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Then on the non Political meaning of this. I hope that any WG Staff and Families that are in Russia make it out of Russia and Belarus Safely. I would also ask the same Question that last time for whatever reason was considered Political. Which is: Whats the Plan now if I may ask ? They gonna Hire a New Team to Develop the Game ? Will WG be able to keep the Service Running and Game Development going ? Who is retaining what Rights on the Game and its Assets ?

The Answer is Simple. Grind and Money. 1. When WoWs Started. WGs Strategy was most of all Focused on 2 Points. Gaining Players. And Earning Money from Players that want to Speek up Grinding Ships. That was a Good Strategy for this time of course. Because the Game was still growing and New Players to Grind out Ships came around all the time. But this of course is a limited time effect. Because more and more Players will have Finished the Grind. And then simply dont have any reason anymore to Spend Money. 2. Enter Phase Two. WoWs tried to give People more Reasons to Grind. Mostly by dishing out Free Exp Ships and other Rewards Earned by Playing. As well as ramping up Implementation of New Ship Lines to Grind. This Strategy also worked well. But its really really expensive in the long Run. Because you have to keep throwing out Content at a High Pace to make sure the Majority of the Playerbase does not Catch up. And worse. Especially the Big Players will generally still Outpace You. So alot of Potential Income from these Super Active Players is lost as they got nothing to Spend Money for. 3. Enter Phase Three. WoWs tried to Bombard the Community with constant Events and alot of Rewards bound to Limited Time Currencies or New Currencies only Acquirable by Specific means. Therefore preventing Players that Outpaced their Development from just getting everything. Forcing them to still Grind for it. While giving out alot of inbetween that Boost New Players and thus prevent them from falling too far behind by participating. While not being very useful to these old Players which already have everything from other Modes anyways. This worked relatively well for the Playerbase. But also meant even higher Cost and didnt pay much back in terms of Profit. 4. Enter Phase Four. Ramping up Monetization. The Events were changed more and more towards requiring Monetary Payments. At first these were voluntary but with doing it for Free requiring massive Grinding. Then becoming partial Mandatory as missing a Single Day or missing a certain Ship etc could mean that doing the Event for Free was Impossible. And Finally becoming absolutely Mandatory. As now some Events like Shipyards just cannot be Completed unless you Buy it Directly with Real Money (Doubloons) or Gamble for it (Lootboxes and the Gachas for Doubloons) Its also why the Captain Rework increased the Potential level for all Captains but requiring more Exp than previous levels combined while also nicely adding the option to get such exp for Doubloons a bit Cheaper than just converting Free Exp. This however comes with a Backlash from the Community. Many Players do not like being Cheated by the Bank of the Casino. Many Player have Moral Qualms about a Game that doesnt allow Blood or any Humans at the Guns to keep a Children Age Rating. At the same time selling Lottery Tickets and Promoting Gambling like a Casino. 5. So now we Enter Phase Five. WG looking for the next method. And apparently having decided. That Method 5 will be to Create Permanent Grind. This is done by Creating New more Powerful Ships that People will want to have. Which however cannot be Unlocked Permanently. Instead needing constant Grind to remain Unlocked and Playable. Therefore making sure that Players have to keep Grinding even if they got everything else. As otherwise these Ships will basicly be removed from them again. We will See how this one Plays out. TLDR. The Concept behind T11 Ships is exactly this. Create T11 Ships that are basicly Superior Variants of Good T10 Ships to make sure People want to use them. And then put using them behind a Repeating Grind so People keep Playing the Game and have a Reason to Spend Money on it.

TLDR. You dont grind enough. So WG will Fix that Issue.

