World of Tanks is one of the most popular games in the CIS countries. The game really beats all records both for registered players and for simultaneously playing users. It's because WOT really cool game, no matter what the competitors say. Wonderful physics, great sounds, advanced pumping systems, minimal donation. Donat, although it costs money, and without it it is difficult to collect experience and silver, but it costs relatively little, unlike other games. Literally everyone can afford a premium account.
But back to the question of why I abandoned the tanks. I would like to make a reservation right away that this is purely my opinion, I do not pretend to be the ultimate truth, or that blog readers also quit playing tanks or any other game. I quite often talked with other players, and when I touched on this topic, I ran into furious misunderstanding and deliberately wrong arguments, which I will give below. I also want to say right away that I will not argue in the comments and prove something to someone. Any action is your choice, and you will live with this choice. Someone is on the path of self-development, and someone is on the path of degradation.
How I played World of Tanks or background
I started playing tanik back in 2011. I don't remember exactly. As it usually happens, I started playing on the recommendation of a good friend, who just praised the physics and a very cheap donat. I didn't play much, mostly on weekends or a couple of hours in the evening. In total, for this long period, I have accumulated only 8000 fights. Which, in principle, is not so much. It got to the point that all the conversations with a friend who advised me this game boiled down to the topic of tanks, updates or interesting cases in battle, which even not strong players accumulate in abundance. Did I have a gambling addiction? I think no. But it was hard for me to take my mind off the game. It even got to the point that for one of my birthdays I was presented with a LOWE premium tank, which at that time, in principle, as now, brings a good amount of silver both with and without premium.
The girl with whom I live most often tried to pull me away from the game. Therefore, when she is not there and my “sticking to the monitor” of the world does not bother her, I played tanks. Also played when she was at home but was cleaning or cooking. One of the spring days, the girl went to her parents in another city to help with something, but I stayed on my own, for the whole Sunday and another 5 working days. As the reader probably understood, the first thing I did after I put her in a taxi was to open my laptop and start the tanks. I lost until the very evening, hours until 20:00, after which I turned off the game and decided to watch some videos on CarambaTV, simultaneously planning the upcoming working day. At that moment, 12 hours separated me from the removal of the tanks.
How much time is spent on World of Tanks
So that we speak the same language with you, let's count how much time we spent on WOT? After all, the lyrics are lyrics, and the numbers can no longer be disputed, no matter how much you would like.
Let's take the average player as an example: me with 8,000 fights. You can safely take your data and let's count together. If we type in “how long the battle lasts in wot”, we will find out that the average battle lasts 6 minutes. It depends on many parameters, starting from the speed of the vehicle you ride, ending with the map and the team. If you ride a Mouse and a Turtle, then naturally the fight will last a long time, and if you ride a T50 or a Christmas tree, then a couple of minutes will be enough for you. But on average, each player fight lasts 6 minutes. Take my number of fights and multiply by 6 minutes.
8000*6=48000 minutes spent in combat. But do not forget that before each battle there is a delay of 30 seconds for loading the map and planning the battle. We consider.
8000 battles * 0.5 minutes of waiting = 4000 minutes. Plus, we should not forget that for some time we sit in the hangar, read forums, watch guides on technology or CTTS, funny moments in WOT, etc. This also takes a lot of time. But we will not count it, because. now we focus only on bare numbers, what is provable and cannot be disputed.
So I spent 52,000 minutes in and out of combat. Or 867 hours. Taking into account the fact that the working day for the average person is 8 hours, then we divide 867/8=108 working days, or 3.5 months. That is, we can say that we took a vacation for 3.5 months ... and just lost these three and a half months in tanks! Yes, yes, I know, usually we play tanks on weekends and in the evening when we can't work physically. But more on that below and a little later.
