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Nothing to be done about it, it's not your fault or WG's but rather your ISP's. You just have to suck it up when that happens, or switch to one that provides a more stable service if possible.

It depends on the tier. High tiers, you could make that argument. t4-7, no way. Not only are there more CVs, but you can get twice as many in a match. That said, I'm still not comfortable taking Spotter instead of Def AA on my Kron. It's a ''better safe than sorry'' situation. I can just picture seeing some AP-bomb Midway seeing the spotter and rubbing his hands in glee. Come to think of it though, in 15 matches I think I only used DFAA once or twice.

It's true that random players don't have the influence of YTers, but we do have a voice on reddit and other communities. There are only so many times WG could drop the banhammer on a trash-talker before it becomes a scandal. And frankly, I don't see why they'd ban an entire account instead of just a chat ban and forum ban. If you close an account, you lose a customer, your playerbase becomes smaller and you have one very angry person railing at you online. Which you have no power to stop beyond your own reach. Which is why I said you really can't stop criticism that way, you only make it worse.

Fochgate was the result of one overzealous mod and as soon as it raised a stink, the higher-ups stepped in because it was really bad PR for WG. Similarly for the ichase thing.That's what you can expect from such situations, what it says in the EULA is quite irrelevant. WG aren't going to use it stop criticism or anything like that because it would just lead to a much larger PR nightmare. The Streizand effect would hit them right in the face, they'd retract everything and that woud be that. In general, censorship doesn't work for quashing dissent unless you control the media, which WG do not.

I know, I was referring to the hydro. It's just that WG keep throwing these consumables in that hurt stealth play but don't affect the mindless Khaba playstyle, and it irks me.

I'm simply done playing t6+ DDs. Practically everything released these days has radar or hydro, including BBs and DDs. It's like they're handing these things out just to make the premium different from the tech tree ship, e.g. Dude of York, Missouri. And that might be fine for Khaba-types who can just speedtank in the open but it makes torpboat play unfreakingbearable. On the bright side, I'm rediscovering low-tier play as a result. That's what you wanted WG, right? It has to be, with so many hard counters to the stealth DD playstyle. The Indianapolis giveaway is my queue to get out with my hair still intact.

Heavy cruisers, depending on the guns, are meant to either stay far in the back and snipe, or shoot mortar shells over islands. Under no circumstances are you supposed to be ''scouting'' in the open when there are enemy DDs that can keep you spotted with impunity, and BBs that can blow you out of the water.

Eh, let's not go overboard here. This is t9, even light cruisers have bow armor you can't overmatch. I only reach for AP when something is broadsiding.

I don't see the appeal of Yamato/Musashi tbh. If you're obsessed with having the biggest, punchiest guns then maybe it's for you but I don't feel like they have much character. Just a huge box with big guns and not really much else going for it in terms of flavor or utility. Not even as tough as you'd think, you have to watch your citadel way more than the Germans do. Kron straddles the line between cruiser and BB nicely. I've looked at some missions for BBs, thought ''I can do that with Kron, oh wait, that counts as a cruiser, doesn't it?'' But it's one of those ships that really, really suffer at the hands of BB AP, much like Spee and for mostly the same reasons: BB HP pool =/= BB armor. I remember Notser saying if he played it, he'd want to stay as far away as humanly possible from BBs and it definitely applies. Its like taking a t7 BB into a t9-10 match. You get overmatched all over, angling won't save you either and you're way too big for overpens. When the BBs are out of the picture though, that's when you can go Missouri on cruisers and DDs.

It's listed as one of the missions starting today on the June Mission Briefing. I'm not seeing it ingame. Is there some ''give me anime stuff'' button I have to press again?

