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I wasn't having a go at you mate. Cheer up. I'm also expanding slightly on the general discussion as I work my way through my thought processes. I understand the issue with smoke, but I personally think the problem is not with the smoke or the dd's, but rather (more likely) that players get 'graped' in a battle and then come to the forums to request nerfs to this and that, me included. It's simply the same argument albeit with a slightly different flavour and has been going on for years and years from WoT and now in WoWs.

To be honest, tier 6 to tier 8 is my sweet spot in terms of ship tiers. I'm getting a little tired of low tier stuff. The battles are a little boring and the ships less advanced and some of them look really poop. Glad I got that off my chest!

We can't go changing things simply because one player prefers to play cruisers or bb's over dd's. It's a silly expectation to want to change things that technically aren't broken to begin with - ranked battles or not. It's tactical to use smoke to your advantage, both teams will have the ability to use it so it's not like one team has the advantage over the other unless the dd numbers are imbalanced, which we can then go blaming the MM rather than the dd's. It's up to the clever players to break the stalemate, or the better team. What's being argued in this post is that DD's are OP with their smoke ability, but the truth of it is that the morel likely argument is which team has the better players in it who will use these abilities to their advantage. People need to stop crying for the nerf bat just because they have an issue with someone having outplayed them, or if their team was dysfunctional in some way.

Amazing how a simple cap on dd numbers by the mm in battle would solve all these issues.

I'm sorry to say this, but why exactly do you think only a rank 5 player will understand you or know what you're talking about? Why not rank 6, 7, 8 or 9? Smoke used by a clueless player is pointless, but I've seen the extremely clever use of smoke by dd players on my journey to rank 7, to the point where it can give a team an optimal advantage at some point in the game, but what you fail to realise is that the opposite team most likely also has dd's and they can do the same to shield their ships. I use my smoke to quite often conceal a bb or cruiser in games when cap circles are close and being contested. It sounds to me like your argument is one in which the enemy team dd's were better than your own teams dd's and you got suckerpunched. I complained bitterly last night because a bb landed perfect shots on me from around 15km and decimated my dd while I was hiding in smoke, was not even spotted when he did this. You're arguing about nerfing certain aspects of ships because your team got outplayed. This is not the way it works.

Wish I could report major success tonight. That game was one of the few victories. Dropped back to 8.3 from 7.

But at least it will have dragons.

'Rigging' is too strong a word for the MM, but then again so is 'random', The matchmaker is only as random as WG allows it to be in terms of their coding, so is it truly random then? No it isn't. Is it therefore rigged? No it isn't. So what's the problem then? Well, the problem lies with the fact that it makes a best effort to balance ship tiers, but ignores players completely. This means a battle can have a reasonable balance of skill across the teams, or it can have one team with more strong players and one with more weak players. We all know how those battles will usually end. More than this 'WE DO NOT KNOW' because Wargaming only tells us what they want to about the matchmaker. So in a sense it's apparently random in terms of the skill levels across the teams, but not so much the ship tiers. People that scream 'rigging' could be referring to the suspicion that the MM somehow puts you in more 'difficult' matches if you're on a winning streak, as admitted by WG in WoT. People that are convinced the game makes you lose with bad RNG have no direct evidence of this, but given what we do know about the matchmaker the fact is it is 'incomplete' and the fact that it already has within its makeup to try balance ship tiers, means it is not truly random either. The only thing I have ever wanted from the MM is that the ships should be balanced as best as possible AND the player skills 'across the teams' should be balanced with a more or less equal number of skilled and less skilled players on both teams - also 'best effort' if you will, with a margin of error because it could never be perfect. This means each team has a more or less even chance of winning at the start of the battle. This would not make it boring because I'm not asking for leagues tables, etc. All I want is the two factors that matter in a battle to be considered to make sure it remains as fair as possible at the outset - the ships and the players. The downside? Longer queue times, and the RNG would still be a contentious issue. It's not the most important thing in life, but fully understandable to see why players get so frustrated, because losing streaks are demotivating and can (and have) resulted in less dedicated players leaving and giving up early. If the game were less about 'better rewards for winning' and more about personal progress and personal missions then players may find it less tedious, and very importantly - and this is important - if less people were as elitist and were less worried about prejudicing players based on their stats, then maybe things would be different. In this sense the playerbase is a large part of the problem due to their attitude. Nuff said!

Gr0pah on a game last night on the same team, we won in quite a good game. Very friendly fella and a great team mate to have on your team.

Rank 7 tasted good, but halfway back to rank 8. BB players representing the lowest lifeforms you can get on 3 teams, these guys must have real trouble breathing since it obviously takes all their thinking power. Played my Saipan, one game my fighters and bomber squad did very well, the next few games they dropped like flies against the like for like fighters. My bombs dropped for minimum damage rolls each time. Guess the RNG decided it was time to ensure I stay miserable.

Made it to rank 7 and absolutely terrified of pressing 'battle'. The closer I get the more of a nervous wreck I become!

Thanks, I try to please everybody...oh, wait, you're refering to WG? Don't believe it, replay or it didn't happen

And just how many players would you think your statement 2 applies to? Not many at all. It's far more likely that the majority of them will be bad players in their tier 6's from what I've seen so far in ranked.

Mine went down in ranked too...oh wait, it always was near zero anyways, so no change there. I'm no richer nor poorer for it neither and no-ones come knocking on my door, so I guess karma technically means nothing. Oh well.

Not sure what to say about this post. I hear what you're asking, but I can easily see what you're saying beneath the surface.I have to agree with Gojuadorai. There are lost of posts you could have asked that question if you were sincere. Some of us are just luckier than others I guess.

Who needs a ship anyways, scrap everything and just give me a torpedo:

Russian ship with torpedos that pretend to be missiles:

Nobody knows for certain whether there is anything other that a tier-based MM in WoWs. There may well be other aspects to it we don't know of, there may not be. Some people see apparent patterns and are accused of observational bias, etc. WG will never disclose the true nature fo their MM and as such there will be a lot up to speculation...either way.

Can't watch the stream because.....I am doing the dishes that day. Sorry! I don't like lottos either, can't sit there for hours on end with mega spam going on hoping for a ship and then not getting one.....been there, done that lots and lots, won't ever do it again. Good luck to those who have the patience, who are still optimistic because fo lack of life experience, and who have extra time on their hands. Ooooh, so cynical and miserable... No, seriously, good luck, but I won't be there and no-one cares, lol.

Managed to make rank 8 and steadily crawling to rank 7, but I'm fearful of the whole journey because progress is so quickly wiped out by a string of a few losses and then the fightback is harder. Even at rank 8 I am so surprised that there are still so many yolo players who, even if they can't understand english, still take their cruiser or bb on a solo run when the rest of the team are going elsewhere. I'm now more certain than ever that ranked battles are less about skill and more about luck. The mm last night put me on two teams that had no bb's while the enemy had one and more dd's at the same time. So am I having fun? I'd probably still rate it at 75% against 25% for in terms of enjoyment, yet the idiot in me still plods onwards.

Saw flamu in his Blyskawicka on Land of Fire, he played well and quite cleverly, but I did chase him down when he was weak and kill him when he rammed into an island. Lucky for us my team won. I didn't know who he was until the rest of my team started virtually lapping at the sea he sailed on, so I decided I needed to make him a priority kill if I could. Thank goodness it worked out in my favour.

Adding a hotkey to inform your team you are spotted instead of having to type it all in is a great idea.

i had her before you did, second hand goods

I won't say which part, if not all of it, but I strongly suspect that a few of your words are somehow true.

OP ships? What have I been missing and what are these mysterious beasts so that I can acquire one or two?