Why I stopped playing WOT
Lying on the couch and watching some distracting video, I thought that I didn’t have enough time to watch the EMPO training course, which is designed for 2 months of online learning, I don’t have enough time to watch Torvald’s videos on the right worldview, etc. d. And then I realized that the time that I spent playing tanks can be easily converted into the time that is so necessary to achieve this or that goal. But the reader, like me, smartly begins to prove to himself. You can't work all the time! You need to take a break sometimes! When I play tanks, I relax, so everything is fine. Some of them are relaxing watching TV, and I'm in tanks. You can’t always work, you’ll burn out and that’s it. We must act gradually. But if you really want to understand yourself and look deeply, very deeply into the root, then we find an answer to each argument that we tried to hide from ourselves, or simply didn’t think about it ...
Argument: I get tired at work, and I cannot do tasks that require mental effort in the evening or on a day off. I also can’t do training, because the brain at the end of the working day cannot perceive anything, and instead of delving into the information, I just listen to it superficially, without drawing any conclusions.
Answer: Yes, it is, after a hard working day or a hard working week, the body does not perceive anything. But if we want to work, then we can do intellectual work during the day, and leave mechanical work for the evening. For example, for me it’s sorting out keywords in AdWords, putting items up for auction, editing prices, responding to blog comments, cleaning houses, and many other things you can do in the evening.
Argument: You need to rest, you can't always work.
Answer: Yes, sure. You need to rest. A good rest is the first point if I want to work well and productively. Without rest, you often burn out. But do the tanks rest? No. Tanks will not help to rest. It used to be that I played all weekend, with breaks of course for a normal full sleep, food, and watching a couple of movies. After losing the weekend, waking up on Monday I did not feel refreshed. Well, not at all. For myself, I concluded that the whole point is that the brain does not rest during the game, it continues to work hard, processing momentary information that is constantly changing.
My work is sedentary, so, as established many decades ago, the best form of relaxation is a change of activity. But when it comes to tanks, it's quite the opposite. After sitting at work at the computer, I continue to do the same at home. It's natural that I can't rest normally. Better instead of playing, I'll go for a walk, walk the dog, do yoga, wrestling, learn to play the guitar. I will get much more pleasure and relaxation from this. If you don’t feel like going anywhere, then you can, for example, learn how to repair a bicycle. I always wanted to, because it is very difficult to find a worthwhile service that will make repairs at a high level.
Argument: Tanks relieve stress. He came after work, shot, and after relieving stress, you go to sleep.
Answer: No, it's not like that at all. It is enough to look only at the player's posture: it is extremely tense. And it’s not uncommon for a player to start terribly swearing at VBR, his team, which consists of only schoolchildren and noobs, which undoubtedly does not relieve stress in any way, but rather adds it. There are several ways to relieve stress, both active and sedentary / home. For example, yoga, martial arts, a hot bath, meditation, a walk.
Argument: From a development point of view, reading an entertaining book is the same as playing,.
Answer: The fact is that the game of tanks is one and the same repetitive action. The book is new every time. If the tanks bring nothing new, then the book brings something new every time. New plot, new characters, new character, new events.
So why did I stop playing tanks
Playing tanks, I spend the most important thing: what I have and what no one will ever return. Time. If you can earn money, you can see the world, go on vacation, then no matter what I do, the time spent on unimportant and not useful things cannot be returned.
I understood for myself. The path to inner harmony is...
Do the best you can at every moment!
No, not to work, as many of you thought, but just to do the best from what I can. Just ask a question: I'm doing the best I can right now or I can do something else? Which is more important/better? Asking yourself a question: Is it really at this point in time that the best thing I can do is play World of Tanks? Do not spend time with your family, do not take time for a girl, mom or dad, do not go to the country or just take a walk? Or read a book after all? Are tanks really the best thing I can do?
If the answer to this question is "Yes, tanks are the best thing I can do," then I have nothing against it, moreover: no one can have anything against it. This is your choice. Your actions, and the responsibility for them, also lies with you. I'd rather make time for what's important to me. Family, girl, walks, active recreation.
Many girls and wives complain that their man is stuck in tanks and does not want to get out. There are many such threads on the forum. If this is your case, then I want to draw your attention to the fact that sooner or later you will get bored with the game. And you live with your family for the rest of your life. Make time for the most important thing you have - your family, not a soulless computer.
