Hello everyone,

a player (with name withheld) posted this issue. Apparently, there is a problem with clan logo changes. He tried to change his 6 days ago unsuccessfully and reported the issue to WG EU support. The answer from the support was following:

Thank you for coming back to us with this information. Shortly after giving you my previous answer, we were informed that a bug is indeed on-going regarding the clan logo updates and we are currently working on solving it. For now, please refrain from uploading any new logos as the currently set ones should appear once the issue is solved.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and wish you the best of luck on the battlefield.
Kind regards,

Miguel Adaephon Delat
EU Customer Service Team

So, guys, if you think of changing your clan logos, you might want to wait for a while.

Source: Wargaming RU

Hello everyone,

apparently, the test 8.10 will start on either 27.11. or 28.11. (next week Thursday or Friday). The date for the patch itself is not set yet from what I know, but it has been confirmed to appear “before Christmas”, so I’d expect 3rd week of December.

Hello everyone,

as was reported before by many people, including WG producer Slava Makarov and Overlord, Wargaming recently appeared (will appear, depends on your timezone) on the National Geographic show “Ultimate Factories“.

Now, in order to watch it, you have to have National Geographic in the first place. Here (Czech Republic), it’s a part of some cable bundles and whatnot. Some regions don’t have access to it whatsoever.

So, you are interested in this show, but can’t access it? How terrible. Luckily for you, “someone” uploaded the English part on the internet. You can download it here. It’s an interesting show, enjoy!

Part 1: http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/09/06/gup-wot-manga-in-english/

Hello everyone,

this is the second part of the Girls und Panzer WOT training manga, as it appears in Japanese (on SEA server I think). Thanks to Chogall for sending this.

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Hello everyone,

here are a bunch of invite codes (for new accounts only):

Codes from Info Gamer (T127 + some gold) by Tomogaso, Industrain, Aljetab (many are from him), yoco93cro

DP8GBM-8Z27KM
PKR29R-34M7Y7
DP8GBP-8S927M
DP8GBV-8N98ZE
DP8GBT-3B45WV
DP8GBE-2W55SA
DP8GBW-9Y94UB
DP8GBD-7D35HP
DP8GBE-9B84YT
DP8GBZ-2C83GB

Alienware codes by Vio:

PH7TYF-Z3UR8Y

Also, don’t forget you can get an Alienware invite code here (needs registering on the site)

Hello everyone,

Alienware is giving out 300g + 1 day premium bonus codes to all players.

European version for EU accounts
American version for US accounts

The problem is, I was away whole morning and when I came back (now), the pages say they are overloaded and to try again shortly – so I have absolutely no idea whether there are any codes left. Thanks to the 40 or so folks, who sent me message about it too :)

Edit: yes, it still works. There are cca 6300 codes left as of now for EU server. Note that you CANNOT redeem more than one code on your account, so it’s pointless to make more Alienware accounts to get more codes.

Hello everyone,

yet another occurence of this allegedly “very rare” bug… this time, the victim was the AMX 50 100. Thanks to HamLis for the video.

Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/258072.html

Hello everyone,

Slava Makarov (WG producer) states that Sunday peaks (most players online at the same time) in WoWp are as follows:

RU 18577
EU 10593
NA 3065

Peak for all servers altogether at one point is around 30k players. The fastest growing server is the EU one, the slowest is the RU one, Slava Makarov states that there is a suspicion this is connected to clanwars.

Hello everyone,

since a bunch of folks wrote me yesterday about not knowing how to register or login to FTR to comment (strange, I thought it’s actually pretty simple), I’ll just post this here. If you are not log on, open the post you want to comment on and on the bottom, you will see this:

Just pick your poison… or rather, the social service you want to use to log in. Statistically, most people use WordPress accounts, followed by google accounts. Oh and if you are wondering, how to add an avatar to your account, well, that’s a bit unintuitive. Here’s how to do it:

You’ll need to sign up at http://www.gravatar.com with the email address that you’ve associated in your blog with your admin user account, and upload you image to gravatar.com. After you’ve done that your gravatar.com image will appear whenever you post on your own blog or on other WordPress blogs (if you put that email address into the mail field of the comment form at that other blog).

I hope that helps.

Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog
Author: Yuri Pasholok

Hello everyone,

an interesting photo from Yuri Pasholok’s archive came up. Check this out:

This is a very late-war proposal to modernize the IS-2 tank the way the army (not designers) wanted (by Plant No.100). The task was to modify the IS-2 hull, so it would somehow resemble the T-34 shape wise. The sloped armor everywhere was added in order to increase the vehicle’s ability to withstand shell fire (including the back). This was caused specifically by the appearance of the long 88mm gun on the Ferdinand tank destroyer.

Yuri Pasholok states that after this, the project bureau went to do more realistic proposals, such as the IS-3 and IS-6, which would put this proposal around early 1944. An interesting fact is that it was projected by roughly the same people as the later Object 279.