Karkong_the_Impaler

It isn't, it's almost purely random, apart from a few nudges for new play at a tier and maybe a few things we don't know about. But there is no great conspiracy to make you of all the people lose. Edit: No love for the non savant syndrome DDs?

I'm all for buffing Gibraltar. Say... british radar option? Getting rid of that step in the citadel? Stronger Belt? Faster reload?

"I'm very good, but my math teacher keeps asking the wrong questions" "3+3=something between 5 and 7" "It's not my fault we're doing fourier transform" "I could't finish the assignment, my classmates distracted me" "It's not my fault my calculation is wrong - I'm very good, after all" Correct, the win rate is quite the crutch as seal clubbing or tryhard divs can influence that overall rating. Same as "git gut" only after 8000 bad games, it's much harder as it doesn't posess a moving average filter. Basically what I do to deceide if someone is a good player is to look for solo tier 10 games with a minimum of 100 games played. Still, you don't know when these games have been played, but basically it's the best we get. There is a russian stats site where you can apparently filter for time, but the language of our new overlords is beyond me. I'm very sorry to say, that relevation is apparently very hard to accept - but you could also do with a lot of improvement.

DDs are under a lot of pressure at the moment, Supershits with burst fire, everybody and their brother featuring radar, including DDs and BBs (can't wait for subs with radar), casual spotting by planes, getting murdered by submersible scum. Then add BBs who rather sail to the A line, Cruisers who feinted at supporting but then instead proceed to ineffectually hide behind islands. And then you get games with the only DD on your flank is an Elbing and the other spotter of choice is an incompetent CV....

Just use the bonus and do not care. You win on average as you did before, you get dealt trash teams on average as before, it all averages out. If you're a good player, you can make more use of it, sure, but that shouldn't come as a surprise. I personally use them from top to bottom untill they're gone. I don't put +free exp and +captain exp thingys on ships I suck with.

T9 is the new T8 with supershits around.

Ok, again - While biplanes were an early way to make a stiff wing with the disadvantage of interference and adding drag through struts, the concept is just something out of the toolbox of an aircraft designer. For fast planes, where jet engines are applicable, these disadvantages are especially bad, thus we don't see many jet biplane designs. I know of one, see above. But if you want to design a rugged pane that is capable of being launched from escort carriers and able to take subtantial punishment due to its rag and roof batten construction, look no further than the Faery Swordfish. To launch a jet with a very high minimum speed from a rather short strip, you need jump through a lot of hoops. So, no, while the jet engine is one example of technological advances, one cannot equate biplanes with lack of innovation.

The Radar only HE Mino thingy is going for what kind of currency? @Ronchabale I'd wait. Nothing really interesting in that screenshot unless you enjoy going to hell and get a malta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_178 1939 Even earlier if you consider pulsejets or coandas thermojet Basically biplanes and jets satisfy different demands and thus don't overlap in their application - but they don't exclude each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor

They carry the taint. Purge the unclean, FOR THE EMPEROR!

I currently play subs. Any karma I receive vaporizes like a drop of water in a blast furnace.

But the question was "how britannia ruled the waves with everyone having better ships". So - you're saying, the others had the better ships? That was exactly my point.

Wait... where is the karma from?!

When we talk about a development, we look at the current state and compare it to it's history. The formerly great empire isn't doing too well, recently. And I wasn't only talking about the navy.

It's a you issue. They have their niche in CW because they can deal with other cruisers quite well. But the decline of the british empire didn't end there.

And this is the first step to enlightenment: Understanding that it's not the team, it's the player himself! How do you improve when you feel that you already play good and when you blame your team, matchmaking, cheaters, the will of the gods or the phases of the moon? Simple - you don't! Because with that mindset you did everything correct and some external factor is to blame for your failure! So, the idea is not to make him look bad, the idea is to do away with that erronous notion so he can actually understand that he basically sucks. If he understand that, entirely, without amusing anecdotal evidence, ever so often - and then proceeds to follow all the links and hints posted in this thread for his reading and/or viewing pleasure, he has a much better chance to git gud quickly. Actually I feel it is insulting that you assert that I want to ridicule him, that's far from the truth.

But... but I just love that ping sound. Seriously, if I had to choose either: "be a non-terminal disease" or "get the same-non terminal disease", I know what I'd rather do. I also played Smolensk. A lot. And it obviously never was a problem, right? By now it's a happy memory... can't wait what they'll do next to make subs seem tolerable. Flying saucers? Nuclear weapons? Lasers?

I really think credits is is better than a Dido I won't play - but hey, free ship, who cares if you have enough cash

Just like ranked, spam enough games and you get the "win x battles" reward, too. I know someone who made it to rank 1 that way.

But remember, Edgar with Mino arming threshold use would be toxic.....

I considered them, too, but they're too hard to recognize in comparison. But yes, they're only used by the worst players.

Apart from getting surprised by a desmo isn't nearly as painful as eating a FUn burst, because on top of better stats, there just had to be this gimmick. Catch someone broadside and he can't even angle in time, even if he is at speed.

It's the same reason I use a very easily recognizable potato tier emblem: To get underestimated by my enemies and when I kill them, I'm not only sinking their boat but I also destroy their soul - for the dark lord.