5381

You can only play with the yellow cells, those are the parameters. The actual data (which you can look at but shouldn’t really play with) is on the “camo data” tab (bottom left corner).

I was able to input stuff by opening the link in Chrome and making a copy of the table in my GoogleDocs (again, click on the tab in bottom left corner and select Copy To).

5382

Really looking forward to the 7.3 patch that is promised for the “end of april”.

There’s gonna be tank substitutions and doublings. it will gain me 3 (!) heavy tanks with 100% crews, garage slots and camo’s for the princely price of absolutely free :)

The IS-4 is going to loose the Finger of God (or was that the Dick of God? :P ) S-70 gun. It will gain a faster, more accurate gun with even better penetration so its all good.

5383

I somehow need to make 4.4m silver by 7.3 to get the IS4 and KV3 into my garage. XP isn’t a problem, I have a few hundred thousand either as free exp or to be converted and I’ll have gained enough in my IS3 by patch day that I doubt I’ll use much of the free xp pool anyway. Silver though, is another matter, even wins see a low income after repairs and ammo costs.

5384

Essentially, you have to buy a premium tank, preferably a Lowe or T34 or a Type 59. All of these make scads of credits, with even losses making a profit. Gross revenues above 100k are not uncommon for good matches.

5385

I need to figure out if the cost of buying the IS4 and KV3 through gold conversion nearer patch date is less than the cost of a Lowe+time spent grinding from now until then.

5386

Keep in mind that 12500 gold for the Lowe gets you a gift that keeps on giving, while conversion is gone with the wind…

5387

Here is one way to think about it.

Let’s say you are considering buying the Lowe for 12,500 gold. Obviously, if you want to buy a premium tank to grind credits, you should also have a premium account (you can do without it but then it will take the prem tank longer to pay for itself), let’s 1 month, which costs 2,500. In total you need 15,000.

If you simply buy credits with this amount (400 credits per 1 gold), you’ll get 6,000,000 credits.

While it’s highly individual but, on average, you should net about 40K credits per match with the Lowe. Which means it will take about 150 matches for Lowe to pay for itself and start earning “profit”.

Think how much you are playing. If you play 30 matches a week, it will take you 5 weeks of playing nothing but Lowe to get those 6 mil. If you play 10 matches a day, it will only take a couple of weeks.

Also see if you have enough time until “end of april” to get the necessary credits before the next patch.

IMO, buying credits with gold saves time but is expensive and is a very short term solution. Buying a prem tank is kind of a long term investment, if you are planning to play for a long time, prem tank will keep paying. 150 fights is nothing to be honest, especially in a good competitive tank. Ever since I bought my Type 59, I played probably close to 500 matches in it, that’s A LOT of millions credits earned.

And don’t forget, you can use a prem tank to train any crew of the same nationality.

5388

What he says. I really enjoy my T34 and my Type 59, and so making credits is hardly a grind.

5389

Except I’m sure that the Type 59 is much more enjoyable than playing the Lowe or KV-5, and they no longer sell it. Unless some magic happened that I missed reading.

Sick to death of my Lowe and I still have some 12m credits to gather.

5390

Hehe, everything gets old eventually, I am sick to death of all my tanks pretty much and can’t wait for Diablo 3 and Guild Wars 2 to switch to them “long term”. :)

You are right, they no longer sell the Type. I wouldn’t say it’s “much more enjoyable though”, it’s different from the Lowe (or anything else) but both can be enjoyable based on your preferences. Some people simply like heavies more than meds. There are lots of tanks I like better than my Type, the Type is my only premium tank though.

Like any tank though, Lowe requires smart playing, it’s not an OP monster (only newly introduced tanks are usually the OP monsters until the next patch :)) but it’s a very very good tank at what it’s supposed to do.

5391

All I meant is it would be nice to switch from the Lowe to the 59 back and forth for a change of pace instead of grinding all that out in just one type of tank. Occasionally, you just wanna go fast. :)

5392

So, is there any chance of that deadline being met? I am not looking forward to losing the current incarnation of the KV, and I am also trying to decide if it makes sense to attempt to make it into an IS-4 before patch day.

5393

There’s a chance, I guess, but they’re aren’t good at hitting target dates. I wouldn’t count on it.

5394

I don’t think there is a chance. Usually there is about a couple of weeks between the start of open testing on the Russian server and patch release. Sometimes more. Today is 18th and the test hasn’t started yet, so my guess would be “early May”.

But who knows.

5395

Yeah, I too am going to miss the KV “King of the Battlefield”

5396

I’ve been going back-and-forth over whether they should have just removed the 107 and kept the KV-2 with the 152 as an alternate Tier V heavy, which (I believe) was the original plan.

I don’t find the Derp to be particularly overpowered, and I enjoy it a lot. The Derp KV is one of the few situations where I consciously play a (slightly) less powerful tank because it makes for more interesting games.

5397

I do too, but i find the derp doesnt scale well. Whereas the 107 can still dmg tier10 with a good shot. There’s no other tier 5 that can do that, and most 6s cant either…

5398

That’s basically my point. I’ve been alternating between using the 107 and the 122 on the KV-3, and I think both are real and viable choices, so I don’t think that the 107-armed KV-2 will be under-powered as a Tier VI heavy.

But, unless they change the gun stats, I worry that the 152-armed KV-2 won’t be competitive as a Tier VI heavy. Which is a real shame, since the 152 is a lot of fun, is (relatively) unique from a game mechanics standpoint, and is the historic armament of the KV-2.

5399

Have they changed what they’re planning to do with the KVs? I don’t follow patch news much so the last I heard they were going to split the KV into the 1 and 2 but keep them as T5 and move the KV-3 up to T7 or something.

I hope they don’t break them too much since the KVs are my favorite tanks. Or maybe the Russian 107 is my favorite gun, since I use it on my KV, KV-3, and SU-85 to pretty reliably penetrate any tank in the game.

5400

That was certainly the original plan, back when I first heard about the changes.

I don’t speak Russian, and I try not to follow the (cesspit) official forums, but one of the more recent (most recent?) tech tree images places the KV-2 at Tier VI. Hence the concern.