Cap!

Few things puzzles me more than the inability of lot of players in World of Tanks to capture the enemy base. No, I'm not talking about dying on the way there. I mean making it there, and not capturing but wandering away to find that last few enemies. Or not so few. Usually their bizarre behavior is just annoying waste of time, as it can take several minutes to find that last few tanks hiding somewhere. But in few, but not very rare case (I'd guess 3-5%) they lose the match because of ...

Articles tagged with: analysis

Reprocessing/producing: split them!


Let's say that 1 tritanium cost 6 ISK on the major hub in your zone. You find an item for mere 1 ISK on the market that you can reprocess for 10000 tritanium. Then you craft an item from that 10000 tritanum and sell it for 40000 ISK.
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1c/0.01 undercut is cartel


For long I dismissed 0.01 ISK or 1c undercutters as "punks", considering them something that happens only in MMOs, abusing the fact that it's illegal to use a bot to manage orders and also, since there is no brand or quality in game, the buyers ...

Proof that World of Tanks is rigged


I wrote that I have the hunch of World of Tanks being a rigged game, where via matchmaking, tinkering with penetration (and probably hit) chances and damage numbers the developers guarantee that everyone remains close to the average in terms of ...

The grand design…of sorts

There’s a lot of clamoring about Shadowpriests in the current Beta build; I can’t verify any of it since I don’t have Beta access myself, but I will try and make a coherent baseline setup of what we’d be looking at doing in the ...

MMO Economies use bartering


Real World economies moved away from barter trading long ago and use immaterial "money" as currency. Bartering has several disadvantages, since it need you to create or get some product you are not going to consume, nor can you produce effectively, ...