It's a good thing I just got Kron and don't really care about Indianapolis, because I can tell some of these tasks are going to be a pain and I can't skip all of those. 8 cits, really? 150 hits in one battle, good job excluding 3/5 ship types as well as low tiers. And then there's those ''win, survive and get a kill in one battle'' tasks which sound okay at first but then you get stuck getting 2 of the requirements and failing the last. Most of the tasks are fine but you don't get enough leeway to skip all the annoying ones.

So what upgrades do you get for this ship? For me it's a tough choice but so far I've gone with rudder instead of the concealment mod. Also, MBM rather than the range mod, because sitting at 20km isn't generally helpful to your team, though you do want to use the range you have when it comes to fighting BBs.

Whales are the last people they're going to ban. Just because they can, doesn't mean they should or will. Look at it from the perspective of WG, there's this player who is talking **** about the game, as if thousands of players don't do that on a daily basis anyway, in and out of the game. You ban his entire account for some reason, not just chat or posting privileges. So now you've lost a player, and he's on reddit and other forums showing off how he got banned for no good reason. You do that a few dozen times and you have a PR nightmare, much sooner if the player was influential somehow like Foch or iChase. Every time someone asks ''should I invest my time and money in this game?'', there will be warnings from the community that the mods can drop the banhammer on you at any time, erasing all your progress. Not worth it, not financially and certainly not from a PR perspective.

19m or so. Contrary to FXP, I spend money like 90s Greece. There was always a nagging worry WG would release a premium that costs exclusively silver, but now with the new resources I'm not concerned. I'm done buying tech tree ships anyway, and will pick up Kron tonight. Hope it gets a modifier like the others.

Paywalling a vehicle class sounds more like something Gaijin would do. And they did iirc.

On that topic, should I get Cold Waters? Anyone played it?

Meh, I don't pay much attention to game EULAs. Why? Because theoretically, WG can ban you for anything they want, they have that right. Obviously if they abuse it, regardless of what it says in the EULA, they'll have a PR ****storm that they'll back out of. Not to mention most players wouldn't take an unjust ban to court, too expensive and uncertain. So I see the company-player relationship as more tacit than anything that's written in the EULA.

I bought Nelson near release and rebuilt my stash since then from almost nothing. Now i have 794k ready to be spent. I don't even run a prem account, nor do I tend to play t8+. I do abuse Aegis every chance I get and run +100% camos usually. With every single boost possible including premium and those Chinese camos, here's the most I've gotten in one match.

It depends, but on cruisers after getting CE, I pick up PM for 1 point. PT is the first skill I get. On DDs, I pick up Radio Location asap at 14 skill points.

I'm into battlecruisers and torpboats, and Kron fits one of those paradigms, so I'm getting it. I'd have settled for Alsace but I can't get camo for that. Too bad they're getting rid of the special DCP though, and it's always annoying to see Spotting Aircraft in the same slot as something much more useful, so you'd never pick it unless you somehow know there won't be CVs. Why not let us have both?

''Currently the ship is in the final stages of testing and she will soon become available for purchase in the game client for 750 000 FreeXP'' I don't normally follow ship tests so I don't know what ''final stages'' means for WG but I hope we'll see it in 0.7.5.

CE first, but RL is next for sure. Such a handy skill for DDs.

From what I've heard, it's basically a downtiered Z-23. I mean, okay. Put permacamo on Z-23 or LM then.

The operaton achievements don't give signals. I wonder if they increase credit gains or if they're just trophies you pile up. I'm split on this. I've concluded Signals has about the same value as TYL. At least TYL doesn't drop the worthless Type 1/2/5 camos, has a chance for actually good camos, and also won't drop freaking ramming signals and flooding duration signals. It's not much, but almost all of it is useful. Also, about 1/8 chance for FXP.

I'm 95% sure now. In this battle a enemy DD got disabled but stuck in smoke, we didn't kill it in time but did prevent enemies from breaking through. We still got the Hiryu, and no Lex or Izumo in sight. Also, it was literally impossible to get 5 stars after that, we did all the other objectives. But maybe Zuiho doesn't count, for whatever reason.