colonelhess

Hey guys, I heard that there is an overpopulation problem concerning battleships which isn't directly tied to the recent release of the British BB tree. I thought I would suggest that if you get an imbalance such as that present a meaning full XP boost for the less populated ships such as Cursers for example, that way it would be less of a grind for people to hop in and try them out. This boost could correspond with the current population so as it evens out you could normalise the boost until it hits zero. As a note I would strongly advice against having slower XP gain for over populated ships as all it would do would be to punish people for liking one tree more then another, something you desperately want to avoid. I know my suggestion would result in new players with less skill appearing in higher tier slots, but in the end I feel that this happens anyway with Premium ships and the advantage of normalizing the populations would be greater than the problem of ending up with a few more bad players in tier 8. Besides even with my suggestion people would still have to play the ships and as such they would likely pick up a little skill and perhaps get a taste for a ship branch they wouldn't have tried otherwise.

Hey guys, I don't post much but I thought I would weigh in on this. Now, I’m a big time heavy tank driver in World of Tanks and (in my own mind at lest) a fairly successful Maus driver, as well as being an almost all Battleship Captain in World of Warships. I see a lot of people here talking about repeat topics concerning torpedoes being OP and a great many members of the local angry shouting mob providing their always useful input, my thoughts on that would be a matter of “If a lot of people are saying there is a problem, they might just be a problem” now I’m just a simple man of the Heavy armour disposition but it seems to me that the fact that a lot of people see a problem is not evidence that the problem does not exist, in fact it might just mean the opposite. Continuing on to the subject of Battleships, I see a number of people asking why we don’t get up the courage to get close? The answer would lie in torpedoes, when a battleship gets too close to almost anything else in the game it stands a very strong chance of getting a lot of torpedoes sent its way at a very short range. In addition torpedoes can be dropped at a range of around 6 yards from the side of a Battleship, this makes Battleships again very easy targets. As for coordination, it quite simply cannot be expected from this community at all times. That may be a cruel thing to say, but perhaps it will induce more people to check their maps and communicate with their peers in order to prove me incorrect. As for a fix, all I can suggest is a small reduction on deck fires, a grouping of battleship fire spread and so on. As for destroyers, they should have less range on their torpedoes or should have less resistance to being hit by battleship guns, however if this was to be implemented then my first suggestion of a tighter shot grouping for battleships would be unfair and unneeded and so should be left out. Perhaps the greatest problem of all is that Cruisers don’t often go after the Destroyers as much as they should, I decided to walk on the other side, a mile in Cruisers shoes as it were and I was able to clear most of the Destroyers from the map with little effort and sink two battleships with my torpedoes, after which my comrades were able to take victory, I feel that the Cruisers provide a critical role to this game and much of a teams success depends on their good work, but once again this comes down to player skill and their willingness to play out their role: Battleships destroy Battleships and help cover Cruisers from other Cruisers. Cruisers destroy each other and Destroyers. Destroyers hunt down and destroy Battleships and Aircraft Carriers with Torpedoes. Aircraft Carriers hunt down and destroy Cruisers and Battleships with their Torpedoes. (bombs are also an option but with the Torpedoes being more powerful and easy to use I would just suggest using the first.) These are my thoughts, I hope no one finds them too offensive and I look forward to reading the rest of this thread. Regards, Colonel Hess,