Problem is that this Requires two Fallacies to Apply. 1. You work under the Assumption that the Games Playernumbers only Increased due to Corona Effects causing more People to stay inside and Play the Game. But if you Apply this Logic. You basicly Disregard all Growth the Game had since 2018. Which means that basicly the Game Stagnated since 2018. But that would not be Logical. Because before 2018 the Game was Growing steadily. So even if you Ignored that Flaw in the Logic. You would still Admit that the Games Expected Growth has been wiped out by something. Worse. Since Corona is not even Over yet. You would then need to Expect the Numbers to Drop even further. 2. You work under the Assumption that Corona was over last year and thus the Effects from the Corona Pandemic no longer caused People to stay inside and Play the Game. But thats not compatible with Reality. Because the Pandemic was actually worse last Year than it was before. So the Numbers should not yet go down. In fact given that last Year we actually had more Restrictions on alot of Countries in Europe. You should actually expect Numbers to have gone up even further rather than dropping. Also. The Year being an Anomaly is the reason why that Year is Impressive. The Normal Course so far was that the Game was Slowly Growing each Year. (And I could actually be mean and point out that a Big Growth Coincided not just with the Corona Situation but also with Submarines *gg* much to the Dismay of alot of People that claim Submarines would Kill the Game ^^) But being an Anomaly is no Excuse for being an Anomaly. Anomalies are called as such because they deviate from the normal. So by calling it an Anomaly you actually admit that this should not have happened. You may Contest the Question of this being due to a Specific Reason. But by acknowledging it as an Anomaly you do Admit the Fact that WoWs did fail its expected growth and has instead lost Players. :) Albeit. Frankly. Your Argument can also be very easily Dismantled by taking a Look at the North American Server. As under President Trump in 2020 to 2021 the US mostly refused to Lock Down. With very little Restrictions being Applied. While President Biden over the last Year from 2021 to 2022 has immediately moved to Implement Restrictions. Yet. On the US Server the Drop of Players was even Bigger. Which basicly means that completely contrary to your claim of these Restrictions having increased playernumbers. They actually would have dropped the playernumbers in the US Server. In Fact. The Drop on the US was so Big that it even goes below the Numbers from before Corona. So thats pretty contradictory to your assumption here. But there is another Event in that Timeframe for which it is completely Logical that it would affect the US Server much Harder. Which was the CC Exodus around Little White Mouse ;) Greetz Sun

Same Source as you Mate. But you are making a fairly common mistake that People often make when they are not used to analyzing statistical data. When you compare a 1 Year Period. You only take that 1 Year. But thats a Problem. Because you end up with no Comparisson. The Relationpoint for January 2022 is January 2021. But by using a 1 Year Sheet you Cut January 2021 out of the Picture. Therefore not getting any comparisson. Instead just seeing a 1 Time Picture. In your Case. You take the last Year. Then make the Increments smaller. This leads to a seeming increase in Users. Because the 1 Year is the Average for the Whole Year. The 6 Months is Average for the Later half of the Year which Includes the Big Events for Summer and Christmas Holidays. And the last 3 Months then ends up Biggest because its the Christmas Event which is the Prime Time of the Year. This makes the false suggestion that Users would Increase. But its effectively the same as looking a 1 Day Sheet. You start with the Whole Day. Then take the latter Half of the Day from 12 to 24h And then the last Quarter of the Day from 18 to 24h You dont need to be a Genius to realize that you are set up for Rising Numbers this way. Because the Dead Hours are all in the First Half of the Day. While the Prime Time is in the last Quarter of it. But it tells you nothing about wether you got more or less People compared to the Previous Days :) Hence to do it Properly. What you do is this. Cutout from January to early February in 2020 You can See the Average was about 14k People for this Timeframe. Cutout from January to early February in 2021 You can See the Average was about 15.3k People for this Timeframe. So a good Increase over the same Period in 2020. Now the one for 2022 You can See the Average has actually dropped a bit to 15k. Losing about 300 Average Players :) Which is Impressive. Because this is the first Time in 3 Years that the Game managed to have a Drop in this Timeframe. Even after the Puerto Rico Event WoWs actually managed to not have a drop here. The last time they did manage a Drop on this Checkpoint of the Year was in 2018 to 2019 when the CV Rework came around with insane issues and CVs going to grab 400k Damage Records in Matches. To get a more Coherent Picture. We take a 2 Year Comparisson. From From 2020 to 2021 we got 14.8k in Average. Then for 2021 to 2022 we Drop to just 13k Average. Which means that the last 12 Months. The Game did Considerably worse than the 12 Months before that :) And that is Really Rare to be Honest. Ever since the Beginning of WoWs Server Statistics being Tracked. WoWs has always Grown. Sometimes a bit more and sometimes a bit less. In 2018 to 2019 it even Stagnated. But it never took such a Big Loss compared to the Previous Year. :) I mean. Lets assume you got a Business. If from January 2020 to January 2021 your Business Profits Increased from Bottom 5200 a Month to a Peak of 6000 a Month during the Festive Months. And then from January 2021 to January 2022 your Business Profits Increased from Bottom 4800 a Month to a Peak of 5700 a Month during the Festile Months. Then in both cases your Profits were Growing. But I am sure you will immediately Spot the Problem. Somewhere in there was a Hefty Fall Off of Profits. And you actually did worse in 2021 than you did in 2020. Greetz Sun :)

