The game is out of beta now so you can download it and play it without the email confirmation.

On tiers 4-5 and 6 right now - still not seeing an imbalance.

Maybe it's the time of day etc.

Are you playing on the North American servers?

It's more like you're being ridiculous thinking your PZ III can take on the heavy tanks.

Did you not read the game manual? You in your Panzer III are supposed to avoid combat with the heavies. It's like complaining that a foot solder in Arma with a submachine gun isn't able to take out an Abrams and blaming it on the game rather than the inherent ridiculousness of taking on an Abrams with an MP5.

This imbalance you think is a flaw is a gameplay mechanism and one of its strengths - forcing you to play smart - or die.

In your situation above I'd try to spot the enemy for my artillery, or avoid combat and try to slip around the heavies and go deep looking for the enemy's artillery and take them out to help my team.

Have you ever seen how people handle the imbalance? 9 times out of 10 they suicide charge their A-20/PZ3 straight into the enemy formation purely to 'spot' targets for the purposes of harvesting XP. Why do they do that? Because there's literally no opponent on the server they have any chance of fighting.

A PZ III has a speed advantage over a KV, ok. A Hetzer can mount a half decent gun, fine. But a Cunningham has absolutely no advantages whatesoever over a PZ IV so why should it be placed into the same game? There's no playing in that match up. Only dying.

It's not about playing smart, it's all about encouraging people to skip their way up the ladder by purchasing gold. That's the choice of the developers and they're free to do whatever the heck they like. I chose to work my way up the ranks and I now rock a F2P Tiger so I have no problems.

Cheers

But it still makes me wonder, if they couldn't make something that simple work, what else will be FUBAR. I will try it again anyways because I'm just a an armor nut...

This is what Im talking about:

I tried to register during the beta phase, several times, and never received confirmation. Now I appear to be caught in a loop in the process: I am trying to register (pressing the big play button on the home page) and the app indicates that my email address is already a registered user. When I try the password recovery it indicates that my email address is not a registered user. I also tried account recovery but that also does not recognize me and will not take the help request.
Just to be sure I went through the process a few times with the same results.

I put in a help ticket...

I'm also downloading the games and see if I can just play without the email confirmation and Wolf suggested. If it want raining so hard, Id ditch this and go fishing!

Wow, while I was typing the last post I received an auto-response email and a second email indicating someone had fixed the problem.
I'm impressed

you did go fishing, and you cought a big one.

About the matchmaking system:

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/10168-match-making-system/page__p__553302#entry553302

Ok, so it's the game's fault people are stupid?

I work with two friends, one uses a light tank and operates a little forward to help with spotting, I support him as a heavy tank while a buddy supports me further back in his TD.

It is ALL about playing smart. Sure you can go and do something stupid (and die, like the A-20 rushers) but that's not a problem with matchmaking or the sim in any way, it's a problem with people being too stupid to figure out how they're supposed to be playing (ie - in this case being a spotter for artillery and absolutely avoiding combat until they know where the heavies are and can go pick on the enemy artillery).

Even in pub games - where I play a light tank as much as I play any other - I don't whine about how imbalanced the game is because the enemy have heavy tanks or rail at the developers - I appreciate that I am being given a tactical challenge that I am going to have to think about to overcome. If I am successful - great - if not I'll be in another battle in 45 seconds tops.