Kazomir

Personal rank for a team game makes little sense. Since you as individual make only about 14% of the whole team. A rank based on average exp across the whole season, awarded after the season ends with a requirement for a minimum amount of battles would be more fitting. Victories ofc score way more xp than losses. But we are going off topic here.

Kinda the same wiyth random. What now?

Being a pay2win premium ship Atago has some advantages over your normal cruiser. Although that has been looked at, atago is still ahead of the competition. Kutuzov and Chep have uses too.

quoted post removed It is due both actually. Shokaku IS powerfull. But the main reason for the high winrate are the players. If the CVs were easier and more fun to play, at cost of pure power, they'd offer more room to mediocre players while the good ones wont own everything. Ever played against a bad cv? Damn near useless.

Did I claim Shokaku is underpowered? Care to tell me where? Demographics mate. Shokaku ranked players aint some random scrubs. CVs right now dont allow casual players on the higher tiers and ranks. Anybody who plays a shokaku is not the type of player who heard that the Bismarck secondary build is fun. They are two three levels above that.

Just include CVs into the games to trim down the BB/DD plague and the brit ships will be quite pleasurable.

On some BBs, yes.

Have fun with BB spam then. I dont mean the CV needs to be buffed, it needs to be playable, even if weaker.

Actually, BBs do not need a nerf (except bismarck, i think, with its sonar and secondaries it is downright immune to any DDs) Re-introducing the CVs back into the game is the top priority. A CV in a ranked match is hell for a DD and for a BB too, thus allowing more space for cruiser play.

Bismarck's secondaries arent a big issue. Her massively OP sonar is. Removing the need of any sort of escort making the ship able to solo anything from DDs to other BBs. I understand the sonar on the FDG and GK. They are HUGE and need it, but the Bis is a bit power creepy if you ask me. Like an amagi with a speed boost...

You know why nobody bothered to rescue friendly/enemy sailors in close battle scenarios? Cause they get torped.

There is a saying in my country, basically goes like this: If you try to make a new brothel with old girls (I'm using girls as the word because I don't want the thread closed down) you are doomed to fail. Basically, Lesta is doing this. If you try to introduce a new line, and give them a 'Gimick' or something to be unique with as a ship line, without introducing, say, a new conusmable or a game mechanic, you are just fisting the ham out of other statistics. Visualizing the AP here. Not to mention that to do that, they also took out the HE. I am having real fear here that in order to keep the schedule of releasing new lines every couple of months, Lesta will not try to experiment with new mechanics at all, just releasing lines with some hamfisted stat or the other, just to make them "Unique"

Everyone is on ranked atm. May be a factor.

Just came to my mind. If a certain concept is a failiure, can it be executed flawlessly?

Shoot the other ones or press F. Simple.

Apparently nobody knew that you cannot force out a BB heavy meta with releasing a CL line?

Had that happen in a Scharnhort, triple citadelled a Schors or a Kutuzov with HE at about 14km, almost spat my coffee out. That said, the RN CLs also were released at the worst possible time, where the game is saturated with their counters. Would have been better to release a DD line or a CV overhaul first.

Now that you said it, the veiled meaning is open to everybody. Self fulfilling prophecy.

Large amounts of repairable damage you mean. This damage is not sticky like AP pens.

Its like you did not get my point.

Right now, a smoke cloud is a fairly personal thing, often hiding only the person inside it. What I propose is the vice versa. Hide everyone else, but the one laying the curtain. Let me explain. The smoke curtain is a thin line of smoke laid directly behind the DD or CL in question. Ships behind the curtain are not visible to observers which have a line of sight that crosses the curtain. That way a team can advance relatively hidden. The difference to smoke? Since this curtain is thin, ships that fire from behind it are revealed as normal. Also, air superiority CV setups can lay smaller versions of that with their fighters as alternative ability. What do you think of this idea? Edit: Added a picture to illustrate my point, a team of ships emerging from behind a smoke curtain. Langley practicing smoke screen maneuvers (probably to shield itself from surface fire)

I want to bump this thread in order to see if people, having played the RN cruisers (or people that are hyped for the RN Destroyers, like me, because Daring class is a Gearing's Bro) wouldn't have preferred such an option instead of the ole sit in smoke and pewpew people.

Having a dynamic system that determines deficits in a ship class across the tiers and rewards players with like +50% credits per battle if they play that class would be neat. Just saying.

You'd be surprised how little your skill matters. Most good players finish ranked with 55-60WR That means you influence 1 game in 10 or 20.

Ecactly how I feel. Super good players with little time on rank 10 while the noobs that grind all day sailing in Flints already. Laughable.