Nope. For the First time since several Years. World of Warships actually had a considerable loss of Players. Going by the Server Statistics WoW actually lost about 2% of its Playerbase over the course of last Year. With Average concurrent Playernumbers dropping by several Hundred Players. This may not Sound much at First. But as Players dont tend to be Online 24 Hours a Day this actually Represents a Loss of at least Several Thousand Players. You need to take Seasonal Numbers into Account. Half a Year was in Summer which is almost always lower Player Numbers. Last Year around the same Time Numbers were actually around 29-30k :) Albeit its still not really "Destroying the Game" or any of that Hyperbole. Its a Significant Loss for sure. But nowhere even close to Endangering the Game. I also dont think this is related to CVs and Matchmaking. Even tough its really Difficult to Read the Statistics on that since there is a very large rotation of Playernumbers. The most likely cause was actually the CC Exodus around Little White Mouse which caused alot of Players to leave the Game.

Ok Bye. lol

Well. I want to have Subs in the Game. And dont care about the Naysayers. But this right now is a Joke. Best DD Hunter in the Game is Battleships and Heavy Cruisers. Especially Cruisers and BBs with Hydro and/or Radar. Being able to constantly Bombard the Submarine in any Direction it pops up. Spraying a Large Area with Depthcharges and all that being done at Range without needing to Approach the Submarine so it can Nuke you with Torps. Worst DD Hunters in the Game is DDs and Light Cruisers. Which are generally outspotted and cant do anything to the Submarine. Because if it gets close enough to Spot the Sub or Force it underwater. It will just be Nuked by Torps on Shortrange which it cannot hope to evade. And which can only Kill Subs if they manage to somehow manage to detect it while its in front of them but the Sub is not Faced its way. And then has to get above it to Drop Depth Charges right on top.

That would be how I would Build it. https://wowsft.com/ship?index=PGSB210&modules=11111&upgrades=212134&commander=PCW001&skills=11051104&flags=4035&consumables=111&pos=0