Other related materials
After writing the article, I began to surf the Internet, and came across several videos on the topic, which I also recommend watching. In the first video, the author also calculated the time we spend on tanks and thought about where we could spend this time and what to buy.
In the second video, the author talks about what we get by playing tanks. Not what the game leads to, but what we get in return for our time spent on the game.
I want to remind you that I do not claim to be the ultimate truth. My thoughts may or may not be correct. In this article, I expressed my experience, which I hope will be useful to both WOT players and girls / wives who want to get their loved one out of virtual reality. But I draw your attention to the fact that in life you always have to change something for something. Health for money, time for money, money for goods, time and money for a good figure, and so on. In the case of tanks, you trade your time for the best tank in the hangar. Is he worth it?
Recently, in the field of gamers, the game World Of Tanks is gaining momentum more and more. Indeed, this interesting and entertaining game has already conquered millions of users of different ages. The audience of this game is limitless, whether it is a little boy or a grandfather, a woman or a man, it knows no limits. It becomes more and more difficult to find a person who knows nothing and has never heard about World Of Tanks.
In addition to all this, the audience will grow more and more, because not so long ago, developers released a mobile version of the application for greater user convenience.
Undoubtedly, this game fascinates with its variety of tanks and game effects, guns and much more. Having once plunged into this boundless world of tanks, you probably won’t be able to wean yourself from it for a long time. What could be better than after a long, exhausting working day, playing a couple of battles in World Of Tanks, thereby distracting from all sorts of problems and frustrations.
The brightness and realism of the battles will not leave indifferent any user playing this creation. Textures, special effects, the appearance of tanks and even the hangar simply captivate any player. But due to such a bright and delightful design, the game requires quite a lot of performance from your computer.
That is why you can often hear from players something like - why the game slows down World of Tanks and the like
So really, why, what affects it? To understand this, you must first look at the system requirements of the game. If your system requirements are significantly lower than those indicated on the recommendations for the game, this does not mean that it will not start for you. Of course, you will be able to open the game, but it’s not a fact that it’s comfortable to play it.
The performance in the game is most affected by 3 factors: RAM, video card and the processor itself.
In order to improve the quality of the game, it would be nice to purchase more powerful components mentioned above.
If it is not possible to purchase them, you should do the following:
First you need to close all unnecessary programs, pause all downloads and remove all unnecessary software;
after that, with the help of additional resources, it is necessary to free up as much extra memory as possible;
then in the game settings you need to set the minimum graphics settings, as well as remove all additional effects.
After you have done all this, the gameplay will become much more comfortable and interesting, and disturbances such as why the World of Tanks game slows down will stop worrying you.
As practice shows and shows repeatedly, sometimes World of Tanks servers can suddenly stop working. This is a fairly common and serious problem for most players.
Sometimes it is impossible to enter the tanks for whole hours, or even the whole day. The most affected by this are players who have bought a premium account or. It turns out that the player paid money for it, but cannot enter the game and use it. So the money just went down the drain.
In this article, we will look at the main reasons why does not it workWorld of TanksToday. There are several problems and each of them should be considered separately.
Unable to enter the game
It happens that the network equipment of the company could simply collapse and because of this, most of the players could not log into their account. Work is currently underway to fix this problem. According to official statistics, the problem has been solved by more than 80%.
Unfinished session on another server
A similar problem can occur very often and it is simply impossible to protect yourself from it, especially for those players who quite often leave and enter the game. To correct the error and log into your account, you should visit the official website of the game and go to your personal account. There is a function - "reset all sessions". In most cases, this step can solve your problem.
If this does not help, then it remains only to wait. In any case, the session will automatically end in a maximum of 24 hours. After that, the probability that you will log into your account is 100%.
Heavily overloaded servers are an equally common problem. It happens that servers simply cannot withstand the flow of players and can easily collapse. In this case, it is worth waiting until the developers restore their work. In most cases, you don't have to wait long.
