Comments on: About the 1 million players online on RU server

By: OOPMan

OOPMan — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:01:43 +0000

I think it’s time to declare a United States of Tank and secede from the world :-)

Although I guess we’ll have to leave the EU players behind because they seem to be so overrun by bigotry that I suspect the UST would break out in civil war within a day…

By: Leedar

Leedar — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:55:19 +0000

Because the military is typically the purview of the state, in authoritarian countries, where the state is supreme, and especially in the USSR’s Cold War context where it must use threat of military force to survive, it is natural that military implements will be glorified by the public. The tank managed to get more attention thanks to the history of the T-34 as said above, and Soviet military doctrine. Additionally, tanks are more ‘personal’ than artillery, aircraft or ships.

The reason Western countries aren’t as enamored with tanks is that their societies haven’t been based on militarism (at least in the popular mind). Even in the US, with its massive military spending compared to other countries, there wasn’t much interest in general for military affairs by the average Joe; they were too busy spending their capitalist money on private consumption.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:43:21 +0000

I don’t know about you but growing up I was into military aircraft, but then again it might have had to do with my family’s background (my Grandfather having worked on some projects for Lockheed prior to the merger with Martin Aircraft, the Super Constellation and F-94 coming to mind)

By: ThaElf

ThaElf — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:16:39 +0000

And Minsk does not care for this… they care that there is no same tier fights too often, that would be ‘dull’ and not enough diversity in tiers…

MM is just coded dead wrong from its starting point, just to manipulate it for whatever reasons. Battles and such would be simply drag and drop while for more versatile system that would be tailored to suit tanks online now, instead of recently online… But clear thinking and vodka should not be mentioned on the higher up table, they might think your new code should be implemented and happiness increased, without vodka.

By: evi7stylez .

evi7stylez . — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:42:07 +0000

This!
Yesterday there was more than 1500 tank queue in EU2 for Tier 8. Every T8 tank game I had to wait for average 1.5 minutes :-/

By: Baske_74

Baske_74 — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:49:19 +0000

dont have much problems with logging into the server, but recent weeks i have seen an increase in the amount of people in que to start a batlle and the time it takes to actually start the battle.

the last couple of weeks the amount of people waiting for battle is sometimes above 1200-1500 and it takes a minute or more to actually start a random battle.

nothing very annoying but still noticeable.

By: Only_Slightly_Bent

Only_Slightly_Bent — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:36:00 +0000

Well played, Fryaduck, well played.

By: Hustodemon Zewel von Lelek

Hustodemon Zewel von Lelek — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:28:08 +0000

those fighting without AT weapons/equipment… ;)

By: FryaDuck

FryaDuck — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:21:20 +0000

I’m glad I have the largest “Don’t Care” vote.

By: dingishere

dingishere — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:02:28 +0000

I think its still growing, more and more often you’re in a queue to get in at weekends, that hardly ever used to happen, even when we only had 1 server…