11.11.2014

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Straight from Wargaming (confirmed info): map Simferopol will NOT come, at least not anytime soon. It was decided to mothball it.

- women form no more than two percent of WoT playerbase
- the main playerbase of WoT consists of men from 28 to 35 years
- lately, the number of clans was increasing (for various reasons, from CW to the fact the people want a clantag)
- the info above led to the development of Strongholds, as clanners needed some sort of “ecosystem”
- developers are experimenting with Stronghold mode “bunkers”, created in some sort of building (their strength depends on the level of the building, the bunkers are being tested on Malinovka)
- these bunkers and other SH consumables will be deployed by clan commander via a “tactical tablet”
- current version of premium account/tank XP is temporary, premium tanks (or account, unclear) will be buffed further
- Storm won’t participate in WoWs development “Tanks are 200 percent enough for me”
- Stalingrad will be further fixed (players complained about the “small yards”, Storm added that the map is difficult as it is even without them)
- PvE mode: “when it’s done it’s done”
- 3-caliber rule will not be cancelled (“tell that to players shooting big guns at light tanks”)
- a player proposed a theory, that some of the lags are caused on the client side by energy saving CPU functions (EIST, C-States, Turbo Boost). Storm: “Until you present us with evidence of these “mysterious” lags, it’s unlikely we will do anything”

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  1. - the main playerbase of WoT consists of men from 28 to 35 years

    Stop trying to make it happen. It won’t happen. We know it, you know it. The IS-6 video said more than a thousand words.

      • Nah, us 14 year old kids seem to be in greater numbers, 10 year old kids are rare. And 16-18 seem to be very, very common.

    • Adults don’t have so much time to play like kids, it means you can often meet them in battle even if they are more adult players than childs, but anyway, we can only guess of exacly age of main playerbase, no one can know that for sure.

      • I was thinking at something. Shouldn’t a player base be represented based on the age of the “average” player?
        Let me explain. Let’s say that there are 1kk (1 milion) players that play over 3kk hours each month (just an example, 3 hours per player is not that much :) ).
        The demographics are the one mentioned by Storm.
        But what if out of the 1kk players 90% play less than an hour and the other players play the rest (2kk hours)??

        When I say that the average players are kids I’m saying that I mostly end up playing against children because they invest the most time in the game. Therefore I don’t think that the main playerbase is representative for my gaming experience.

        Instead representative should be the average age of the played hour in WOT.
        Multiply the age of each player with how many hours he’s played that month, add this to a grand total for all the players then divide by the total hours played that month.

        And you get the Average Age of the Player you will be facing (this makes sense for me please tell me if it does the same for you)

        Kids play a lot? Average Age of the Player (AAP) is low, even if the average playerbase is way higher.

          • Strange, because I seemed to understand it. Maybe your tiny brain and limited vocabulary (WTF did I just read? (c) Captain Pickard meme.) can’t comprehend what he is saying….

            • That’s because you are just as fucking stupid as that guy.

              So you have a game where 14 players play 15 minutes per day and are aged 35 years old. Then you have 1 player that is playing 18 hours a day and is 5 years old.

              By his dumbest formula one can come up with, he just played against a team of kids.

              Fucking retards.

              The age is the age. 10 million people play the game, majority is aged 28-35. That’s it. There is nothing there to invent. This are real people and you have more odds at any given time to play against someone who is that age than anyone who is outside of that age.That’s how reality and statistics work.

              Some people just trying to be smarter than science. Good luck.

              • I think his way is to find out how much kids play versus adults.
                Your way is to find out average age. (Well, it’s actually WG’s.)

              • You can’t take such a statistic literally. It does not say anything about a specific match, it can only give you an idea of the playerbase _as a whole_.
                It’s pretty silly to say that out of 15 players, most of them are between 25-35 years or (by my formula) that they’re kids.

                What it should be used for is to measure the maturity of the playerbase, because that’s the age of the average opponent you’ll be most likely to face after playing _lots_ of battles.

                Average age should be considered if all players play roughly the same time. If they don’t and some category plays _a lot_ more than others, then it’s more likely that you’ll face that category. Not that hard.

