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Hah. Well rise of the robots is 49,955. Will it change at 50k or tomorrow? But if it does change tonight then it is because someone read this thread right?

Someone suggested this earlier when 1 of them turned gold and a second one went gold with 2 hours which poked a bit of a hole in it. Still doesn't disprove the theory but between this and the other servers I expect it is not totally arbitrary.

Festive soup is done. 7/10.

Seen a couple of people recently that I wasn't sure were forumites (didn't say hello) but have since seen that they are. First was Kastike when I was in my Bayern yesterday morning - he was on my team and we worked hard for the win. Can't remember the second guy but he was on the enemy team and a bit salty about how much support he had received... probably didn't need to include this... Then I saw Mangrey and if I remember correctly he was on the enemy team in his Scharnhorst and was the best thing about their team which failed hard - he made things look more respectable but he couldn't turn things around.

If they moved the +- 1 spread to tier 5 the Konig would potentially be OP. It is a really good ship... I just found it was too much of an ask to carry when you are -2 tiers on 80-90% of games. Here are my stats for Konig and Texas - you can also see NY/Kongo stats in brief but they are almost a year old - my Texas stats are much more recent (but still mainly before the tier split changes) and as such a relatively suitable comparator: Whilst I don't have much of a problem with the tier split in general they need to add some changes to artificially give tier 5 a reasonable spread of tiers. The current percentage of -2 tier games at tier 5 is just far too high.

Well, I haven't logged in since this 6th one went gold but they have never been instantaneous i.e. they turn gold and the awards are there a few hours later... perhaps half a day. I have however received the previous 5 awards.

Life and Soul is gold. 6/10

Haha love it. Nice work.

Konig is a good ship but is a victim of the tier 5 horror show MM. My damage in it far exceeds all other tier 5 BBs (including the Texas) but the win rate is the lowest of any BB I have grinded and elited. There is an increased BB presence currently which will account for the higher damage but my point is I had no problem getting that damage I just couldn't influence the outcomes enough to get the wins.

What? He has 2600 battles including 120 at tier 10!

I don't understand giving up and not helping. If someone wants to get salty in chat so be it but I'll keep doing my thing until I'm dead or the game ends.

You need to be looking at http://www.worldofwarships.eu to see which are gold - your personal achievements don't change. If you still aren't seeing them change then it has to be browser/cache issues.

I'm only 3 games into my Bayern (free XP B hull) so I have limited experience but I enjoyed 2 games where I performed well and had a 3rd game where everything missed but my team collapsed anyway so it didn't matter so much. I just unlocked the FCS but haven't played a game with the extra range and I need to get the propulsion but it is only 5k XP so shouldn't take long. I don't believe in skipping ships so I can't make myself recommend that route but the Bayern escapes some of the atrocious MM that is sucking the fun out of tier 5 at the moment. The Konig is a decent ship and I got her to perform pretty well but it is my worst BB win rate of any that I have grinded through to elite. That extra tier higher seems to drag you away from this soul-destroying bottom tier slug fest where you really struggle to carry as much as you need to do in many games. I expect this will be a less painful grind than the Konig and the hit and miss accuracy should get me prepped for the Gneisenau as well

No. Not without a rework of the captain skills.

I didn't think that was possible?

Whilst I appreciate effort looking at improvements it still looks like people are whining about a ship they have bought in the full knowledge of what already it is - a Hipper clone with commander XP boost (obviously only helps KM captains). This ship does have that unique quality but it one that does not affect the ship's in-game performance directly and that is why people are unhappy. But, since you know all of this information before you buy it you shouldn't complain about what you have in your port.

Saipan is a great ship and earns decent credits well. I expect that with 3/0/1 you will gimp your credit earning potential but you shouldn't really be running that setup in randoms. Also see: And:

I play my high tier ships because I enjoy them.. or sometimes because I am grinding past them to an even more expensive ship. I'm a ways off it but I don't expect I will enjoy the Baltimore overly much but I will still play it because I want the Des Moines. There is a huge obsession from some people to always be earning a profit and I don't entirely understand it. As long as I have enough to buy the next ship then I don't care if I sometimes lose some credits in a tier 10 game. As for getting punished with stock grinds, I have 2 words for you - 'free' and 'experience'. Everyone gets it without having to spend a penny. Some people just don't use it effectively.

They seem to be really grasping at straws with how to give the RN CLs a unique flavour... I was always sceptical about the smoke as although they can be dealt with in many ways (torps, radar etc) most the player base is too stupid to be able to counter them reliably. But, I feel this last second change will not necessarily end well and will lead to further balancing down the line.

Kamikaze planes would surely be high damage?

You can sort of read about it here i.e. the criteria for getting some: http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/common/wows-1st-bday-achievements/ But, since it doesn't tell you what it gives you, you are much better checking out the NA portal which tells you how they give +333% commander XP per battle: http://worldofwarships.com/en/news/common/b-day-coming/

12 pt captain and then the dragon flags. I'm going to have so many nice captains

Big Roll just went gold making it 2 in the space of about 3-4 hours today.

So what reward do we get this time? Is it another 5 crap camos or are they going to mix it up and give us 12 credits?

I've only played up to tier 8 CVs but mine still perform adequately. I do get in some games and find that half of the ships are horrible targets and if the other ships are near them then they are also horrible targets but you just have to appraoch the games carefully and do what you can against the best targets. I'm certainly not at the point where I hang up my CV playing gloves...