Hello everyone,

just a quick piece of information: we all probably know the WoT Wiki, one of the first sources of WoT info there was. I know I was looking there, I still do in fact (well, at least for some info anyway). You might have also noticed that it was locked for several months now (since 8.8 or 8.9). The reason for that apparently was an overhaul. Recently, a Russian wiki author sort of “leaked” that WoT Wiki should return soon and that currently, two graphic variants are being worked on. Here they are.

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Hello everyone,

an piece of information came up: the 0.9.0 test might be planned for 6th of March and it will be huge: 15Gb. Please note that this piece of information is not from “usual sources” and therefore I cannot vouch for its accuracy.

- SS

Hello everyone,

as some of you know, I recently joined the R1SE clan after its’ commander’s invitation – to try the Clanwars I heard so much about on my own skin so to say. So, here are a few impressions of mine about this mode after like two weeks in the clan. Obviously, this post is not meant for experienced CW players, who know all of this very well, but for people, who never played CW and are actually considering trying it. To be fair, my experience was tainted by the fact that for two weeks already, I have flu or something and trying to focus your enemy while coughing your lungs out is probably not the best thing ever. Anyway, as for the CW…

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I will just leave this here. Taken during primetime (21.2., 20:58).

Hello everyone,

an interesting post came up on WG RU forums. Here is an official list of banned mods for RU forums. Recently, a thick red line got added to the end of the file:

It says: “It is prohibited to use the function ‘noobmeter’ (statistics and combat coefficients of a player) in any XVM mod configuration and to post screenshots and videos with it”

This line was deleted later on and was replaced by the following, that is there until today:

Запрещено публикование ссылок на xvm-full (он же “оленемер”) во всех разделах и подразделах.

“It is forbidden to post links to xvm-full (that is “noobmeter”) in all sections and subsections (of the forum).

A sign of things to come?

Hello everyone,

today, we are going to talk about two Czechoslovak wartime projects by Škoda. Both were offered to the German army.

VOSS I

The full name of this project was “Selbstfahrlafette 7,5 PAK (Škoda)”, but it was also referred to as VOSS I, in “honor” of the installed German CEO of wartime Škoda (Skoda-Werke), Dr.Wilhelm Voss. It was developed in 1941 (the drawing is dated August 1941 specifically) as an anti-tank gun on the Škoda suspension from the T-21/22/23M tank (it is unclear, which suspension was used), likely after being asked directly by Wehrmacht (in order for them to offer this design as a cheap alternative to German tank destroyers to Germany’s allies). Drawings and a small wooden mock-up were made, but the project got cancelled later on for unknown reasons.

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Hello everyone,

last night, I recieved an interesting e-mail about my older post about bots – from noone else than the CEO of the company, developing the Tankleader bot. The e-mail was signed with a full name, including e-mail and telephone number. No, I haven’t tried calling the gentleman, but it looks pretty legit. Either way, here is an excerpt of the letter, I think you will find it interesting like I did. The name was withheld for obvious reasons. I kept the original typos, the English is a bit flawed, but the man is from Germany. The “bold” marking is made by me.

-SS

Greetings Silentstalker,

my name is -redacted- , and I am the CEO of the company behind Tankleader and some other automatization software for mmorpg/a. I did read your blog posts about Tankleader, and thought it would be nice, if I would reply you personally and give you some facts about the real usage of TL.

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Hello everyone,

weekend is here – and this time, the event is actually really nice, I will definitely grind some credits. But it wouldn’t be a WG EU event without a fail, would it? :) This time, it’s about Tiger discount and income bonus.

Regular (English) version:

But Germans get more?

No, they don’t. It’s just a portal typo as usual. Still, some people got a bit confused by it. Oh well.

Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/360207-latency-and-packet-loss/

Hello everyone,

I don’t usually repost WG stuff “as is”, but this shouldn’t “disappear”, because it’s a nice explanation of what happened and happens even now. So, what do you think about this?

Dear Commanders!

The last couple of weekends have presented both you and us with some very high packet loss and latency issues while playing World of Tanks in the late afternoon and evening. In response to these problems, our engineers have been working around the clock and we have put in place several measures to increase the network performance at our end. We understand how disruptive these issues have been for your gameplay and we would like to apologise for the inconvenience caused to you!

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Enjoy :)