Odessa answers errata by Storm ——奥德萨开发见面会的更正

Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/212699.html

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Hello, everyone.
小朋友们大家好. 

Well, Storm just issued errata on Evilly’s answers. Looks like Evilly screwed up again. *sigh* Here’s the corrected info from yesterday’s “Odessa” answers:
 呃,Storm刚刚对Evilly的回答做出了更正。看起来Evilly又玩脱了一次。*叹气*
以下就是对昨天的见面会的更正。点我跳转原文——
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Version 8.6 Release

欧服今天更新0.8.6: http://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/44/86-announcement/

然后感谢ST战争学院的DR姐 — StrikeWitches(DR) 提供youtube转载视频:
请前往围观: http://video.sina.com.cn/v/b/107498287-1838937155.html

A reworked and improved balancing system for the SPGs added and their tech lines reworked, not to mention a lot of other useful improvements – this is the new Version 8.6. Get ready, Commander!

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About fixing battles

Hello everyone,

several people asked me yesterday, how does one “fix” random battles when the matchmaking takes the players from the entire server. It shouldn’t be possible to do, right?

So just a quick description how this works. Next time there is some competition (you know, like the one for 0.8.5 – top XP gainers from each class etc.), check on how many of the victors are clanners and how many of representatives of those clans are present.

Of course, it could mean such clans are simply that great… or it could mean something else entirely.

How to do it

Here’s an example of a fixed battle (thanks to Rasan and his clanmate):

Link to replay (version 0.8.2): http://wotreplays.com/site/225264#ensk-guest-amx_13_90

Here you can see a typical (albeit lowtier) example of fixing battles. Several friends (this time from different clans, although Suicide Division (S-D) and Valkyria (VLK) are present on both sides) decided to allow the T1 Cunningham to get an insane XP gain.

Basically, what the culprits do is they abuse the MM mechanism for matching platoons. This works best around 4-5AM, when there are very very few players on the server. Few players means few platoons. In other words: if you suddenly create two 3 man platoons (those are rarer) and click on “battle” at the same time, you have a really high chance of ending against each other, because there will be no more 3 man platoons online at that point and the matchmaker will have no other choice than to compensate by putting your friends’ platoon against you.
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Gold consumables price to be cut in half in 0.8.6

Source: 
http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/17/86-update-brings-50-discount-premium-consumables/

Thanks to Steiner011(EU) for bringing this up.

Basically, the consumable price will be cut in half in 0.8.6 – but beware, it’s not forever, only until the 0.8.7 (this is a bit of a trolling from WG, because 0.8.7 will contain British arty and will allegedly come very soon after 0.8.6).

Keep in mind that selling prices will be cut in half also, eg. if you have gold consumables now and want to get rid of them, do that before 0.8.6 comes out.
有消息称!,086的金币给养的银币售价会半价,但是请注意,仅限086,到了087就又恢复了!!!???

0.8.6 test 1 armor changes – 官方回应更新版-20130608

Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/2043751.html
Author: Awasaky

NGA翻译: http://bbs.ngacn.cc/read.php?tid=6295122
翻译作者:http://bbs.ngacn.cc/nuke.php?func=ucp&uid=7202235

Note from author: when there are different colours on various models, it doesn’t necesserily mean that the thickness has been changed, the armor zone might have simply been moved into other armor group.

IS-6

The miniature spaced armor strips over the tracks and the rim around the hull (violent on picture) – earlier 10mm, became 30mm

履带上方和车体边缘的[臭名昭著的]间隙装甲带(图中的紫色部分)[木有图]
——从10mm提高到了30mm
官方回应: No. The side armor was 30mm even before and stayed 30mm.  The rim under the turret was 100mm, stayed 100mm. We removed the spaced armor, that was situated in the crevice under the turret, which was there for some reason.
侧面之前也是30mm来着!炮塔下面的边框也是100mm没改过!!

Earlier:

Chi Ri Kai – Japanese tier 8 medium

Chi Ri Kai – Japanese tier 8 medium

SS: Today we have 2 articles about the Chi-Ri development from Soukoudragon (US forums). 

Author: Soukoudragon (US forums)

Chi Ri Kai for Medium Tier 8

The Chi Ri Kai is what would be grabbing historically existing features and components and bringing them together. The most important part is the gun. I see no choice but for the 105 to be used.

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Chi Ri II – Japanese tier 6/7 medium

Chi Ri II – Japanese tier 6/7 medium

Author: Soukoudragon (US forums)

A practical merging of the Chi Ri and Chi To

With the name Chi Ri II, the patterned way of thinking would figure that this Chi Ri II would be a better tank than the Chi Ri.

Well… yes and no.

Let’s look at Germany. The Tiger 2, the Jagdtiger, the Maus…bigger is better was the trend. But bigger meaning better is highly debatable. What if Germany made more of less complicated and lighter fighting machines? Well, the E-series was apparently going to help with that… a little.

With that concept in mind, the Chi Ri II was designed to be more practical than the Chi Ri. The designers were considering the final desperate battle for the homeland of Japan. They imagined destroyed bridges and railroads, the need to transport over water with landing craft, limited resources, and so on. A simplified Chi Ri sounds like a good idea, thus a better tank…for this kind of dire situation. However the war ended before development could begin.

The other point is that the Chi Ri II took many characteristics from both the Chi Ri and the Chi To while removing some characteristics from the Chi Ri. It could be said that it is as much a Chi Ri II as it is a Chi To II.
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