        • I can’t speak to WoT as a whole, but I know that my clay’s average age is just shy of 30, and we’re all very active players despite having day jobs, wives/girlfriends, and for quite a few of our members kids.

    • The IS-6 video was technically aimed at that 28-35 year old audience – but really the inner 5 year old of that 28-35 year old audience methinks. :D

      • The place where men are men, women are women, and Kids are called noobs. (Except for the few who are mature enough to do any sort of good other than raging :3 )

        • Way to literally take a good joke and then replace with a shittier nonsensical version that is entirely not funny.

          So wow, much turd.

          • Yeah. And your an ass. Anything ELSE smartass?

            Jeez. Just trying to be somewhat funny. Hence the ‘:3′ cat face.

    • To be honest, I’m quite surprised its that much considering World of Tanks in Russia seems to be as common practice for men as using a urinal – You are male? Here is your invite code for World of Tanks.

      • Let me fix this for you:
        You are male ?!… ok, here is your condom, vodka and World of Tanks invite code.
        OH ! And you seem like a good person…so here is your one time only, special, beta player KV220 one time only, beta only one time, LOL, only one time only, LOL beta, lol one time only !

  3. “- current version of premium account/tank XP is temporary, premium tanks (or account, unclear) will be buffed further”

    Whut?

      • If ppl have prem account, they are more likey to shot premium ammo, because they gain more (credits) by doing damage with it

        • Not if they rebalance the ammo and prem account in a way that players overall benefit more by spending gold on prem account than ammo.

          A way could be to heavily nerf gold ammo and nerf standard account income and xp, and heavily buff prem account xp and credits. I rather see people getting “forced” to use prem account than forced to use gold to stay competitivwe (even though u dont need gold).

          • This wouldn’t work out in the long run – you always need money sink for those who have everything in garage, and gold ammo is one of those things.

            If you nerf gold ammo damage, nobody will buy it. If you nerf damage and lower price, you removed one of the most effective money sinks.

    • Help me out here…

      Is Premium account “Too Good” or “Not Good Enough” ?

      I don’t spend money on wasteful things, but I find that the premium account is something I have nearly purchased before, so that tells me it’s probably priced at a good level, given how much of a scrooge I am I would probably put it towards the “Too Good” section… But just curious as to what the problem is.

      • The premium account used to be better – it gave the option to platoon better. Now the most advantages are in profit, which might not cater to guys who have all desired T10s in their garage. And if you don’t need increased profit/XP – the nicer garage isn’t exactly a gamebreaking advantage for getting a year long prem account.

        • xp should be buffed……. why?… because many MANY players want to get to the top of the tree and with premium account you only get 50% xp buff….. which is nice in the long run, but the grind start to get very hard at tier 7 and they just left the game…..

          my solution is to nerf money you get from premium and buff xp……. this way its profitable for WG in a big way and players in a big way…… it means people would unlock tier 10 relatively fast but they wont have money to buy it…. so they buy premium tank etc…..

          • Yea right. Just what we need. Quicker ways to get to Tier 10.

            Aren’t there enough potatos for you yet?

  4. 3-caliber rule will not be cancelled (“tell that to players shooting big guns at light tanks”)

    3-caliber rule is fucket bullshit . jpz 100 hit amx 75 in tower and no dmg , and where is fucket 3-caliber rule ?! 3-caliber rule only makes retard hit what in reality who’d be bounced .

        • Yes, but your 88mm gun wont overmatch even close to what the 122mm are capable of. Also the 88mm is accurate on paper and should be, the russian 122mm are not accurate on paper, but due to the stupid accuracy buff, most shots do to the center anyways no matter what.

          • Good lord, how do we get such stupid people like Ferdinand Porsche here… Is there a sign that I missed? Stupid people that-a-way?

            So the game mechanics explicitly state that Russian guns have worse accuracy. Numbers are listed, everyone but dipshits can read them right in the game.

            Then WG says they are using Sigma 2 (I believe, irrelevant) for distribution, which means x amount (36%?) of shots will land in centre and the rest are spread around the circle represented by accuracy.

