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I was in a game over a year ago where in a BB I ate some accidental friendly torps (I had changed direction to head towards an enemy DD) - there were DDs nearby and I was expecting to get hit by enemy torps so and there were enemy CAs around as wll I did not damage control and flooded dor a decent amount. Later in the game the player tried to sail between myself and an enemy target that I had been firing on for a while so I would shoot them (on the replay you could see that they had changed direction that made no sense). After that they fired torps at me where the remaining enemy ships were spotted and in the opposite direction - I was lucky enough to have spotted those and managed to doge them. Later on their clan division mate contacted me and apologized for their behaviour in-game. I'd post the replay but I tried that before and got a warning (which was converted into a friendly reminder) for it (naming and shaming). But WoWS is a lot friendlier game than WoT was (I quit playing four or five years ago due to the team damage/team killing that seemed to be at a level that ruiing ny enjoyment from it).

I had an instance this morning in a co-op game where I was approaching the cap in my Kamikaze and an Emile was outside of me with the enemy within my torp range. The next thing I hear is a torpedo warning sound and yes they've launched a salvo and I am in the way. I turned to avoid them and grounded on a nearby island. While I was moving away an enemy DD came around one side of the island and a cruiser the other side of the island. Game over for me. Next time I'm just going to eat the torps..... Never fire torps from the second line and also not fire backwards towards your team unless your torps are short range (4-5km) and the nearest friendly is double that away.

That is quite sad to read - but I agree that it makes sense. Yes. Well, if the top player on the losing team did not retain the star then maybe this behaviour would not be encouraged.

Yes, it is a little messed up. The only on-line game I've played where the names of players who have been banned for cheating was Blizzard and Diablo 3 several yeas ago. My guess it's all wrapped up with 'naming and shaming'. It seems that now-a-days it's about protecting the rights of everyone - offenders and innocent parties. Personally, I'd like deliberate team killers 'named and shamed' and even have a video of the deed published - although I'm sure some would do it on purpose 'for the publicity'. An example of this is the clips published by Claus Kellerman: I think it's just another placebo - if we don't know that anything has happened it's just down to 'do you believe what they say'.

There are very few valid reasons for going AFK - maybe a fire, police raid or something else urgent (but if you started a battle in the last 15 minutes or less it can hardly be that urgent).

I managed to 5 star it a while ago with a random team. All the planets must have been in alignment though as players do all sorts of weird things usually.

I see this behaviour by many BBs in randoms as well. I've even seen BBs hide behind islands (firing to the middle or other flank while not giving any support to the DDs that are in front of them) oblivious to the enemy ships that are approaching. I usually tel them if they are not willing to support the DD on their flank I'l leave the flank (this is usually ignored and the BBs is flanked and taken out of the game). Some players just don't know the role that the ship they are playing should be carrying out. I agree that if they have to include rentals then they should be limited to the rank they can achieve. I've not taken part in many ranked seasons. Early on it was simply that I had not unlocked the ships that could be used - I did not feel excluded it just made me realize that I had to level some ships. Allowing players access to tiers before they are ready to handle those tiers is just asking for problems. Even if players have unlocked ships at tier X they should be limited to ships of the type (BB, CA or DD) that they have unlocked.

Yes I just saw the personal mission and came here to see if anyone else had as well.

It's still not happening.

See through or into smoke - there is a difference. I see players in-game that pop smoke but don't extend the smoke screen size and then sit broadside to the 'last known enemy position'. If you fire inside smoke other players can see the approximate place you fired from - so if you don't move around inside your smoke then you are an easier target. Some torps are easier to spot than others - the target may not be the only enemy player in the area to spot the torps (at least now CV planes don't easily(?) spot torps). Post a replay of a game where you think either 1 or 2 has happened and don't mention cheats as the replay will be removed as 'naming and shaming'.

USEMUMMYSCARD There were some working codes published in the last few weeks.

This happens on any forum that I know of. Why have a page of topics on the same subject when you can have just one where all the discussion takes place (even if that thread could be all over the place and hard to follow). Discussion on a topic is not being shut down. On forums some members seem to think that they need a new thread just for their take on a topic. These also get show down and merged into other threads. Why do you think threads on CVs would be any different. A lot of forums will not allow discussion of moderator actions so your thread on some forums would lead to you getting a warning or a ban of some sort.

Don't forget the other aspect of brawling is that some BBs have torps which can be fired at around 6km (much like many cruisers) - these can be a big surprise for an unsuspecting player. The recently introduced Russian BBs are supposed to have improved dispersion from under 15km.

While the Colorado is a decent enough ship it's so slow compared to similar tiered ships - and yes I do realize that is common to USA BBs to that tier. I've been bottom tier in the Colorado and been spawned on a flank by mysef and the ship is to slow to even get to the middle of the map before being spotted (even when not sailing towards the enemy to swap flanks). For me the the line improves a lot with the North Carolina. I have had the Alabama in my dock for quite a while and have used her to train up my BB captain. I did get the Massachusetts in a container recently and while I know it needs a specialist captain I've kept the NC captain on her (he is only a level 16 captain at the moment).

It's not just the port UO it's also the missions. There is a significant delay between selecting the Combat MIssions, seeing the screen and then being shown the current Combat Missions.

I have 25 of the 36 items with 17 duplicates in the Azure Lane collection.

Most team games will be unbalanced but why add yet another element that could add to the imbalance? Yes I've been playing the current season - the first that I've had more than one or two battles in. I'm not keen on the rental ships being available as there is a good chance that those players don't have experience of the ships and certainly can't mount camoflage and who knows what else is not mounted. When I play CB our clan actively discourages the use of rentals for the same reasons.

I don't think having divisions in ranked is a good idea as it could give an advantage to that side and advantage in that some players would play as a team. If you want to play with your mates there are enough other games modes where you can do so - even scenarios that are not the 'special of the week' (it's a shame that there are not more scenarios available at the moment and there should be new ones released each patch).

I just did that and am 3K dubloons the better for it.

Yes, the Dunkirk containers are or were recently available from missions and I'm fairly sure were not part of the possible 3 per day. There was a Bismark/Tirpitz mission a week or so ago and I think the containers were available there. I've completed both of these so I was getting 15k credits for the emblems that dropped.

No, as Erinnyes2000 has posted you can decide which one you want to collect - but only one at a time which is what I meant by 'active' (the other one is not active).

There are two collections that are 'current'. The Azur Lane one has been going on for a while but the 'In The Service of the Motherland' for a slightly less time. I think you need to get one of the crates to unlock the Motherland collections(but that was a short while ago and I've forgotten). This link may help : https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/game-updates/in-the-service-of-the-motherland/ You can only have one collection active at any one time.

Never noticed that before and I was wondering where the server numbers had gone to....... Thanks

if it was just a server issue I'd guess that there would be more threads on this topic - just see what happens here when there is such a problem.

I've bought him and it's just a matter of training him up. I've got one of the brothers on my BB line but the other lines (DD and CA) only have standard captains.