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My post was mostly about the T3 truck vs. Call-In Tank.

IMO it makes more sense to get call-in command Panther isntead of getting T3.

I wanted to know what reason their is (there must be one) for good OKW Players to choose to build T3 relatively early.

To add to what Tobis said:

Ok, assuming you went Spec Ops. and BGHQ: Even if you don't have the fuel to get out a PIV before the Command Panther, it would have to be going really badly if you couldn't get T3 without delaying the Command Panther. So, the question is not call-in or T3, but T3 or doing nothing with the fuel.

The advantage of building T3 is that it can help to lock down some territory and eventually you will need it anyways...

You can also check out Hans' take on it.

Incidentially, yesterday I started to look into the worldbuilder and thinking about doing the Hochwald Gap as my first project (I lived about 6 km SW of it when I was a kid), so I'm interested to see your take on it (and yeah, I probably couldn't hope to create a map that plays or looks as good as one of yours, if I ever find time to do this at all...).

Tried to look at it, but for some reason it didn't work. I subscribed to it, it finished downloading but it doesn't show up in the 3v3 or 4v4 map list for custom matches. I probably did something wrong, but e.g. the workshop version of Rommel's Rüstungwerke Essen (v2) shows up...

Btw, there is no road going through the gap; the Hochwald is really just a gentle sloping, N-S running "hill" (well, more like a pile of sand and gravel) with woods on it (thus the name, "Hochwald" just means "high wood"); the "Gap" then are fields crossing the ridge in E-W direction.

How you do it ?
Looks interesting.

I have a script that runs twice a day.

In a first step it downloads the ladders for all modes.

Then it downloads the match history for each player that according to the ladder did a game since the last run. The "match history" is what is used to create the "Recent matches" tab on the official ranking webpage. However, the data that you get is more than what is displayed there (like, it also contains custom matches, map, start and end time of the match), although not enough to get all meta information (e.g. no commanders).

I do that since May of last year. Unfortunately, when I wrote the program I put in a upper limit of 2 million matches in (assuming that I never would reach that), which I reached mid November. I realized that only on the 4th of January, so I'm definitely missing some matches between those dates as the history contains only the last 10 matches. But the list of rankings should be complete.

So, I have this database which I can use to tackle request like this one...

I was asked how many players max typically play in automatch. I thought I post here, maybe this is of general interest.

Ok, I have no clue how many people are in the queue at any given time, but I can check how many games are played. Note, though, that I probably miss a few games, because I can only retrieve matches where at least one of the players has a rank on the ladder. Comparisons to coh2charts that I did a while ago indicated that the difference (if existant) is insignificant.

Here are the number of games played in a given minute per mode over the last two weeks (time is UTC):

Edit:
Clarification: This shows how many games were running at a given time. Equal amount of games in a given minute doesn't mean that the number of games played in a day or so is the same! Many short games could give the same line as a few long ones.



And thus, the number of players:



The maximum for last week was 2014 players, Sunday 20:10 UTC.

The maximum number of games were 76 (1v1), 124 (2v2), 83 (3v3) and 122 (4v4), all at different points on Sunday.

Again this is only the number of games going on in the same minute, it excludes people waiting in the queue!