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?World of Tanks has two types of currency fueling its economy, namely '''credits''' and '''gold'''. +'''Gold''' is a special form of in-game currency which is usually purchases with actual money. Unlike [[Battle_Mechanics#Experience_and_Credits|credits]] (the primary currency of World of Tanks), gold is usually very difficult to earn in the game without spending money.
?[[Battle_Mechanics#Experience_and_Credits|Credits]], also known as silver, are earned in battle or purchased with gold and are the primary in-game currency. +
  
?The second currency, gold, gives access to various premium options like, for example, the premium account status, or premium tanks. Premium options bought will neither change game play significantly nor give players a decisive advantage in battle. This article will cover various premium options.+Gold is considered premium currency, and it is used to buy either special in-game goods or is used as a substitute for credits. Gold is not transferable from one account to another, even if they are on the same server. WarGaming accounts are unified, which means the same account shares the same gold and free experience in all WarGaming games. For example, gold acquired in World of Warplanes can be used in either World of Tanks or World of Warships. This article will explain in detail how to acquire gold and what it can be used for.
  
?[[file:The_Gold_Economy_Gold_Bars.jpg|right|380px]]+== Acquiring Gold ==
  
?== Getting the Gold ==+=== Warning ===
?The easiest way to get gold is to purchase it from Wargaming, although there are many other ways of doing so. You can also earn it by participating in developer/moderator organized contests, tournaments and other events (check the news page on your server for current opportunities: [https://worldoftanks.eu/news/ EU server], [https://worldoftanks.com/news/ NA server], [https://worldoftanks-sea.com/news/ SEA Server]). EU server players have a chance to earn gold (and real money) in the Electronic Sports League ([https://worldoftanks.eu/news/?category=21 ESL Events]). Finally, clans participating in [[Clan Wars]] receive gold every day by holding territory on the global map, but it is up to clan leadership to determine how that gold is used or distributed.+Players, websites, and third party sources will advertise opportunities to buy cheap gold. '''These are scams. WarGaming, its partners, and its products are the only ways to acquire gold for World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, or World of Warships.''' Never give your account or financial information to a website or organization that is not WarGaming or one of its legitimate partners in return for gold or any other in-game goods.
  
?== Buying Gold ==+=== Purchasing ===
?Gold can be bought directly from Wargaming and will be added to your game account. It is not transferable, neither between accounts nor between servers, so make sure you buy it on the correct server should you have accounts on several servers.+Gold can be bought directly from Wargaming and is automatically added to your game account upon purchase. WarGaming accepts a number of different purchase methods, including electronic cards, SMS, Paypal, and other online payment services.
  
?'''WARNING:''' You will regularly see third parties advertise cheap gold on the game forums. These are not authorized partners from Wargaming and you will not receive any gold. Only buy gold using the methods mentioned on the official sites and report strangely cheap offers to Wargaming's support team for your server: [https://support.worldoftanks.eu EU support], [https://support.worldoftanks.com NA support], and [https://support.worldoftanks-sea.com/ SEA support].+Gold can be bought on its own or as part of a combo deal. Generally, gold has a lower unit price (the amount of gold you get per unit of real money) when bought in bulk or as part of a combo deal. To see the current prices for gold, visit the gold section of your respective server's gift shop:
  
 +*[https://na.wargaming.net/shop/wot/gold/default/ North American Server Gift Shop]
 +*[https://eu.wargaming.net/shop/wot/gold/default/ European Server Gift Shop]
 +*[https://asia.wargaming.net/shop/wot/gold/default/ Asian Server Gift Shop]
  
?If you play on the EU server, you can buy gold for yourself [https://worldoftanks.eu/personal/payment/ here] or as a gift in the [https://worldoftanks.eu/personal/gifts/ Gift Shop].+=== Earning ===
 +Gold is usually purchased, however there are ways to earn it in-game without having to pay money for it. [[Clan Wars]] is one way to earn gold. Clans which hold territories on the clan wars map receive gold for holding these territories. The clan's leadership can then chose how to distribute this gold among the clan's members.
  
