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My bitchiness can be seen in the post below..apologies.

Lol, which is not that much shorter than it's main armament range it has to be mentioned.

Do I want it? Yes, will it be a contender to fight the Bismarck? Don't think so. If it's anything like the brit cruisers it'll blow up on first sight of a Bismarck, which is not far off from the truth. Being a battle cruiser it was lightly armoured and fast, meaning it won't take much to kill her. Be good to see how WG will solve this one.

'German bb is too weak' complaint? Now I've heard it all.

@OP: To quote the cliche', 'it's better to be pissed off than to be pissed on'. Apologies if this sounds crude.

Imagination time! We play and all we ever see are animated ships moving about with some purpose (some do anyway), but since there are real people behind these ships I found myself wondering what they would look like. Hard, but I eventually decided that it would be much easier to stereotype the different ship classes, so this is my impression of the types of people that play different classes: BB Player Cruiser player DD player You choose your own, but this is how I view them, haha. The challenge is on.

It's not ruining anyones idea, it's simply giving their opinions. We can agree or disagree, or be totally indefferent. I don't like the idea personally, but that doesn't mean I think your suggestion is stupid. You've highlighted a suggestion, and people are debating it.

So they make the enhanced version look a lot older and rustier and I still have to pay the same price? No ways man!

It happens a lot of the time ilhilh, more than I reckon you think it does. It's a tool to express satisifaction and dissatisfaction toward people and it gets used. It's one of those grey areas no-one really knows the truth of except by experience. Is it the only reason good players have bad karma? No ways, I don't see it this way at all, that's too convenient an excuse and a little egotistical of anyone saying so, but is it abused? Yes, definitely, and not rarely, but I bet massively. The only thing I can't prove is numbers, but nor could you in this case. Anyone saying it's rare deserves to get their ognovoi blown up by a leander! Nevertheless, the karma idea from the OP is a bad idea imho.

Obsessed with a lot of things that don't really matter....is this how we all measure ourselves these days to give our lives some sort of value or distinction? Isn't it sad we need to have some sort of virtual recognition to feel better about being accepted......now I need to go find a mirror.

Fact, I killed two ships in a game last night, had 5 karma points going in, was very polite and friendly, only good sportsmanship, had 3 when I came out. It is a reality that people get reported for playing well by sore losers. In fact, they told me they reported me. If you seriously think otherwise you are delusional to the point to need a doctor. This happens ALL THE TIME! Secondly, OP needs to grow up, he handles criticism like a childish teenager.

A little dramatic don't you think? Take criticism constructively.

Ah yes, I remember, you had parked in a sneaky spot. I had just stopped, popped smoke and was zooming in on you for a salvo (I had already fired one and missed) and when I fired a second time you blew up. Wasn't sure how at the time. The team I was on had issues. There were soiled nappies and babies crying,and some had an emptiness to them even SETI would be disappointed with. I was faced with certain destruction so ended up focussing on a Leningrad completely ignoring the BB's (2?) looking at me.

Haha, me and my big mouth. I took my Leander out for a sail, got cocky by sailing too close to a warspite and cleveland (like a noob) and 'pooped' my smoke forgetting how long it takes to slow down. I ended up sailing right out of my smoke in full view of the Warspite and Cleveland, who, judging by their lightning response to seeing me, were obviously very hungry for some Leander meat. They each got a tasty bite and I disintergrated back to port in shame. The damn handbrake on the brit cruiser needs work. I was shouting 'STOP STOP STOP', and then it rained HE and AP from the heavens. Boom! Edit: Oh, and when I sailed out my smoke I sailed into an island and the reverse on the Leander is even slower than the stopping. Doh!

The flaw in your theory is that you have only considered one side of the equation. There might be one other player thats as good or better in your team, with the rest being potatoes, and of course the fact that the mm doesn't do any team balancing where skill is more or less even across the teams meaning the team that actually plays better and as a team will win the game, as it should. The argument of being able to 'carry' + 'influence' is used far too loosely by people that have grabbed hold of a concept and run with it without considering actual ingame scenarios and conditons, or much else for that matter.

Naming and shaming is against the rules, and on that note It's relatively minor. I've said far worse shamedly. If anyone deserves a chat ban it's me. Working on it though, I get fiercely competitive and expect a lot from fellow gamers on my team, I even expect them to play better than me so I can be carried!

Lool +1

Yep, you nailed it here...spot on!

Haha, true.

Funny as hell, but enjoyed watching it!

I couldn't think of anything for carriers, maybe someone else can

Yes, but the smoke plume for the RN line is very small making it easier to guess where he might be. Not so with the dd smoke plume, especially the benson whose plume is much larger.

They should give bb's shorter range to force them into brawling more, and give cruisers longer ranges and the perk of detecting heavy artillary fire by default to enhance their survivability. Further to this the difference between US and IJN carriers is so severe I have to wonder how they expect these items to be on the same tier. No capping of bb and dd numbers in battle has further made ranked terriblly boring, but so too the lack of any for of skill balancing across the teams. I find myself in the same teams (a lot of the time) over and over again (same names and faces), so if by some chance I log in and get a fail team, i.e. just a bad mix of some useless players who usually get carried through their games, I always seem to be stuck with them for the day, forcing me to wait a few hours with the hope they [edited]off. When I want to play, I want to play, not have to wait for a while before hoping to get a better team. A person can only carry so far and should never be expected to carry the rest of the team in the first place, not so often anyway. The whole ranked idea needs rethinking. So many sub-standard players have made it to rank 1 already, with a lot of better players stuck in places unable to progress. It gets frustrating when you play your best and do well only to be dragged down by fellow yolo-artists who are afk, can't even use camo at rank 5, can't understand why they are there in the first place, criticise others despite being last on the team, play bb's and then spend the game reversing. A tirpitz last night hid behind the island BEHIND our spawn for an entire game and only came out when we were all dead. Why is it fair we have these players on our teams?

But Bush, you ARE a hacker. It's been proven countless times already. If someone says so it must be so, not so?

Too many dd's. too many bb's. It's either on or the other in every game, or both. Kudo's to those brave souls playing cruisers.