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Nothing of interest, bought a couple of other titles on Steam and even played Warthunder a bit and quite enjoyed it, lol (yeh, I know).

Possibly to allow them to draw out the release of the ships otherwise they'll not have much to fill the inbetweens with. Further to this it allows them to monetise it more. If they released the whole line then there'd be nothing much else for a while to come.....problem with what the're doing is using the same recipe over and over again and the more we say it's too grindy the more grindy they make it....talk about arrogance, lol. Nothing much exciting. I'm done with anything grindy, it puts me off because it makes the game overly tedious..is this what they want you think?

By some miracle I think I got my best super container yet, 1500 steel, just what I needed to get the Stalingrad. I haven't and don't play clan wars as much so it's been a long long run slowly building up steel towards getting the Stalingrad....SC gave me that final bit last night and I sailed her out of port and into ring of fire. I like, and I'm happy.

Yep, I'm getting used to not being able to speak in game, maybe that's a good thing. I know I probably deserve it now and then, but lately it feels I've got them for nothing after responding to trolls trolling me, so I can only hope that the trolls received the same treatment from this automated system of WG''s. I'll never know. Problem with me is I like to kill a fly with a sledgehammer, not with a fly swatter. Nevertheless, the system is working, although perhaps not as optimally as it should. So if you greet me and I reply with a 'wilco' you know why. What I'm really saying is 'hi mate, nice to see you, good luck'.

I've had 2 in 3 months I think, rather crappy odds, but then I've not played as much.

My advice to the OP: Paying attention is important and knee-jerk reactions are often a bad thing.

@OP: The Spanish ships are already in the game - they're just under the water where you can't see them. The Royal Navy decided they would serve better as wrecks for sealife to help promote more biodiversity in an ever changing world due to climate change. Sorry, but when they intro subs into the game you'll see them

My advice to the OP is: you have just wasted 10 minutes of your life typing what you might believe would help improve the game. WG won't listen, to do this they would have to acknowledge that player feedback is important and that sometimes their playerbase might have a few good ideas, but somewhere along the line because they're the developers and because we couldn't possibly understand anything about gameplay (ironically with us being gamers), we couldn't possibly be taken seriously. This happens when the relationship between playerbase and developers is not of an equal standing. We should ban any post on the forums recommending improvements to the game and label them as a waste of life.

At £64? They're barking mad! The only offer they can come up with is a 'one ship two container spread' (apart from the single ship that is). WG have lost the plot, and their recruiting drive is silly insane...so with my extremely low level of loyalty to them why on earth would I try to recruit someone else to the game? In fact, why the hell am I even typing here? Maybe because I'm in denial the game I loved so much is diving and WG are taking more than they give, and I'm not referring to profit.

Why even put the damned counters there in the fist place, they are irritating. And where the hell is the option to 'remove all signals etc from a ship with one click? But no, we get stupid notifications for news and patches.....it's a joke.

The need to make profit does not automatically mean it's ok to exploit? It is peoples choice as you say and while we blame WG (who are very greedy imho), we still have a lot of people who throw money at them thus exacerbating the problem and so WG continue...they know people have no self control and in the name of instant gratification will part with a lot of money to satisfy a need..it's human weakness and in many cases goes with inexperience in life, immaturity, and other issues like the need to collect and hoard stuff that isn't real...we assign value to our lives by material things, instead in this case it's not even material. Ultimately, if players want cheaper ships they need to stop throwing so much money at WG for no reason at all. This will force WG to adopt a different business model to remain competitive. They don't care for our complaints...we think they do but they don't care at all, they expect there to be a level of dissatisfaction. The only way to truly force change is to do so en mass, and good luck doing this on a server like this one. Nope, WG have all the aces and those of us wanting change are in the minority, largely due to the fact that most people supporting the game (probably) do not think holistically or have long term mindsets. They're driven by very shallow needs. Cruel, but true perhaps? The power really is in the hands of the people, but the people are too fragmented to do anything and WG bank on this both literally and figuratively.

