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+1 in a way. I citadel other cruisers at 20km with Hind if they are perfectly flat broadside. But even a few degrees angle and it's no dice because the shells are the lightest 203mm shells in the game and they loose penetration power with distance. But at medium / short range, they are more then fine due to muzzle velocity. Therefore I don't want heavies shells, this would make their close / medium range performance probably over the top. But better normalization would help, due to normalization counteracting some of the angling. Better fictional 'krup' values could also work I guess but idk how this would influence short / medium range performance.

Clearly, you should have brought a Taiho.

Sorry man I a proud Noord-Holland inhabitant ( I also remember going to De Meer... in the 'good old days' ) edit: Also, I did mention the age of sail ships right, and while Rotterdam should be proud on it's harbor most tall ship events are not held there

Seems the community around it is still alive and kicking, never really got into that game myself but seeing how there are still mods coming out now..... Reminds me of Freespace 2, also a game which has been kept alive more then a decade through community support / additions and which even now is extremely fun to play

When I was young I once met two people speaking Cockney with each other. I asked where they were from and after saying they were British I thought they were lying.

Only until carriers or even land based aviation became 'a thing'

Not sure, forgot the link but there was a change not that long ago iirc

All WG games use XP including premium bonus. Which is why mine has been freefalling since I stopped using premium time ;) But hey, if you want better stats, you can just pay for them right

Could have been both sadly, some people really seem to think that 'big glorious battleship' should have no issues killing multiple destroyers with just it's secondaries ( look for threads asking why secondaries have such bad range and accuracy, and which then explain those secondaries are actually equal to cruiser's main armament and therefore should have the same range and accuracy ) while also splatting one with their main guns at the same time On the other hand we also got people who are just making jokes about BB's being UP and needing more buffs, mostly because they are a bit tired of the constant complaints from bad BB players on how their class isn't as strong as they expected them to be.

DDs firing torps from stealth rely on the BB not using WASD hax due to travel time of torpedoes ( with possible exclusion of F3 torpedoes... though those have VERY limited range and rely a lot on optimal positioning.... see Shima global stats for proof of that . And stealth firing DD's are a nuisance, but shall we go in a training room and time how long it would take my Blys to kill your BB when you properly manage your repair and heal? Adding to that, DD's are supposed to be the BB's counter, why is it 'wrong' for them to be semi capable of doing so? You also have DD's, you also have cruisers and hopefully you also have a CV. If you are out of position, it's your own fault. If you're not out of position but your team is not doing their job, then you can't blame the enemy DD for doing his.

I should have posted in off-topic but then Hans might miss it And I wouldn't claim the game should have Dutch before more fleshed out RN / IT / FR line's, but yes we should be included for sure. The Battle of the Java Sea was the biggest naval engagement since Jutland. edit: Also I would really <3 to see the reenactment or at least see the ships depart from NL. Sail Amsterdam ( went a couple of times ) were some of my most memorable day trips, just seeing all those tall ships is awesome for someone who grown up watching pirate movies on the t.v. and finding Sid Meiers Pirates! the best game ever

Depends on class. Cruisers should always maintain a distance with battleships, but battleships should always try to be as close as possible taking into account torpedoes and possible unspotted DD's. It's a synergy. not all classes and not even all ships in the same class are comparable. A Bismarck should try and get within secondary range asap, while an Amagi should strive to keep itself outside of an enemy Bismarck. Also, playing as long as possible -> ability to do more damage -> higher gains. Especially since you gain as much credits in a loss as in a victory. Sadly this means that even when it's not needed people are prone to 'camp' a lot. Though judging when 'trading' your own hp for damage inflicted on the enemy is actually crucial for winning battles is the hardest aspect to learn. Some people will never do so.

It's not a hi-jack it is a perfect example of how diversity sometimes is good, and sometimes is not. ps if you scratched one you were not the first one dead With so many DD's in the game I would have made sure to have a few allied DD's between me and where I thought the enemy was, they got a much bigger chance to dodge torpedoes which aren't spotted in advance

You should go back to that game Maybe the play style suits you better there. Also -> http://navyfield.eurogamez.eu/ -> be sure to check the downloaded installer before installing. And Battlestations Pacific is also still alive and kicking ->

Maybe they are letting you dig a deeper hole before reacting

1000 games is quite a high number, i would put it at 250 battles per class, depending on which tiers you reached as there are some important meta changes when grinding up. So a player which mains one class and has 250 games in it should already reached a point where he either understands the gameplay for that class or he does not. No need for an extra 750 games. Since we got 4 classes, your 1k number would apply to people who play all classes equally but in my experience not many people actually do this.

I did cover the longer chat ban's for manually checked repeated toxic behavior already

So you're saying DD's also suicide rush into BB's to launch their torpedoes? Gneisenau CAN get in close because it is the best armored BATTLESHIP at it's tier

I did read this before as also being implemented already but I'm not sure. I do think they all count towards Karma, but I heard someone say that it would count as one report for a chat offense. I don't really believe it though as own experience as shown me it's very likely still possible to dump 7 'working' chat reports on someone.

So you failed to use the 11 DD's on your own team to do their job and spot / screen for you

Hahahahahahahahahah This necro...... Omg..... (solo) wr is the most important stat in the game, it's what the game is about, winning. Not K/D ratio ( though it's 'nice' ), not damage ( though it helps with winning ), not cap / defence ( though it helps with winning ). Wait.. all those 'help' with one thing but aren't as 'indicative' as that one thing because that ONE measurement actually combines all those stats which help at completing the game objective ( which is, again, W I N N I N G ). Nothing else matters really. Well, Karma farming seems to also be an important metric for some

So how did the German DD's kill your Emden? Torps or guns? Couldn't shoot back? Just curious, Emden might not be stronk Sovjet steel but it is decent enough against DD's in general, you should melt as first in that team ever unless you just yolo overextend / suicide.

Not sure exactly when but there was a change in how reports were handled, the automated system disregards reports for chat abuse now if you haven't used chat during the battle you got reported.

1. Current chat ban system is flawed and is actively being exploited, true. 2. Chat ban system not being needed is not something I agree with. This game is PG7, yes seven year old children are allowed to play this game. I don't want children to be confronted with some of the worst of the worst kinds of 'communication' in online gaming. Luckily this game isn't nowhere near WoT was when I still played that, but even here I seen the chat comments about people who should commit suicide because they are so bad, how people are having 'sexual intercourse' with their female family members and how people wish cancer and ebola on people in chat. I got kids, my youngest is 6 my oldest is 9. I do NOT think WG having a system for chat bans is a bad thing. In fact, in some cases chat bans should last a lot longer then 24h, perhaps sometimes even be permanent. The exclusion would be for division and port chat, but some people who exhibit the above behavior repeatedly should for all i care just never again be allowed to spill their excrement in general chat. edit: what is needed is either a manual check on chat bans, not for every report but when a report is the one which would lead to a chat ban a manual check for the validity of that and prior reports against stored server chat logs would be reasonable. Another method would partially be making chat ban reports depend on majority vote in a battle. Sure , it could still be exploited but the likeliness of this occurring is lower then with the current system.

Huh? Maybe I'm strange but I don't see a difference in those. Bad players are visible through statistics, statistics point to bad players ( or not ). Both are mutually exchangeable no? You're not the only one