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It's ignored by WG at present, they know how some people feel but the minority has no power to change anything. My suggestion is to sign on to the stream tonight and listen to the bs about all the fun ways we have of gathering free xp and the other poor justifications made in hindsight. Let them know how you feel, if I'm home on time I will, but don't expect anything to happen because they tend to ignore the difficult questions or reply with contempt of some kind.

Hi mate, No, I'm must admit I'm not overly familiar with him / her as much. Maybe an insider, who knows, lol.

1. Well, you made a claim and can't back it up. 2. The current system for gathering free xp is the same as before so while I see what you are saying, this argument cannot be used to justify the jump in price. It's an illogical argument. 3. The last question does ask for your opinion, only not the one you want to give...if you feel the price tag of 2mill is fair, then choose that option. It's asking quantitatively for your idea of what is a fair amount, not for a qualitative response. Answer in the format asked.

1. So you can't provide numbers. 2. So you can't justify the increase rationally other than supporting what one communtiy team member said relating to 'more ways to earn free xp' which have been exactly the same as all the other less expensive free xp ships. 3. Yes, you're right. it's not about you and for the perceived insult I am sorry. The last question in the poll does not warrant an 'i don't care' option - there are perfectly reasonable options available, it's just you wanted to make a point you don't care...remember, as you say, its about the smaland price, so give an answer of what you think it should be. If youre fine with it there is an option for that. It's not advocating any bias toward one specific side of the argument now is it? And no, I'm certainly not a fan so keep that signed pic for someone else, thanks for the offer though. Unless of the course the panic-buying by people because of the corona virus completely wipes out toilet paper stocks, then I may take you up on that offer

Yes, you're correct about the fanboy remark so I would retract that, but I'm sorry, his arguments are incredibly flawed. You're free to agree with whom you please and I'd like to throw it back at you. Calling me a Fingers fanboy in a similar vein only makes you a hypocrite doesn't it? Because I hold some views similar to his does not imply I follow him, thats a massive assumption on your part and so is your judgement of him. Tut tut on you Bushwacker.

I've seen nonsense talking, but this takes the cake. 1. Who and where are all the old, dedicated players? You have numbers do you? You know for a fact they have so much free xp lying around? 2. The price increase is justified because it's easy to gather free xp? How have the means to gather free xp increased / improved since the intro of cheaper free xp ships? You're applying a lack of rational reasoning here, your reasoning is not logical. 3. Stop being such a fanboy, not many people like obsequeism. Secondly, you had the choice to ignore the poll if you didn't care, but obviously you do in some way. The indicator 'I don't care' doesn't fit within the poll, so if you don't want to give an idea of a cost, just move on, noone will care or even know. Try think for yourself instead of trying to impress your masters? Tata

What is the motive do you think? I don't play CW (yet) so are WG trying to shift the dynamic and switch things up a bit to force re-evaluation of popular ship classes used in the clan wars, or have they got a new cv everyone will want on the horizon?

This is WG again with their uncaring, nonsensical cut and paste answer fed to us in other threads about cv's. Unbelievable. These people aren't even original anymore, they're so transparent even a blind man can see through them, if you'll pardon the pun.

I think I might just write a couple of letters to a few popular gaming mags and websites to relate the current trends by WG as they strive towards further alienating lots of their most loyal fans. They're already known in a few circles as hosting ridicuously expensive games, so perhaps adding to this publicity will help enhance their reputation further. I'm lucky to have had a few published in the past so perhaps if I work on it a little we can open a can of worms about this type of questionable behaviour by WG. With WG struggling to expand their numbers it might be worthwhile firing a proverbial shot across their bow by instead of recruiting we do the exact opposite.

I was scoring between 5k and 11k free xp in ranked matches a couple of days ago, I made just on 100k free xp in a single day and that wasn't even playing all day. It's doable for sure but I have a ship-ton of papa signals and the other blue one and I use camo's providing 150% free xp (wish I had the other camo's). A long while ago I'd exclusively use my missouri to farm free xp and in some matches was making up to 20k free xp per match with all the right signals and camo's. The problem is not everyone has all the signals and camo's, and they run out fast and not easily replaced. Costly too.

And somewhere else in this universe, WG hides and pretends the uproar is not really happening. A quote from Bastille's song with a little tweak: WG: 'But if you we close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing change at all?' Players: 'But if you we close your eyes, does it almost feel like we've been here before? And so WG remain ever so quiet pretending their silly decisions are for the best, lol.

I have a war ranging in my head too, I have just over 3mill free xp with enough signals and flags to grind more relatively fast.......mmmmmm, what to do?

WG's path to success - fighting inhouse market failure with more inhouse market failure to produce an overall clusterf_k of insane inhouse market failure. Excellent strategy, and then say a few cheap words thinking the more reasonable and intellligent section of the playerbase will simply accept it, ahahahha.

