KurtVonSteiger

The thing is - quite a few of us are not in it for any sort of 'Endgame' Personally, I want to sail historic ships that I like and coming from World of Tanks I already knew what to expect grind wise so am happy to play a few games here and there while I wait for the ** (name withheld to prevent rage posts!) Others just like to collect ships and most of us play for fun so it's a bit user specific to claim the problem is in the Endgame as surely that can not actually arrive until all the Nations lines are added and nothing else to collect/grind?

A question for OP as I am most confused....If the game is pay to win and I have 3 premium account players on my team with premium ships - why do we lose?? surely by your argument those three guys paid to win so we should have won right?

​I second this! - more weather is good, also the occasional storm in night battles

All in all very good indeed! - would like to see a tremendous explosion and Boom when someone gets hit in the magazine plus more weather and night battles but very good job so far

or extra sound effects - I'd happily fork over 250K for a bugler to sound Action stations and the 'ding.ding' of the shoot warning :-)

WG could give us rank pennants for the xp - commodore, rear-admiral, vice-admiral, admiral

I still feel a more reasoned approach would have been to release say 1 tier 5 ship for each of the remaining major naval powers ( French, Italian and Uk and perhaps Dutch or commonwealth )that way we would all have a captain trainer and a ship of our favourite nationality to play while we wait for our respective trees to appear. Of course, some people are never satisfied but the above should appease most of us until the rest of the fleet slips anchor.

Love the way some people are getting annoyed that WG did a little something to say "Thank you" to the early testers! The CBT and WT flags are purely decorative and if you don't like them - don't fly them!, plus I am sure that some of our more creative players will come up with a nice modded version that will be more astheticly pleasing.

Guys, there are not that many Alpha testers and by this point in the game they have pretty much unlocked every ship so this 5% is not suddenly going to give them a giant leap up the Tech tree. They get a thank you from WG for playing back when playing was as much an exercise in frustration as it was any sort of fun!

As long as WG learn from Historic Battles in WOT (and I seem to recall they said they were going to change the format) Historic Battles have the potential to be great fun. The original problems stemmed from the Battle weight - i.e Everyone wanted to drive Tigers or SU152's leading to the huge wait times as no one wanted to play the T-34's and Panzer 4's for example. If WG ran them on the lines of P vs E where you had the players all in one Nations ships and an opposing Nation of AI ships with tier mirroring* and the Bots tweaked to provide a reasonable challenge it should be quite awesome. * each Nation gets equal tiers/class ie 2 T7 US BB's vs 2 T7 IJN BB's etc. etc. Although I also like the idea or objective based missions - convoy escort for example - there is a wealth of great things that can be done with this IF WG can get it right (like AW with it's P vs E game!)

Just a thought - will the Kamikaze lottery draw be only for those who have 150+ pearls only? I have got 293 so far so am assured a ship but will WG be sensible about this and only place the 150-259 pearl owners in the draw? - I really hope this is the case as otherwise it will be a bit of a kick in the teeth for those who could not quite make it to see someone who automatically gets the ship to then also get the credit equivalent awarded for winning the draw.

One of the many problems was WG running the ARP missions at the same time but excluding ranked battles from the tally meaning you had to choose between goodies in Ranked or free Ships in Randoms. For me, a free Kongo and Myoko was more attractive especially as I did not have the whole win, win, loose, win, loose, loose yo yo driving me to rage quit!

I want to look away - but somehow I can't! I am afraid that if I go I might miss some vital point and not be able to see it on catch up tv

Just like...'WOW' - it seems that the aforementioned DVD of this will now be directed by Peter Jackson with a special extended edition 'Directors Cut' Rumours are Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck have already been approached At least its good for the popcorn industry!

Most excellent work! - I hope you continue the work and support it in future patches :-)

Box 5 is 25 DD stealth camos (but you can't see it over 5km distance!)

Forgot to add - my stats are probably poor!...got them hidden but please feel free to look anyway

Observations: XVM is fine - the way some people use it is not! Quite a few people who are for/against stats use the posters stats to support their arguments! Most people seem to agree on the negative aspects of XVM There seems to be an obvious split between people playing a game for relaxation/fun and those who regard it as some life defining experience - "stats uber alles" Conclusion: perhaps team battles will alleviate this somewhat?

A simple observation - why would anyone who wanted to win a team game want to reduce the number of their own team thus making winning less likely? All the posters of the whole 'Fail platoon' viewpoint should realize that if any fault it lies with WG for it being possible to create said platoons and, as quite a few people have posted lower tier is not an automatic fail! The time for raging/reporting is AFTER the battle when you have seen how the platoon performance affected the outcome. To be honest, all this shows me is that I would not want to be in a 'team' with any of you and that XVM stats only adds to this type of problem.

Aaaand here we see the big problem in Ranked battles - If you are serious about winning you need to pick the highest tier ship allowed and the most OP one. This automatically leads to problems when other people are trying to play for fun/ trying Ranked battles using whatever ship they have within the tier criteria. Unfortunately we then get the situation where players are Flamed or even TK'd for their choice of ship - I get that a lot of us are very competitive, but it is WG who say "tiers 7 to 8" NOT - you shall not use ship 'x' in ranked! Not everyone wants to grind ships just to have the most OP ones and some just want to try Ranked battles but have not yet got the highest tier ship for them. The thing is, usually it is down to how good the ship driver is rather than the ship itself - having a lower tier/less OP ship is not an automatic loss, Having a low skill/low ability skipper quite often is however!

At just under 5.5k pearls needed at the moment this might not make it till Monday.

"Don't mention the war, pike!"

Not this again! - you go boom every once in a while - when you do , you get 10 no more boom flags. There are a lot of things that want sorting out more urgently than exploding once every 100 or so games.

Not sure why this has drifted on to the shores of ideology? in the context of the game timeframe being WW1 to end WW2, in WW2 Hitler was the leader of Germany and he renamed Deutchsland to avoid the possibility of a ship of that name being sunk. Therefore it is logical to assume he would not allow a ship that would if completed have been his Navy's flagship to bear the name Grossdeutchsland for the same reason? To me the ideology is irrelevant as Adolph was the boss and he would have had the final say. Personally, I don't care as long as she has a name rather than a number but if you cling to some semblance of historical veracity you have to consider this name a no go.

By historic convention most ships have a name and a capitol ship is a dead cert to have a name....so, no to the H-41! Also no to Grossdeutschland due to the renaming of Deutschland by Hitler.