World of Tanks news » Server Maintenance: December 29th

Tankers!

We wanted to share a few bits of information on an important change that will be tested here on the NA server. We know that the number of self-propelled guns can have a dramatic impact on battles.  They are a great compliment to other tanks, but are a challenging and delicate vehicle archetype to balance.  With that in mind, we've been tinkering with finding the sweet spot for a hard cap on the number SPGs permitted in one battle.  This is specifically aimed at making higher tier games more dynamic.

We've tried cranking it way way way down, but it resulted in some really odd scenarios and match making issues, especially for those people playing artillery, so we bumped it up a little bit and are likely going to implement a max of five artillery per team.

Again, it's a test, and we're definitely looking for your feedback and will be analyzing game data.  Please share your experiences with us in the forum post once you've had a chance to feel out the changes.

This is the beginning of a long chain of progress that will allow for the possibility of  introducing tier 9 and tier 10 artillery pieces.  At this point we're just laying the ground work.

In order to apply these changes the server maintenance will begin at 00:00 on December 29th, 2012 (08:00 UTC) and will last for approximately 30 minutes.