JoeSparkx

Had to do a double-take, been ignoring the forums lately, I almost choked on my beer - a wicked waste. OP, the lack of cruisers and higher dd numbers has little to do with CV rocket balancing, which frankly is 2 years overdue for a whole host of reasons which I am sure have been thoroughly listed somewhere here. CL/CA numbers, especially CA have been declining even before deadeye, its just the meta atm, between CV's and BB's shi**ing all over cruisers, it's no longer fun to play them, and I used to be a cruiser main, Hindy was my first t10 back on release, but getting 1 shot from across the map, the nerfs via captain skills and my so called best in class AA being utterly useless when getting smashed by MVR/FDR etc (though CV is less an issue but still an issue). Is it any wonder people are avoiding Cruisers? DD's are harder to delete from 25km by backline campers, harder for CV's to hunt (assuming the dd is paying attention). For me its mainly the former, getting CV spotted and then wham - deleted from 20+km away. yeh, done with that, DD all the way now.

I like it, but then I play DD almost exclusively in that mode, got something like 500 intel unused. Shima is capable of 1-dumping any of the bb's. Shimas and Benhams are basically wreaking havoc with torpedo soups. Daring is very effective (especially in anti-dd role as theres no cruisers), gearing also good but less than daring. Been playing my Mogador in there also as its hilarious, using the 16km range build and farming.

Eh, i just put range mod in slot 6 after last nerf, got 27km range on it. I suspect that most other thundies did the same hence the second nerf. this will bring me to what? 25.5km? 12% reload is nice and all but i find being able to reach out and nuke you much better for my survival than getting too close where my non existent armour (yes the heal is strong but lets face it, its made from citadels) suffers.

I did exactly that about 10 days ago. got a 3 day chat ban, first offence in 6 years. so yes you can.

Bring a Halland

I prefer Shakespearian insults. Can't ban me if you haven't got the brains to understand what I say. Thine face is not worth sunburning. Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat. Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou! With that in mind, wow centric, Thou cannonry doth need considerable improvement Thine terminal ineptitude doth show itself Hast thou forgotten usage of thine W key?

Eh, I forgot the Yuen Yang, easy to forget, don't see many

"Ackchyually Jingles" Read Again. Tech Tree. I didn't count he freemiums, even if I did, that's only 10 classes, so, what's your point? I didn't count the freemiums as separate distinct classes or something against your liking? I stand corrected ont he Gearings service, there were over 100 commissioned, I lost the will to live looking at the list

Thats because both the UK and Commonwealth actually had Navy's that sailed past the end of their ports, and that their Navy's were worth a damn. The Daring class (Which the Vampire was with a few minor RAN changes) were one of the few tier 10's that actually existed (Only 8 Tech Tree tier 10's are actually real, obviously none of the Soviet ones). I believe the last Daring class was decommissioned in 2007, it was sold to some country and served there for quite a few years before being decommissioned. The Vampire is the only surviving Daring Class left I think. While I think it's a shame there are not more real ships ingame, I appreciate making techtree's is hard, not enough ships actually int he world designed by a country, what worries me is the possibility of 1970's upwards with missiles, and of course there will be a Soviet one with Granit missiles. Edit: come to think of it, the Daring Class is the most recent of the T10's to be in actual service, Don't think any of the others continued service beyond the 1990's

I went with Ohio instead, already have a daring, and Daring does Daring things better than the Vampire.

I vaguely recall WeeGee answering this a few years ago, the short version was; Impossible to do due to the maps and the game engine or something along those lines.

Karma has absolutely no effect on you or your account, do what most people do and ignore it. It used to have an effect but after people mass reported CV's all the time (because they are so fun and balanced, everyone loves the fun and engaging gameplay the bring) they essentially nerfed it and made it pointless, so just ignore it.

got my Haida geared and ready to rock

Hindens have taken over the role of Smolensks really, before the rework, smols could hit out to 19.6? i think it was and punish those backline campers, but with loss of AFT, hindens are simply better at it and have the armour to make it work with deadeye. Hindy was my first t10 and its still a fun ship, its quite versatile and flexable, which is why its adapted to this now.

think thats bad, try using torpedos. Bots have superhuman agility to dodge enemy torps at close range, but friendly torps they just waltz right into them, and i was careful about aiming, i didnt expect the bots to go charge in.

go play Tier 4 in randoms, you wont lack for opportunity.

they can, the problem is they tend to wipe the floor with whales who play coop, and given they spend lots of money, wg doesn't want to piss them off too much, whales being whales afterall.

Common sense? How dare you! On a serious note, most games don't do this either. I wouldn't expect anything groundbreaking from WeeGee, unless they figure put how to nickel and dime you some more through it.

That Ohio stole my 5th kill lol. I was spanking the kremlin and he got the kill, would of been a Kraken in ranked for me.

If it makes you feel better, after nearly 6 years of playing, admittedly sporadically, I got my first chat ban today for calling out a mouth breathing, CV playing moron for their exceptional ineptitude (who was bottom of the xp list, by a large margin). Although, 3 day chat ban for comparing someone's usefulness to the team to a condom machine in the Vatican seems a little harsh. WeeGee for you, Error 404 proportionality and common sense not found. or was it the Lion player who was partically stupid, suiciding intentionally and costing us the match I called out (who was also at the bottom)? who knows.

1, As part of WeeGee's TOS and Rules you agreed to their moderation of your discourse on their servers, you may have said something that was against their policies and/or TOS, and as you agreed to abide the TOS in order to play and post, you also agreed to the sanctions being levelled for violating them. 2, you main a DD it seems, perhaps some speshul snowflakes took umbrage with the 533mm love packages you sent them and you simply accrued enough misbehaviour in chat reports to get a 1 day ban. 3, Free speech isn't free, you still have to face the consequences for it. Free speech simply means in most places, free from govt. prosecution, within certain limits (IE inciting hatred, shouting fire in a crowded room or other legally defined limits).

Speccing anything for secondaries with the nerf atm is stupid. Oh Noes! Fun police couldn't kill someone! Someone Call WG CV balans team! it needs fixing! the outrage! Somebody think of the children!!!

nope. 1, not worth sinking dubs into, may change my mind if i so happen to get to stage 19 and then il think about it, haven't opened my wallet in quite a long time beyond premium account, but given I don't really bother with dockyard events, think the only time i seriously went for it was for the Graf Spee, cos lets face it, shes a fun ship and it was easy to get. So, nope, not playing dockyards, still have PR nightmares with that, every time I see it, i just see greedy wg rubbing its hands together with a bunch of stupid whales and wallet warriors falling for it, buying what they can't earn for the most part.

On the fence, have the RP, but also have a daring. Daring does Daring things better, 1v1 gunfight a Daring should win everytime, the heal and HP advantage makes the Daring better. Yes the Hydro is nice, but thats it, loss of a torpedo launcher limits its versatility the Daring has. That said qudos for it being a real ship, I like seeing new historical ships instead of magical pretend designs created by a navy that hardly sailed out of their harbours and that wouldn't even be able to sail in the real world or would simply capsize if its guns were ever actually fired *Cough*Kremlin/Petro/90%ussr line*Cough* ... Vampire II is sexy in appearance by dint of being a Sidegrade Daring, but less flexible.

Theres no downside to being Neg-repped so why bother caring. I stay silent in chat, do my thing, make people explode and go to the next match. no chat bans gained. I let my guns express my feelings, well except CV's, they get an automatic -1 as I've no other way of retaliating beyond playing my Halland ...