20.9.2014

Not much going on. Russian Supertest had a little affair, where one guy with the nickname Kostik_11 ranted against Ukraine (allegedly very rudely) and as a reward, he got kicked from supertest and recieved a 2,5 month ban. He “appealed” using support ticket and RU support changed his punishment to permanent ban, which caused much butthurt and many bricks were shat. The rage on RU forums was quite funny, pointless to translate though.

Q: “Developers, you said earlier that the vehicles, which can be lit up by firing into frontal transmission have this handicap compensated by other characteristics. Does that mean you will nerf the frontal transmission vehicles, now that they can’t be lit up from the front?” A: “If necessary”

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        • Indeed. And the money side likes peace and stabilisation more than anything else. Conflicts, of any kind, are not good for business.

            • How many recent wars have been fought on the territory of Switzerland? Perhaps THAT is a reason why people like to put their money there, where the peace and quiet is?

              Or am I totally confused and it’s actually Bank of Syria that’s the place to invest your money these days?

              • Exactly, if there was no conflict elsewhere, no one but crims would use Switzerland. Therefore conflict is good for the business of Swiss bankers. Arms dealers, drug lords and ethically challenged Diamond miners would also have something to say about it.

                Conflict can quite happily go hand in hand with business, as can just about everything else. It is all about position. Obvioulsy a business having millions of young eastern european/russian men with no lives and excess cash as their core customer base are not in a good position come open warfare in the Ukraine….

          • Which is exactly why US industrial output and wealth was triple by the end of WWII….?

            Conflict is good for business.
            Private companies sell to governments, no matter if they have the money or if they will be able to repay the debt they put themselves in.
            Industrialists and engineering firms thrive on conflict.

            • US industrial and wealth tripled after WW2 cause not a single bullet was fired in U.S. Territory, therefore they suffered no infrastructural damage (Except pearl harbor)

              everyone else was wrecked, and they turned to the US for rebuilding (starting the cold war)

            • War is only good for war industry, and it’s for such industry somewhere else, in another country, preferably across the globe.

              Just because one parasite does well when there are other countries fighting each other, totally wrecking their economies, it doesn’t prove anything. It only proves there are people out there who will try to make money, regardless of how they are going to do it.

  1. I worry that those tanks that are already powerful will benefit a little too much from this change. The E-75 for example is already borderline-OP, this buff may be enough to put it over the line.

    Perhaps a way to balance the mechanic would be to make transmission hits much more damaging to the engine, so you could get it knocked out loknger or more often… I could get behind that.

  2. Q: “Developers, you said earlier that the vehicles, which can be lit up by firing into frontal transmission have this handicap compensated by other characteristics. Does that mean you will nerf the frontal transmission vehicles, now that they can’t be lit up from the front?” A: “If necessary”

    Hopefully that ends up being “We’re going to collect data on it” and then nothing happens.

  3. Nah, that’s not it. The guy submitted a ticket, but the one who has answered was not a support member, but a head of the supertest department. That’s when the shit started.

  4. Who cares?

    He will just do a “forced” reroll and start over under a new name, Kostik 2.0.

    • Apparently you value your time cheaply if you don’t think having your game account erased is a punishment.

      Sure you can reroll but your time and money put into the first account is gone.

      If he didn’t care he wouldn’t have appealed.

  5. Hey SS,
    this is totally off-topic, but I can’t ask anywhere else. What’s the current state of the skirmish changes in 0.9.3? Will clanless players be enabled to play or was that feature scrapped?