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The problem arises when you think it's chest-beating and it turns out the guy was actually serious Predicting those things can have a 99.9% success rate, but that 0.1% wouldn't be that acceptable

Ow yes it does, since WG knows really well that subs will drive a lot off players away, seems that all the people I know who can play this game at an above potato level all agree subs got no place in this game. Which shows us again, that WG stating that subs are in 'high demand' they are listening to the wrong group of people.

WG will only hand out chat bans, but if you really would like to you can always go to the police and file charges as individual. In one case iirc in the UK, this involved physical threats not racism though, the guy both got his account banned as was prosecuted locally by the legislation. Also, just to support support, it's logical they don't give information over their actions on individual players, it's because of privacy laws.

Those screenshots are fake, don't worry guys.

Looks photoshopped to me.....

Sure, but these indicators are not intended to give direct showcases of skill levels, but more indications in which role a player is playing. Which is the biggest issue, if you got two CV's in game and you're in a BB with mediocre AAA and you have to AAA cruisers, but one has the indication that he shoots down/assists/escorts capital ships a lot, the other lacks this. It might be that the first guy is a regular player and the second one a new one, but you will at least know that the first guy is much more likely to have a captain specced for AAA, and he's using premium consumables. Direct showcases of 'skill' is not what could replace XVM and keep toxicity levels low ( since this is already what XVM does right? ).

I got another suggestion: If you constantly load minutes late into battle, GO PLAY SOMETHING ELSE. I am so sick of having to report every frickin DD which loads minutes late into any match, leaving my team without ANY FFIN vision and immediately giving the enemy team way to much map control, And that's not even talking about domination games.... My second system, which is 8 years old, loads into battle just fine, NEVER late into a game. And it uses an HDD, and a fricking old dual core AMD cpu. You don't need a top of the line rig to play the game, not even close. Even my 'main' system is like 5 years old and runs WoWs at very high/max and loads with 45s+ to go in the countdown. WG should have way more strict system requirements, and if people don't meet them, tough luck. edit: That's one report in 30 matches, won't harm you in any way. But asking compensation for people who load in late -> HELL NO. Reports for BOT is what I give, even if you're not botting it's effectively what someone contributes to their team. So nah, if you're dead when you load in, contact WG and get them to fix whatever it is which causes your games to not load in time.

I made this suggestion in the form of 'gunmarks' like in WoT but then specialized fields like against planes/DD's for escort ships, spotted torpedo's/ships/assisted damage for DD's and so on.

Enjoy your life long ban, that statement is severely breaking your EULA and is punishable by law in more then a couple of countries. But hey, if it makes you feel good ( looking like an [edited]... ), be my guest

Sadly WG is against balancing by MM rules, or else we wouldn't have useless IJN top tier DD's right now ( useless is wrong, but in every way they lose from their USN counterpart ). But yeah, that is a team composition which would emphasize tactics a lot, allowing all classes to 'do their part' and all.

^^ Qft, wish I had more likes then this

1, too many players of all classes... Have you not been paying attention, do you lack any and all common sense? What are cruisers going to do when BB's wank off in the back? What are DD's going to do if BB's wank off in the back not supporting their cruisers so they can't support the DD's? Ow... yeah.... right.... 2. WG's intent seems quite clear with them looking at making BB's engage at closer ranger in order to facilitate a more dynamic game at the higher tiers.

Can you quote me saying that somewhere please? Also, so what if you could invisifire from long range with railguns with decent fire chance, that is what IJN DD's can do. Their ROF is so low though that I don't think you'll see many people using builds especially for gunboats on ships like the Shimakaze. The balance should be in the damage potential, high arc's high rof, and straight arcs low rof. That is why Zao works well from long range, and Des Moines likes it when it suddenly pops up at 11km, arc and rof difference. edit: I misread I guess, anyway, even with high rof and laser arcs you could hardly call it abuse when it's a 'feature' of the game

SunSkaRe just deleted my Zao with his Tirpitz, I had it coming though ( giving full broadside at 11 km where even Tirpitzes tend to shoot straight ). I tried to make it behind an island to stealth up but he rudely interrupted that with two turrets taking out my engine and half my hp, then the other turrets finished me off.