            So then, this dipshit says “IF I can hit something 400 meters away with 122 Russian gun, that means it’s as accurate as 88mm gun”. WTF did I just read?

            Taken 1000 shots with both guns, 122 will hit dead centre 36% of the time, while the OTHER 64% of the shots will MISS entirely at that range. 88 will hit dead centre 36% of the time, while the other 64% will STILL likely hit the target, just not anywhere near the point targeted.

            So somehow this dipshit for the lack of the better word believe that sniping with 122 is a completely acceptable solution. That’s how you get tomatoes, ladies and gentleman. They will fucking sit in the back, trying to snipe with 122 in hope that one of their shots will hit the target. And it does. You see their results 4/22 shots hit, 2 penetrated. And they will call it a good day, because they over matched the armor on the roof of a tank.

            Turds in this game are sure special.

  5. - a player proposed a theory, that some of the lags are caused on the client side by energy saving CPU functions (EIST, C-States, Turbo Boost). Storm: “Until you present us with evidence of these “mysterious” lags, it’s unlikely we will do anything”

    well thats people trying to play games and save energy at the same time… computers dont work like that so thers nothing wg can do, just maybe explain this to fact to people…

    • I find it interesting that instead of checking out if there is a possibility of mysterious lags they just go “fuck you no lag good engine gibe evidence and we fix in 8 months”.

    • I for one celebrate Poland’s decline from massive powerhouse in 1600-1800 to barely a speck of dust in the current political landscape.

      • Oh I dunno, they seem to have a bit more clout now. Especially since their leadership was on point compared to the rest of Europe when it came to Putin’s general intentions.

      • I don’t know, maybe stop reading FTR if you are that dumb and ignorant, wonder how would you speak if it was your country’s independance day.

        • I wouldnt give a fuck because in sweden we dont really have anything to celebrate. I wonder how you would speak if you would live in a country where they dont celebrate…dont be so cockeyed.

  7. “- a player proposed a theory, that some of the lags are caused on the client side by energy saving CPU functions (EIST, C-States, Turbo Boost). Storm: “Until you present us with evidence of these “mysterious” lags, it’s unlikely we will do anything””

    At first the answer is kind of bullshit, I think that developers are those, who should aim on finding possible connections with such features if some players propose such theory. And second, I even started topic on one of such features myself (in czech) and nobody ever responsed to it. You can find it here http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/389490-hpet-vs-wot/page__fromsearch__1 (czech)

  8. Sorry, posted on wrong thread for this day…. Anyhow, fuck you, Russkibias devs… Soviet 122mms versus French side armour compared to NATO 120mm vs 40mm sides… though the NATO sides are 51mm which means 152mm Soviet Tier 10 TDs cannot overmatch but NATO 155mm can… hmm…

  9. “- a player proposed a theory, that some of the lags are caused on the client side by energy saving CPU functions (EIST, C-States, Turbo Boost). Storm: “Until you present us with evidence of these “mysterious” lags, it’s unlikely we will do anything””

    what a shame. When i play Dota2, my FPS never go below 60, and they are only that low in the first place because of vsync, and I’d say it has a lot better graphics.

    In WoT i barely ever get that high FPS, and even if i do… it’s enough for someone to shoot some snow and all those particle effects will kill the FPS.

    I can understand that they’re russians and they suck at developing games, but if they at least would see their own mistakes, maybe they could improve… but noooo…

    • WTF did I just read? (c) Captain Pickard meme.

      “What a shame. When I play pong, my FPS never goes below 60, and they are only that low in the first place because I am using a calculator, and I would say it has a lot better graphics”.

      Did that retard just compared two COMPLETELY different games (top down static RTS vs first person 3D complex models and physics shooter) and complained about the results? How do we get stupid people like that? Fuck.

      • First person :D (most of the time in 3ps)
        Complex models :D (unless the HD but those are pointlessly complex anyways)
        Physics shooter :D (Havok isnt in yet)

        Also Dota2 has far better textures, models and sounds than WoT and somehow has better framerates on toasters. you’re the worst troll.

