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I think it is about people who get's their hair cut, so they can donate it to Cancer patients, who have lost their hair due to treatment.

Wow, I am so going to look forward to that new Furutaka hull/turret upgrade. Doesn't matter if it's on the tier 5 or comes as a premium tier 6. Could maybe be implemented as Kako then?.

Are you sure you are not using any premium consumables?

That would be pure evil. I like it

I wish to say that I love the ship, but sadly I do no have it. Who cares if it not the best, as long as it is fun to play. Also, it is quite cute in my opinion

Personally I have given up. Managed the 100 kills, but just didn't have time to play enough to get there. Also I am grinding a lot of tier 4 ships recently. Have to go through them to get to the higher tiers. Guess that is the problem with grinding 8 lines at the same time.

I almost want WG to implement Ashigara with those melee ship swords just for pure fun. Although I am more looking forward to Nachi.

Well, the Karlsruhe is probably the worst german ship, maybe the worst cruiser. A lot of skill choices really come down to wether you want the captain to be usefull later at high tiers or just used for the mid or low tiers. Also, I would suggest heading over to the cruiser subforum, as you can probably find a lot of answers from allready ongoing duscussions

I think flooding and fire times are the same for all classes of ships (depending on captain skills and modifications ofc) but that different tiers have different damage% done every tick.

I never said it was good game design. I would wish we had more options than we do, would make for a lot more varied and personal gameplay. But at the same time, part of that decision is in what class and nation to play. Do you want to be a small, fast and stealthy ship that can deal a lot damage from outside viewrange? Or do you want to play a big intimidating gunboat with lots of armor and health? And these can even be seperated further by going in to things like US vs JP DD, torps vs gunsboats. So we technically do have a lot more options to choose and personalize our gameplay if we want, it just doesn't all lie in captain skill selection. And with regards to the captain skill "survival expert", it was added to help DD survive a bit more in the open, not to help BB get more health, as they got plenty allready, especially with repair works. There the skills was purposefully made to not be as usefull on BB, as it was meanth to aid DD. You can ofcourse choose it, if you really want to, but they limited it in that way to make sure it would not buff BB to much and make them impossible to kill. Imagine a Yamato with that skill if it game more HP, no thanks. It basicly does the same as AFT and BFT, no longer being usefull for 140mm and 155/152 mm guns on cruisers. Not all skills was designed to be used with all ships, and there really aren't a big chance of making a wrong choice with most skills, as most people can figure out that such a small HP boost won't benefit certain ships. Hell, the skills that need to be locked at are more skills not used by anyone, like the fire prevention skill. It it simply not worth taking that one, for any ship as there are just simply better alternatives.

Np, the replay file I have is useless now that the update has happened, and with the battle as short as it was, I never really managed to take screenshots, unfortunately You take the time you need. The reason why I am mostly interested in the pictures/resume of the battle is that it could be used to bring more attention to HB. Maybe if we got permission to post it in the gameplay section, as that is where it will get the most exposure?

So basicly what this discussion has found out that this game suffers from the same problem as many other games. That in order to be competetive you have to choose more or less same captains skills as everyone else. It is not like figuring out the skill point choices that give the maximum benefit is a new thing in a competetive multiplayer game. Shock! Ofcourse we might get more skills in the future that allows for many more choices. But it is not like in WoT where a lot of the skills and modifications are more or less useless on some ships. Not saying this is good, and I certainly hope for more skills. But most games end up with this, because people want to be as good as possible, and then figure out the best choices available, rendering everything else useless if you want to be competetive.

Agree, only real problem I got with the game is leveling DD. I wish I had taken advantage of 1-5 before I got HQ lvl 80, screw HQ lvl inflation, I should have done it more. Other than that I enjoy the game and just play it of now and again when I got time or am bored, or even sometimes in the background of other games. A lot of people make the RNG in to more than it actually is. It is only really a problem if you want everything in the first try. Most events have enough time for you to finish them, and there is enough time between events to be decently prepared. Really, RNG is just like in other games, it's just everyone are not very patient, and want to succeed the first time. I just go along slowly and don't care much. But for me, it is just as much the colorful art and personalities of the ships that keep me playing. Let's be honest, none of us would really play if it weren't for the girls. Edit: with ragards to activity in the thread. Well I would post here more often, but I am not sure if anyone is even active here. I think most people only come here during events to ask for help, give tips or brag about their drops

Well, I don't really find it boring or frustrating, but then again, I don't play much outside of events. Just a bit of grinding, quest attempts as well ex epeditions here and there. During events I mostly just look at rewards and then see what difficulty I want to bother with. I think it helps with the salt for me, that I don't really try to get everything, but just take what I get as I go. But the game deffinetly is VERY addicting for some odd reason Also no, I have Kai nied pretty much all BB and CV and CL. Missin some few CA and CVL and then several DD, but don't really bother with those too much. The problem I think you got with the game, was that you saw the goal as just leveling everything, and now that you have manged that, there is nothing left.

