Nechrom

You realize what you're saying makes no sense, right? WG has a monopoly on their own product, they can charge whatever they want and have as little or as many events and specials as they like. You don't purposefully mistreat customers. Through ignorance, sure. My guess is that the management structure is like a way too long game of "telephone". Upper management wants [vague thing] -> Something happens in the other end and it's basically behind so many layers of people that it might as well be happening on the moon.

The way they've done it goes back all the way to the launch of WoT. Who knows why WG decided to completely segregate community teams/sites/forums back then. That still doesn't mean you gain anything from being a pessimist. Being cautious when it comes to spending money and time is one thing. But this literally makes no difference if you think it will go well or not. So might as well not be a grumpy cynic when you can afford not to.

If they've finally set up the logistics to synchronize the specials, events and missions, what's their motivation for going back to the old ways? No point assuming the worst. We'll find out anyway if they continue or not. With how much gold they're throwing at you when playing WoWP, I seriously doubt that.

Except that's not true. They are only targeting applications which inject themselves into libraries (dll-files essentially). People got banned over using 3rd party graphics injectors (SweetFX, Reshade etc). Those are always going to be difficult to use in multiplayer games with any kind of anti-cheat system, since they operate in the same way as many aim assist/bot applications.

I never thought I'd see the day...

Gotta be night-browsing reddit to catch these, which I thankfully was.

The Enterprise is easily my favorite CV. Kaga has her moments, but she's more vulnerable to high tiers and competent enemy CVs. Saipan I find quite boring to be honest. Pretty sure you don't get citadel ribbons when you get citadel penetrations with AP bombs.

Any battle where we have a USN strike CV. Because being perma-spotted and not getting to see the enemy is so much fun.

It all balances out in the end. Weekend just means more food for good players.

This is a troll-topic, right?

I still have a raider award on my E-100 in World of Tanks. The playerbase never ceases to amaze.

If we could find a way to balance BBs without randomly make exception and lower citadels so that there are barely any BBs you can reliably citadel when they show flat broadside, that would be great. The citadel is only "weak" because it's high. It's the same height of citadel that the tier 8-10 USN BBs had before the NA players whined enough on reddit to get them arbitrarily lowered without any balance reasons. And the Nelson's citadel is actually better armored than those USN BBs. I don't like the argument, but in this case it's actually a "slippery slope" which just leads to awful gameplay where BBs can just derp around and not care about how they sail. Wasn't it okay to only have one BB line which could do that, you know the one that also is really inaccurate and has low DPM. Checks and balances.

And by inconsistent you mean only the tier 8-10 USN BBs are arbitrarily buffed while every other BB follows the same rule.

If this is what you're talking about it's already in the armor model. Otherwise please specify exactly what you're referring to.

I'm playing the worlds smallest violin for you.

Anecdote time. Had a pretty good battle, nothing worth talking about for results alone, but I was happy with my contribution. Anyway. I'm in my Grozovoi and I spawn closest to A-cap on Sea of Fortune. Naturally hearing nothing from my team I start moving towards A to at least do some spotting, but as I get closer I see that my entire team has turned to sail to C. So I reluctantly abort my approach and set my course to go past B in the same direction they're going. But as I'm turning to leave I notice that the enemy is beginning to cap A so as my torpedoes are just getting loaded I decide to throw a blind double spread into A since I probably won't be in a position to use them for a time after that anyway. As I reach just above B I get the notification that I've sunk a Shimakaze with two torpedo hits. Later in the battle after having taken control of both B and C cap and with the team holding fast, the enemy are forced to act which results in an Udaloi rushing around an island to get into B and getting swiftly gunned down by me and the other DDs at close range, but he manages to drop all torps in my direction so with my speed temporarily hampered by my engine getting crippled I try to dodge his layered double spread and just manage to do it by a hair. So I write in all-chat: "Dejavu!" and not many seconds later a guy on the enemy team responds with "I've just been in this place before". That really made my day.

It's just personal preference but I don't like AR on DDs, maybe on the Khaba. Seems counter-intuitive on a ship you're trying to not even get spotted in.

And I don't mind when people discuss actual issues and not just how everything which happens is secretly a conspiracy against them or their ship of choice.

Well RL is 4 points so they are not interchangeable, but you should have enough points for it still if you can do without AR.

Let's just stop making changes to the game since whatever you do it will "indirectly nerf" someone's favorite ship.

Who knew that buffs to some ships are indirect nerfs to every other ship. I know that the WoWs community meta is to call everything a BB buff or a CV nerf, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

The only gunnery skill worth considering on an IJN DD is Expert Marksman and only after you've already picked Last Stand. Akizuki is the only exception and should have her own special captain build.

Absolutely Survivability Expert. Also your build shows that you're using Torpedo Acceleration. You're only using it on the Gearing I hope? Shimakaze should be using Expert Marksman instead. Personally I don't pick Smoke Screen Expert. Not really useful in my opinion.

Not sure what WG was thinking with the DD heal only working in the filth. If you go there you are dead in seconds. Now you're forced to stay in the BB heal all the time as soon as the CV spawns (when you're almost permanently spotted). Also the "enemies won't attack you"-ability doesn't work against secondaries. GG WG.

Give me some of that insane RNG and we'll call it even.