Myrmix

And I'm just sitting here, denying WG any money and crying by the thought of even more noob-Derpitz and -Lo Yangs in future teams.

Did one of you guys ever thought that german BBs perform so well, because people only think they are good at brawling and the dispersion at range is just so bad? When you force them to go for ranges of 15-10km, suddenly a BB becomes much more threatening than NCs reversing backwards to the mapborder while shooting only it's front turrets. A passive played BB performs bad in most cases. You can't do that in ships like Bismarck or even Friedrich, if you want to use more than 50% of your firepower. If NC and Yamato had ranges around 18km or bad dispersion above 15km, they would also perform quite good, because people would be forced closer.

You especially feel this at high tier. I'm happy with Friedrich's stock range of 18km, because I'm only at that range when I want to disengage to repair. Reduce the max fire range for BBs to something around 19-17km and it would improve the gameplay. Maybe leave exceptions for sniper-battlecruisers like Amagi with 20-21 km. Giving a ship like Yamato 26km range is just stupid. It's one of the tankiest ships in the game.

I'm afraid the management won't have any of that. Most of them don't even know the game. They are hired for making profit. And who would you want to send as representative? WG has to restructure their management and hire people who at least played the game. Something like a monthly Q&A would improve the communication exponentially and maybe avoid fails like GNB, santa convoy altogether.

As far as I know, some ships had marks for sunk ships or planes at the side of the superstructure.

What I dislike most at this skill is a huge problem for DDs. Ships like IJN destroyers, and in the meantime KLM live from targeting negligent enemies at the border of their detectionrange. It also makes first caps very hard, because you can guess where the DDs are splitting up and what caps will be contested. It removes one class' biggest advantage and additionally it makes the ability unecessary to look at the minimap once in a while. Experienced BBcaptains have an eye on the minimap and can guess where DDs could be and avoid beeing torped (most of the time). With everyone knowing where the closest ship is, you give bad players a huge advantage and make life as DD so much more difficult. I just hope they rework it before release.

That's the really stupid part. Wouldn't people be more encouraged to buy Graf Spee, if the santa-convoy was available who requires the Graf Spee? This whole mess seems like just a stupid decision by a management who has no idea of how the game works. And we suffer for it again and again. I just hope WG HQ starts replacing people in WG EU management to clear out this whole mess. Still wishing for a monthly Q&A with devs.

I'm afraid you NC rammed a LSD-truck there.

To be honest, it's not only BB-captains. I know cruisers can easily be hit, but I often find myself tanking for my team and getting the attention, but my teammates just deny me any kind of coverfire. At the start of the game you rarely see any cruiser opening fire at anything from the spotted ships, despite beeing in range (especially japanese). If you guys don't support DDs or BBs, you can't complain on the forums you are not doing damage and can't carry a game.

As far as I know we also miss out the premium camo for graf spee, not sure if you can buy it.

That argument falls flat, when you see that EU has much better activity over the 3 days than NA. In my opinion, special christmas-camos are uniqe content, when you use camos to balance out the lack of premium. Especially during a time where a lot of people are grinding a new line. I'm also wondering about the +15% credits, although WG mentioned at one point, that their players already have a lot of credits (and thus might decrease the need for premium). And why EU only? Because they are easy to milk.

I just don't get why they are always reducing stuff all other servers agree on.

So...we don't get any kind of christmas-mission either? [edited]

I never thought I would beg for the opportunity to grind something in a game

A merry christmas to you all. What better tradition to warm ourselves at the raging fires of a sh*tstorm, when it's cold outside?

That's the good part: you only ever hear from winners, never from loosers.

You are not familiar with the idea of a lottery, are you? In my country it's labeled as "Deppensteuer" (meaning as much as idiot tax)

But despite all the stuff going on with the german DDs, you still could completely cut an event for EU only and also took the time to remove parts from the announcement-videos? Who thought this would be a good idea? "No, let's not give them the opportunity to grind it with their precious time. They are all rich europeans, they will be much happier to buy it in the premium store." The backlash wouldn't be so hard, if it was the first time EU was beeing screwed over. I know you are just a messenger, but I'd advise you to pick your words carefully in your responses regarding this topic, because as of now, you are starting to anger even the good-natured part of your very enthusiastic and engaged community that other games would love to have. In all the sh*tstorms before I've never seen so many people seriously transferring their accounts to another server to evade the ongoing treating of the EU community. If you don't get the guys in management to change their policy longterm, this will have consequences in sales and serverpopulation, but especially community. Can't imagine russia beeing happy with that.

I bet the management is already in holidays and they can't give us any official response. I guess they are similar disappointed, but can't write anything on their behalf, because it could get them in trouble.

AT least 1 community contributor covers the whole debacle: He also mentioned the last-minute changes about DDs and the trouble cc now have. I know these guys are all busy over the holidays, but it would be nice to get some coverage after christmas, that WG can't control directly and delete as easy as forumposts. The staff really just can collect our input and pass it on, just hoping they don't get fired for harassing the marketing-team at WG EU so short before holidays. They have no official answer they can give us, and I think they are similar unhappy like we are, but can't write it.

Because WG won't stop screwing the EU-server over. Not even in the christmas season.

I would prefer to stay on EU, because of clan and stuff. I also don't know how the ping-difference would work out.

Dangit. Those pesky trollthreads.

Stop begging please. I don't buy them either because I would only have bad luck. And it's enough to be happy with the guys posting in the thread who get nice stuff.

This one, please. Together with an engine that breaks every 20km just because.