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Lol, is there a certain bias driving more people to vote for the first one they look at, i.e. the first one sets a striking benchmark after which we all spend our time comparing each of the others to this one. I called rigged, haha.

Problem is, WG are as efficient as always with their communication by keeping us all in the dark about when the next free xp ship will be available. I have saved a lot of free xp for 'whatever', which is now sitting doing nothing. I presume there are a fair few others like me too. Why they have to be so damned secretive about this type of really superficial information which only serves to keep players informed (and which allows them to plan ahead) is a mystery. After a while their 'silence' about these things goes from benign to highly irritating which in my books only does them harm rather than encouraging any eager anticipation and love. It seems our overlords are not as 'qualified' for the task as they let on. Does WG know what the ultimate economic result is when players 'resent' the developers more than they appreciate them? Food for thought!

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@OP: On another note you could always show a little resilience, check this out:

The recommended improvisation, adaptation and overcoming strategy here will be to 'not play brit dd's', haha.

The irony is that, in this game, dd play is largely solo. Sure, there is smoking up your allies, spotting for them and screening for torps, but none of these get you any reasonable credit and xp gains and you also want to be able to blow stuff up like the other classes can. To tell a dd he needs to stay with his teams AA just to survive from the threat of a single class in the game is ludicrous, if this is what WG expect to be a reasonable answer in the first place. DD's in WoWs are meant to have stealth as a strength, torps as primary armament with variable ranges. Having to stick with your team negates all these things unless the argument is 'well, hang around until the late game', but then who wants to do that? Why would anyone want to play a brit dd after this? I fear WG's holistic review of cv gameplay and their redesign is not as holistic as they would like, I think they've missed a few vital factors which are game changing. They might try mitigate the effects of their dubious rework, but changes made in retrospect as afterthoughts might not be good enough to save the negative impacts on some classes? Not really excited by all of this to be honest, no matter how they try to sell it.

How does a brit dd deal with this with a super short smoke duration? Brit DD's cannot sit in smoke to hide from planes at all, lol.

In almost every game I've been in where I've seen a dd division (and no other solo dd's on our team) I have asked them to split up. Most have not, and played for themselves. I've extremely seldom experienced great players doing this. Most have been a couple of guys / gals wanting to have fun.....and all the while ruining the fun of others. There is no point asking WG to separate their spawn points because one will just go to the other, the problem comes in them being allowed to division up as dd's. The format can be effective if the players have brains, but sadly not a lot do. This be the case, I haven't see it that often, so not sure whether a cap is needed at this point. Just report them if it makes you feel better.

'gg' is often meant to be sportmanlike, but in a game where the enemy is crushed the winning team should simply type in 'bg'. ('gg' can easily be taken as rubbing salt in the wounds). There is a time and place for everything, saying 'gg' after a one-sided game is not really ethical - it often will be taken the wrong way. It's what is considered inappropriate for the given situation if offered in global chat by the winning team. BUT, if someone on the losing team offers 'gg' it's acceptable and very sportsmanlike of the loser to say so. Sporting ettiquette.

Game may also not lose a lot of players

Why are they here? I use them all on one or two lucky souls who somehow manage to kill me - not because I made a mistake, or they outplayed or are better than me, but because they obviously cheated. In fact, I'm starting a campaign following some serious tried and tested research and because I now have hard evidence it really works:- the report-a-unicum-or-Stalingrad_player campaign: Use your reports to report only unicums or anyone playing a Stalingrad (notice how I never used a capital letter at the beginning of the word 'unicum' - this indicates their lesser importance in real life). But why do this? Well my friends, the answer is simple. Because these people can't help themselves by gloating how good they are in chat constantly after they kill you, with enough reports these lovely people will get chatbans, etc, so we are helping them learn humility, and because as long as we don't ourselves have Stalingrads, anyone who owns one is an exploiter of an OP ship. Blessings upon you all!

