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+-2 tier spread worked in WoT "fine", as in, being correctly frustrating and exhilarating. WoT Blitz, mobile-slash-PC version have +-1 spread and while it made game overall more relaxed, it also made it... boring in the long run. Until you bring an actual "tier 9" ship, like I dunno, Ibuki Still, with arrival of supershits major selling point of tier 9 premiums - not seeing tier 11 - is gone. And if you're going to get uptiered hard, you might as well pay 20€ less for the feature, while also avoiding new and overpowered toys altogether.

Nope, otherwise we would have dovbleg about "new ship based on Azuma with different tweaks", as it was the case with Littorio and Rossija

Just go with whatever seems interesting to you. Personally I'm putting less and less time into AL, as I had pretty much all map drop ships I've wanted, Nope Orlean included, game already features majority of historically significant ships and then seems to have increasing power creep, as every new UR is "new hot" and not due to fan arts, while PR ships as concept of "powerful ships hidden being serious grindwall" aged poorly. AK is in similar state, as story map is cleared, thus just getting dailies off and occasional event. From upcoming chars only Ling, third of dragon sisters interest me and I might buy Mudrock from character select, as first purchase ever made in the game Blue Archive I'm dabbing into every so often, but I just can't get along with the game. Its just too wacky and then I find its flavor of fanservice to be... questionable. Honkai have good, if depressing story and more complex combat compared to Genshin, but UI is an absolute offputting clusterfuck, including borderline misleading "recommendations" for characters, so google is your friend when it comes to figuring out builds. If you care about meta, then you will be spending gacha currency not only on characters, signature weapons, but also signature stigmatas (artifact equivalent). On the upside, most "good enough" equipment is craftable and stigmatas rely on their fixed bonuses, random substats are MUCH less valuable than in Genshin and you can reroll them freely without scrapping artifact if you're unhappy. Power creep exists, with "Herrscher* bias" being a thing and in few months another Herrscher should be unveiled? *Herrscher - think of Genshin Archons, as in, supernatural beings of immense power within their domain... but not exactly voluntary to earn the "title" and usually much more violent and destructive to the environment

Unlikely, as threshold is playing 1 (one) battle. With two, you better have your ticket well greased and lubed with honey words.

Maintenance is ongoing for three weeks by now and no one knows when it will end. Pick up other game in meantime? I've reactivated Honkai Impact, shortly after their fat anniversary and I'm kinda angry about missing stuff they handed out. But then me missing HI anniversaries handing out stuff I'd be actually interested in seems to be a running theme, as Honkai, or to be precise, Herrsher of the Void caught my attention last year... few weeks after anniversary she was handed out for free as login award At least I've got meself evil version of timid Estonian Not mine as I'm carefully hoarding pulls for Yelan, and then only user of Mistsplitter would be Keqing. And Keqing artifacts, including one of two not-completely-copium Electro goblets currently reside on Yae

And all kinds of fascinating insults from other languages in global chat

IB/Germans hosting international party?

Then how come few returning people wrote to support asking for reset, as they were away for quite some time and got one like "sure, have fun and welcome back"

Azuma captain was handed out before, from AL collection I think? I still don't like how WoWs PC team can't make Azur Lane oriented skins that have actually something in common with the character in question, as only one I can think of would be Enterprise, reusing her deck painting?

Two returning people I know wrote to support and had their captains reset without issues, so there's that.

One affect monetary income, other doesn't, unless "overperforming" ship in question is of premium variety

I think just opening RU/UA corner on the forums, without "proper" CM + translation support but with few volunteer mods could do the trick?

Tbh it doesn't really matter if low, or even mid grade "devs" play the game, question is, whether someone in decisive position regularly play the game to see how his decisions impact the title. And I have grounds to believe, if you're working full time on something, know ins and outs, after few years, once "hype" dies down, you don't really want to interact with the thing you're working on more than it is necessary.

Thus, how one intend to argue with "impartial evidence of gathered data"

But you can have "broken" ship class that doesn't fit the game, but averages it delivers doesn't warrant any changes. Or even "better", Saint Spreadshiet implies buffs due to average lackluster performance. What if... WG handing out subs to everyone, absolute rookies included being galaxy brain move to ensure overpowered submarines? Here's the evidence, subs universally suck except when handled by unicums, but then those bastards make rowboat and cordless drill overpowered anyway

This thread be like:

No, all you need is bit of psychology and correct amount of frustration countered by correct amount of happiness to rake in money with relatively low effort. Gambling is very much a thing and there is a reason why various lootboxes or entire genre of gacha games is ridiculously profitable - just put something deemed valuable (hightier ship, valuable consumables) or desirable (new cute big booba waifu) wrapped in nice audio/video package and hidden behind RNG. You can get one on first try, 10th try, or never and such thrill is clearly much more profitable than "you can get X for Y amount of money, here, no questions asked". Latter is easily achieved by randomness - this salvo that ended with 4/5 ricochets and one overpen, only to be followed by devstrike on manoeuvring target 20km away. Or this torpedo spread launched three ages ago suddenly found its mark. Random map positions, relatively random movements of both teams... are reason why it takes thousands of battles to be played on that single map before it gets seriously stale.

They are the silent majority WG aims for, as their main customers

Tier 8 can't see supershits, not without faildivision.

...yet

On the upside, tier 8 and below might see bit of a comeback matchmaking wise as tier 9s and 10s are soaked into supershit battles.

Yamagiri had her concealment buffed to be in line with Shima. Personally... I don't have credits for supershits, not really interested in grinding them and then only supershit I'd be looking for would be Zorkiy as throwback to old times. And you know Zorkiy is relic, when Yamagiri, supposed torpedoboat, have similar gun dpm to "all out gunboat" without all the drawbacks

I thought "solo play" was out of the question to begin with, if nothing else, for sanity reasons?

I see nothing wrong with Kaga as 3rd party observer. Sure, her individual impact might not be up to standards when tryharding, but her reserves allow you to basically not care and enjoy the game. Which is a win, as long as you try to do your part?

Its you who claim "there's plenty of counterplay against DDs with DD" thus I'd like to hear about those. Because ones I know involves concealment advantage or at least parity, ergo, bring your own Shima/UU Gearing OR bring Radar destroyer, two of which are unavailable and third is for rare currency. Though there's Zed 52 with her 6km hydro as Then how is that different to CV spotting you, as in both instances you're likely to receive undivided attention of enemy team?