MrFingers

It will become visible the very moment you earn your first NY-container (blue 1920 style) from the Eithel-directive, or the premshop.

Did you win? I can see ribbons on the ships, so I think you haven't won. You have to win IIRC.

https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/game-updates/update-0711-rule-britannia/

That final stage, with the 6x4M credits for 6 nations (5 of which can be completed by the PEF, because it is a German, Italian, Polish, South American and Commonwealth ship at the same time)... WG is taking their "incentives" to lure people into purchasing it too far. I'm out.

@MrConway, what gives?

Wait, what? You can't complete it with daily containers, only with the new year ones? The portal said "the collection is permanent", so...

Updated just fine, but when I go into battle, after a few minutes, my controls freeze up. No mouse or keyboard input is being registered, and I find myself sailing in circles without being able to do anything. Unplayable.

First three stages: fair enough Last stage: the equivalent of being prodded in the p00per with a cactus tied to a pneumatic hammer. What for those who don't have 6 different nations? At least with campaigns you could repeat tasks for the stars. The final stage for the DoY campaign was also ridiculous (90k raw torpedo damage, 11 British torpedo hits (pre brit DD's that was), 75k XP for one star,...), but at least you could repeat a task to ease up the grind. The "but you can complete 5/6 stages with the PEF itself at the same time" is a rather poor display as well. Sure, there can be incentives to buy the ship, but this is stretching it too far. As for the ship itself: meh. While the the DoY and Spee were also kind of "meh-botes", they were unique and historical ships, the PEF however is a completely ficitious ship build on the base of what would become a Mackensen BC. It would have been way more interesting if the PEF was ingame as it was intended to be fitted out, at least that would give it some allure and historical credibility. The usage of directives instead of campaigns is not all negative, since you can complete more than 1 task at a time, but that you can't repeat tasks is a big letdown. Especially since we've been rendered numb from having one event behind the other without respite. You could be a little more considerate to your playerbase, but alas, it was not to be.

I think it could do with a heal and torpedoes... Just to bring it more in line with the techtree ships. /s

You have to ask yourself... Does 1M FXP for the Alaska scale as well as 750k for Missouri/Musashi/Krohnstad? To me it doesn't, by the looks of it.

10k coal is... a more decent reward for R1... But it being slapbang in the middle of the holiday season, AND the "Festive 500". I'll (have to) pass.

Bump: Charleston will become available in the Arsenal for 15k coal with update 0.7.12.

It's nice to see existing accounts getting some love as well, all those rewards for inactive accounts are one thing, but this small token of appreciation for existing accounts is more than welcomed (eventhough it's a promotion for mmobomb).

I've heard @Ev1n say in the German stream this was a "one off" that fitted in the storyline (there is this staged rivalry between both). Dasha is still with WoWS, and not being sidetracked. At least, that's what I could make out of it, since my German isn't anymore what it used to be.