?<table style="text-align:center;" frame="box" rules="vertical;horizontal" >+European players have the opportunity to earn gold in [https://worldoftanks.eu/news/?category=21 Electronic Sports League (ESL) Events].
?<caption>EU Server Gold Prices</caption>+
?<tr>+
?<th>No.</th>+
? <th>Gold amount</th>+
? <th>Price(EUR)</th>+
? <th>Price(GBP)</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>1.</th>+
? <th>30500</th>+
? <th>€ 99.99</th>+
? <th>£ 75.40</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>2.</th>+
? <th>14500</th>+
? <th>€ 49.99</th>+
? <th>£ 37.70</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>3.</th>+
? <th>10000</th>+
? <th>€ 35.79</th>+
? <th>£ 26.99</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>4.</th>+
? <th>7500</th>+
? <th>€ 27.45</th>+
? <th>£ 20.70</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>5.</th>+
? <th>5500</th>+
? <th>€ 19.99</th>+
? <th>£ 15.07</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>6.</th>+
? <th>2500</th>+
? <th>€ 9.95</th>+
? <th>£ 7.50</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>7.</th>+
? <th>1000</th>+
? <th>€ 4.25</th>+
? <th>£ 3.20</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>8.</th>+
? <th>500</th>+
? <th>€ 2.25</th>+
? <th>£ 1.70</th>+
?</tr>+
?</table>+
  
 +Lastly, certain missions and events will yield gold if completed. To find out more about current events running on your server, visit your respective server's news page:
 +*[https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/ North American Server News Page]
 +*[https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/ European Server News Page]
 +*[https://worldoftanks.asia/en/news/ Asian Server News Page]
  
?If you play on the NA server, you can buy gold for yourself [https://worldoftanks.com/personal/payment/ here] or as a gift in the [https://worldoftanks.com/personal/gifts/ Gift Shop].+== Spending Gold ==
  
?<table style="text-align:center;" frame="box" rules="vertical;horizontal" >+=== In-Game Goods ===
?<caption>NA Server Gold Prices</caption>+Gold can be used to buy a number of in-game goods and items. Originally, many of these items were only purchasable with gold, though now they can be bought with credits (although they are usually quite expensive).
?<tr>+
?<th>No.</th>+
? <th>Gold amount</th>+
? <th>Price (USD)</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>1.</th>+
? <th>25000</th>+
? <th>$ 99.99</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>2.</th>+
? <th>12000</th>+
? <th>$ 51.69</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>3.</th>+
? <th>6500</th>+
? <th>$ 29.79</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>4.</th>+
? <th>3000</th>+
? <th>$ 14.79</th>+
?</tr>+
?<tr>+
?<th>5.</th>+
? <th>1250</th>+
? <th>$ 6.69</th>+
?</tr>+
?</table>+
  
 +==== Premium Tanks ====
 +Gold can be used to purchase certain [[Premium Tanks|premium tanks]]. These are fully upgraded, single-configuration vehicles which can accept any crew member of their class and nation without a proficiency penalty. Premium tanks come with a number of inherent benefits, including increased credit generation, increased experience generation, and elite status. Premium tanks are often used for grinding credits or training up crews.
  
?If you play on the SEA server, you can buy gold for yourself [https://worldoftanks-sea.com/personal/payment/ here] or as a gift in the [https://worldoftanks-sea.com/personal/gifts/ Gift Shop].+Most premium tanks can be bought with gold, however this is not the case for all of them. Some are only purchasable through the store and not in-game for gold (WarGaming will often release new premium tanks to the store in one patch and add them for gold purchase in the game in the next major patch). Some can only be bought at certain times (for example, the [[Tank:KV-5|KV-5]]), and others are only purchasable in limited quantities through retailers endorsed by WarGaming. Some premium tanks are not purchasable at all, and can only be earned as rewards.
  
