Hello everyone,

recently, Major_Rampage (US community manager) stated:

We have a big event in December so you will not be seeing “On Track” for the second part of December. You will be see the next “On Track” event in the later part of January.

That is quite useful info I’d say. Given the fact that these events are roughly parallel on other servers too, I think that the Russian server and EU server will have tier 10 discounts in latter half too (likely starting with the 121 medium the Americans had the first half of the month (it’s ending by now).

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/WorldofTanks/comments/1ss77a/japanese_free_experience_costs/

Hello everyone,

American player TheAlaskan calculated, how much XP you need for the XP branch – this article is posted with his permission. The numbers are to simply get to that tier, not elited. For example: Tier 2: 230 exp. That is the experience required to unlock the tier 2 (110 exp) including the modules required in tier 1 (120 exp). It’s like this:

Light Tanks

• Tier 1: 0 exp
• Tier 2: 230 exp
• Tier 3: 1,645 exp
• Tier 4: 6,035 exp
• Tier 5: 23,035 exp

Medium Tanks

• Tier 1: 0 exp
• Tier 2: 180 exp
• Tier 3: 1,820 exp
• Tier 4: 7,090 exp
• Tier 5: 24,040 exp
• Tier 6: 66,040 exp
• Tier 7: 124,190 exp
• Tier 8: 256,590 exp
• Tier 9: 483,590 exp
• Tier 10: 818,590 exp

*Authors note: You save 1005 exp if you research the tier 5 through the light line.

Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/263320.html

Hello everyone,

Storm wrote another post: five years ago, on 12.12.2008, there was a meeting between Slava Makarov, Viktor Kislyi and Petr Bityukov, where the idea “let’s make an online game with tanks” sounded out loud. At that point, Mikhail “Storm” Zhivets was working on another project, that was reworked based on the decision taken during this meeting.

From discussion:
- there are no plans for a Wargaming MMORPG (with elves)
- at one point, the developers did say also “let’s make Navyfield with tanks”
- the Ferdinand fix had to happen, because it was simply wrong, Storm states that old models have a lot of bugs, when models are reworked for high resolution, the developers will make sure they are checked for bugs

Hello everyone,

as you probably know already, 2nd round of 8.10 test will come tomorrow. Since EU portal doesn’t have the changes yet, here they are, taken from US portal:

Changes in the Second Iteration

- Fixed some issues with performance drops when using certain hardware settings, which appeared in the first 8.10 test version
- Fixed some graphical artifacts, which were noted on PC’s with certain hardware configurations: black squares, glowing objects, deformed models of broken trees, shining leaves on trees
- All new maps were removed from the ‘Team Battle’ game mode
- Rebalanced STB-1 tank: dispersion on turret traverse increased by +17%, aiming time increased by 0.2s

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Author: Sp15

Silentstalker:

Hello everyone,

today, I have a guest article from you from player sp15 (US forums), dedicated to Swedish heavy tank development. Enjoy!

Sp15:

Recently about 90 pages of information on the Krv project was found by EU and NA player Renhaxue. I’ve myself been working closely with him and I thought we might as well share the information we have now that we have the archived documents.

So without further ado let’s start. After World War Two, Sweden’s tank force had quickly become outdated, the most advanced tank in service was the Strv m/42 which was the equivalent of an early model Sherman, and it was clear that something better was needed. So in 1949, Sweden did set requirements for a new heavy tank. It seems this project was a response to the development of western heavy tanks by the Americans and British and like their heavy tank projects, the main goal was to counter the threat of the Soviet IS-3.

AKV “1949″ SPG

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…or is it?

Thanks to bluemasquerade for this one.

It seems that the Chinese are having the VK7201 as a premium vehicle in their shop for roughly 210 USD. Good choice? Bad choice?

I think some rewards should stay exclusive. I personally do have a problem with vehicles from pre-order packages being sold on other servers. But that’s just me.

Hello everyone,

I got sent this video of an allegedly 3 year old (but definitely very young) Taiwanese player, who kills 5 tanks in his IS tank like a boss, while his father records the whole thing on camera. Young doesn’t mean bad – as SerB said: winrate is genetically predetermined :D

Hello everyone,

welcome to the new issue of Hall of Shame, where worst retards of WoT (and occasionally other games) are put on display. We have a nice collection of nazis, idiots and trolls for you today :)

Let’s start with a couple of German gentlemen:

Above: “You fucking jews, go die or go gas yourselves”

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Source: http://www.pressball.by/articles/others/digest/84723

Hello everyone,

Wargaming is apparently fond not only of tanks and warplanes, but also of sportsmen. Or sportswomen, in this case. Darya Domracheva, a Belarussian biathlete, agreed to shoot a photo ad campaign for Wargaming, specifically for World of Warplanes. Wargaming also became an official sponsor of Darya Domracheva for 2013/2014 season. Well, enough text, here’s how it looks like. She’s kinda pretty, isn’t she?

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Hello everyone,

a few invite codes from… well, someone (guys, write your nicknames) :) Much appreciated.

There are still plenty of invite codes left on Alienware site too.

PS: Also, speaking of bonus codes, several people linked me to “Razer”. Please note that the company “Razer” is banned from FTR for spamming:

(from the banned users comment folder – Razer posted dozens of these under many posts)