Let's Play Minecraft - Episode 47 - Enchantment Level 30

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Living Avatar Of The Week
Current Theme: Guitar, your living avatar must have a Guitar
Rules
1)1 week duration for each theme
2)Must follow current theme
3)Disrespecting others LA wont be tolerated
4)A poll wont start instead there will be a post with entries,so simply post which living avatar you like.
Prize
500 points
FAQ
Q:where do i make a living avatar?!
A:here

Q:Can i post my entry even if it due?
A:I'll probably say no but if im slacking off or so then sure.

Q:Can i choose next theme?!
A:To save time,winners will not choose the next theme but you may suggest future themes Here please make sure it can be possible made with the current clothes/items available.

Q:Someone copy my work!
A:Sorry i cant deal with that,speak to him/her via pm if you have a problem.

Q:Can I edit my entry before the voting?
A:Yes
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First, some more answers from Storm's article mentioned in earlier posts: - Ruinberg streets will be made more flat in 0.8.6 (SS: this change was promised last 2 patches already) - Marschig (another WG developer) explains the mechanics of the shell flight: "(SS: when calculating shell trajectory,) the game doesn't take air resistance, Earth surface curvature or rotation and other ballistic details into account. Shells do fly according to the physics schoolbook, chapter "movement of an object, thrown horizontally under an angle". Thus, for calculating the trajectory, you need only speed, elevation angle and gravity freefall acceleration. According to the same schoolbook, on flat surface you get maximum range when using the elevation angle of 45 degrees. The trajectory is symmetrical, eg. the elevation angle equals the impact angle. For tank shells, the gravity freefall acceleration is 9,81. For arty shells, it works differently - the initial shell velocity ("speed") and gravity freefall acceleration can be estimated independently. It is based on an abstract artillery vehicle with maximum range of 1000m under the 45 degrees angle and the shell flight time of 4 seconds. If you - when changing the speed/velocity - want to keep the range a constant, you have to change the gravity freefall acceleration. In other words: with the unified maximum range, the trajectory of the shell doesn't depend on muzzle velocity and is always the same. - based on what Marschig wrote, Storm confirms that in the game, each shell has a gravity freefall acceleration parameter set independently. All tank shells have it as 9,81, with arty it varies. - in 0.8.6, maximum range of some weapons will be changed - in 0.8.6, some sound effects will be changed, notably: increased the difference in impact sounds between AP and HE shells, sound of tank destruction, sound of AP shells hitting hard surfaces, sound of tank getting hit by HEAT shell and sounds of tanks being hit by AP and HE shells in general - more info on 0.8.6 changes will come on Wednesday - the info on tier 10 reward tanks will come "later" Regular answers from the Q&A thread: - the 5 arty hardcap won't be removed in 0.8.6, because first the developers need to assess the impact of the patch on arty numbers - even though SU-26 will lose its 122mm, the XP spent for it won't be reimbursed to players - patch numbers are selected "according to our internal wishes" - in 0.8.6, accuracy will increase both when standing and when driving around - the chance for accuracy nerfs of already accurate guns post-0.8.6 is zero - for now, Leopard prototype B will not be implemented into the game (as a premium vehicle), there isn't enough info on it for now - even if the 0.8.6 patch doesn't solve the arty flood issue, stricter arty hardcap won't be implemented - changes in Clanwars are not tied to patches, since they don't need client updates and are made online, eg. introduction of CW Seasons is not tied to 0.8.6 - the shell velocity is constant throughout the whole time of its flight - camo will work the following way from 0.8.6 (simplified): Old: Camo = vehiclecamo*(camoskillcalculation)*1,25*1,05 (25 percent camo net, 5 percent bought visual camouflage) New: Camo = vehiclecamo*(camoskillcalculation) + 0,25 + 0,05 SS: in other words - in the same situation, if we take for example vehicle camo factor of 0,5 (let's disregard camo skill and the demasking while moving or shooting effect for purpose of demonstration), Old: 0,5*1,25*1,05 = 0,65625 New: 0,5+0,25+0,5 = 0,8 (21 percent increase) - 0.8.6 map won't be a city map, it'll be a village map - at this moment (before 0.8.6) it's not possible to simply change the XP and cred-earning coefficient for TD's - there will be no compensation for the difference between earlier and post-0.8.6 TD XP income - developers don't have a "special" version of the game with detailed graphics - 0.9.0 camouflage mechanism re-work confirmed (SS: apparently even Russian players now take FTR as a source, I am glad :) either way, the mechanism change announced by SerB will take into account partial vehicle cover) - camo coefficient bonuses given by camo nets, visual camo etc. will be reworked

