (anyone surprised?).
Overlord, will you put in a second top tier US line or will you leave the US tank tree at a severe disadvantage?


turtle722, on Nov 03 2011 - 23:46, said: Can you please share the thinking by having something so dramatic as 7 day lock out for clan wars? Why not start with 2-3 days see how it affects the game and adjust from there? 7 days seems like a gamebreaker to most of us.
Also, can you share what Wargaming's vision is for Clan Wars? Are all of these changes to spur as much turnover as possible on the map? Are they trying to limit clans to only holding a handful of provinces, 3 or 4?
I think the community would be more willing to accept the changes if we understood the larger context of why the changes were being made, and what the developers vision was.


DarkElf, on Nov 04 2011 - 03:03, said: 1. Any chance for derp premium tank? Something like M4 maybe?
2. Will WoT someday release premium tank that will fill the gap between 1500-1750 gold tier 5 tank and 7500-12500 credit printing tier 8 tank? Too much tier 8 credit printing tank will hurt the MM.
3. How effective will be the new gold camo and credit camo to raise tank camo? Will the new gold camo give much more bonus than the credit camo?
4. Any plan for gold, garage slot + prem tank bundle again? Something like in the pre ordered packaged?


Nichts, on Nov 04 2011 - 17:32, said: One other question I've been wondering about. The Tier 5 premiums are terrible credit generators, worse than their non-premium counter parts in that tier. With my Ram-II, for example, I struggle to get over 15k net profit (without premium.) I can easily hit that in most games with tanks like the Pz4, T1 Heavy, SU-85, or M4 Sherman. At this point, I don't have any real reason to play the Ram-II, as it's not better than non-premiums in any category at all, which makes it a disappointment. Has this been intentionally done, or could we expect a slight increase in credit generation some time in the future for these tanks?


Belesarius, on Nov 06 2011 - 08:39, said: What benifit does Wargaming see tank locking bring to the game? This is possibly a very destructive move on Wargamings part. Many members of my clan are deeply concerned about this, and its affect on our clans ability to compete in UC.


turtle722, on Nov 07 2011 - 22:55, said: Can you provide us with an update on patch 7.0 as to whether or not it is still expected for November? I have not heard any mention of it being on test servers, and with the size of it we expect it to be in test for some period. The last schedule we heard was 7.0 in November and 7.1 before the end of the year. This is starting to look less and less likely.
Also, can you update the in development section? There have been bits and pieces of information as to what is in 7.0 from multiple sources, but I cannot find one set of official patch notes that seem to cover all of the things that have been posted.


ShermansWar, on Nov 11 2011 - 02:23, said: When can I expect garage slots to go on sale for 1/2 price again? i bought gold 2 months ago and have been waiting for slots to go 0n sale again and they havent, and at this point my training is stopped for want of new slots.I will wait untial they go on sale or just not play till they do. Many freinds also await next garage slot sale. When will this be?Veterans day maybe? Also was suprised that you ran event for artillery branch birth but not for birth of USMC, which was today, 1775.


Hirumaru, on Nov 16 2011 - 19:39, said: Player questions, falling on deaf ears, being answered by other players. This kind of nonsense is going to undermine player confidence in actual developer give-a-damn.


Hirumaru, on Nov 16 2011 - 19:39, said: That being said, when 7.0 rolls out with the new camo system will all old skins be replaced for stock skins? That is, if you currently have a custom skin installed will the patcher check for that and then replace it with the stock skin? Otherwise we'll have a lot of people will some funky looking tanks (on their end) with no ability to amend this issue.