Thanks to Mesotronik and ysoignorant for this one.

So, recently (yesterday/today) an interesting bundle appeared in the US server gift shop:

Apart from the atrocious grammar (something I’d expect from WG EU, not USA), it offers us a discount on “121″ equipment. Now, why would they do that? Well, here’s a possible explanation: “121″ is a Chinese medium tier 10 tank, that wasn’t discounted yet. We know that tier 10 discounts will probably return in one way or another in February (according to Tanitha, SEA server). We also know that their return is tied to the Chinese New Year (31st Jan 2014)

Speculation:

The bundle linked above was introduced before the On Track event was scrapped and was forgotten. That could mean the next On Track tank was to be the 121. Furthermore, as the tier 10 discount return is tied to the Chinese New Year, it’s possible there is a connection. You know, Chinese New Year, Chinese tank… so it’s even possible that the first tank on discount in February will indeed be the 121 (the recent one was 113, they also might have not wanted two Chinese tanks in a row).

If I was to speculate even more: recently, the (popular) 250k credits/day mission was not renewed. It’s theoretically possible this mission caused credit inflation (yes, we know Wargaming actually has an employee, who deals with inflation in game), causing in turn Wargaming not to make matters worse by putting tier 10 tanks on discount, thus encouraging even more people to buy them, shifting the game balance of higher tiers. But that’s pure guesswork.

Edit: situation changed, see newer posts

Hello everyone,

this week, we are going to have some pretty interesting missions:

3.12. – 7.12.

- kill 50 German vehicles while driving with a tier 4+ tank, get 250k creds (only once)
- win 15 battles in 24h with a tier 4+ tank, get 10 gold fire extinguishers (repeatable)
- kill 7 enemy vehicles in a tier 4+ tank, get 2x experience (repeatable no XP for you)

10.12. – 14.12.

- kill 50 Soviet vehicles while driving with a tier 4+ tank, get 250k creds (only once)
- win Confederate medal + destroy at least 2 enemy vehicles while driving a tier 4+ tank, get 10x gold repair kit (repeatable)
- be in top 3 damage dealers of the battle (not of your team!) with a tier 4+ tank, get 15000 credits (repeatable)

As you can see, no more pedobear missions, looks like everything is going to be limited with tiers. That’s a good move. Also, it’s nice to see the 250k reward mission back in some form, since the current monthly mission awards premium for 50k damage done in 24 hours (for high tiers and tank destroyers that’s actually not that hard to do, will try it myself). The disappearance of the 250k daily might be seen as a “nerf”, instead we’ll have it once per week: but let’s be honest – how many players completed that mission more than once per week? I think I did twice one week and once the other, so that’s not that terrible.

Hello everyone,

a few Alienware invite codes from gburst, joker100002

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PH7TYZ-D9RN7W

This one comes from Czech community (Sarg3er) (7 days prem + 1000g, not Alienware codes)

REVB24-VH9CWF
REVB28-YV2PCM
B6756W-K2YR6K

T-127 invite code from Pilerdriveryatyas

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And – finally – a bunch of T-127 invite codes from Aljetab

And as always, you can get more invite codes from Alienware.

Hello everyone,

just a quick update on the Tank Inspector software: well, the good news is, it works nicely. The bad news is, its developers don’t have any more invite codes for now. They asked me to relay the following message:

Hi, volunteers of the Tank Inspector Beta-test,

Yesterday, we’ve received over 500 mails to apply for a beta-test invite code. It’s really appreciated that there are so many people who is interested in our product. As we wrote in the previous post, only 50 invite codes could be delivered per day, that’s because 1) sending invitations is a time-consuming job and we have only a few hands to utilize; 2) for now we are not really satisfied about the stablity of our product, after all it’s just a beta version.

We will keep on our pace to deliver the invite codes. However, we won’t have sufficient codes and time to deliver them for all the appliers. We could not guarantee that everyone who writes to us can receive an invitation code, really sorry about that. If you haven’t send your application yet, just wait for our final release, we promise we won’t keep you from waiting too long.

All our best regards,

Smellyriver

Well, at least we know people are interested :) As for me, I recieved a few of the beta invite codes myself, will post five of them here:

bb658943-260d-4c62-a2cb-9cdc6eb77540
637a81ce-1f1d-4b45-b94c-5301fe87f883
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The client can be found here.

Hello everyone,

earlier, I posted that the test server will come out on 9.12.2013 – that info (while apparently true at the time) is no longer valid. 8.10 test server will apparently come out on 5.12.2013, the patch release for EU and US is planned for 23.12.2013.

Thanks to Chris9000 for this one

Hello everyone,

a lot of the players have been asking, what is the next discounted tier 10 tank. I have some bad new for you. According to SEA forums (this post), there will be no tier 10 discounts between now and 1st of February 2014 (which is the Chinese New Year, referred to by Tanitha).

Furthermore, it seems the discount will move from their two-week format to something else.

However, given how the entire thing is worded, it’s not impossible for tier 9 and 10 discounts to appear in some form for Christmas/New Year and whatnot.

Hello everyone,

an interesting piece of information. Did you know that the Chinese WoT server doesn’t use real national flags, like all the others do? This is according to Daigensui because of the fact that it’s illegal to use real life flags in China, unless you are reenacting. So, instead of the regular flags, they use this:

(from above: UK, China, America, Germany, France). On this video (thanks to T__A for posting), you can see it in a bit more detail. Also, the icons can be seen here on the webpages of Chinese WoT.

Alienware invite codes people don’t need (by Mightyhaegr, xxxx7777)

PH7TYX-U2PT3M
PH7TYM-F8SG7R

And you can get your own invite code here, there are over 4600 left.