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Very interesting indeed, but are the sample sizes for each the same or at least sifficient to warrant this side by side comparison? I can't seem to find this info on the site. Help an old fool out here.

@Hedgehog1963on the opposite team with both of us trying our luck at ranked battles. Only noticed after the game and sorry I didn't get to say hi at the start of the game. You had the bad luck that round Hedgehog, hope the rest of your games go well for you. My run of bad luck lasted ages last night in randoms.

poll is selectively biased.

Confessions of a rage-aholic - I can't help myself sometimes. I see two guys sailing along the borderline far from caps and I cannot understand why anyone would want to play a team-based game and then windowlick their way around the map completely ignoring the battle, then when they are the last two alive they tell others how they carried the game, even though they came in last. I have to try tell these people off in some way - it's who I am. The first thing people throw in our faces is they are only trying to have fun, but what of my fun, or the fun of the other 9 players alongside me trying to win? Why is the fun of 10 others expendable and the fun of these two apes so precious? Why does having fun have to be seen as separate from trying to win? It's not, but its the first excuse brainless boobs use. A game like this highlights just how stupid many of our fellow humans are, there truly is no going back once you hear the pathetic excuses offered by some, the denial, the projection, misremembering, the delusions of grandeur and explanations offered by those suffering from the dunning-kruger effect. I should know better, but I sometimes make poor choices in arguing with these oxygen-thieves and my words sometimes reflect gross intolerance. So perhaps we need to rethink the definition of toxicity - because much of it is reactive. Do we presume that all those people raging are doing so for no good reason, when in actual fact it may have been precipitated by terribly stupid people who are also grossly inconsiderate, and whom may have commited the original sin by assuming their ignorance has no affect on others? You cannot wonder into a team, play grossly incompetently for so long (aka, not newbies anymore) and expect people to keep tolerating the fact you're a weight around their ankles? PS: Probably is ultimately just all because the game is so wincentric and good gameplay is poorly rewarded on the losing team, so people get angry after trying hard and failing not because of their mistakes at times, but because others apparently can't be bothered to try. We all have varying levels of tolerance and thresholds.

On another note, I know absolutely NOTHING about any armour values, I only play the ships for ships and am quite happily ignorant of any technical details. I am, however, grateful to the OP for sharing this easy-to-understand info that my Yamato can be citadelled from the rear. I'm not really a rear-end kind of guy, but every now and then I like to turn tail and run, so good to know.

I agree, but it is also through feedback in this regard that perhaps a dialogue can be started or a seed can be planted which will prompt for a change of some kind. I enjoy the game, but this season it felt well and truly flat. The streams were great on twitch, but that's watching the game, not playing it. They needed to do something a little more for the actually gameplay. There are only so many streams you can watch and most people watch the streams for the giveaway. Pity.

Anyone believing or disbelieving such rumours with certainty are equally ignorant. We simply have no idea how Wargaming does it. They could easily manipulate the backend of things to allow for a finite number of drops, they could easily manipulate the drop rate without us really knowing, they could simply also be doing nothing. What sways each of us to decide one way or the other is how much trust we have of WG overall, and perhaps also drawing from our other experiences with people in life, biases of sorts. From jobs I've done, places I've been and things I have seen, I've witnessed some of the darkest things people are capable of. I see lying, manipulative people and politicians in the media all the time and ithe media themselves manipulate stories, use divisive words and phrases to create sensation. So in all this I tend to have a rather dim, untrusting view of people, I tend to question everyones motives. Wargaming is a business, they can't give stuff away for free, they need to sell stuff. It's a well known thing for many businesses to create market hype about things to draw in the customers, and one way WG could do it is by increasing drop rates (it's just numbers in the background) initially, triggering interest and greed, and thereafter our human nature takes over and we fall prey to all sorts of human failings. It works for Wargaming. You have to decide whether you trust them overall or not. For me, the fact businesses need to drive profits most often overides ethical behaviour, and its only if theyre caught that they admit such 'mistakes'. This particular part of the globalised gaming industry is incredibly poorly regulated, they could get away with proverbial murder and we'd be none the wiser. I personally think they tweak it based on my own views above, why wouldn;t they?