?<table style="text-align:center;" frame="box" rules="vertical;horizontal" >+==== Premium Ammo ====
?<caption>SEA Server Gold Prices</caption>+Gold can optionally be used to buy premium [[Ammo|ammo]] (also known as "Gold Rounds" or "Premium Rounds"). This ammo usually has enhanced capabilities compared to its standard counterparts, and usually comes in the form of APCR or HEAT on direct-fire vehicles, and premium HE and HEAT on indirect-fire vehicles. Gold can be purchased with credits, although the credit price is usually much more expensive than that of regular rounds. Premium ammo is expensive regardless of whatever purchase method is used, and using it indiscriminately can be very costly.
?<tr>+
?<th>No.</th>+
? <th>Gold amount</th>+
? <th>Price (USD)</th>+
? <th>Price (JPY)</th>+
? <th>Price (CNY)</th>+
  
?</tr>+==== Premium Consumables ====
?<tr>+gold can be used to buy [[Consumables#Premium_Consumables|premium consumables]], which offer increased benefits compared to their non-premium counterparts. Like premium ammo, premium consumables are also purchaseable with credits for a large amount of credits. Also like premium ammo, inefficient use of premium consumables can prove to be very expensive.
?<th>1.</th>+
? <th>25000</th>+
? <th>$ 99.95</th>+
? <th>¥ 7794,63</th>+
? <th>元 628,14</th>+
  
?</tr>+==== Permanent Camouflage Pattern ====
?<tr>+Gold can be used to buy permanent camouflage patterns for a tank. These camouflage patterns not only change the appearance of the tank, but also increase its camouflage values and make it more difficult to spot. Camouflage patterns are purchasable for credits, but only for temporary periods of time and must be re-bought every time they expire. Currently, the only way to buy permanent camouflage for a tank is with gold.
?<th>2.</th>+
? <th>12000</th>+
? <th>$ 49.95</th>+
? <th>¥ 3895,37</th>+
? <th>元 313,91</th>+
  
 +=== Utility ===
 +Aside from purchasing in-game goods, gold has a number of other uses in-game.
  
?</tr>+==== Premium Account ====
?<tr>+Gold is used to buy time during which the user's account is upgraded to a premium account. A premium account yields 50% more credits and 50% more experience per battle, and changes the garage model to a cleaner, more appealing environment. Because the credit and experience bonuses of premium accounts are percent-based, the yields increase with good game outcomes. This can allow good players who are regularly able to do well in games to vastly shorten the time needed for them to earn new vehicles or modules or grind out credits.
?<th>3.</th>+
? <th>4700</th>+
? <th>$ 19.95</th>+
? <th>¥ 1555,81</th>+
? <th>元 125,38</th>+
  
 +Like the gold itself, premium time usually has a better unit price (premium time per gold spent) when bought in bulk. It is also occasionally packaged in the shop with combo deals and is sometimes put on discount. Below is a table of the regular premium time prices.
 +{| class="wikitable"
 +! Gold Cost
 +! Length
 +! Length (days)
 +! Gold per Day
 +|-
 +| 24,000
 +| 12 Months
 +| 360
 +| 66.7
 +|-
 +| 13,500
 +| 6 Months
 +| 180
 +| 75
 +|-
 +| 2,500
 +| 1 Month
 +| 30
 +| 83.3
 +|-
 +| 1,250
 +| 1 Week
 +| 7
 +| 178.6
 +|-
 +| 650
 +| 3 Days
 +| 3
 +| 216.7
 +|-
 +| 250
 +| 1 Day
 +| 1
 +| 250
 +|}
  
