It happened with the Spanish translation too, they changed just a little word but many players though (and still thinks) that the Japanese are coming in the 0.8.9, and many even asked why the 2nd German TD line was postponed…

Can someone explain to me, why client can’t adjust graphics to the PC it’s running on? E.g. if I have sh.t CPU+graphics combo, client lowers automatically graphics, to get the stable 30 fps rate, while on tougher gaming PC it would set things higher with an option to adjust it ecen more? I’m saying that fps/ping combo should be the target, not some 3.0 shaders. I want my game to run smoothly, even if the graphics would suck. Damn, older games (I mean like 10-15 y old) had almsot 0 graphic effects and one could spend whole day playing it.

Getting the teams balanced and fair is actually an instance of solving a so-called mixed-integer linear optimization problem (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming). I was wondering why Wargaming – they must have some computer scientists there – have not looked into this.

Assuming there are some rules (e.g. equal number of heavies, max number of arties), the objective (our goal) is to minimize the weight difference while still filling all slots. In order to get a good solution fast, I would provide more than 30 players, which would make the problem easier to solve. Of course, those players not used for one game would get a higher priority for the next game.

There are commercial packages out there (CPLEX, Gurobi) which can solve such problems rather fast. WoT still would have to get a good idea about the MM weight, but they have the performance of all tanks anyway.

GL&HF

the player(s) who play on the account to get those stats are more or less as good as the stats represent (otherwise they wouldn’t be able to achieve the stats in the first place). The price to hire this merc account would be as high as his stats represent so you would still get what you pay for when hiring it to fight for you :/

If they create the account just for this purpose who then surely that because they want to experience the playstyle of solo/merc environment as well as their main accounts type (likely clanned).

What you state in suggest in your last paragraph is the point of mercs isn’t it, to have a player/account with the tank type the person hiring would want to fight for them in a specific instance, with which those instances may not be set in stone (ie: cannot hire to fight on such and such a date at time ‘x’, but instead can go to merc searching page to see who is currently available, at what ‘skill’ and what ‘price’ for a battle).

Most other games involcing mercs (eve online for example) achieve this without the rating stat only because the price is set by the merc and the person hiring can choose its value for money based on experience, ships, knowledge and reputation of the merc. here we’re just swapping out one type of stats for another.

If 1 side wants to pay top amount to hire all top end mercs to fight for them to ensure a win or to compete with a top skill clan/enemy then mercs achieve its goal.As it does If they only want to fill out their numbers as they have the skill they expect already with less numbers.

If you mean that a twinked account may not be true representation of a players skill due to not having the early game learning experience bringing ratings down, then it can only depend on stats to the degree set by WG, with which they can just put more value on recent battle statistics, or on total games player to balance it.