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[Evilsod]

You buy things from the store.
Things you have are in your depot, and can be sold from there.

As far as I'm aware you only buy stuff from the store, to sell you go to depot. At least that what I do with tanks, mods etc.

Edit: I type too slow

Ah my mistake.

Hmm, game has gone to crap a bit since last update. Huge amounts of arty stacking, too many tier 10s, heaps more penetration no damage hits, ridiculous penetrations from tier 8 arties that do less than 50 damage and a seemingly inordinate amount of retards playing at the moment.

Without gold ammo/consumables the game would be so much more balanced. The higher penetration on some tanks isn't that bad, you can still angle your tank a little better and bounce, but the levels of penetration on gold ammo is getting stupid. Its even more noticeable when initially gold ammo had like 30-50mm more penetration and now you're getting 100mm+ more pen on gold than regular.

 

[qbazdz]

Hmm, game has gone to crap a bit since last update. Huge amounts of arty stacking, too many tier 10s, heaps more penetration no damage hits, ridiculous penetrations from tier 8 arties that do less than 50 damage and a seemingly inordinate amount of retards playing at the moment.

Holidays season is open! U surprised??

 

[varkanoid]

and a seemingly inordinate amount of retards playing at the moment.

I've been playing late at night /early morning due to being father of number 2 new baby keeping me up (no point going to bed between feeds sometimes)and noticed not long after midnight number of players drops by 20000 from around 40000 to around 22000 and the level of matches gets worse. As in team co-operation is terrible. Seems to be either a lot of idiots or new people playing.

Could be an influx of new gamers from the likes of the PC Gamer codes etc.

 

[Snubber]

Hmm, game has gone to crap a bit since last update. Huge amounts of arty stacking, too many tier 10s, heaps more penetration no damage hits, ridiculous penetrations from tier 8 arties that do less than 50 damage and a seemingly inordinate amount of retards playing at the moment.

Yep...agree totally, 7.5 has reduced the fun factor enormously IMO. I'm taking a long break from this game as it's beginning to really brass me off.

TBH might not come back unless WG add something tangible that adds to the gamplay....rather than new tanks that nobody really wants.

Don't hold out much hope for 8.0...can't see physics adding much tbh.

 

[varkanoid]

just discovered all the stuff I bought and no longer need in the depot and sold it. Made 400,000 credits.

Forgot you could sell redundant modules, bonus!

thanks guys!

 

[Evilsod]

Could be an influx of new gamers from the likes of the PC Gamer codes etc.

Unlikely. Unless you're playing lower tiers or they happen to be driving currently available premium tanks you probably wouldn't come across that many newbies. I think whenever I've played with Link/Defrag when they're using XVM you don't seem to come across that many players with '0k battles', its mostly just terrible players.

Yep...agree totally, 7.5 has reduced the fun factor enormously IMO. I'm taking a long break from this game as it's beginning to really brass me off.

TBH might not come back unless WG add something tangible that adds to the gamplay....rather than new tanks that nobody really wants.

Don't hold out much hope for 8.0...can't see physics adding much tbh.

British Tanks!!!

 

[Delboy]

Have to agree with Evil - not many players have 0k battles, most are just bad efficiency players. It does seem to have significanly gotten worse over the past few days though - perhaps because of the school holidays and they are jumping on their daddies accounts or something - not sure.

Came across an E100 with ~500 efficiency and a w/l of 42% - quite possibly the worse player i've seen due to the tier he was playing. Needless to say he camped in our base until the game was pretty much won then decides to venture out. He got 0 kills and probably didn't even fire a single shot. We won in the end but he did jack **** to help. God knows how long it took him to get a tier 10 with that sort of play style. He probably thinks he did well in that game!!!!

I am sick and tired of these players. I know it's only a game but ffs, why am I always put on the <30% chance of winning teams and have to battle with players that don't know how to play their tanks or angles or shoot at the priority targets? Why does the T92 shoot the IS4 thats on ~50hp and one shot for anyone else essentially wasting a potential 1200 damage on the E100/Maus only a few feet away? Don't people realise that its the overall damage you inflict that gets you xp/credits and not number of kills?

/rant.

 

[qbazdz]

I really don't understand why MM doesn't take people w/l ratio (or better efficiency) into account...
This game would be so good if good players were always matched against good players...
or mix it... good players in lower tier tanks with terrible players in high tier tanks (more xp for grinding your way to the top...).