?</tr>+==== Dismounting Equipment ====
?<tr>+[[Equipment#Complex_Equipment|Complex equipment]] which is mounted to a tank is not normally removable. Players who wish to remove it must either destroy the equipment (and lose any money spent on it) or pay a small fee of ten gold to remove it. Once removed, complex equipment can be mounted to another tank or sold for a percentage of its original price.
?<th>4.</th>+
? <th>2500</th>+
? <th>$ 10.95</th>+
? <th>¥ 853,94</th>+
? <th>元 68,82</th>+
  
 +==== Converting to Credits ====
 +Players have the option to convert gold to credits at a rate of 400 credits for every unit of gold converted. This rate may be changed temporarily for certain events and promotions. Generally, converting gold to credits is not thought of as an efficient use of gold (since credits can be farmed with premium tanks), but it is useful for quickly getting credits when under a time constraint.
  
?</tr>+==== Convert Experience to Free Experience ====
?<tr>+Tanks reach elite status when all their modules and subordinate tanks are researched. With elite status, they gain the option to either have all the experience earned in battle sent to the lowest proficiency crew member (known as accelerated training), or have the experience accumulated as undistributed experience. Undistributed experience can then be converted to [[Battle_Mechanics#Free_Experience|free experience]] at a rate of 25 XP converted per unit of gold. This free experience can then be spent on anything the player chooses. Since all premium vehicles come with elite status and are subject to experience multiplier bonuses, using free experience conversion is an efficient (albeit, expensive) way for players to use their premium tanks to speed up or skip difficult tank and module grinds.
?<th>5.</th>+
? <th>1100</th>+
? <th>$ 4.95</th>+
? <th>¥ 386,03</th>+
? <th>元 31,11</th>+
  
 +==== Crew Training ====
 +When training new crew members or retraining old ones, players have a number of options as to how to retrain the crew (balancing price vs experience trained). The most efficient method of crew training is through the [[Crew#Training.2FRetraining|tank academy]], which charges 200 gold per crew member but allows the crew members to start of with (if training anew) or retain (if retraining) 100% experience.
  
?</tr>+The same is true for dropping crew skills. If gold is spent to drop a crew member's skills, none of that crew member's experience will be lost in the process.
?</table>+
?<br/>+
  
?== Premium Account ==+==== Garage Expansions ====
?The most important thing that gold is used for is to buy a subscription to a premium account. It gives 50% more credits and 50% more experience per battle, and a clean garage. Even though you only earn 50% more credits with a premium account, your profit after paying for repairs and ammo can increase two- or threefold, depending on your performance in battle (amount of damage, destroyed tanks, base captured/defended, etc) because your costs remain constant. Previously, only a premium account could host a three player platoon and host [[Game_Modes#Tank_Company_Battle|tank companies]], but as of the 8.5 update non-premium accounts can also host three players and [[Game_Modes#Tank_Company_Battle|tank companies]].+Players can pay 300 gold to increase the size of their [[garage]] by one slot. This price is often discounted during events and promotions, and certain premium tank packages in the WarGaming shop come with garage slots.
  
 +==== Barracks Enlargment ====
 +Players can pay 300 gold to increase the size of their [[barracks]] by sixteen slots. This will allow players to hold more crew members not in tanks without having to dismiss others to make room.
  
?The table below shows that to maintain premium status on an account for a year would cost 6.66 EUR, 5.66 GBP or 8 USD per month if you purchased the respective biggest gold package on each server and the 12 months of premium option.+=== Other Functions ===
 +==== Clan creation ====
 +Players can pay 2,500 gold to create their own [[clan]]. This is a one time fee, but some optional features may come with additional cost (e.g. 500 gold to enable a clan emblem on member tanks).
  