Queue to the game
A similar message pops up just the same when the flow of players is too large, and there are too few clusters. Servers are heavily loaded and can't miss more players. In this case, you have to wait in line until the place is free. Basically, you will have to hang in line for no more than a few minutes, but in extreme cases, be prepared to hang in the order of ten to twenty minutes.
Tankers who have already entered the game are most likely aware of the problem and will not give you my place in order to sit in the queue again later. But as soon as one of the players leaves the game, the first person in line immediately takes his place.
Interestingly, those players who currently have an active premium account, or those who have a sufficiently large supply of game gold, have priority to enter the game.
Not everyone can boast that he has a super-powerful computer that squeezes out 150 FPS at maximum graphics settings. On the contrary, statistics show that most tankers have just weak computers and World of Tanks slows down so that " bend over". Let's see what the problem is, can we do something?
World of Tanks for weak computers?
The BigWorld engine used in the game, although it provides a chic server part, the structure of which is capable of holding enormous loads and excludes the possibility of using classic cheats, the client part is a little lame, in particular in terms of optimization, distribution of resource use on multi-core computers, as well as graphics. But what to do if world of tanks slows down?
First you need to understand whether your patient (computer) is alive or rather dead, look at the settings and look at the characteristics. Here are the minimum system requirements recommended by the game developers themselves:
- Operating system: Windows XP /Vista /7 /8
- Processor (CPU): 2.2 GHz
- RAM: 1.5 GB for Windows XP, 2 GB for Windows Vista/7
- Video adapter: GeForce 6800/ ATI X800 with 256 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0c
- Audio card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
- Free hard disk space: 9 GB
- Internet connection speed: 256 Kbps
This does not mean that if your computer does not reach the minimum, then the game will not start. It's just that the greater the gap between your system parameters and these characteristics (for the worse), the more difficult it will be for you to play as a result of various brakes.
Understanding the cause of the problem
Let's see why it may not be comfortable to play World of Tanks. The game slows down primarily due to lack of system resources. If the funds allow you, then of course the best option would be to buy a new PC or at least replace the processor or add RAM (if the system allows it).
What should you pay attention to? Let's take a look at a few responsible pieces of iron:
- processor is the head of your computer
- video card - responsible for the graphics
- RAM - stores temporary data in its buffer
Even if one of these elements is a weak link, then you can catch the brakes. Of course, within the framework of this article, we will not delve into such equally important details as the motherboard bus or the core frequency of the video card.
Freeing up memory
Why World of Tanks is slowing down, we have already superficially sorted it out, now let's take action.
If there is not enough video memory
Your weak video card is to blame here. This deficiency is treated by reducing the quality of graphics in the game settings. You can also resort to the program to disable additional effects that are not so easy to cut out in the game.
If there is not enough RAM
We have to build on what we have. If you have 2GB installed or less, then my advice to you is to buy more. The RAM is not expensive now, I took 2 strips of 1,000 rubles each for 8 gigs, although it could be found cheaper.
But, if there is no such possibility, well, we release the operative. First of all, even before the launch of the game and reasonable questions "what to do if the world of tanks lags", you need to see what programs you have running. Close everything! Browser, player, all sorts of skype with ICQ and qips, torrents and other programs. We close everything!
If it doesn’t help, you can resort to the help of special software that frees the RAM from unused data. One of these programs is Wise Memory Optimizer, instructions for which you can see in this video:
Additionally
For those who are experiencing problems, they wonder when playing without comfort in World of Tanks - why does the game freeze? If all of the above tips did not help, then you can get a little hardcore and delve into the issue of optimizing the client and your computer as a whole.
Master Yoda:
"Brakes in World of Tanks a weak computer causes".
- - this material has collected links to the best tips and mods to improve game performance.
- - a lot of useful information, including a description of the program for overclocking a video card.
