Shaka_D

If he won you over with his tone then good for you, but it doesn't say much for you either now does it? And I suggest you look at what the word tact actually implies rather than simply adding your own rather weak analogy of what you think it means. Sorry, but your statements lack credibility and smell of fanboysim. Stand on your own two feet.

On the contrary, your posts were incredibly patronising, and very very blatantly arrogant. It's hard to believe they were intended for anything other than with that intention in mind.

Kron is better than the Alaska, no argument from me there. Not even a close one imho.

You know 'my friend', adopting an incredibly patronising tone as you have does little to win you friends or followers. It only makes you appear arrogant, which undermines everything else you say after that. I suggest you expand your own vocabulary by looking up the word 'tact', or should I similarly copy / paste a whole lot of tosh to make myself look clever too?

I had 2 million free xp I was doing nothing with except waiting for this piece of rubbish ship. Had I know what it would play like I'd not have spent 250 000 xp on it.

I think anyone spending money on the Alaska in its current state needs a psychologist, and fast. It's a waste of time. Disappointing firepower, disappointing to see it burn so often, overall a weak ship. A tier 8 cruiser played by a mediocre player can murder the Alaska. I watched an average player in a new orleans utterly wipe out an alaska played by another average player.

Have you explained why you dont agree or does your socket puppet mandate not stretch that far?

No, the earnings appear extremely meagre and not only that, it's a very very disappointing ship to play. They've screwed it up, it is weak, it;s guns are incredibly mediocre and after waiting so long I feel let down. I'm not wanting overpowered, but it feels grossly underpowered to me and it burns ALL THE TIME. I was being set on fire twice with every salvo from some ships, over and over and over again. Well done WG.

What are we getting so much of the same over and over? How many Kageros and Clevelands can we tolerate? It's getting boring even reading stuff like this (no offence to anyone here of course - love you all) - its boring the content they keep 'testing' is so unvaried.

Tier 5? Don't play much tier 5 at all these days. In fact, not for a while. Is there any appeal?

On micro 1v1 level I can see your point, especially going cruiser to cruiser which even to me is not a threat at all since radar doesn't affect your zao as much. But your example here is perhaps rather inappropriate when looking at it from the team angle, especially in ranked. From the dd point of view and from the meta angle when looking at whole team setups it's a real game changer, especialyl when one team has three radar ships and the other none at all, and in a ranked game. The odds in a game like this are heavily stacked in favour of the one team from a technical point of view and this is my argument, Ones team dd's have stealth approaches whereas the other teams dd's are threatened from exposure all the way through. It's also not just a case of 'well just adapt your playstyle' because that argument is short-sighted, ignorant and convenient in the absence of intelligent alternatives. And your point of 'according to WG ships are balanced', I think evidence pretty often reveals the contrary because that all depends on their understanding of 'balanced', which can be very far from fair as we have seen many times.

This is particularly about a level playing field. How can WG expect anyone to feel like they have an even chance of winning when there are (seemingly) quite often some blatant imbalances in the way teams are set up. People are playing for stars in ranked matches. It may take 5 games to win a single star and 5 games to lose 5 stars, and not always because of bad gameplay on your part but because of factors beyond your control. Making it worse by blatant technical mismatches like radar line-ups is a real over-sight on WG's part. We're already contending with so much else we cannot control, like team mates, rng, etc. It's things like this that make ranked matches more of a grindfest and less about skill, yet they ironically call them ranked matches.

I think even you could understand the simple yet overwhelming technical advantage given to a team who has radar where the opposite team has none. No MM should ever allow that obvious imbalance in a competitive mode, ever, not on a technical level.

Just played a fun game in ranked where the enemy had three radar ships and we had none. Game over in 3 minutes. What a joke WG, absolute joke.

Not sure how I feel about the game at the moment, I think I'm leaning toward not enjoying it at all, it's become really boring with no challenges, same ol boring as hell little mission sets for lacklustre earnings, same ol BS ranked with terrible team setups, the disappearance of free xp ships with free xp building up for nothing, them releasing overpriced premium ships, the screw up with the cv's, and lack of ships to research in the tech trees.... Game has gone downhill fast and for a long time now has become nothing but a grindfest toward nothing but groundhog style missions. Time to take a long break. Does anyone feel the same? I just cannot find incentive enough to keep me interested.

They'll hopefully give us a choice of acquiring it a number of ways. Those sillies that want to splash so much cash are welcome to. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

People dying everywhere, starving children, desolate families, homelessness, disease, pain and suffering; and lying, cheating, stealing politicians and we're worried about what ship WG sells in their premium store which we have full right to ignore if we want? Is this what we'd call a first world problem?

Did the change not affect all dd's? Because you're stating the new cv's corrected the balance against the overpowered dd's - so what would the new cv's have done to 'standard' dd's then? Left them alone or would the standard dd's have become even more weak? The new cv's affected all dd gameplay in blanket fashion, hardly selectively at all.

Surrender is for the weak, fight until you can't fight anymore and if you're dead and spectating go to port and choose another ship to play in the meantime. Problem solved. The world might be going stupidly politically correct, but here is WoWs we aint scared of nofink and won't accept anything halfway. It's do or die.

Well at least they'll make the console players happy.

I agree, patents can exist soley to 'own' an idea, design, and so forth and do not necessarily mean they're implemented. Secondly, it's human nature to look for blame where there is sometimes none, it's cognitive dissonance. The truth of all this is that no-one knows for certain how WG have designed their MM apart from what they've told us. Without any evidence it's all heresay and speculation. That, however, does not mean people should hang on every word of WG or anyone here or elsewhere claiming the contrary.

The mm is not truly random in so far as it already manipulates ship classes, tiers etc. It does nothing for players, although a long while ago someone found a patent WG submitted for their MM relating to players who lose too many games get downtiered in battles so they become top tier....etc (or something hereabouts) but I do not think this was ever verified nor proven to exist within the game (i.e. not sure whether actually implemented), although the patent seemed genuine enough. Could I support the theory WG would apply gentle backend manipulations of this sort? Of course I could, it's business and the business world is cuthroat and certainly not nearly as ethical as it should be. WG are not in the game for altruism, they want money and anything that gets them money and which is not illegal, they'll certainly do.

I have to ask the same question..........beggars belief doesn't it?

'While this is an important thing to do, we would like to indicate that most players seem to underestimate the power of manual AA activation ([P] by default). Due to great destroyer concealment, if often makes sense to turn AA off until spotted. A destroyer spotted at minimal range is a lot harder to hit with the first attack run even with rockets. Although, this trick does not remove the need for further balancing' Really WG? You are trying to tell us 'most players underestimate the power of manual AA activation'???? What a load of tosh and what a pathetic attempt to try explain away the massive indirect nerf to destroyer gameplay with numerous cv's in the game. This sounds more like a Barnum statement than anything derived form actual fact....I am so disappointed you cannot just admit you have screwed up all by yourself without having to first throw in a blanket generalisation aimed at players. So between your ill-advised RPF introduction and now cv's all over the place you've effectively dismantled strategic dd gameplay. Tut tut, it shows a lack of responsibility. To be honest, I'm just petering around in ranked with no cv's and it's lovely, despite the windowlicker stress. Not looking forward to random gameplay - is this how you want me to feel about the game? Do you know what player feedback is? I mean, genuine player feedback...not in-house, non-objective feedback from carefully selected people and community contributors? Time for a poll of polls me thinks

I'm sure this 'adjustment' is to make way for another OP premium in the same tier..WG have to keep it interesting.