You know what WG, I'm not being ungrateful here because none of this you are giving us is truly free - it's a two way relationship, you give me stuff to aim for, I keep playing and at times spend some money for you. To be perfectly honest, this whole set up from 26th Dec onwards is just bloody boring. You didn't plan this properly at all did you? The ranked sprint was over for me within 2 days, the directives are spaced far too wide apart because I can finish these fairly quickly in a few hours, the new years 'get one free new years streamer camo' 4 x is so unworthy it cost you more just writing up that section. How many times can you be told that a single consumable camo is not a reward, it's a joke! But you don't listen. I'm left here on the 30th Dec with some game time with absolutely nothing to do in the game, I haven't even gamed that much this holiday and yet still finished everything so quickly. You have to learn to polish the way you do things, these are half-baked ideas that no-ones really tested in terms of the time it takes. You're not adding any useful medium to long term goals, and while some would argue the LU's are such, most I'd never fit to a ship so they're rather 'un' legendary. I want to play WoWs but for what purpose now, there is nothing to do in the game inbetween all these stupid long waits you give us and tiny token missions that are worthless. You've actually 'forced' me to load up a few games on origin and steam. It's terrible logging into WOWs and thinking: 'right, where am I, what can I achieve today' only to be faced with a big fat nothing. This isn't a once off either, your mid to long term endgame stinks, your info on free xp and other ships are vague and you have no real concrete long term news for us. I hate to say it, but you are truly losing me. If only you'd make things like screnarios repeatable in some way in terms of rewards, otherwise you play them once and you're done. PS: And no, the dreadnought mission was unachievable for me because for a short while my game time was really limited due to work and uni pressures. This isn't your fault, but it does show many of your missons are non-inclusive. At the moment I'm considering a divorce

First world problems. Have we got to the point in society where we can't even do simpw things without getting the approval of others? Lol, play anything your heart fancies mate, it really doesn't matter, but congrats on the 5k games.

Finally decided I'm massively happy about the rework. If it stops the 1300 overall games 41% win rate idiot I just saw in his Midway from ruining peoples games then I'm all for it. He took his midway into the centre point on one of the most fail game modes of the game, epicentre, and sat there. The enemy cv just ruled the whole game, no matter what anybody tried. People like this windowlicking knuckledragger have to be stopped. They want to have fun, this is fine with me, but their fun is screwing up the fun of 11 other people. WG's failed report function is simply not good enough to deal with people like this and their ticket system does nothing. People with low ability or ambition in the game should be stopped long before they get to tier 8, let alone tier 10. Edit: I visited his clan page to ask his commander if this guy was a bot, but the entire clan looks like it's trying to contend for the 'most worst skilled players in one clan in WoWs' award on a global scale.

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I made the mistake of letting win chances get to me in wot, depressed me a lot before my tank even moved. Now in wows I only play vanilla, and although I can tell a fail team fairly early on, I start each game with more hope. Vanilla is king (and queen, and whatever lies in between, I think it’s @bushwacker001) hehe

I'm only around 8500 steel off of getting mine, could have had it a long time ago if I had the time for clan wars, so I hope WG don't remove it before I have a chance to get it. On that note, saw the first windowlicker in one tonight, skilless bob divisioned with two similar halfwit windowlickers. In my hipper, spotted from a gazillion miles away this windowlicker took a shot at my stern from very ver very far away and managed to remove the last third of my hp with one stray shell. I was so excited by the prospect of being killed by a neanderthal with a Stalingrad that I told him as much. Could have been rng, could have been the ship. I'll only know for sure when I eventually play it myself, but the numerous vids I've watched certainly make it look a little too strong for fair play.