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I was wondering: are premium vehicles "pay to win"? Or maybe just "Do You win More in a Prem than a normal Tank" All this is in glops, although it might reasonably apply to the other modes It's all just FYI, make whatever conclusions you want Place your bets on the results now, my furry friends, and I'll continue... How could I find this out? Obviously if you have a Prem, you will have an increased chance of coming higher-up the scoring list, because Premiums have a better chance of being top tier. Apparently Prems are supposed to be: just normal tanks that earn you more credits. But ... if the MM balances the Premiums, you will have just as much chance of coming top of a losing team, as of a winning team. So that would be no advantage, in terms of winrate. Well I thought I could see if having more Prems in your team gave you a better chance of winning. So I looked through all the games I could find in my folder, and screen-shotted the team-results-screens. And made a chart of the results of what happens, if your team has more Premiums than the other team. ... And remember that Prems are supposed to get no special winning advantages apart from extra Credit/xp earnings. Here's the result. Out of 134 games. (i think) The middle (grey) column is if the Prems are the same on both sides 2 vs. 2 for example, so these are irrelevant. The scores along the bottom, are if you have more prems than the other side. +1, +2 +3 etc. The Left side, is if you have more Prems than the other team, and LOSE. The Right side, is if you have more Prems than the other team and WIN. I have coloured the columns so you can compare the same +1 with +1 etc. win vs. lose Notes. I didn't take any account of Tier, whatever tank it is, who's in a platoon, who's not, who's a Strela+Ophelia stat-padder*, who's in a top-shelf Batallion in a platoon over Skype, whatever. There wasn't much at tier 10, because there aren't really many T9-10 premiums, also you can't reliably get a Glops game at T5-6, so the results are mostly T7, 8, 9. And I don't promise this has any statistical rigour or validity of any kind, or even that I didnt just cock the whole thing up, in some way. *You should be ashamed of yourself: try that in a Sprut, you talentless seal-clubber.