?<table cellspacing="0" border="1" bordercolor="#FFCC00" cellpadding="6">+==== Change Username ====
?<th colspan="5">Extending Premium</th>+Once every fourteen days, players can chose to change their username for a fee of 2,500 gold.
? <tr>+
? <td align="center"><B>Cost</B></td>+
? <td align="center"><B>Length</B></td>+
? <td align="center"><B>Days</B></td>+
? </tr>+
? <tr>+
? <td align="center">24,000 Gold</td>+
? <td align="center">12 months</td>+
? <td align="center">360 days</td>+
? </tr>+
? <tr>+
? <td align="center">13,500 Gold</td>+
? <td align="center">6 months</td>+
? <td align="center">180 days</td>+
? </tr>+
? <tr>+
? <td align="center">2,500 Gold</td>+
? <td align="center">1 month</td>+
? <td align="center">30 days</td>+
? </tr>+
? <tr>+
? <td align="center">1,250 Gold</td>+
? <td align="center">1 week</td>+
? <td align="center">7 days</td>+
? </tr>+
? <tr>+
? <td align="center">650 Gold</td>+
? <td align="center">3 days</td>+
? <td align="center">3 days</td>+
? </tr>+
? <tr>+
? <td align="center">250 Gold</td>+
? <td align="center">1 day</td>+
? <td align="center">1 day</td>+
? </tr>+
?</table>+
?<br/>+
? +
?== Premium Tanks ==+
?Gold can also be used to purchase certain [[Premium Tanks|premium tanks]]. Premium tanks already are at elite status, i.e. fully researched, and are great for earning credits as they receive a bonus to their credits gain and won't give you further expenses with additional modules. The income bonus is defined individually for each premium tank but the exact amounts are not published.+
? +
?Premium tanks also receive the following benefits that make them very useful for training other tank crews.+
? +
?For training level the following applies:+
?*If a crew member is in a premium vehicle of the same class there is no penalty to his current training level. The regular penalty is 25% to his current training level. +
?*If a crew member is in a premium vehicle of a different class there is a 25% penalty to his current training level. The regular penalty is 50% to his current training level.+
? +
?For experience gain the following applies:+
?*If a crew member is in a premium vehicle of the same class there is no penalty to EXP earned. The regular penalty is 50% less EXP earned.+
?*If a crew member is in a premium vehicle of a different class there is a 50% penalty to EXP earned. The regular penalty is 75% less EXP earned.+
? +
?'''Note''': The complete list of premium tanks can be found [[Premium Tanks|here]]. Some tanks may not be bought in the In-Game Store, and can only be obtained during certain special events, in the Gift Shop, or may not be available at all.+
? +
?== Premium Ammo ==+
?Gold can be used to buy premium [[Ammo|ammo]] (AKA "Gold Rounds" or "Premium Rounds") which have a bonus to penetration compared to regular ammunition. However they become rather expensive when used on a regular basis. Premium ammunition is commonly used in clan wars.+
? +
?== Premium Consumables ==+
?Player can use gold to buy [[Consumables#Premium_Consumables|premium consumables]] that have much better benefits than their regular counterparts.+
? +
?== Dismounting Equipment ==+
?Players have the option to dismount and reuse [[Equipment#Complex_Equipment|complex equipment]] on another tank for 10 gold.+
? +
?== Permanent Camouflage Pattern ==+
?The appearance of your tank can be changed by acquiring camouflage patterns in game. If bought for credits, they are temporary, but if you spend gold (amount depends on tier and type of your vehicle) they will stay with your vehicle as long as you keep it in your garage.+
? +
?== Buying Credits ==+
?Players can use gold to buy credits. 1 gold buys 400 credits. Generally it is considered more efficient to buy premium account status and benefit from the credit income bonus it comes with rather than spending gold on buying credits. However if you do not play much, yet want credits fast, then buying them may be the better option for you.+
? +
?== Convert Experience to Free Experience ==+
?Players with elite tanks (all premium have elite status) can convert the tank's regular experience to [[Battle_Mechanics#Free_Experience|free experience]] at a rate of 25 exp converted per 1 gold. While expensive in gold, one good match in a top tier vehicle will earn enough experience to immediately skip from tier I into IV in a different branch of advancement tree.+
? +
?== Perfect Crew ==+
?Players can pay 200 gold to send a crew member to the [[Crew#Training.2FRetraining|Tank Academy]]. After training there he will come out with 100% training level in their major qualification.+
? +
?== Bigger Garage ==+
?Players can pay 300 gold to gain 1 additional slot in their [[garage]].+
? +
?== Bigger Barracks ==+
?Players can pay 300 gold to increase the size of their [[barracks]] by 16 slots, to hold unused crew for tanks that you plan on repurchasing.+
? +
?== Clan creation ==+
?Players can pay 2,500 gold to create their own [[clan]]. This is a one time fee, but some optional features may come with additional cost (e.g. 500 gold to enable a clan emblem on member tanks).+
?}}+
?== Change Username ==+
?Once every 14 days, players can pay 2,500 gold to rename their account to another desired username, should they choose to do so.+
  
