Karkong_the_Impaler

Well, RB ships are the new free exp ships - just with increased cost and a timer. You can also pay with your sanity or whale it! Also, T9 ships aren't worth anything in the supershit meta in my opinion, just like T8 used to get shafted. I wonder how much coal Hayate will be...

"not every ship can be good" I mean.. there is Schröder. Just relegate to Snowflake duty if seriously disappointed or you suck with it. I rather like it, it hits quite hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antragsdelikt You will if properly motivated. And the guy will have pay for it, if found guilty.

If you differentiate in light cruisers and heavy cruisers, yes, light cruisers have issues. Everyone loves shooting them as they do these funny "plopp" sounds when you hit with your 457mm guns (which everyone and their brother now features) and the player base has slowly gained the knowledge that killing DDs will win the game (and they won't get torped that much). Also light cruisers lost their AA with the REEEEEEwork but at least gained exactly nothing in return. Then the ctaptain skill rework hit and nerfed the fire protection away from Stalins own wet dream, but also all DD caliber cruisers lost access to all the DD gunboat skills. But BBabies cried over getting farmed by Smolensk while incidentally it was totally ok to simply delete cruisers in a single lucky salvo, but well.... I can't fathom the reasons why BBs would need even more protected gameplay.

Ok, I'll "gift" you 20€ if you saw off your leg below the knee. Im so sorry if you don't want to claim it, but I cant force you if you really don't want the 20€. But I can make it easier - how about you just slowly saw off both your big toes? Ain't this is awfully nice of me? Seriously, I'm done with that. It's not a gift, it's torture. And coop is still way faster if you at least posess the ability to mash your face on the W key more than once. And if you're lucky you can get two vouchers there, too. "Play two games for each nation and class to get all repective snowflakes" would be a gift and a motivation to retry a disregarded line. Then you play the gems out of it, the ships you rather liked instead of... Izumo. And if your intention is to make people really reconsider certain ships, maybe even allow the same ship to be played twice and add free captain transfers for the duration of the event - who knows, maybe Hindenburg and I suddenly become friends?

I could agree with you, but then we'd both be as wrong as those who didn't listen. If the only redeeming factor is that there are even worse ships.... that's not really high praise. Basically you're not wrong, yes, one can play these ships - but please just make sure you play on the red side.

Fun with Mino and a Sub. And a CV. And our sub, who insisted of not getting closer, but running away from the one guy who could have saved him. 20230115_201802_PBSC610-Gibraltar_35_NE_north_winter.wowsreplay

There is a simple formula, applied even when we first heard about Schröder: It's a german ship = crap It's a welfare ship = crap It's a german welfare ship = crap² And if you consider it's now the new victim tier IX, it's actually crap³ Turns out, everyone was right. Just stop the whining, relegate it to snowflake duty and get on with it. And don't waste dubs on ships that are trash in the future. They won't change anything, as Sera already said, I quote loosely, "not every ship can be good". At best it ticks some "special interest" boxes with someone and he manages to make it work, but that's about it.

DDs are the most oppressed class, supershits, CVs, supershit CVs, radar, hydro, submersible scum and now forumites who still complain about DDs... srsly?!

Just get it yourself and then stumble over the glaring disadvantages of having a smoke camping gunboat DD. If you were talking about supershits, I'd totally agree with you, but this? If you're fed up with the crap of the ships you named, I propose you get either Druid or Gibraltar and distribute some justice. And/or git gud.

Fun ships? Or tolerable ships? Not Izumo? Also, sell mid tier trash, too. Really, I don't get the OCD ship collecting mania - I know people with 500 ships, and he's entirely incompetent with every single one of them. Just play what's fun, by all means, keep some low tier stuff you enjoy if that's your thing and maybe, maybe, keep T5+ ships for snowflakes. Or rather T9+ if you want to keep it efficient and not suffer all christmass holidays.

just sell the low tier trash (and the high tier trash, too)

Splat goes the weasel! 4% WR difference this time, the super unicum tromp probably made up for half of that... 20230113_230036_PBSC610-Gibraltar_16_OC_bees_to_honey.wowsreplay

This is Siegfried - which is crap all by itself - looking down at Schröder making a clown out of itself and actually managing to pass below the low standards set by Ägir. And then meeting T11+ I really feel this aptly sums up the ship.

Even the "get x torpedo hits" or "start y fires" lead to players doing stupid things. Yes, I have been on the same TS server with them, while they did. Shooting stuff, just to get one more fire, one more torp hit, never mind getting deleted - because they "hate playing that ship anyway and why should they care". I kid you not. And those were average'ish players. "win battles" is a double edged sword, as it's not reliable (for most of us). I still like my idea of tying it to the exp gained/1000 best. Not good enough, tbh. I've suffered through lots of ships I don't care about the least. Seriously, it's as much fun as drilling a hole in your knee and pouring milk in. I've promised myself to never do this again.

5% win rate difference. 20230113_213555_PBSC610-Gibraltar_38_Canada.wowsreplay Thank god for the halland. Got a bit lucky there when the Sherman apparently overerestimated his chances trading me broadside. Edit: Just now I noticed @Animalul2012 getting unlucky on the other flank...

This unfortunately is not as easy as it seems as it would make all missions significantly more challenging. Considering we already see quite some feedback about the win condition for daily missions, it's not very likely that we'll push in that direction Yes, as the bad player base is very big and probably more of a customer than those few who care about suiciding teammates playing even worse to finish their missions. So... how about an incentive to win? Say, multiply the mission objective i.e., citadel hits, fires set, bears asses collected or whatever by, say, exp/1000. So even if you lose, if you played half decently, you get 1,2 to 1,5 multiplier, if you just afk or suicide your way through, you get 0,5 times the reward. (Yes, I know, some very necessary things to win the game don't give nearly enough exp and farming from range does...but let's assume WG fixes that) And to prevent suiciding or intentional bad play, remove the missions which will propagate that. Also, how about two or threefold missions, say, for a DD, spot x enemies, get y cap participation and deal z damage. Or for a BB, tank A damage, deal B damage and move C kilometers. Make stuff that happens during normal play into a mission and make it archievable for the potatos, too. Good players don't notice the missions anyway until they are finished, at most I look if the bars are advancing and if I have to switch ship type to progress (I hate that... you should get rid of that, too). Basically, make the missions nothing overwhelming even the trash players. Because you know what happens if you force them. Even forcing players to play ships they suck with is questionable (snowflakes, anyone?), on the other hand, playing a line you haven't played in a while can renew your interest. But do I really have to play all ships from T5 to T10 for that?

Yeah, I'm not denying that - Gibraltar works for me and any other ship feels sluggish now. It's just generally considered to be the worst pick of the RB ships and the amount of total games played with Gibraltar is very low, even compared to newer ships. Wait, WG is considering buffing the british tech tree heavy cruisers, but not gibraltar?

I can guess, but I never heard the term - can you elaborate? Also, care to talk about how curb stomping smolensk affected other dd caliber cruisers?

Double edged sword... It was surely necessary to take fire protection away from stalingrad and the DD caliber gun buff for Smolensk wasn't really needed - but other ships just got nerfed right along with it, say, Colbert. Just like the CV rework that absolutely borked light cruisers, because their unique selling proposition - good AA - is suddenly gone, without compensation.