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And if that is not enough, some people even invent new types of soon like soon-ish.

Besides islands smoke screen, firing your guns and a burning ship your detection range is modified by the following modifiers: concealment module (tier 8+) 10% bonus concealment expert (5 point captain skill) 10% bonus for DDs camo paint (8000 credits per battle) 4% bonus The final distance then simply is: base detection range * (1 - concealment module bonus) * (1 - concealment expert bonus) * (1 - camo paint bonus) So the maximum bonus you can achieve in a DD is 1 - (0.9 * 0.9 * 0.96) = 22.24%.

Taking down a full HP DD nets you as much XP as taking down a full HP BB of the same tier. So in effect, going after smallest ships first gives you the most XP.

It's rather ship specific. The Ibuki for example maxed out has 9.97 km detection range but can fire the guns hidden from as close as 15.7 km.

Mogami immensly profits from a stealth setup and advanced firing training. So basically with the 155mm guns you will want a captain with at least 10 skill points, preferably 15 (for stealth skill) and mount the stealth module in the 5th slot. You can get your detection range down to 9.6 km like that so you have a window from 15-18 km where you can fire your guns undetected. Also you will want the upgraded hulls because she maneuvers rather sluggish with the stock hull.

Still 60k XP short (unless I dump free XP, which I won't)... Btw. why was she renamed to Zao? Zao sounds rather chinese compared to Senjō.

The exclusive ships always have the test stage in their names being Iwaki Alpha and Arkansas Beta. The Arkansas is alright as long as no CV is around... the Iwaki on the other hand is rather a large DD than a CA. Most people are surprised by her 10 km torps and don't turn when facing her. So you're in for some hillarious moments with her but she is damn fragile.

Better description would have been "Set fire 300 times to any amount of enemy ships". The current one is a little ambigous... still when you know WG you know what is meant. Btw. Ibuki seems to be really good at starting fires. In a good battle I set 12+ fires with her.

Yup. F2P games have massive amounts of players that only play casually once in a while etc. which racks up numbers of players quite a lot. For the average F2P game you can easily assume 20-30x the amount of active (aka playing from time to time) players compared to the peak server population.

Well that statement at least shows that you didn't even watch Arpeggio once... otherwise you'd know that if Kongō would have her Arpeggio armament, any battle would be over in seconds.

2 T9 CAs, 1 T10BB and 1 T9BB fail to shoot down even one squadron of an attacking T10 carrier before they dropped their load - let alone 4+... and don't tell me about teamplay. It is the same on T10 as it is on T8.

http://www.anesi.com/ussbs01.htm 50% within 250 feet (76 m) on STATIONARY targets was apparently considered high accuracy in 1945... now do that on a moving target trying to evade your bombing run...

T9/T10 bombers / torpedo bombers are too fast or too resilient for strike setup. If a T10 CV can overpower a T10 CA with defensive fire running there is something wrong... also having the highest WR of all ships at T10 and to a lesser extent at T9 suggests that either strike setup or plane speed/plane resiliance has to go... with more than 100 planes that shouldn't be a problem, should it?

WIth all the players playing WoWs, the chance to meet even one of these 75 players is less than 0.01% per battle.... so even after 100 ranked battles, the chance to have met only one of them is roughly 1%. Not per battle, overall! Only ONE in 100 players would have met one person like this in a ranked battle after each of them has 100 battles played.

Again, 210k average isn't even the full grind from T9 to T10...

How are they at a credit advantage!? They didn't get a single credit out of this, only free xp. They still need to grind the credits just like you do... and they possibly will suck at T10 anyways because they have no experience in high tiers and lose a lot of credits there anyways. At best they got a time advantage of grinding through T9 - though at 210k avg. it isn't even the grind from T9 to T10... You shouldn't play stock ships in ranked anyways...

You can clearly see that this is not the case. Just look in this thread you will find at least 2 supertesters and several alpha and beta testers (who btw. now are just normal players) that do not agree with my opinion and are rather on your side. In a discussion not all is black and white - and in terms of MM I'd agree that it goes haywire too often.

Nah. I can just relate in that case. I'm a systems administrator myself and currently (that's why I can write here @ work) do some database restore which forced me to get a tape with a backup from 2 weeks ago and restore a 100 GB database so that I can fix a tiny little thing in the DB that would otherwise be impossible to retrace. Took most of today and will likely take some time tomorrow but will save us a sum of likely 5 digits or more. Considering that it only affected less than 2500€ worth of XP, I can understand that WG will simply let the people keep it. It's just not worth fixing that and could introduce more problems.

Your WG account isn't a bank account, so the comparison is somewhat flawed. Even if it were a bank account, you only have to give the money back if the bank wants it back - if no one wants it back, you may keep it. It is legally yours then. WG sets the rules for WG games. Finally, if they say, the hassle to correct that mistake isn't worth it, then it is their decision. If you feel entitled to anything or are envious you're not one of those lucky now (I don't belong to that group either) I've got bad news for you...

The T2 is in a division with the T5. Along the MM rules, the T2 is then treated like the highest tier member in the division, so the T2 is also treated like a T5.

How is not being able to profit from a bug being penalized?

You mean like that Yamato yesterday that was so eager to kill a DesMoines that it actually sailed directly into the Islands in Hotspot just to take all 8 Kagero torps broadside on for 85k damage?

Wait what? Midways and Hakuryus have the highest WR of all T10 ships!

One clear indication of a bot seems ships that are standing at the spawn point and just sit there until you shoot at them. Then they suddenly start to move, whenever that happens in the battle.