  
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Gold is a special form of in-game currency which is usually purchases with actual money. Unlike credits (the primary currency of World of Tanks), gold is usually very difficult to earn in the game without spending money.

Gold is considered premium currency, and it is used to buy either special in-game goods or is used as a substitute for credits. Gold is not transferable from one account to another, even if they are on the same server. WarGaming accounts are unified, which means the same account shares the same gold and free experience in all WarGaming games. For example, gold acquired in World of Warplanes can be used in either World of Tanks or World of Warships. This article will explain in detail how to acquire gold and what it can be used for.

Acquiring Gold

Warning

Players, websites, and third party sources will advertise opportunities to buy cheap gold. These are scams. WarGaming, its partners, and its products are the only ways to acquire gold for World of Tanks, World of Warplanes, or World of Warships. Never give your account or financial information to a website or organization that is not WarGaming or one of its legitimate partners in return for gold or any other in-game goods.

Purchasing

Gold can be bought directly from Wargaming and is automatically added to your game account upon purchase. WarGaming accepts a number of different purchase methods, including electronic cards, SMS, Paypal, and other online payment services.

Gold can be bought on its own or as part of a combo deal. Generally, gold has a lower unit price (the amount of gold you get per unit of real money) when bought in bulk or as part of a combo deal. To see the current prices for gold, visit the gold section of your respective server's gift shop:

Earning

Gold is usually purchased, however there are ways to earn it in-game without having to pay money for it. Clan Wars is one way to earn gold. Clans which hold territories on the clan wars map receive gold for holding these territories. The clan's leadership can then chose how to distribute this gold among the clan's members.

European players have the opportunity to earn gold in Electronic Sports League (ESL) Events.

Lastly, certain missions and events will yield gold if completed. To find out more about current events running on your server, visit your respective server's news page:

Spending Gold

In-Game Goods

Gold can be used to buy a number of in-game goods and items. Originally, many of these items were only purchasable with gold, though now they can be bought with credits (although they are usually quite expensive).

Premium Tanks

Gold can be used to purchase certain premium tanks. These are fully upgraded, single-configuration vehicles which can accept any crew member of their class and nation without a proficiency penalty. Premium tanks come with a number of inherent benefits, including increased credit generation, increased experience generation, and elite status. Premium tanks are often used for grinding credits or training up crews.

Most premium tanks can be bought with gold, however this is not the case for all of them. Some are only purchasable through the store and not in-game for gold (WarGaming will often release new premium tanks to the store in one patch and add them for gold purchase in the game in the next major patch). Some can only be bought at certain times (for example, the KV-5), and others are only purchasable in limited quantities through retailers endorsed by WarGaming. Some premium tanks are not purchasable at all, and can only be earned as rewards.

Premium Ammo

Gold can optionally be used to buy premium ammo (also known as "Gold Rounds" or "Premium Rounds"). This ammo usually has enhanced capabilities compared to its standard counterparts, and usually comes in the form of APCR or HEAT on direct-fire vehicles, and premium HE and HEAT on indirect-fire vehicles. Gold can be purchased with credits, although the credit price is usually much more expensive than that of regular rounds. Premium ammo is expensive regardless of whatever purchase method is used, and using it indiscriminately can be very costly.