        • You do not have to pull out of your ass DOTA for a silly comparison. This is not a complex 3D game. There are better comparisons, hell, even the War Thunder works – a game with the same 3D environment that looks far better, has larger maps etc. is able to run well on various machines, which would not even hit 20FPS on WoT…. Not to mention other kind of games, like e.g. MAx Payne, which look beautiful, and are much more playable than WoT on the same configurations.
          The main problem with WoT are the frame rate drops. Low number of FPS is not the main issue. It is bearable, as long as there is enough of settings to disable, that increase performance to the 25-35 level. You can use to it, but you can not get used to FPS drops. playing with around 40, suddenly some dense vegetation apears – boom, 15FPS… On a computer that can handle much better looking games OK…

          • i chose Dota2 because it’s pretty much on the other side of the spectrum when it comes to quality + game developers, also i don’t play that many games apart from dota+wot at the moment… and i really don’t think it’s bad as a comparison, and even if it was, it would hardly be a worse comparison than Max Payne…

      • usually RTS games have worse graphics than First person shooters, not better ones. this is just another point for Dota2. Also i wouldn’t necessarily call WoT a first person shooter. Also the textures are better, the models are incredibly detailed (and there are a lot more objects and effects in one game of dota than in one game of WoT).

        Also if you didn’t know, it’s the same engine that is made for tons of first person shooters like Left4Dead, CS:GO and more…

        • Anyone who understands anything about how games work should be aware that tanks could be far more optimized than it is ,

          The big difference between FPS and RTS from a technical standpoint is they use different resources , FPS is more GPU intensive and most of the time hardly utilises the CPU anymore , RTS does however and generally puts less load onto the GPU ( Depending on the RTS and graphics settings)
          It is true textures are generally simpler for RTS but there is usually alot more going on in an RTS so the CPU does alot more work than in FPS , the graphics in WoT is alot more comaprable to FPS than RTS , with that in mind , you can compare WoT to alot of FPS games these days and it doesn’t stack up for performance

  10. - current version of premium account/tank XP is temporary, premium tanks (or account, unclear) will be buffed further

    Very nice.

  11. Aaand here we go, didnt take long: playerbase consisting of retards that can barely locate their dicks start to complain that Stalingrad is too complicated for them and the map gets butchered, fucking simpletons, gg.

    • In all fairness, that map is too difficult for them. Using 4 keys and a mouse button is too difficult for them. Mouth breathing… no, no, that actually they can do.

        • See? That guy is the example of retarded person who represents the tomatoes in the game.

          Sir, you can return to window licking now. No, sir, please do not eat the glue.

          • I am not a tomato, but the map is too big and annoying with so many objects. Of course maps must be rebalanced, many maps have been shows unbalanced, that is why they got reworked. Nuw lick me.

            • You sound more and more stupid the more you post. Let me try to get it through your skull:

              Just because YOU are incapable of performing something, doesn’t mean that something is broken. YOU are THE PROBLEM. Please leave the game.

              To compare: If you sat your fat lonely ass on the couch watching Olympic Games and decided that because you can’t run marathon in 2 hours they should change marathon to be about sitting on the couch and the winner is the one who shits himself last and then went and asked Olympic committee to change the games because THAT MARATHON is TOO HARD.

              Do you get it? You are worthless, not the map. They shouldn’t cater to the lowest denominator.

              • Shut up. All aspects need rebalance to make the game not die. Most maps have been remodeled anyways. Its not about me beeing good or bad, its about the map needing rebalance, thats all.

                • I’m sorry but i have been reading this whole conversation and i have tried to bite my tongue but i have to say something , First of all Daemonik while i understand your frustration with the constant demolition of the game due to the utter stupidity of the playerbase , and i agree with most of what you are saying , pointlessly raging is clearly getting you nowhere , and furthermore stooping to calling ppl names is kind of immature which destroys your ability to get your point across even more so ,
                  That being said Nacht And Ferdinand i do beleive that tanks may not be the game for you , it sounds to me as though candy crush may be more your speed…..

