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What modules (upgrades) are players putting on this ship?

Thanks for that - I was sure that during the closed beta that damage to pink ships had no cost.... But I'll not shoot them again.

I've not played WoWS regualrly for a while and I was under the impression that if a 'team mate' is pink there is no fine for damaging them. I just had one game where I did get fined....

I did not buy the Warspite when the game went into open beta but did buy it when it became available the second time, As others have said it's a matter of having the money available when it's made available again.

If I see a player has done well I will send them a message after the battle complimenting them. Sometimes I get a response and others not.

My understanding is that at present there is no 'spotting damage' within the game (yes I used to play WoT). Does anyone know if there are plans to introduce this game mechanic? It would change the gameplay of destroyers. I mainly play IJN DDs and try to both 'light up' enemy ships and fire off torpedoes from outside the spotting range. I presume any spotting by planes would also benefit the CVs.

Maybe your evasive moves are predictable? The aim assist mod when it was around only predicted the path of the target - it was up to the user of that mod to fire at the predicted spot. The mod would not have been able to predict the enemy players evasive moves. When you fire at an enemy ship don't fire all guns at once and it the player is doing evasive maneouvers then try and spread your shots around. Distance plays a bif part also - as the further away a ship is the longer the time the shell is travelling which means they have more time to change direction. Don't forget that also there is a skill that warns the player that there are incoming shells. If players are having trouble hitting enemy ships it may be something as simple as server lag. I remember in WoT there have been some examples of this happening. Or it could be the player needs more experience in tracking targets.

I'm sure the WoWS economy model is the same as the WoT one - in order to run ships at higher tiers you either need to be very good (do lots of damage) or either run a lower tier 'cash generator'.

Part of the problem with that is many BBs stay at the back of the map or sail very slowly ((not full speed) around the edge of the map. If a cruiser stays to protect these players then they are taking themselves out of the battle (and more often than not the BB is also out of the game until the enemy ships flank and get into the 'rear' of your team).. Cruisers have a dual role AAA cover and DD hunter (with help from friendly DDs to spot them). What command can you use to direct the AAA fire at a specific target? I know there is one but I can't find it in the settings or help menu.

I think part of the solution is keeping an eye on the mini-map to see where the enemy planes are. If you see them heading in your general direction start to change direction immediately maybe heading into the direction they are coming from. This will at least make the CV player adjust the flight paths of the planes. The other thing you can try to do is to keep close to some cruisers (if they've not all rushed off) as they can help with some AAA cover to cut down the number of planes that can attack you. I'm sure CV players just love to see the BBs sitting at the back of the map on their own so they are easier to attack as they don't have AAA cover. You can try to ask a cruiser to cover you at the start of the battle but I'm sure hat more often than not that is just a waste of tine doing so, You could try and find someone to division with and take turns playing different types of ships. Having planes drop torpedoes between an island and your ship seems to me like slightly broken game mechanics - but it does happen.

And winning the lottery in the same day.....

There was a thread here the other day where one player had TKd over 130 players and finally had a one day ban. So, don;t hold your breath for these 'challenged individuals' to be punished. Maybe at some stage the team damage mechanism may be tightened a bit more like WoT.

I install all games away from the windows program files folders.

I've just started the game using the launcher and this time it worked OK. So, this doesn't seem to be an ongoing problem for me at least. Although if it turns out to be intermittent that's another matter.

Thanks +1 Hope you can keep the document up-to-date.

Dell Inspiron 7720 Intel Core i7-3630QM (up to 3.40 GHz, 6M cache) 8192MB (2x4096) 1600MHz DDR3 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 130W When I ran the launcher for the first time I got an error message about the launcher already running (I'm fairly sure it wasn't running - sometimes this laptop is a bit slow though - I miss my desktop (the joys of working abroad)).

I've just installed Windows 10 and am getting the same message when I try to run the game from the launcher. Edited: I was able to start the game by running the game exe from the program files folder and by-passing the launcher.

Don't forget that DDs get no XP or credits for 'spotting damage' either. When I play a IJN DD I try to keep out of range, fire my torpedoes but also keep enemy ships 'light up' for as long as possible so my team mates can damage them. While this may help the team it does not help me with the XP grind. I know the game is in beta but players are not encouraged to play the role that their ship type is supposed to carry out.

A premium ship can only be bought with gold / doubloons in-game or on-line using some payment method for real money. The only thing you can do with non-premium ships is to make them elite - that is unlock all the modules and the ships that you can unlock from that ship in the tech tree. Unlike WoT there is no real advantage to this as you can't put all the XP they earn into crew (or in WoWSs case Captain) training. They just continue to gain 'Ship XP' which when they are elite (or premium) you can convert that to free XP using doubloons.

I've had on several occasions where the guns don't fire for a short while when I press the mouse button but never anything like what the OP has posted.

I don't think there is a button or menu to select to do this directly. Select any ship - it does not need to have a captain assigned or not. If you have a captain click on their name and you should see a menu pop up that has reserve and other ship details;

Well, I put my cruiser captain which I share between my Atlanta (premium) and the cruiser I'm currently grinding (at the moment the Phoenix).so I have a decent enough captain there. The skill Advanced Firing Training (tier 4) gives 20% increase range. However, 20% onto 6.3km is 7.56km which is still not very good.

There are keys left still!

The poor range and slow speed means that the enemy players can keep shooting you outside your own gun range and you can't close the range because they are faster than you ( so if they are smart they can keep outside of your own gun range), But it's free so the worst it can be is a port slot and some credits.

I did buy the Albany during the closed beta and the artillery range (6km) is a big limitation - I wasn't going to buy it if it was on sale. I've had one battle in it and I was being out-ranged by DD guns...... No speed to get away from them either so I doubt that I'll use it often.