Premium Consumables

gold can be used to buy premium consumables, which offer increased benefits compared to their non-premium counterparts. Like premium ammo, premium consumables are also purchaseable with credits for a large amount of credits. Also like premium ammo, inefficient use of premium consumables can prove to be very expensive.

Permanent Camouflage Pattern

Gold can be used to buy permanent camouflage patterns for a tank. These camouflage patterns not only change the appearance of the tank, but also increase its camouflage values and make it more difficult to spot. Camouflage patterns are purchasable for credits, but only for temporary periods of time and must be re-bought every time they expire. Currently, the only way to buy permanent camouflage for a tank is with gold.

Utility

Aside from purchasing in-game goods, gold has a number of other uses in-game.

Premium Account

Gold is used to buy time during which the user's account is upgraded to a premium account. A premium account yields 50% more credits and 50% more experience per battle, and changes the garage model to a cleaner, more appealing environment. Because the credit and experience bonuses of premium accounts are percent-based, the yields increase with good game outcomes. This can allow good players who are regularly able to do well in games to vastly shorten the time needed for them to earn new vehicles or modules or grind out credits.

Like the gold itself, premium time usually has a better unit price (premium time per gold spent) when bought in bulk. It is also occasionally packaged in the shop with combo deals and is sometimes put on discount. Below is a table of the regular premium time prices.

Gold Cost Length Length (days) Gold per Day
24,000 12 Months 360 66.7
13,500 6 Months 180 75
2,500 1 Month 30 83.3
1,250 1 Week 7 178.6
650 3 Days 3 216.7
250 1 Day 1 250

Dismounting Equipment

Complex equipment which is mounted to a tank is not normally removable. Players who wish to remove it must either destroy the equipment (and lose any money spent on it) or pay a small fee of ten gold to remove it. Once removed, complex equipment can be mounted to another tank or sold for a percentage of its original price.

Converting to Credits

Players have the option to convert gold to credits at a rate of 400 credits for every unit of gold converted. This rate may be changed temporarily for certain events and promotions. Generally, converting gold to credits is not thought of as an efficient use of gold (since credits can be farmed with premium tanks), but it is useful for quickly getting credits when under a time constraint.

Convert Experience to Free Experience

Tanks reach elite status when all their modules and subordinate tanks are researched. With elite status, they gain the option to either have all the experience earned in battle sent to the lowest proficiency crew member (known as accelerated training), or have the experience accumulated as undistributed experience. Undistributed experience can then be converted to free experience at a rate of 25 XP converted per unit of gold. This free experience can then be spent on anything the player chooses. Since all premium vehicles come with elite status and are subject to experience multiplier bonuses, using free experience conversion is an efficient (albeit, expensive) way for players to use their premium tanks to speed up or skip difficult tank and module grinds.

Crew Training

When training new crew members or retraining old ones, players have a number of options as to how to retrain the crew (balancing price vs experience trained). The most efficient method of crew training is through the tank academy, which charges 200 gold per crew member but allows the crew members to start of with (if training anew) or retain (if retraining) 100% experience.

The same is true for dropping crew skills. If gold is spent to drop a crew member's skills, none of that crew member's experience will be lost in the process.

Garage Expansions

Players can pay 300 gold to increase the size of their garage by one slot. This price is often discounted during events and promotions, and certain premium tank packages in the WarGaming shop come with garage slots.

Barracks Enlargment

Players can pay 300 gold to increase the size of their barracks by sixteen slots. This will allow players to hold more crew members not in tanks without having to dismiss others to make room.

Other Functions

Clan creation

Players can pay 2,500 gold to create their own clan. This is a one time fee, but some optional features may come with additional cost (e.g. 500 gold to enable a clan emblem on member tanks).

Change Username

Once every fourteen days, players can chose to change their username for a fee of 2,500 gold.

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