1. It does exist. And is in fact often used to Harass others or just to Silence an opposing opinion without bringing any kind of proper argument or explanation. Especially often it is used by people that have lost an Argument and got Proven wrong and then try to claim that the Opposing Players Argument is Invalid due to them not having Unicum Stats etc. 2. You actually state it yourself. Your Stats reflect how well you play. But that is often not linked to how good you understand the game. Many very good players are actually preaching completely different things to what they themselves do because they dont understand what it is that makes them play well. Thus often Pushing Fatally wrong Arguments purely based on an Attitude of "I got better Stats so I must be right" 3. Frankly. It has no bearing as Feedback as WG will generally just Choose the Feedback they Agree with or which are gathered by their Spreadsheet which doesnt care about you having hidden stats or wether your Stats are mentioned. And New Players are more often Influenced by YouTubers and not Players with Bad Stats that make Arguments in the Forum. The Forum is only visited by a small amount of New Players anyways. Most Players only Join the Forums after being pretty experienced already. This isnt surprising. People coming to the Forum are often People willing to put it some extra effort. Thanks to that the Average Forum User actually is way better than the Average Player. And while of course some people in the Forum do have Bad Stats as well. The ratio of People with good Stats is far higher in the Forum than in the Game itself. But more Importandly. Often its actually Horrible Advice to try and give a New Player the Tactics of a Unicum. Because the New Player will often end up doing absolutely Horrible at the Attempt of taking the Strategies the Unicums Adviced to him. Something many Unicums forget. Is that the best Strategy they know relies heavily on them also being Skilled enough to actually pull off that Strategy. 4. Frankly. I think the Biggest Mistake is to Show People each others Statistics. Its doing next to nothing Positive for the Game. In most cases its serving as little more than a measurment contest or is abused to try and silence discussions. Meanwhile its giving nothing positive to the Game. It would actually be better to remove Statistics entirely and not allow others to see each others Statistics at all. 5. Funny enough. In many cases a Diploma does not require very good Results. And many Companies will actually prefer to get their own Picture instead of looking at the Grades because they know that School Grades tend to not really give you any decent Picture of your Future Employees. Small example for you. When I entered Apprenticeship I was actually the only one which did not have the additional Qualification to go to Highschool. Everyone else either had Finished Highschool or had the Qualification for Highschool but decided to enter the Apprenticeship. Yet. Half of them could not even do Basic Percentage Calculation or Apply Pythagoras. Worse. The Company never expected them to be able to. They knew that School Grades meant nothing. And thus such Basic stuff was already Included in the Curriculum to bring the Apprentices up to Speed for actual Industry Specialists. Thats why any Bigger Company will actually Ignore your School Grades almost Completely. Instead Judging you based on how well you made your Application and how well you did in the Application Testing. 6. Frankly. Barely anyone ever does that. So far I had like 2 or 3 People in this Forum which Hid their Statistics and then Pretended to be Good Players when they were not. And these People Generally Faced heavy Ridicule even without being Stat Shamed. Which is not Surprising. Because if someone makes Grandiose Claims it is very easy to just Demand they put their Money where their Mouth is which is much much more powerful as an Argument than trying to Statshame someone who just Voiced his Opinion based on some recent good Results. Small Story for you. I still remember how I asked for Advice in the Forum once. I quickly got Advice from some very good Players. Tried it. And got utterly crushed. Reason was Simple. The Advice was of course the Meta Tactic. But I was nowhere near Skilled enough to actually do that. And the general statement to "just keep doing it till you learn it" only resulted in my Stats dropping badly as I had no idea what to even learn from this. Which was not Surprising. Because these Good Players might have been Good Players. But they had no Idea why their Tactics worked and they didnt convey half of what they did and how they judged when and why to do something. Meaning that I who didnt know this. Simply had no way to actually do what they did. Instead just ending up Suiciding with a Strategy that I had no Idea how to actually pull off. So I started using the Advice of other less good Players many of which were Stat Shamed or told to shut up because they got no Idea. But their Advice worked. It did not make me Unicum of course. But it vastly improved my Stats because it was stuff I actually understood and could do. Needless to say that when I dared pointing out that their Advice helped me while the Advice of the Unicums did not work. I got shouted down as a Noob and told to shut up because I got no Idea of the game and my Stats are Bad. Take a guess on how much Value I put on someones Stats nowdays ;)

Sorry Man. But I know that you are not that Blind. You know exactly that what the Community Cried out about was not the Dropchances but the Gambling. And its still Gambling. And Man seriously ? What is that Smallprint. I cant even read that in your Screenshot without putting the Screenshot as Fullscreen. And I am looking at this Page on a 23" Screen. The Joke is. Even that Warning is written in a way that makes it sound as Harmless as possible which screams in my face that you dont want to call it Gambling and dont want that Warning to be something sounding serious enough that Children would not Buy it. The Community told you that they dont want to Gamble for stuff. So why is the Christmas Event yet again all about Gambling Boxes ? Why is that warning so small that I cant even read it without enlarging it ? The Joke is. On the Shipyard Event you actually did better this Year. Offering some actual Prices in it for Free. Yet all the Main and Store Page is Plastered with the Gambling Event instead. Come on Guys. Stop with the Gambling Rubbish. I know that Gambling is Earning Money. Especially because alot of People become addicted and cant stop or because they are unable to actually calculate their chances. But its Shady Business and something that is going to cause dumpster fires again and again and again. Are you really going to keep Pushing this until its actually Outlawed in the EU ? Are you that Desperate for Quick Cash that you cant be a Leading Company in abandoning this Shady Practice and instead have to cling to it until you are Legally forced to stop it ? If so then at least dont pretend to be outraged by people calling you out over it ! Edit: Omg I just realized there is a small Checkbox asking if you are 18 Years old. I just Ignored that because its so normal to Tick a Checkbox when Buying something that I didnt even read that. I guess thats the New "Children Protection" right ? Because certainly that 13 Year Old Kid will not Click that Checkbox.....

