MrFingers

It's less clunky and more intuitive to use, so I applaud that. Still that sectors-thing is rather bonkers in terms of concept to begin with.

Official explanation: https://medium.com/@devblogwows/naval-training-center-6ae94ee5b34a

They really seem determined to nail the lid on the coffin firmly shut...

Did that beard come at a 75% discount? (nice jawline btw!)

It has been permanently removed from direct-sale (now relegated to use as a "carrot" in order to lure people into buying X-mas lootboxes) because it has a built-in, camo-independent, credit multiplier meaning you absolute create ridiculous amounts of credits, and it was breaking the high-tier economics (which were meant to be punishing) it's a well-performing BB which has radar, on the verge of being too well performing (and a decent performance paired with an absurd credit multiplier means... yeah, it's broken)

You should ask @RegularLogic, he observed those competitions. I was just wondering how we were supposed to compete with CC's who have a much larger (potential) audience.

390 battles in Bismarck... And I don't even like Sabaton! (I was just churning out elite commander XP and raking in CQE-medals with it, the commander being my second 19pt er)

I've already started to see CC's organise "tournaments" under the guise of competitions of their own making, requiring new accounts only, and all using referral links. This is a serious oversight from you guys, WG. Just a bump, to bring this under renewed attention. @Crysantos?

Haven't you heard about the Soviet Submarine Flotilla singlehandedly turning the tide at the Battle of Malinovka?

Obligatory insertion of the lootbox-free soundtrack.

Ofcourse, the Community Contributors get a shortcut offered by Wargaming by having 15 premium containers credited to their account for free, in exchange for some promotion. That's 225 free fuel us plebeians will never get.

Was in port, then I wasn't anymore.

Yes, but never at -75%. The biggest discounts I've seen were -50% on T2-5 ships before 0.7.1, and with Xmas 2017, that the T6 ships (older ones) were at -40% instead of -30% as usual. Also that steam-users get a full doubloon compensation, whereas regular players don't... There is only one satisfactory and valid option: give the same discounts on the same ships with 100% doubloon compensation (once per item per account) to regular players. We haven't forgotten the "preferential treatment" of Steam-players during the Cossack-marathon either (where regular players could buy 1 set of 10 tokens for 1€, and Steam-players could buy 2 sets for 1€ each, whereas regular players had to spend 10€ for the tokens 11-20).

Do I want the Benham: Yes Do I agree with WG making this ship an "event-exclusive", making it unavailable in the foreseeable future: No Do I have the fancy to dedicate 2+hrs to WoWS each and every day for the next 20-something days, including weekends or days with (scheduled) overtime: No Do I feel like indulging in a ridiculous time-gated event, where each and every initiative is taken out of your hand: No Do I feel like playing an event-mode that is both cosmetically unappealing as well as bland and too arcade in terms of gameplay: No Do I agree with having the "backup tokens" hidden behind overpriced lootcrates, which have the sole purpose to hike up the price, opposed to the ones for the Cossack-marathon: No Do I want to support any of these new "predatory" events that basically gives the finger to anyone that isn't a full-time WoWS-player (miss one day too much of daily missions, lose 100 tokens), or a whale (1250D for 15 tokens, 7 boxes often needed as a minimum)? No Do I live in a country where lootboxes are available for cash? No Do I have no other plans for this holidays? No Pretty obvious. WG has dropped the ball here big time. Hiding an interesting T9 premium behind such a ridiculous event (ridiculous in pricing, ridiculous in the marathon to get it for "free" (no monetary purchase), ridiculous in catch-up mechanics that are either absent or predatory).

If you can play each and every day. Which a lot of people can't because of IRL reasons. Even a regular day-job allows for weekends and spare-time.

WoT is folding hard, so WG needs to find their money somewhere else... and it ain't the barren wasteland of WoWP.

Cosmetics: absolutely not my cup of tea, and that makes it so I don't even play the mode after the 1 battle I played yesterday Gameplay: meh. Too arcade and too generic. It's intended to be a BR mode, and it's not even good at that.

This is what RadarX said on reddit...

The total lack of WG-staff input is also telling. Normally with events like these, they are omnipresent to stir up the hype... Now they are silent.

Given you want to tie us all up for an entire month, it won't be here though.

Almost all of those people are botters. They put in more battles per day than is humanly possible.

Which means: everything else than this!

We can comfort ourselves with the thought that, ever since LordofDroid became manager in late 2017, none of the EU-staffmembers will get the Benham for free either. A perk of being a WG employee is getting all premiums credited to your account upon release, but event-ships are excluded from that (it wasn’t the case prior to late 2017). So if they want it, they’ll have to indulge in the insane grind themselves.