DrRageQuit

Same issue. Not sure if its related but something was causing a significant memory leak(?), performance dropped off gradually over the course of the countdown timer until the game hit 10fps and i had to restart without mods. will investigate further.

They are not always bots.  Yesterday I was in a tier IX battle and there was a tier IX tank, cant remember what it was, but the player had an 86 WN8 with several thousand battles.  I thought it was a bot and requested that he be reported as a bot only to have the player call me an idiot in chat for calling him a bot....lol.   I suggested that he find a good bot to improve his stats....of course, he did not like that either.

Probably bought the account. There are some pretty terrible legit players out there, but it would be almost impossible to legitimately achieve such a low WN8 over that many battles. 

While there is money to be made selling high tier accounts the botting isnt going to stop. WG need to get their act together and make an effort to stop the bots instead of relying on the community reporting it.

So many modders left WoT recently. What's going on?

Entirely possible that its not just modders that arent playing anymore. The general toxic community and abuse players get in-game is pretty horrible. I'm not sure i'd be interested in modding for a community that largely doesnt deserve it :/

Same issue with Kriegstreiber's crosshair V3 PRE-2