Anyone actually saw the Reporting system working and doing anything useful, or is it just one of those features that has a huge black hole at the end... all this goes nowhere ??

 

[Delboy]

I'd be very happy if it was always a 50/50 chance or as close as it can reasonably be within ~5% but at present I seem to be dragged into games where the win chance is less than 30% and at worse 5% in some cases. I know its still two teams of 15 players but 9 times out of 10 XVM is correct.

If anything XVM should be banned as a mod because people generally give up if they see only a 5% chance to win so in a way it's self fullfilling, hell I sometimes feel why should I bother with this one when I see it that low but still give it a shot - i've even seen people say "screw this" and just disconnect.

 

[jms198]

If god players played good players then the worse players who were playing the worst players would get better. It would end up with the top 75% having closer W/L making it meaningless. The worst players however would get worse!

I think tanks effect the win %; i don't use XVM so can't comment. IRL It also depends who is driving what tank.

@Delboy; its a T92, he probably missed.

 

[Snubber]

Unlikely. Unless you're playing lower tiers or they happen to be driving currently available premium tanks you probably wouldn't come across that many newbies. I think whenever I've played with Link/Defrag when they're using XVM you don't seem to come across that many players with '0k battles', its mostly just terrible players.



British Tanks!!!

British tanks...yep that would get me back...but when? I don't think we'll see them until the New Year.

 

[Shashman]

Where do you guys see this win percentage thing? :/

 

[j.col]

Where do you guys see this win percentage thing? :/

iirc its the xvm mod

 

[Delboy]

Where do you guys see this win percentage thing? :/

It's called XVM and looks like this:-

Spoiler

(notice the new mm in these games, one day they will introduce some tanks to play in as well to have a break from a crap load of arty!)

Generally:-

Purple are epic stats.
Dark Green/Green are very good stats.
Light Green/Orange are good stats.
Orange/Red/Dark Red are poor stats.

Stats indicate Win Chance at the top by player and by tank.

Stats per player show:-

Number of battles played in, e.g 10k
Efficiency Rating, e.g. 1540
Win/Loss Ratio, e.g. 51%

http://code.google.com/p/wot-xvm/downloads/list

Be aware its a double edged sword and can get quite depressing. The Lite version doesn't include the win chance I believe which may be a getter option.

Quite funny to watch someone with all red stats having a go at everyone else for not saving them when they drive headlong into enemy territory, everyone else are noobs according to them.

 

[neoboy]

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50% discount on purchase of the following German SPGs:

Tier II Sturmpanzer I Bison
Tier III Sturmpanzer II
Tier III Wespe
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50% on all equipment!

Been staring longingly at that tank shell rammer, or binocular telescope? It’s your lucky day because they are all half price!

So finally have an equipment sale along with few other perks.

 

[j.col]

So finally have an equipment sale along with few other perks.

at last been saving for weeks, hoping there would be a sale, now my 5 top tanks have rammers and laying drive and a few tool boxes thrown in

 

[qbazdz]

Toolbox is a waste of a slot in my opinion if you can mount vent, rammer and vert. stab.

 

[neoboy]

I haven't really played for a while since my wi-fi has been misbehaving and to top it all off my Razer Deathadder finally bit the dust after all these years of abuse, only had 600k in the bank but got the much needed ventilation upgrade for the Tiger II and rammer for T29 so all my main tanks have the rammers now.

 

[wodgah]

Am currently stuck in the Tiger trying to get to the Tiger II seems to be taking a long time, and if I am honest im a bit disappointed with the Tiger.

 

[j.col]

Am currently stuck in the Tiger trying to get to the Tiger II seems to be taking a long time, and if I am honest im a bit disappointed with the Tiger.

same here,
still on the short 88mm, and it lacks in pen against higher tiers. i should have really of got the tiger p, iirc its like 10k less xp needed to unlock the long 88mm, but then i bought the tiger when it was on 50% discount, tiger p wasn't, so cant really grumble

@Delboy
i installed the xvm mod last night, its quite interesting, looking at the players stats before the game. had about 10 games with it, the win chance was right most times, but 1 battle, it said 85% loss, and we won 6-15, but it was a defend base game on Pokorovka (the one with the tracks and hill), but for once nobody camped on hill.