Not sure why anyone even still Reads what WG says about one of their Ships. Effectively you should See WGs Reviews of their own Ships more as Wishful thinking on what Image WG would like Players to have of a Ship. This can be sorted into a few different Categories. 1. Blatant and Direct Lies. This is when WG makes Obviously False Claims about a Ship being Good or even the Best at something or being Weak or the Worst at something. When in actuality its Average or even outright the Opposite. Most often this happens when a Ship is due to whatever Funny Idea in WGs Head is insanely Overpowered or entirely useless. And WG wants to deny these Claims by Praising or Bashing a Part of a Ship to Justify the other Part which is making it useless or overpowered. For example when they tried to Justify Enterprise as being Balanced because it lacks a good Secondary Battery and because it AP Bombs are not very Accurate. Or when they tried to claim that Musashi has an very Inaccurate Main Battery despite it having a very Accurate Main Battery which has a Bad Sigma etc. 2. Misleading Claims or Indirect Lies. This is when WG makes claims about a Ships Attributes which are right but then Pair them with an Usage or Ability which is not Provided. This usually happens when WG has Ships which are a little unbalanced or which WG wants to have a Specific Gimmick for and thus pretends the Ship to be something it is not. A Good example for that is Smolensk having no Armor and thus being very Squishy. When in actual Game while Smolensk really has no Armor but thanks to that is extremely Tanky because most People just Overpen it. Or German Battleships not needing a Buff to their Accuracy because they are very Tanky thanks to their Superior Armor and Turtleback when that Armor doesnt do anything against Fires and while Turtleback Protecting you from Citadels on Broadside also preventing Overpens thus more often causing massive Damage. 3. Misjudgements due to having little Experience in their own Game. This is when WG makes a Ship and actual Describes the Ships Attributes and Basic Usages correct. But has failed to Realize that these Attributes can be abused or changed in some way or due to Players behavior doesnt work etc. This is for example how CVs ended up in such a Mess. As Good CV Players ended up completely abusing this new System to effectively become unstoppable annoyances that just keep harassing you to death. Another example is the Italian Cruisers being able to just Delete Destroyers etc. 4. Cases where WG somehow managed to be mostly right. Frankly I think this is more of an Accident or an Unknown Factor not yet Discovered. At this Point I frankly cant believe that WG could even possibly get one of their Ship Reviews right. Their Views of the Game are just too skewed and too focused on providing an Image for the Low Skilled Potato rather than actually giving you an actual Insight in the Ships capabilities. So if this happens it can only be an Accident or might be due to the Community not yet having Discovered how to abuse the Ships abilities. Examples for this are however very scarce. Frankly the only case I can even think off without first going through the list and searching for it. Would be Slawa which WG correctly described as Sniping BB in the Realine which is very Squishy and which actually is like that and actually also tends to be played like that.

Quite Dissappointing really. It seems you learned absolutely nothing from the Community Outrage. Another Christmas Event that is only about Gambling. No Alternative way to get the Ships that are the Bait for Gambling. And the "additional Children protection" seems to be just that super fine printed warning at the bottom of the Store page which I can barely read on my 26" Monitor. I am sure that is gonna keep Children away from Gambling away all their Money lol Effectively. The Event is all about Buying Lottery Tickets for the Chance of Rare Ships again.

My Biggest Expectation from the Santa Containers is that Wargaming is already Breaking one of their Promises they made after the CC Exodus. Because back then they Promised that in the Future all Rewards from Random Mechanics will also be available for Purchase Directly. The Biggest Reward to be gained from Santa Crates Event is the Rare Ships like Musashi, Enterprise etc etc But there is no way in Hell that they will make these available for Direct Purchase instead of using them as Bait for People to Gamble away massive amounts of Money hoping to get them. Meaning that with this Christmas Event they are already Breaking one of the Biggest Promises they made.

I am not really Interested in Linking my YouTube Account to Wargaming.