Which is why I don't use it with ships around, a single DD won't shoot it down without it getting spotted ( Gearing with defensive fire though... ). And yeah they have quite low health but I don't find them useless at all. I even pop them for enemy bombers while I don't expect much of it, it might panic a squad and that's always nice

Easy steps and the result would be enormous

bull crap, not making a loss when you win has NOTHING to do with what you done yourself. Just because team wins doesn't mean everyone shouldn't lose money. Yeah, that's why when WG did the test with lower repair costs every played really ... pretty much the same

I find this so funny, Invisi fire is NOT abuse, it is NOT toxic, it's a valid game mechanic so that this game doesn't resolve around RNG ( let's make them visible, just add lots of luck to if you can hit him or not ...... yeah let's not right ) of big guns.

Seems we don't agree which is fine Even if they are so popular due to playerbase demands, in game balance should still remain the first goal of the developers. If not, the game should be renamed World off Battleships. Then again, I just read WG is seriously thinking about submarines...

Well I want to be able to play cruisers aggressive because that's the complaint from BB's right. They HAVE to camp in the back because the cruisers don't support them. They HAVE to camp in the back because the DD's fire those overpowered torpedo's at them and there are no cruisers hunting the DD's. Sadly, when positioning halfway between BB's and DD's, if the BB's want to wank off in the back that mean's you a> are further then optimal from the DD's, hence they have less support and are more likely to loose the DD fight. b> with the DD's gone, suddenly the BB's think it's the cruisers job to spot for them while they continue wanking off in the back c> then the cruisers die because enemy BB's pushed up behind their team and are close enough to become increasingly accurate even against evading cruisers d> then the BB's type in chat: another noob team It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens with far greater rate then for instance, a game where the BB's are right behind or even in front of their cruisers supporting their team with both offensive damage AND making themselves a target to the enemy team. Even on mid tiers BB's are turning into snipers, though ofc this is a special weekend so I am hoping that will turn around again.

I think this is easilly explained, pape knows which part of the action are important and the NA CC didn't seem to. Which is obviously caused by a lack of familiarity, don't forget pape is also a player ( who plays competitive ). I had both streams on, dual screen ftw, but the difference in actually being able to follow most of the action was huge. This was aided in that pape had team panels with hp bars, which is a big plus, sadly he didn't have minimap with ship names ( iirc ) which makes it even easier for outsiders to follow the match/commentary because they can more easilly translate it to what they see on the screen and what is being said. Overall, there is lots of room for improvement which is NOT a bad thing ( unless it's not being picked up for the next time ). But, it was also fun to watch for the most part, just _FTD_ doing honor to his name was kinda funny as well .

Fighter plane makes smaller circles and is much handier then the spotter plane when you want to go around a corner and your spider sense is telling you there is danger nearby. I don't know many people, perhaps a few, who think the fighter plane's utility is in shooting down enemy bombers

[edited]it's nothing to do with economy it's because BB's CAN sit in the back and snipe, and people are selfish unless forced to act otherwise. GE BB's might have made it a tiny bit better, but it's still appalling. Just today I lost a game because some idiot sat on the A line in his Gneisenau the whole ffin game, sniping with a six gun GE turtleback BB ( against a Nagato... which would win a snipe fest do you think? ). That was our top tier BB, and he used it wrong allowing enemy BB's to focus allied cruisers because hey the other guy actually wanted to win and pushed up. WG should at the very least hurry up with a new economy, the Gneisenau due to his useless idiotic back line sniping ended up getting more xp then anyone else in the team, all because he played like a selfish [censored]. edit:

66% of games in BB's, with a 43% win rate in them is because of you, not because of stronger cruisers. The only one's you don't suck with are comparatively fast for their MM spread, indicating it's your positioning which is severely lacking. Ow and a 36% win rate in the Atago ( you know, one of those 'top of the three' ship type's ) doesn't correspond with your claims. How dare you use reason and facts in this discussion, don't you know about BB master race ( or BBabies, or BBmafia ) @cro_power I am not a scrub with cruisers, I don't think I need to l2p ( you can have a different opinion though, and that's fine ) so all your 'explanations' don't really help me. Let's division up with some tier 8/9 cruisers and play aggressive using your 'tips' and 'hints' I really want to see the results. Will we be able to be in front of our BB's and supporting our DD's, or do we have to wait in the back untill one off our BB's grows a pair and goes in to draw some fire so cruisers don't get insta focused and deleted because the allied BB's just wank off in the back. Cruisers as a class are fine, I absolutely agree. It's the players which is the issue.