Too much grinding, WG has the majority of the player base pegged....too impatient to do grinds, eager to collect pixels, but buy buy containers.....it's textbook tapping into human frailty, and we all willingly walk into the slaughterhouse. Oh to be young and inexperienced.

Logic and WG cannot be associated with each other unless you're implying opposites, haha. They must be bored because much of what they're doing these days doesn't make sense at all unless they're deliberately trying to sabotage their own game.

Their explanations and justifications for some 'balances' are getting worse with each update. Do they truly think we are this stupid? Don't answer that, I think we probably know the answer already.

Duca Degli is a really rotten deal. This isn't a summer sale folks, it's a summer grab, lol.

Can barely bring myself to play it anymore, sad really. Is there truly really that much fun in savage battles? I've given up on WG, they're boring and greedy. Seems they're taking a feather from EA's proverbial cap here.

Sorry, but the summer sale is hardly value for money. Well, maybe the tier 8 at 30% off is, but the tier 6 deal isn't at all imho.

I will never understand why players complain of being uptiered when playing a BB. The only class truly at risk when uptiered, in my most humble opinion of course, are the cruisers. Why is it we always want to be top tier, where does this sad little bullying culture come from?

WG ignore all our pleas to stop the grindfests...one of few reasons I've lost the will to play the game. Its simply one fest after another albeit with different camo and slightly different rewards. Mr. Negative here but there is only so much repetition a person can put up with.

It should not be called 'ranked' - that word only confuses the simple minded and allows them to live with an inaccurate impression of their abilities. The number of times my rank has been compared to theirs as a measure of skill, similar to 'how many kills do you have - none - I have two - learn to play' mentality. WG should literally called it 'Endurance battles' because endurance is by far the biggest factor at play in achieving Level 1 (I won't call it Rank 1) - skill matters of course, but it's not the determinate factor in achieving Level 1, it only helps get there faster perhaps.

WG could perhaps be a little more dynamic and alter credit / xp incomes across the tiers periodically to encourage play across the different tiers, for example during different events to promote use of targeted tiers. Who knows if it'll work, but can only make things more interesting and easily undone if it fails.

That feeling when a 48% win rate player scores better than you in a game and then presumes he's a pro. That feeling trying to explain to him that the whole team going to one cap and sitting there is a bad idea and someone needs to spot the flank. That feeling when the whole team dies on the cap despite you spotting half the enemy team flanking them and you've not fired your gun yet. That feeling when he sends you a pm after the game to tell you to learn to play and offers tactical advice. That feeling when you know you can't push him off a cliff because it's illegal but you know it would make the world a better place if you did. Those feelings kill me man! He got abuse from me, yes sir. He sure did.

Lool, you forgot to pay me of course.

The real problem is the game presents a perfect recipe for toxicity: Random team mates Varied levels of skill or ability Different age groups with varying levels of maturity Variety of first languages Variety of cultural values Variety of different game-related values - some are competitive, some are not) A win-centric game formula Certain game mechanics that favour certain classes RNG Other real life variables like 'I had a bad day today so my threshold and patience levels are poor' and importantly...a chat function allowing everyone to immediately vent their frustration without first cooling down and thinking about it. 10 minutes thinking about something else can be a miracle cure for frustration. Sometimes the perfect storm presents, or after numerous games a threshold is reached and people with less self-control will respond accordingly using a variety of responses. It's perfectly normal to feel frustrated, angry, let down by someone, irritated, etc. It's even normal to say something when you feel these things, but as responsible people we really should be doing it using child friendly language in a game and also recognising when trying to communicate with an ignorant person is a lost cause and that the problem is not yours - you cannot make these one-legged halfwit horses drink, even when you introduce them to the trough. I really do need to take my own advice.

That's because I don't play that much anymore bushy ol boy (or is it old boy bushy / old bushy boy / boy you're old bushy - ah well, you get the point)