AgarwaenME

With just around 50% WR you SHOULD be seeing 3 loss streaks plenty often. Nor is the OP in any way in a position to call anyone else "noob".

No, but teams who think they'll lose and start looking for excuses and ways to blame their own teams will lose. Those who actually looks at the map, what types of ships (including DDs, because unless you're a total scrub to the game you know that they're by far the most diverse class of ship and you shouldn't consider all of them the same) and then decides on a tactic to control whatever enemy ships there are, might actually win. Now I wonder which of those two the OP is?

Either. As they need to care almost even more about how new players feel about the game as the veterans. And the issue here is of course not really that DDs (or CVs before them) were so OP, as numbers show. But how people feel like they couldn't do something and got wiped out quickly. That feeling (heavily influenced by personal bias) matters more to people than what the numbers actually show. This comes on top of the idea some people have that just by entering a game in a BB then they should be heavily favoured against ALL targets and that anything that in the end sinks them somehow has to be "op". And while this isn't exclusive to "BB captains" (meaning those that mostly play BBs) it's generally such whine threads that have been filling this forum for more than a year (which unlike what you tried to claim, there really are a lot off).

The OP in this thread. Also even trying to pretend that this hasn't been the case is just ludicrous if you actually visit this forum from time to time.

Or maybe if you want to live in the real world. After certain types of people whine that they can't just be automaticly immune to anything by buying a BB they fill the forums with endless whines (it's amazingly hypocritical to attack those that get nerfed as whiners btw, given the amount of BB mafia whine threads we've seen since early CBT), other ships gets their abilities nerfed to not overpower the lowest common denominator BB player. DDs weren't doing more damage, or surviving more, than BBs even before the latest nerfs. And CVs who specificly hunted the highest HP targets barely outdamaged BBs. And even now the forum is littered with "fire is op" posts, as if CAs in any way are hard targets for BBs to deal with. Fact of the matter is, no ship gets you better results for minimum effort than BBs. Surviving is more or less only dependant on having a minimum of map awareness (unlike say DDs and CVs who both needs this maxed) and the ability to now and then turn and angle your ship (unlike say CAs who can get wrecked by BBs from any angle).

Ever considered that you might have been wrong?

A BB firing at a CA from 18-20 km is far more likely to score hits and to damage than a DD firing torps from nearly any range except point blank while being mostly or entirely immune to being fired back at.And guess what, that's bloody obvious when you check what weapons have the highest hit rates. Even before this change, these DDs were some of the ships in the game with lowest chances to survive games, so guess what happens when they have to go to ranges where they're easy targets, and can be tagged by radar before even getting into firing range? Well, you get to keep your easy mode I guess, so you'll be happy.

No, and no.

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More than staying back at 15 or 20 km.

I just read that in the voice of the captain of the Hood.

Then you're blind. If there's one type of crying that has filled this forum, it's BB mafia crying. Pointing and clicking with a BB takes next to no skill, as your shells will hit in a few seconds and you never have to consider much more than his movements the next few seconds. The torp lead indicator only tells you where your target will be if he's a moron.

And have 50 times the time to target and give you far more time to avoid. And average hit rates for guns vs torps clearly shows what's easiest to land hits with.

Sits at 18-25km spamming shells every 10-30 seconds. Cries that it takes less skill to fire from 10-15km every 2 minutes.

Also, you'll see the BB mafia back here in a week to cry about something else. As I've said since cbt, there's no border where they'll stop crying and demanding nerfs, it's just a moving goalpost. You could have a game where 99% of damage done to them were from other BBs, and they'd still fill this forum with complaints that whatever ship did that last 1% should be nerfed.

So basicly, "because there's a larger sample size I chose to somehow twist that into it being off less value" with a twist of "no true scotsman" fallacy on top.

If 70% are bots, then you play rather a lot worse than bots.

Sorry, but you confuse issues. And you ignore all the times when people filled the wot forums and chats for days after a patch claiming all possible changes had happened, many of which were mutually exclusive. So sure, a few of those might have turned out to be right, but how many actually used proper data and not just "lucked" out to be correct? More than that, after only a very few games, such changes would have to be pretty major to be able to make any sort of conclusion. The OP played a game or two, had a bit of bad luck and concluded it was a change.

"I need to think that something changed so I have something to whine and cry about, so I'll look for anything and then force myself to think it's a change". Also called observational bias.

More like 7 knots submerged for the most advanced subs of that time.

Both of those numbers are wrong.

Actually, what you're seeing is exactly what you'd expect to see if there were no adjustment for player stats.

Because CVs are entirely different from the other types of ships. Unless you also cap BBs (or even also CAs) then wanting DDs particularly capped is just more whining. But then the OP is pretty good at whining.

quoted post removed Tinfoil hat.. yours is leaking.

It wouldn't be hard to just run a regular database search for those with unhuman like play times and derpy stats though. You don't need special software or anything, as it's a pretty simple set of SQL queries. The issue is spending manpower to double check them before banning I bet. Oh, and if those accounts only run higher tier ships, they will be spending a minimum of cash to do so. Premium account would be a given, in addition to whatever gold to credit (or straight up credit purchase) needed to pay for repairs. Which is another financial reason for WG to err.. "not notice" the problem.