I stop playing the actual battle after a crippling hit (no point wasting extinguisher, first aid or repair kit). In real life, tanks did not survived direct arty shot anyway, so I only mimics the reality. And that in reality it is a complete bullshit that arty kills 7 tanks of 15? Who cares, WG sets the rules.

The more kills, damage and XP arty get the sooner they get nerfed.

World of Tanks:
- Made from the start with the aim to allow teams of tanks battling (core feature)
- Global servers to unify playing and calculations and prevent cheating (wallhacks and such)
- Maximum of 100k players per server with about 10k actually playing (IIRC, which’d mean about 150 – 200 games at the same time)

You don’t get the difference – it’s different games, which needed different approach in the start.
SE was focused on physics, because it was a small indie game focused on physics. There’s no need to optimize connection, large groups of players, matchmaking, models of tanks or hitzones. If somebody disconnects for a second – it’s not a big thing, at most you lose some of ever abundant resources. So naturally, you pick the best physics engine, and then work with it, adding to it. 16 players might get raised in the future – but the physics was more important.
WoT, on the other hand, was primarily an MMO – network was important. Simple models of tanks were important. In the early stages, physics and optimization wasn’t that needed, so they picked different engine. It was important to let two teams play together smoothly and to have good moving and hitting system – nothing beyond that. And now, they build on that base – they add more physics, more optimization – but that wasn’t important in the start.

Simply put, you focus on what you want to do with the game in the start – and only then you add on that. And it’s natural that these two games differ, since WoT isn’t a game about physics simulation and SE isn’t a game about 15 vs 15 players playing a battle on the server.