Komitadjie

We actually let rather a lot more go than we technically *should* per the strict interpretation of the rules, but a chat is like a conversation, and trying to run a by-the-book lawyer-type moderation is both obnoxious, and a near exercise in futility. As in, you really have to be a douche, generally, to get booted from the Discord. Typically we'll ask you to drop something, then if you don't, we'll take additional action. Bans are our last-resort option, and are issued quite sparingly. A short-duration mute of a day or so is much more common.

Excellent! :) Couple good mods, I think!

Honestly, it was a lot more fun when you could get them as rewards from missions, and they actually dropped well. It just felt more rewarding for doing well.

At tier 8, some autoguns are pretty sparse in the DPM department, and they wreck your cammo really bad.

I'm just not really excited about yet another low-dpm-no-armor PvP vehicle, to be honest. We've got SO many of those.

Fair, yeah. Not as much conflict of interest, but just trying to keep an eye on both at once could be a challenge.

Daaaaumn, how are you managing that? Fully boosted, I'm pulling 16mil a stage with the 640, and... 27mil? or thereabouts on CH3. One run with a 10x is basically enough to buy, upgrade, and fully retrofit TWO tier-10s!

Hell, I'll nominate Soren for it. They're hella good, and have the right kind of personality to deal with it as well.

I'm PRETTY sure napalming a hospital isn't that much of a war crime. XD

Because we banned him there a long time ago. lol

Good, but still not quite as good as the full retard meme, I think. XD

That's a Lieutenant. Yeah, they have bonuses to pretty much everything.

Hey, welcome! Good to have you here, man! :)

Both good things, the Lahat is godawful and does almost no damage. xD

At least not balanced like the poor OLD tier-3s. xD

Oh, right, forgot this was a mission, not a daily. Ugh, really not a fan of this whole set, the restrictions make it kinda boring and extremely awkward.

Yeah, to get that many, you need both a powerful vehicle, ideally with autocannon, and also a kinda potato team in PVE randoms, or a platoon. Specops is definitely the way to go otherwise, a Terminator is a good choice for eliminations, since you can push in *and* deal huge damage.

Oh look... a reason we need mods. Well timed, assbot. xD

Keeping in mind that this is going to be heavily biased by progression line grinding. Your *average* player who's grinding a progression line is going to have to go through some really bad vehicles, but will be playing them because they HAVE to for progression. And also will very likely be playing only partially upgraded. A premium (that people are choosing to play) is generally already at least decent, and is fully upgraded. So I don't think you really CAN get valid results here, without a lot deeper dive into what each player is running. For this to work, you'd have to have "average" vehicles for a tier that aren't particularly strong or weak at a given tier, and you'd also have to have them all fully upgraded.

Excellent. In this case, I'd envision the mods being more as an on-call fire brigade that can be paged if something bad happens, more than trying to filter and read everything said. When the spambot or porn-dump-Lenticulas shows up, general users can drop a mod-call and get them there to clean it up. More a response-team to outright messes than classic "moderation."

I really think it's mostly the matchmaking that makes it feel so insanely rough right now. You go from tier 6, where you're getting pretty good spawns, with about the worst you see being normally a small number of 8s or fragile 8s, to 7 where you see a pretty good number of full-strength 10s. There's a lot of bumps in the power progression, but I think it's mostly in the enemies you see. 7s can fight 8s pretty easily still, even though the 8s is a pretty large jump. It's just that crazy +3 you get stuffed into, where you're just plain outclassed. If stuff was properly MM at bulk +1 with occasional +2, I think it'd be fine still, more or less.

Not a bad plan, because eventually we're going to end up with legit bots and that one jackass that just image-dumps a ton of porn or something like that. Definitely want to keep mod-action light-handed, though, the self-moderating community is working really well, and we don't want to mess up that vibe.

Keeping in mind that most other games (look at WoT for an example there) have other servers as well, and pricing more typically follows server. You won't have somebody pay RU server prices, to play on the NA server, for example.

I think the largest complaint is that in most cases, you don't see that happening on the same server. Like, WoT or whatever, the prices vary by server, so everyone on your server playing with you paid the same price. With the global server, half the people paid half what you did, for the same tanks, on the same game, just because of where they registered their account. Plus a real trade system, etc. It was less frustrating before the server merge and everyone playing in the same place.

Yeah, my worry is generally that with their current bent toward balancing everything toward PVP randoms... Well, most folks play PVEs, including me.