CZech flag and patch, IIRC

Greetings Sailors, As of yesterday, players can now gaze upon the soon to be introduced Russian cruiser branch, which starts at the Orlan, and ends at the Moskva. The ships, or their plans, range from the early 1900's until the 1950's, an interesting interval in time during which much has happened in the history of mankind. The rise and fall of nations, the decline of empires, borders that got drawn, contested, and redrawn,... Many of those happenings had a strong link with the military, whether that's landbased, naval or aerial. On the sneak peak that's being offered, one can admire the new cruisers, and I noticed that the Novik, Bogatyr & Svetlana fly their historically correct ensign of the Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), as do the premium ships Diana & Aurora. The Soviet ships/designs fly their historically accurate Soviet Navy (SN) ensign. This made me think about the equivalently tiered German counterparts: the Dresden, Kolberg & Karlsruhe, together with the premium ship Emden. They currently fly a censored Deutsche Kriegsmarine (DKM) flag, as is flown by the other ships in the German techtree. This flag was only used between 1935 & 1945, a good while after the active career of the aforementioned ships (all were sunk/scuttled in WW1). Those ships should historically fly the ensign of the Imperial German Navy (IGN), yet for reasons unknown to us, they do not. At first I was thinking a reason against inclusion was that it would be confusing for ships in a single nation to have different ensigns, but since the Russian ships do fly their correct ensigns, this can't be the reason. Many of the players here a avid fans of history, and strive for an "as historically correct as is possible experience", of which historical ensigns is a part that can't be overlooked. A quick scan in the gamefiles learns us that the IGN flag is modelled is the "flags.dds" file (deep in the gameplay files). Sadly enough, the game is coded in such a way that ALL German ships use the same flag, and one can't make a distinction between Imperial Navy & Kriegsmarine. One can mod the flag that it shows the IGN flag on all ships. It's OR/OR, not AND. Some fairly recent Q&A with devs and WG staff about the Imperial German Flag, and it's inclusion learned us this: After a bit of perseverance, and reformulating the question (as it seemed the person understood the question incorrect), with a link to the flag.dds-file, and the fact that the IGN flag is already modelled. I understand the inclusion of historical ensigns is a delicate matter, and is bound by laws and legal rules about if and when they can be included, and what reasons are valid for inclusion. So I scanned the Strafgesetzbuch section 86a, the German Criminal Code that outlaws "use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations". The list of forbidden organisations is: Sozialistische Reichspartei, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit, Aktionsfront Nationaler Sozialisten/Nationale Aktivisten, Deutsche Alternative, Nationalistische Front, Wiking-Jugend, Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, Blood and Honour The list of forbidden symbols (in it harshest iteration) is: the Swastika² (also mirrored/inversed), a stylized Celtic cross, the solar cross, the Sig rune, the Sturmabteilung emblem, the Othala rune, the Wolfsangel, Gauwinkel badges, the "Heil Hitler" & "Sieg Heil" greeting, Unsere/Meine Ehre heißt Treue, along with the Totenkopf symbol, the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and "Unsre Fahne flattert uns voran" & the ISIL/ISIS/IS variant of the jihadi Black Standard flag. (² only when used to symbolise nazism, it is legal for other uses, as in Hinduism) There is also a lemma on the IGN: The Reichskriegsflagge: prohibited in the Third Reich version including a swastika; the 1867-1921 version without swastika is prohibited when it is the focal point of a display or disrupts political order. That means that the public display of the flag is forbidden when it has a swastika on it. The public display of the pre-nazi flag is allowed, unless it is used in an anarchistic way. For historical reasons, or as a decorative fashion, it is legal. Please note that this all is regarding the public display of those flags & symbols, that means: "on the streets and the public domain". A flag which also bears it fair share of controversy, is the flag depicting the Hammer & Sickle, as was used by Communist Soviet Russia between 1923 & its collapse in 1991. As there are laws about the displaying of German flags, there are also flags about the display of Communist symbols (of which the H&S is one, another one is the "Red Star", as is also shown on the ensign of the Soviet Navy, and can be seen on the bow of Soviet Ships): Regarding the Hammer & Sickle: The symbol is banned in Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova & the Ukraine. Regarding the Red Star: The symbol is banned in Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary & the Ukraine. "The red star and the hammer and sickle are regarded as occupation symbols as well as symbols of totalitarianism and state terror by several countries formerly either members of or occupied by the Soviet Union." One can safely argue that the argument that "one flag is controversial, the other isn't" is void, since both flags have controversy linked to it, as do many other flags. I hereby politely but wholeheartedly demand that WG/Lesta will revisit their current position regarding the inclusion of historical German ensigns & symbols that are not outlawed, with specifically the ensign of the Imperial German Navy. I made a poll about this subject. I hereby invite everybody to participate in this poll, and I hereby invite WG staff to shine a light about the current stance WG has regarding the Imperial German Navy, its ensign and its place in the game. One word though: KEEP IT CIVILIZED!

As per title. Just to gauge the community.

It says "the collection is permanent", does that mean you can collect collectibles in regular daily containers as well?

And you won't get Yamamoto for completing the collection. To get him, you must complete the entire campaign (5 stages, T8+ ships). The collection only gives flags, the ability to fly 2 flags of Japanese ships and an alternate camo scheme.

I need HMS Furious in her intended 1917 form... for reasons... of 18".

Isn't that just a set of daily missions (with the base-XP), that they give a fancy name?

But, have you all avenged the Titanic already? Asking the real questions here!

WG has utterly forked the matchmaker & population in WoT in the last years, making it so that there is hardly any influx anymore of new players there (they get clubbed to death by gold ammo and dedicated sealclubbers and leave in disgust, together with the veterans who also leave in disgust by the now obvious & blatant P2W mechanics that are now there in place). WoWS is not in that situation, so I doubt we're going to see official bots in PvP-environments soon, if ever.

I've counted the hats, just in case...

It's a Mackensen-class battlecruiser, but with a fictitious "what if" upgrade if it was indeed completed, survived the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow for a miraculous reason and lived long enough to serve until WW2. Which is a shame IMHO, they could just went with the original plan. There are too little WW1-designs out here in WoWS.