Wait. Yolo Emilio had AA ? Never noticed.

1. On your Forum Profile you have a Link to your WoWs Stats Profile. When you go there. You can Choose to have your Stats Private or only Accessible by Link. 2. Side Effects depends mostly on Your behavior. In the Game you may find People complaining that they cant Check your Stats or outright assuming that you are a Bad Player. Especially if you do anything they dont like you doing or Refuse to do what they tell you :P Actually Good Players dont care. They can tell wether your good or not without seeing your Stats. And they are used to be Playing with Potatoes. So wether you are one or not is without Consequence to them. Meaning that usually its only Potatoes and Flamers which will complain about your Stats being hidden Ingame. So on that Aspect you can really Ignore it. In the Forums its more Importand. Because if whenever you Voice your Opinions or make Suggestions, Complaints etc etc. People will want to know about your Stats. Having your Stats Public gives People an Idea on wether you know what you are talking about and what you are actually Playing. For example. A Player which is Unicum on CVs and Says that CVs are too Strong against DDs. Willl be taken much more Seriously than a Player which is Average or below on DDs and has not even Played CVs. Likewise someone making Suggestions or complaining about Mechanics of the Game and having Played 10.000 Battles will of course be met with a bit more Respect than someone with 50 Battles doing the same etc etc. Therefore. Hiding your Stats will Result in People in the Forum treating any Opinion you Post with suspicion as they will assume the worst possible Stats for your Opinion. There is NO Skillbased MM and there is no other Side Effects on the Game itself. Your Stats do not affect the Game itself in any Way. 3. That also depends on You to be honest. I for example will Generally Hide my Stats unless I am Arguing about something in the Forums. When I want to make a Point on something in the Forums I will make them Public so that others can See that I know what I am talking about. But otherwise I will generally just keep them Hidden as I can do without the measurement contest *gg*

Just wondering. She can at least in theory still be gotten from the Christmas Crates I guess. But the chances are so low that its not something you should rely on unless your filthy rich and dont mind throwing a few thousand Euro at it. Anyone think we might get her back in the Shop at some point ?

I dont know what amount of Viewers they usually get. So its hard to make a Guess on what they are thinking. The Rewards are Pretty Big. So I would not be Surprised if they got a New Record at least. Now wether thats enough to Break 40k is a different Story. Its Possible that they are Really Hoping to break that Line. I am almost certain at least that they are hoping to Calm the Heated Spirits of all their Dumpster Fires they got lately. Which is also why there is such a Big Reward attached to the Stream this Year. I do however also consider it Possible that its actually a more Sinister Plan. With the CC Exodus there is a certain Vacuum of Rewards. And they might hope that by offering Generous Rewards they can Draw People away from the Critical Channels of these Big CCs that Left. And instead get them onto their own Channel. Likewise its also Possible that WG is indeed Trolling. And just wants to Show that even with such a Big Reward waiting. There wont even be 40k People watching as the Vocal and Active Community is so small. Well. We will See.