Not really sure if I like it. The fight was decent, I guess, but the entire first 10 min of the episode was terrible, only the flashback was good. It felt like they were trying to introduce the characters but didn't really manage to do so. Also some of those characters really annoy me, seems like the only good character in my opinion is Shiro. At least she seems to try and take it serious. Worst character is the helsman. This is basicly all possible moe character tropes mashed together. At least GuP took itself for what it was. Girls driving tanks as part of a sport, and thats was it was. A sport. Here they are trying to be more, but not really failing. Don't have a problem with moe, but at least pase it better. Also wow, that destroyer is [edited]roomy. One thing is for certain, life on board a ship won't be touched upon. A little sad, cause seing how school girls would deal with it would be fun.

That depends on what you think of fun. I personally enjoy it, despite their actually not being much gameplay But the game does have so strategy elements in it, with regards to equipment loadouts, branching, planes and so on. Although most of these things are really only important during events, the one thing you are playing towards in the game, as events have the greatest chances to get the ships you want. Here is from when Ichase streamed it https://www.twitch.tv/ichasegaming/v/61034786

Well, he can allways try it. The game doesn't require that much from you. It is easily something that you can just log in to everyone now and again when you want to.

Why would anyone ever buy a years worth of prem time? Seriously, can you even be sure you will still be playing in a year? Or what if suddenly you take a break for a month or two or are unable to play. Then that is money down the drain right there. Wasted. It would be something else if the premium time only counted down while you were in game, but it doesn't.

If you use the shell cam, Z should get you out of it (Z is default IIRC). Although from what you are saying, it sounds like a bug, as the cam should have automaticly returned after the shell hit. Do you by chance have any mods or something installed that could cause problems?

I think the problem with the karma system is, people will allways abuse it, no matter what WG does with it. Somebody did really good on the enemy team, coordinated the battle and carried it and beat your team? Report him, cause people can't stand loosing. Somebody on your team comes up with a plan that turns out to be really good? Report him, because nobody can tell anybody what to do. Somebody carrier your team to victory and end up with lots of damage and kills? Report him, because he stole your damage and kills. Seriously, it would be easier to make a list of why people don't report others. The system is simply flawed. Now I am not saying that rewards ain't good. It could actually maybe make people work together and coordinate or even behave better in chat. A few rewards can go a lon way to motivate people. But that only works if people bother to compliment aswell, which I rarely find that people do. Most will purely use the Report fuction, no matter the reason.

Well, AA escorts have long been a thankless role, forgotten by nearly everyone, up untill the second they need it, and then they complain why nobody does. More rewards for helping the team is deffinetly needed.

I wonder if those random storms will appear all over the map, or be limited to certain parts of it. Can anyone who have tried to play with them tell me?

Funny, I had a game yesterday where a Saipan got it's planes wrecked in the first few min of a game. Are you sure it has something to do with the ship (though it is mediocre), and not the captain?

We all have periods. Where we are bad. The reasons can be many. Maybe you had a few bad games and you were getting stressed or bad tempered, and not focusing so much on the game. Maybe you were just unlucky with getting poor teammates for a while. Maybe you took a break for a class of ship and now returned to it, unable to repeat the previous results untill you get back in the rythm. I used to be rather good in Kongo and Fuso (60k and 70k avg), but then I took a break to play more CV and DD, and not I can't hit the broadside of a barn, have to relearn them again. Also yesterday, me, Babykim and Havaduck were getting really bad results, barely doing anything. Many times on of us would die within a min of the start. We still one 5 out of the 7 games we played. Short version: We all have bad streaks occasionally, they can happen for many reasons. The best way to deal with them is to take it slow and not let it get to you. If it does, take a small break and then return. Letting your temper go high or the game stress you out will just make you play really bad. So keep calm, and carry on.