Regrettably I’m not able to translate the essence of this name, so I’ll just put it like that: KDW = Goddamn Company. I hope you can get the point.

But yes there is a special shopping segment called Jin Zuan Shang Cheng (金钻商城, literally the “Golden-Diamond Shopping Mall”), where players can exchange 32000 credits into 1 token (the “Golden-Diamond”, quite rediculous name).

Low tier premium vehicles were only available at first, at an outrageous price. As far as I can recall, the A-32 that was once given out for free cost nearly a billion credits there (don’t be surprised, A-32 is still available for purchase here in China, the current price is 120 yuan (RMB)).

Later on that shopping segment featured gold ammo and consumables for tokens (in other word, for silver), but there’s a quota (40 to 80 gold ammo of each kind per day for each player), and not all kinds of gold ammo was available. Still the gold ammo was often out of stock. This was not settled until the arrive of patch 0.8.6, when the gold ammo/consumables for silver feature is finally implemented ingame for Chinese players.

Ironically, the patch actually get some players whine about botting. It is true that the agent (KDW) allows botting quietly, but while botters were just noobs before the patch, they’re now shooting prem ammo and using prem consumables only (when they decide to play occasionally instead of farming with bot programs) and pwning normal players as hell. The luxury segment never managed to recycle credits from botters, and now the problem is critical.

Now the Chinese WOT is like Resident Evil, your main job is killing zombies. Every day late at night, battles will be like 5 players vs. 20 bots + 5 noobs. Experienced player would stay beside the bot programs’ route and find themselves unable to kill all bots due to ROF limit. Arty players would ignore the intruding bots, run to arty cover, and take their time to aim and one-shot these bots (better do it quick, coz the new-and-improved bot programs are able to auto-aim and attack).

In Chinese WOT, whether you win or lose in a tier 8 battle doesn’t depend on your skill. If you’re lucky, there’ll be 10 bots in your enemy team and only 5 in yours, in which case you can farm lots of credits as well as win the game. But if you’re in the Team of Bots, then no one can save you from losing. The only thing to do is to read in mind “I play t8 prem for farming, victory/defeat doesn’t matter” 100 times.

Now with gold ammo, botters have even greater advantages, I have seen many times how E-100 players with 1200+ efficiency rate got penned to death by some 200+ noobs driving Foch 155 using gold ammo. While normal players try their best to win a game, botters just keeps farming, making his team lose, in order to gather enough credits for his gold ammo solo. This is just totally unfair, yet KDW does nothing to stop it.

I guess what I mean by telling you guys all these things is that there’s no need to be jealous about anything special on the Chinese server (unlimited Type 59 supply, etc). There’re so many problems here that EU segment looks like paradise.

[excuse me, I need to go change the models so I can drift in my Duck....]

It might be historical but at tier 6 its a joke. Anyway I don’t give a shit anymore, I’ve rebought one and played about 20 battles in the past couple of weeks and have a 71% w/r on it. Going to just keep raping the middle tiers with it and increasing my global w/r with the biggest joke tank in the game until they finally do something about it.

Though that said, who *does* care about the British except the navel-gazing islanders themselves anyway? :v

Dammit