                  Ferdinand keeps using the word rebalance when he clearly doesn’t understand the meaning of the word , The map IS BALANCED , Balanced means that players ( even players as incapable as you ) have an even 50/50 chance to win from both sides of the map , what you are actually asking for is the difficulty level of the map to be nerfed , which IMHO means that Daemonik is correct and not only are you a tomato , you are arrogant enough to think the X number of million playerbase should all suffer because you are too lazy to learn , As mentioned before if you cant handle it maybe you should find another game more your speed……

    • To be honest. the game should have a spotting system to where you see the tank, even though it’s not spotted to your team, like the fat rear end of a Tiger II sticking out from behind a house at 400 meters (Say my viewrange is 360, so I don’t spot him for the rest of my team,. but I see him)
      And the damage should be higher (well, somewhat higher, leave the high damage derp and arty guns alone) because in real life many tanks got 1-2 hit. Since this game is arcade-based I would want it still arcade-based, so many tanks should get 3 shot.
      I wish things as simple as what I typed above could be accepted and impletmented into the game but I guess it’ll never be. So, long live you invisitanks!

      • Tanks have too much damage. The problem with having too much view range and render range is that it will lead to people “sniping” behind hard covers where they cant be shot back at. As it is, lower view range and render range as a circle will make people move closer to see enemies and make damage and that is how it should have been. Back in the days the lower accuracy and less TDs made people move more and brawl in medium to close range, but once 8.6 went live ppl stayed back and sniped because they could, and that also lead to TD infestation because TDs with the older maps and new accuracy was most rewarding (take litte risk and make max dmg).

        Most game mechanics and crew skills/perks and equipment are developed for medium to close range brawling not for static long range sniping. Having a game play where tanks make alot of damage from long range fighthing kinda makes many tanks useless and makes the game static because people are affraid to move. I too believe the idea of increasing the fighting distance in 8.6 was a bad idea.

        • Well they could nerf TD damage. Doubt it’ll happen but oh well lol.
          If you thought getting one-hit in WG was bad. WTGF is notorious for it. (But it is more realistic, I must say. As I mentioned, many WW2 tank did get 1-shot.)
          I agree on lower render distance, lower TD view range (and all tank view ranges) is an excellent idea! Makes me wish I was a dev. right now so I could tell them how good of an idea this could be!

      • Fucking armchair general telling us how WG should change their SUCCESSFUL game.

        I am sure with his 0 experience in successful game development, following him will turn out to be just fine.

          • Actually, this post was a reply to NachtWolf who is the current turd as can be seen. Fedinand just happens to be so stupid he opened his mouth several times and I had to point it out to him on multiple occasions.

            • Every time I read one of your posts, I lol and nod in agreement.

              “Here’s how WG, who made one of the most successful MMO for 2 years straight, should do to make the game better: [explains a horrendous solution that would only work on MUCH larger maps, where I contradict myself by having tanks one shooting themselves like IRL, but not having them fight at long range because I don't like getting killed by things I can't see at long range]” – NachtWolf

              “No, that’s fucking stupid” -Daemonik

              :’D

  13. - current version of premium account/tank XP is temporary, premium tanks (or account, unclear) will be buffed further

    Can someone explain this to me? I don’t really understand what they mean by that.

      • Yea, pretty sure he’s talking about the experience and crew-training buffs they added recently.

        I’m not sure what more they could really do, since I believe they’ve already stated they don’t want to increase premium tanks’ credit output, and premiums tend to be cheap to repair and reload as it is. Further experience buffs would be edging towards ridiculous.

        Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

  14. the main playerbase of WoT consists of men from 28 to 35 years

    I think they wanted to say 8 to 35 and put a 2 by mistake

  15. Really? ._.
    28 to 35… So you’re telling me, that middle aged men, can’t read a minimap or use their brains… How the hell do they even turn on their computers :/

    • Yes of course. Why would older people automaticly be more competitive? Retards exist in all ages and that is what is worrying, all those people trolling and mouthing off are in fact older than we think. Its just that internet makes people some how anonymous and bring out the inner freaks in humans. Look at Jingles, I mean he is funny but funny in the wrong way if you know what I mean….

      • Well for one, adults know how to look at little squares that give them information then what’s directly in front of them, like, say…rear view mirrors on cars.