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 :)

Hello everyone,

lately, a few people were asking, how did the veteran tanker charity end up. I am pleased to say, it ended up amazingly well.

The final sum collected was 168.000,- CZK (cca 6133 EUR) and on 20.1.2014, this sum was transferred to the account of Československá Obec Legionářská (ČSLO), Czechoslovak veteran organization. As I wrote before, I took part in one of the meetings with the ČSLO representatives, who were quite cordial and extremely surprised, how much money was actually collected (really quite high for Czech and Slovak republics). It was agreed upon to

- split the sum to more people than just one or two
- not to simply give money to the veterans, but rather gifts they need (medical bed, TV and such) in order to avoid issues with “greedy relatives” misusing the money and such stuff

This organization took time, but finally, yesterday, the representatives went to visit first two veterans to arrange everything. Along with them came Clearevil (yes, THAT Clearevil the moderator), one of the organizers of the event, to physically witness everything and to thank the veterans personally. Sadly, the event’s mood was a bit tainted by the fact that on Wednesday evening, one of the few remaining Czechoslovak RAF pilots, who served in Battle of Brittain, Brigadier-General (ret.) Miroslav Štandera, passed away. Also, sadly, in these two months it took to organize the entire thing, the list of potential candidates from the ranks of WW2 tankers also grew smaller by one…

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Source: Reddit

Balance – working as intended :)

Edit: I was contacted by the creator of this picture, Reddit user StranaMechty. He added the following:

Hello, I’m the guy who made the original Reddit post, could I bother you to include a couple notes about the data, specifically the unreliability of the results for tiers 1-3? The result sets were so small for those tiers that I probably shouldn’t have included them in the graph in the first place, but I didn’t think about that until it was too late. Tier 1, for example, is only a few hundred matches. Basically just a couple bullets to answer some of the questions I see popping up in your comment feed.

1) Result sets for tiers 1-3 insufficiently large to draw sound conclusions from.

2) France has no tier 1 because no results for confrontation were uploaded to VBAddict.

Source: http://englishrussia.com/2014/02/19/the-snow-tank/

Hello everyone,

so, according to the article above, a student from Altai, Russia built a tank from snow and ice. That by itself would ba hardly noteworthy, were it not for the quality of his creation. The student claims his tank is even of correct historical size. So, what do you think? Must be a WoT fan :)

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Hello everyone,

today, we have a guest article by Atilla “Kwagga” Balint (his blog), enjoy!

America’s antitank arm

In 1940, the German Blitzkrieg had been introduced with terrific results on the Western front. Despite their higher average level of motorization, the Allied armies proved to be no match against the massed and highly maneuverable Panzer arm. At the same time, curious and anxious eyes followed the events on the other side of the Atlantic. The U.S. Army saw the combat in Europe the following way. Neither the scattered antitank guns of the infantry nor the allied tanks could stop the timely massed panzers. The fear from the new threat gave a stimulus to a process which lead to the foundation of an entirely new combat arm. Originally, the sole purpose of the Tank Destroyer arm was to deal with the Panzerwaffe of the Wehrmacht, which was then seen as a more or less homogenous armored force.

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Hello everyone,

this personal rating formula was reworked in 8.10, but somehow, it eluded players’ attention. Since patch 8.10, the Wargaming Personal Rating formula looks like this:

win – winrate (from 0 to 1)
surv – survival rate (from 0 to 1)
dmg – average damage per battle
bc – total amount of battles played
bc8.8 – amount of battles played from the point of patch 8.8 release
xp8.8 – average XP per battle (without premium account, from the point of patch 8.8 release)
radio8.8 – average damage done after your spotting (from the point of patch 8.8 release)
track8.8 – average damage done after you detracking the opponent (from the point of patch 8.8 release)