That's a silly analogy and certainly not even remotely in the same league as to whats being duscussed here.

That's not really addressing the issue at hand now is it? You've managed to maneuvre yourself all around answering the problem of hyperinflation in the game. I mean, cmon:' We understand you feel this way'....... 'it's up to you to decide if the ship is worth the price tag'.......'long term goal'.......'lots more ways to accumulate free xp?'. You've become a master blagger. Tut tut. Were not all the other free xp ships available in the same way, albeit priced far lower. I don't truly believe you understand how ludicrously unreasonable this comes across as. I'd rather just have none of the bull, for example; 'sorry guys and gals, we feel the pricing for ships for free xp has been way too low yada-yada, and 2 mil fxp for a tier 10 is more realistic of where we want to go and there is far too much free xp floating about in players accounts which we need to reduce significantly', etc. I suppose the next deal ingame coming up soon will be the conversion of dubloons to free xp at 1:35 again?

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The sad reality is the community teams are nothing but convenient buffers against our complaints and WG's questionable decision making. They're employees who despite any opinion they themselves may hold are forced to tow the party line and agree with everything WG does, and thereafter try sell it to us. The view has become one where we are ungrateful, entitled, complain too much, with important questions ignored on the streams and elsewhere and simply diverted to other topics of lesser interest. I'm not even sure why WG has forums in the first place. And, the community is not always aligned but no communities are ever fully aligned, no matter the cause. I bet if WG did a couple of holistic surveys we'd soon find out, given a respectable sample size, what the general sentiment is. but then they would have to be honest and ask the real questions, not create leading questions toward answers they want to hear.

Stop trolling. This is the topic WG have created to allow us to feel like our concerns about cv's are being listened to. It's the section they want to now use to gather 'important feedback' following a seemingly new revelation to them that many players think cv's are broken and the 'rework' was a joke. It's a quasipolitical section which on the surface aims to provide the impression WG cares about this when in reality they very likely have zero intention of fixing anything further (or I'll eat my hat). In a nutshell, it's all smoke and mirrors man and a story as old as time itself.

The idea has potential OP, although it took a little time to decipher. That said, having too wide a range of tiers might dilute the playerbase too much - not sure there is a strong enough playerbase and would they risk putting in that time to try reverse dwindling numbers in some areas? If they're struglging with CV's now and have basically given up and are trying to convince us it's all working fine, can you imagine them trying to implement missile cruisers, etc etc etc. Nah, if they struggle with the basics the more complex will only confuse them more, although given they are so ludicrously greedy it might be they eventually try it.

This is all quite disappointing. Somers was going to be my next steel ship and was working hard to get hit / her / him / they. Might have to re-evaluate this now.....

Whatever you don't buy now can be bought later because coal is an almost renewable resource, albeit a slow replenishing one?

Four ranked games in a row were whitewashes..3 lost games for zero enemy ship losses and 1 lost game for 1 enemy ship lost. Stats of players on the team were deep red, horrible, while enemy team looked like pro's. This is some real bad luck, no matter how hard I try it's more windowlickers in bb's and cv's. What a joke, lol. WG wanted quick games, well their recipe is working.

Wonder what will happen with the whole gambling / container / drop chances thing in the future? WG have really ramped up the container cost / gambling thing this last year or so. WG know they're in a grey area and are seriously exploiting as much of this as they can - which is worrying because it certainly reveals their willingness to use people exploitatively rather than nurture loyalty and long term support. This is the disconnect that occurs when corporatons get too large and start to see their clients from a less than human perspective. Depending on how it goes, the current litigaton against companies like EA by players (young and old apaprently) who claim to have easily fallen prey to gambling addictions might ultimately set precendents through case law rather than via state regulation. States have proven quite slow to act regulatively (apart from a few) so hopefully civil action will ultimately force regulation and additionally open doors for players to take action. Companies like WG will have to tread lightly in the future, they may think they're safe in a far-off headquarters, but they're not when they need to operate in other countries to make their riches.

I know what you're saying, sometimes playing a dd is about occupying that area inbetween the firefight between bigger class ships on either side, the no-mans land so to speak where spotting, capping and acting as a deterrant against enemy advancement (when they know you're prowling about) is seldom rewarded adequaltely. All these actions could very easily lead to a victory, and have numerous times over and over, but it's not recognised officially as such in any meaningful way. Now they've made them harder to play with the abundance of long range radar and cv's. Don't let some of the trolls here with their selective bias or their need to instantly criticise someone elses perceptions persuade you otherwise. Does everyone take a screenshot of their game when they do well? Sounds like an overly self-praising thing to do to me. I don't do this so can't understand why others do, seems strange to want to record like this...?

Has the active playerbase remained stable or simply the number of players overall irrespective of whether they're active or not? I'm not following any stats anywhere so where is everyones source of information?