Pavel Myreev aka "Zlobny" is one of the WoT developers. His nickname might be familiar to the European supertesters - he is leading the supertest program as far as I know. The translation - as always - is at some points redacted for better comprehension in English. Also, I am neither physicist, nor mathematician, so I hope I don't get the English mathematics terms wrong. If I do, feel free to correct me. Currently I am working on the British artillery. First I want to say that there is no need to write a lot of questions - think first and ask later - I am not a community moderator or producer, I have to work. 1) Standard deviation limit - how it was and why Limiting the aim spread to 1,3 standard deviations before 8.6 (SS: explained here) had, in my opinion, very bad influence on gameplay in general. The principles are generally known I think. When the management decided to change it, I started to think about possible variants of implementing this. Unfortunately, the first variants were very raw and presumed an "accuracy nerf" of all the vehicles in the game. I was still inclining to the 3-sigma limit variant and not even meetings with Michale Zhivets (Storm) and Maksim Bladyko (chief server programmer for World of Tanks) convinced me otherwise. But in the morning before a very important meeting on this topic in Minsk, I went for a walk and as it happens, it wasn't in vain. It became clear to me that the 3-sigma limit has several significant weakenesses, apart from the increased spread distribution for all the vehicles in game: - since the difference between 2-sigma and 3-sigma is only 2,14 percent, there will be mods made immediately depicting the aim circle as 2-sigma. After all - why wait for the fully accurate aim circle from 3-sigma and give the enemy more time to cope with you, when the difference between 3-sigma and 2-sigma is so small? - the distribution will still focus on the center and the accuracy nerf, which I assumed to implement until that morning, won't suffice. If Storm went to the meeting with that solution, it would result in a fail (and bad karma for me). So I called Storm in panic and told him that our solution sucks. But - as it often happens - the second I said it, another solution came to me by itself. When considering shooting in our game, the difference between 1,3-sigma and 2-sigma is not all that great and - connected with a camo factor change it might not be even spotted by our players, because the effective battle distance will increase (more on that further on). The solution to fix it with one more sigma (between 2 and 3) came by itself from the previous meetings with Maksim and Misha (Storm). But some players (SS: arty players) won't have their effective battle distance increased, so these players had to recieve a spread radius modifier. The value of this modifier was discussed by us and Dmitry Dragunov (aka Marschig), who represented the arty players' interests. After the supertest testing, I still think that 50 percent represent a rather small buff (!) of accuracy for arties. On the nerf of arty I will post further. SS: at this point there is a table posted in the original post. What it means is percentual chance for a shell to drop inside the aim circle (within its borders, not ON the borders or outside them (which gets "normalized") to drop on the borders): SS: the meaning of this table is - first column are the parts of the aiming circle, with the last line being its border. Other columns are: Old system (how it is now), 2-sigma and New system (0.8.6+). In other words, right now, you have a 19,36 percent chance of the shell going on the borders of your aim circle, in the new system, you will have only 0,27 percent chance of aiming for the aim circle edges. Another example: today, you have 48,43 percent chance of your shell going to the inner half of the circle, in 0.8.6 it will be 70,41 percent. 2) Vehicle camo changes Our camo system with multiplying visual camo coefficient and camo net coefficient has one big disadvantage, as all the systems such as this do: increasing size of the vehicle very quickly decreases the effectiveness of such devices. The decision to replace the multipliers with addition (SS: as in by adding some value instead of multiplying with it) was taken already in 2010-2011 by me, Maksim Bladyko and Pasha Vasilev (server structure architect for World of Tanks), but back then there was no visual camo coefficient (5 percent), so we didn't do it. This topic was brought up repeatedly in 2012 by L.Zacharchenko, chief game-designer for World of Tanks. Gradually, a snowball turned into an avalanche, which in the end was the reason for plans for the complete camo system rework. I alread wrote enough letters, but basically we did the following: - reworked all the camo factors in the game, based on the reference tanks (T-4, T-34) (SS: here, Zlobny probably means Panzer IV, not sure) and on extreme cases - reworked the influence of shooting on camouflage, based on how it was before, but under the new system, so the "I just shot" negative modifier will be subtracted in the equation, rather than multiplied as it was now - reworked the camo factor of camo net and visual camo based on the type of the vehicle (not individual vehicle, as it was before) - reworked the camo bonus for bushes. This is a big topic, so a short version only: currently, maximum bonus from the bushes can be in 0.8.6 obtained by 4 thick bushes, instead of 2 not-thick bushes (pre 0.8.6). Furthermore, the exploit of firing thru the "non-transparent bushes" (skilled players will know about this and others don't really need to know) will be fixed completely. It is also worth noting that the battle (engaging) distance will increase by 15-20 percent. A collossal amount of work was done on this, there were many tests and I really like the final version. 3) Penetration change A very painful topic for me, I did that only very reluctantly. Generally it turned out better than I expected, I won't write much - you all saw the numbers. 4) Arty nerf We did that together with Dmitry Dragunov, he fought for every split percent because I fear that we didn't nerf it enough, but I am generally satisfied by the numbers we sent to the supertest. I wanted to make arty into a more complicated class with less possibility to fight on very short distances without diminishing the influence of the arty on combat there, where it is needed. New vehicles fit in very well, but I had some issues with SU-122A and M44. XP buff wasn't done by me, thus I won't comment on that. SS: Well, that's it. As always, a summary of info from the comments, given by Zlobny and others. - camo skill won't be reworked (they decided it's not needed: "camo skill is more about positioning the tank by the crew better, but even if you position better, a Maus is still a Maus") - vehicle camo factors won't be disclosed, but from now on, they directly depend on vehicle size and class (can be estimated by sight) - camo skill will remain useless on big vehicles - it's possible American vehicles will be rebalanced in 8.7