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Hello!
As has probably been requested about a billion times in the past, the forum is finally getting a dark theme! You can select it by scrolling to the very bottom of the page, clicking on "Theme" and selecting DarkLabs.
I'm considering this a very beta version of the skin, and there might be several things that will require tweaks along the way. Let me know if you find something off and I'll get it fixed ASAP.
Cheers!
Never

Gabe for President 2020

Note one thing - a regular flu is something we may deal ourselves in home. Few need a medical attention. Meanwhile covid is spreading and killing despite extreme actions including total lockdown. Image what it would do without any restrictions.

Ah, some random internet dude says that COVID-19 is overblown and doesn't cause death by itself. His work, is (a) not peer-reviewed, (b) been criticized heavily (see links) and (c) discordant with the vast majority of published literature. For example, here.
Once again: my medical degree trumps your google search. Now GTFO before I ban you for being an insufferable git spreading baseless conspiracy theories in the midst of a pandemic.

Good thing you're not my doctor then   For both our sakes

What is the number of people dying daily in Italy in for example 2019? It is a 60 million country.
Mortality rate of COVID19 in Italy is about 9% out of confirmed cases. Confirmed cases are only about 15% of the actual cases. Actual mortality rate is about 1% and that to people with already prexisting problems. Infect a healthy portion of the population and you'll see a mortality rate close to 0%
The only controlled enviroment where we saw the actual mortality rate of the virus was that cruise ship. Mortality rate on that was between 0.05% to 1% and it was mostly occupied by older people as well. 
FACTS
God people! I thought these forums were a place for smart people! 
 

Presidential election planned for 10th May. Gov says it will be fine despite pandemia. 
Osama, you freaking amatour... 

Years ago in Tank Inspector Era I've created IS-8 with Centurion 7 turret (hull loaded first and turret came much later). I should patent this...

Years ago in Tank Inspector Era I've created IS-8 with Centurion 7 turret (hull loaded first and turret came much later). I should patent this...

Patient 0?

It's got a higher lung infection rate than the flu has. The issues is mainly overburdening hospitals. In Belgium with a population of 11,5 million, we only have 1600 intensive care beds (and that's apparently high average for a Western country). With a virus that sends around 10% to the hospital with pneumonia (and that can come quick, I had it myself from a stupid cold in 2015) you only need around 30000 infected to risk the collapse of your health care. We're now at 600 confirmed, and probably a multitude carrier and unaware.
While some measures and reaction maybe panicky, in general any measures to prevent the exponential spread of the virus appear to be very much needed.
And the US has another layer of worry there. Here it maybe costs you 2000-3000 EUR to spend two weeks in hospital, because of strong social security. An unforeseen cost, but unlikely to bankrupt many.

Please google it before asking. It's easy to find
http://wiki.wnefficiency.net/pages/WN8#The_Steps_of_WN8_-_The_Formula

 

Hello!
This morning we had an issue which caused periodic stats to stop appearing. Long story short, server ran out of space again. This has now been patched up, bad records have been deleted and the cache cleared, and your statistics should again be appearing normally!
Apologies for the short downtime and inconvenience.
Cheers!
Never

If someone is scared to show his true account then he should be too scared to be on wotlabs. 

T49 is love, T49 is life
 
 

STB-1
Gun Changes are ass. 
the better aimtime helps you not miss as many close range shots, but it still derps the fuck out at range
the lower alpha is shit and often lets people simply out-trade you.The siege mode dosent work on this tank, it sucks not having the -10 gun depression all the time and the -5-6 on the sides is limiting. and overall the UDES/M48 is a better option at this point if your looking for a ridge line medium.
the engine buffs are decent and let you maintain 50 across most terrain alot of the time
The turret changes are very good and quite noticeable, your able to bounce a fair amount of shots especially compared to before. but its worth noting that its not immune by any means and can still be 22'd most of the time.
Leopard 1 
Gun changes are nice actually.
The 278 APCR is amazing and having 323 APCR as gold is much more fitting for its "sniper" role
the higher alpha IMO is nice as well as the leo 1 often has to minimize exposure so getting more dmg per shot on avg during those opportunistic moments is an improvement for me. 
the little changes to dispersion accuracy and aim-time ofc are welcome too.
mobility changes are hardly noticeable
Kharkov
Surprise Surprise: its fucking garbage.

The entirety of the 1-5 is a TD camp fest that brutally punishes any kind of push (its also completely open to arty) 
the 6 line where the Trench is located isnt deep enough to be realistically used by anything that isnt a low profile Russian hover med, and will let TD's pop shots into your turret/cupolas otherwise. (its also open to arty)
the 7-8 lines where most HT's will be was completely ruined compared to before. They removed alot of the smaller buildings that provided protection and allowed you to move up in the E/F-7 areas, they also put holes/windows in alot of the buildings in that spot along with larger rubble piles. overall this means the city has tunred from a close range brawl to a 100+ meter Hulldown pixel sniper fest.
In addition the removal of so many buildings have allowed both TDs from the Fields and arty to loop in opportunistic shots.
the  9-line is similar to before so mostly useless, and the 0-line was cut in half and had more rubble piles added for more hulldown pixel cupola sniping fun.

Can we just accept the fact that there's nothing historical about the game to begin with? Historical accuracy is not and cannot be an argument for anything related to gameplay.

Meanwhile the Object 430 and 430U:

*A tear hit an armor*
Penetration!

STB - unplayable. Also those shell velocities. APCR slower than AP? 
Leo - a real buff.
AMX - better than STB and Leo.
430U - that's a joke. It barely looks like a nerf.
Even if those changes were 100% perfect giving e-orgasm to every WoT player they're still meaningless without at least global armor rebalance (not saying a word about arty and maps).

STB - unplayable. Also those shell velocities. APCR slower than AP? 
Leo - a real buff.
AMX - better than STB and Leo.
430U - that's a joke. It barely looks like a nerf.
Even if those changes were 100% perfect giving e-orgasm to every WoT player they're still meaningless without at least global armor rebalance (not saying a word about arty and maps).

Who cares about LTs when wheels are zooming on battlefields?

Who cares about LTs when wheels are zooming on battlefields?