Everyone, probably, faced with the following situation. For example, you decide to play on a tank of the seventh level. We tuned in to rather rare meetings with nines, you can still fight with eights, but with seventh levels and below you will show yourself. Click "To fight!" and ... you get to the ninth levels. Okay, it happens, but the next fight is also with the ninth. Already unpleasant, but you again go out into battle. Now there are no nines, but most of the enemy team consists of eights. It's a little easier to play, but still hard. And in the next battles you are again thrown to the nines. The mood is spoiled, in such battles it is difficult to really influence the outcome of the battle. Want to know why you keep getting pushed to the bottom of the list?
Some either jokingly or seriously recall some kind of “oppression mode” in World of Tanks. They say if you donate a little, then problems will begin in the game: and the shells will constantly fly to the edge of the circle of information, and the opponents will pierce you at any angle, and will constantly throw you to the bottom of the list. It is impossible to prove the opposite point of view, because it is possible to prove the presence, not the absence. By the way, it is also impossible to prove the existence of such a “regime of oppression”. But common sense suggests that the developers would hardly create such complex mechanisms: there are already enough problems in the game.
The game has the following rule: if you have fought two battles with tanks at the second level of your vehicle, then this situation will not happen again in the third battle. Have you played sevens and nines twice in a row? In the third battle, this is guaranteed not to happen. Although there may be a fight with a lot of eights. You can generally be the only seven in a team of eights. Just bad luck. But in the next fight, you can be thrown back to the nines. And then again.
Rating World of Tanks
The reason for getting constantly at the bottom of the list may be banal bad luck. During a long series of fights (two hundred, three hundred or more), you will be thrown approximately equally into different levels of fights. But over the course of twenty fights (and it’s difficult to play more in an evening), it will almost exclusively throw at the very bottom of the list. Just bad luck. But the next day you will be lucky and you will play almost exclusively in the top.
The point here is that a person remembers bad things much better than good ones. Pleasant and good, we rarely just notice. Hit a couple of times on the move from a long distance? We may not even remember it. But for a long time we will remember the miss at close range with full mixing. This is how conspiracy theories about the notorious “oppression regime” usually arise: the player remembers only bad moments and begins to look for their cause. And in fact, there are many good moments in the game.
But not everything can be explained by luck, sometimes there may be other reasons for getting to the bottom of the list. First of all, we are talking about the distribution of tanks by levels in a specific period of time. For example, at this time a large number of players exit at the ninth levels. The Balancer tries to adapt to this and creates a large number of battles of the ninth level in order to quickly send everyone who wants to fight. And you want to go into battle on a tank of the seventh level, of course, you are most likely to be thrown into battle by the nines. Because the balancer creates the most battles of this level.
Once upon a time, the battle waiting menu indicated the number of tanks by tier waiting to enter the battle. Then this was removed (only the number of vehicles by vehicle class remained), since, according to the developers, unscrupulous players with the help of special mods got into the top in almost every battle. No one has seen these mods anywhere, so, apparently, the developers here were not completely honest. The problem, most likely, was not in mythical mods, but in something else.
Then there was a large number of tanks of the eighth level, there could be several times more nines and dozens of them in the queue. You pressed "To battle!" on some eight, waited a couple of minutes and ... you were thrown into the battle to the tenth levels, although there were just a huge number of eighth levels in the queue. Why not make a battle out of tanks of one of the eighth levels, so that everyone would quickly go into battle?
Because tier 8 tanks are balanced against opponents two levels below and above them, constant battles with the same level opponents would make them very easy to play. A player on a tank of the eighth level should spend approximately the same number of battles in the upper, lower and middle parts of the list. So the table with the levels of tanks while waiting for the battle was removed so that the players would not accumulate irritation.
But the problem hasn't gone away, it's further exacerbated by the presence of a large number of premium tier eight tanks with preferential combat levels. They "take places" in the battles of the eighth and ninth levels, so pumped eights more often fall to the tenth levels. This problem is also not easy to solve, but the developers plan to gradually remove all premium tanks with preferential battle levels from sale.
In short, there can be several reasons for getting constantly at the bottom of the list: from banal bad luck to distortions in the game balance and the features of the balancer. If you are constantly thrown to the bottom of the list on this tank, then try to change the level, most likely, you will be thrown to the very top of the list, it will become much more comfortable to play.
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