A. Its a reeeeeaaalllly Bad Time to Start a Post by Powdering WGs Ego. Its nice you like the Game. Many of us do. But right now this kind of thing may cause the response you get being skewed by people taking offense as the Community is a insanely miffed at WG right now. B. This Topic will likely be Closed soon. Because Matchmaker Discussions are Prohibited in the Forums with the Exception for a Specific Topic. So dont expect too much from this. C. WoT and especially Blitz is highly Simplified with alot less differences between vehicles and weapons. Therefore its not a good comparisson to WoWs which brings together Vehicles which are completely different from each other in pretty much everything. Also. Your Personal Winrate is not that Consequential except in telling you how well you understand the Game. Because Good Players tend to actually Win. So whatever beef you got with the MM. Its obviously not preventing them from gaining a Winrate. This doesnt mean there is no Problems of course. In fact I do think there is alot of Problems. But using an Individual Winrate just wont really make any Argument :) D. Now for your Actual Points. 1. Doing that all the Time actually. And I got no Problems. T8 CVs are very Powerful. And even T10 AA is Generally not really a threat unless you dont know how to Evade it. Which is likely also the Problem here. Its fairly Obvious that you are not a very well versed Player for the Game. Which is fine by the way. We all started somewhere. However. CVs are unfortunately very easy to Play but very Hard to Master. The thing is. Ships have 2 different Types of AA. One is DPS and the other is Flak. Now Flak is extremely Powerful and Capable of Deleting Half or even All of your Squadron in but a Second if you take a Severe Hit. And especially in High Tiers Ships tend to have alot of it. DPS meanwhile is for most Ships fairly Weak. Only being Dangerous if you are very close to Several Ships. BUT Flak is 100% Evadable. Meaning that while Flak is very Close. You can 100% entirely and Completely prevent it from doing anything. While DPS cannot be Prevented or Dodged. Its a Set Damage you can only Mitigated by limiting the time you stay inside and using the Immunity Timers from your Drops. (You likely dont know what that is. I will explain it in a few advices later) That unfortunately also causes most Newer Players to Run into Flak. And as they dont know what happens and thus dont know how to just prevent it. They think AA is very Powerful. When in Fact AA is so Weak that T8 CVs can do Double Drops on almost every T10 Ship. 2. Yep. It is. Thats not News by the way. Been that way from Day 1. Will stay that way forever. Thats the thing unfortunately. Ranked is only a smaller Random with better Rewards which you are forced to Grind to get Steel. E. Now then. Unfortunately here I have to Disagree. You see. The Problem with Matchmaking by Skill. Is that Skill becomes Irrelevant. Because if you are Skilled. It will only mean that you get matched against other Skilled Players. But against other Skilled Players only 1 can Prevail. So the other will be Ranked down etc. In the end you will effectively end up with a Balancing that Punishes you for Playing Good. And Rewards you for Playing Bad. Because the better you Play the harder it will get to get decent Results. While if you just Play Bad all the Time you will then be able to Easily get Really Good Battles whenever you put some Effort into it. That kind of System is unfortunately never going to work because it Destroys itself. F. Just like the Pampering up of WG above. Threatening them as well will skew the response you get. This time from the other Side of the Players which are defending WG usually :) I generally Advice to not do this kind of thing at all. It prevents an Objective take on your Points from most people. G. Ok. Now for some Advice. CVs are a Class that Rises and Falls by Understanding the Game. And if you want to do good in it. You have to actually put in effort to learn why something is happening. So some things you should know. 1. You can Skip Post Drop Animations by pressing the Attack Button (usually left Mouse Button) This allows you to go back to the Remaining Squadron instead of Watching your Drop. By the way. Even if you dont Skip the Animation. You can Control your remaining Sqaudron using the WASD and thus already make them turn for example :) 2. After you Drop your Bombs/Rockets/Torps etc. You will be Immune to Damage for the remaining time of the Animation. For the Rockets you will be Immune once you started the Attack run and lose control of the Attack. This is Importand because it allows you to avoid alot of Damage when Attacking against Targets with Strong Close Range AA. As you can use that timer to boost out of close range again. 3. The Black Clouds are Death. The Black Clouds are called Flak. Flak is Spawned by the Game Calculating your Path and then Putting it where you would be in a few Seconds. And to the Flanks of that Position. And Flak Hurts. Unlike DPS which will usually need several seconds to just Kill 1 Plane. Flak can Instantly Kill 3-5 of your Planes with a Single Hit. And if you get by a Barrage your Squadron might even be gone entirely in an instant. Now. Flak of course. Is Spawned based on a Calculation of your Future Position. And in an preset Interval. So if you know that. You can actually Evade the Flak. For Beginners the easiest way is to just Not fly into the Black Clouds. The Black Clouds are where Flak Spawned. And if you are heading to a Target without Steering alot. The Next Barrage will be in the same places. So if you short before the Black Clouds turn to the Side and fly around them. You will for most part not be Hit by Flak. Now for more Advanced Players. You can also Play with the Throttle. Flak is Spawned after a preset time and for a preset time. So as long as you pass the location of flak outside of that time. You wont be hit. So if you Slow down causing flak to spawn closer to you for the next interval. And then boost past that position before that interval hits. You wont be hit as the Flak will Spawn behind you. This however does require some practice because you need to get a feel for the timing. And finally. If your an Advanced Player this also allows you to Manipulate where Flak Spawns in the First Place. By for example Flying slightly Diagonal to the Target. Flak will Spawn in that Diagonal Path. Which means you can then wait for the Flak to Spawn and before hitting it. Turn towards the Target to make your actual Approach. Thus avoiding the Flak by making it spawn outside your Path. Pro Tip. Alot of Planes dont need to bother with Flak at all by the way. Torpedo Bombers for example can avoid Flak very easily by starting the Attack Run short before the Flak Wall. Thus diving below the Flak :) 4. Map Awareness is King. CVs Rise and Fall with the Players Awareness and Understanding of the Situation. Choosing the Right Target at the Right Moment is very Importand. Attacking the easiest target for attacking what gives you alot of damage is often not the best choice. Because while its nice to feel you do big Numbers. You its often not the target that is currently Winning the Game for the Enemy. And many People misunderstand something here. CVs are Overpowered. So People think Playing CVs means they should Win. And since they dont Win. CVs cant be Overpowered. But they Forget. Even if CVs are overpowered. CVs are also Overpowered :P Sounds Logical ? Yeah. You see. We got Mirrored Matchmaking. So if you have a CV. The enemy has a CV as well. And just like with MM by skill. If you put the same Overpowered Class on both sides. The Winrate becomes irrelevant. Because it will balance itself out. Your CV is OP. But so is the Enemy CV. So if you Play Badly. Then even if your in an OP Ship. You will lose. In Fact since you are responsible for a higher part of your Teams total Result than other Players. If you Play Badly you will lose more often than with other classes :) Its like FPS Games with Limited Weapons. If a Newbe takes that Super OP weapon that each Team is only allowed to have Once. Than that Team will lose alot more. Because the Newbe is Blocking one of their most Powerful Weapons making it useless :) Hope that Helps. Greetz

You are Forgetting ALOT of Importand Factors... Hizen has 41cm Guns. Which means she Overmatches Supercruiser Armor of 27mm while Pommer cannot do that. Hizen also has better Dispersion AND better Sigma giving her a much better Accuracy than Pommern. While Hizen has lower DPM Hizen has Superior Broadside Damage over Pommer and also Superior Penetration. Hizen also has much better Turret Arcs. Allowing Hizen to use her Rear Guns without Exposing alot of Broadside. In Fact Hizen can go down to 30 Degrees which means she can stay almost in Autobounce Angle while using her Rear Turrets. On Pommwen you also forgot some Importand things. Pommern has a German Turtleback and very good Armor with alot of Strong Plating preventing HE Pens. Including an Icebreaker to Bowtank 46cm and Bigger Guns. Pommern furthermore has German Hydro and Improved Accuracy on its Secondary Battery. Something to be Noted. Hizen is an Japanese Battleship which is made for Medium to Long Range Combat. While Pommern is a German Battleships which is made for Medium to Close Range Combat. And I can tell you up front. in Medium to Long Range. Hizen is actually Superior. Because she just has more Punch and Hits more Shells. Pommern of course will be stronger in Close Range. But thats fine in General. Right now really the only Problem Hizen has is the Long Reload. It should be Reduced from 38 Seconds Base Reload to 35 Seconds Base Reload and I would be perfectly happy with it.

Well then at least we know how this Year could become such a Catastrophe. Albeit Forgive me for holding in Contempt wether it will be better after the Anniversary despite this time holding true to Tradition ;)

Its actually worse. Because if you think about it we are actually doing it wrong. 17th September was the Release Date. But the Game already saw the Light of Day before that. I guess we can write off the Alpha Test as being still the Pregnancy Period before Birth. But the Closed Beta on March 12, 2015 would already be considered a Birthday to be Honest. But at the very Latest. The Game went into Open Beta and thus Clearly out of Mothers Womb on July 2, 2015 when the Open Beta Started. ^^ So the Actual Birthday should be 12th March or 2nd July. After all we dont Celebrate our Birthdays on the Day we stopped Pooping our Pants do we xD

3rd Anniversary Started on 14th September. 4th Anniversary Started on 17th September. 5th Anniversary Started on 3rd September. Guess we got Bad Luck Twice in the Past *gg*