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Also, you are aware of the new matchmaker right? The one that arrives in the next patch?

If you insist on having mixed tiers in your division this type thing is more likely to happen (particularly point 4 about the BB matching)

I am not getting much time to play and Ranked is a rollercoaster of emotions. It is largely because a loss hurts you a lot more than randoms - it might annoy you in randoms but in the end you shrug it off. Even with the introduction of top player not losing a star it is still far too often that a good performance results in you losing the hard work of two games (the one you lose and the previous win). It is too easy to spend perhaps 2 hours playing and end up exactly where you started or potentially even worse off. Very demoralising. I've been at rank 10 for, I would guess, about 15 games and I'm still stuck in the middle of the rank. I gave up on getting to rank 1 a long time ago - even when I was rocking a 70% WR the sheer volume of stars need for rank 1 required too many games and my WR has dropped from there (increasing the games required). I know my gaming time has reduced but I still feel like they have pitched the # of games requirements too high - I could have found more gaming time if it looked like I might make it... but it is so far from being a maybe that I stopped believing I might get there by the time I got to about rank 13. Despite all of that I am still playing it at the expense of randoms and will continue for the rest of this week... hopefully I can hit 9 or even 8 and get a couple of extra rewards. Perhaps the realisation of my inability to get to rank 1 has actually dampened some of the pain of a stupid loss. If I was really pushing for rank 1 it would be a heart-attack inducing experience of rage and frustration at some of the things I witness. In the game last night where our radar equipped indi YOLOd literally into the middle of the map within 3 minutes (4 DDs each side!) and that was followed up by a TK from another team member I can tell you that the rage in me is still there.

I wish they would at least call them shells and not bullets...

Met P4RDUS last night twice. Firstly he was in my team and we had a well fought win. Second time he was on the opposition... with another forumite that I forget the name of. I can't remember that game specifically... perhaps it was the one where I stupidly ate 4 torps early on but my memory is terrible. Then after that I had 3 games in a row with robihr as my team mate. They really did epitomise the frustrations that I have with ranked games - 1 game included a YOLOing Indianapolis (4 enemy DDs and he literally sails into the middle of New Dawn and dies within 3 mins of round start) and a teamkill in the same game. The next game was a win but not before all the DDs did their own thing and in the end left robihr horribly exposed and he died. Looked like a loss but we clawed it back - but it was in no way an enjoyable win. The final game we lose half of our DDs piecemeal with them fighting 1v3 and when we lose 1 DD the next decides it is his turn to fight 1v3 and dies. In the middle of it the Pensa sits side on to their BBs and within a few minutes of the start it is 7v4.

Horrible idea and totally open to abuse. and 3-8 minutes between games? Wut? Not all of us have such an amount of gaming time that we can waste that kind of time between games...

I can't see how they could prevent such an occurrence? But then couldn't you argue that a team playing team battles with TS has an advantage over any not using voice comms?

I'm generally happy with my move to Colorado. As expected I feel like I contribute more. Made it to rank 10 yesterday and then moved like a yo-yo between 10 and 11 for the rest of my games. Went to bed 0 stars on rank 10. I don't know whether it is the same time as previous seasons but it feels less to me. Or perhaps there are more stars needed but I know that hitting rank 1 is impossible for me... there just isn't enough time. Which is a huge shame.

Probably just me being crap in it... but I feel too much of a burden currently and that is something that should help. As I half expected I moved from CVs to BBs and that is where I am going to stay. I can be more confident in my contribution in a BB. But another season @ 7 and I'll have the Blys ready.

Sorry, I was unclear - I have edited my post because I meant the Blyskawica struggled without CE. I guess both the Blys and Mahan have pretty terrible surface detection now I come to think of it but the Blys turns badly too. I discounted my Mahan as an option before the season started (think I have a 14 point captain on her) because of the gun arcs but I thought I could make the Blys work... and it will just when I have got the captain trained better

The Blyskawica is very good but I've given up using mine with a 10 point captain. It is fine in randoms but I feel I am too much of a liability in ranked being spotted so easy. EDIT: for clarity

I saw a Pensacola last night in ranked. He fired at me at 15km and I fired back.. 3 citadels = devastating strike + first blood and it set us up nicely for a win

Met Phlogistoned (Blyskwica) on my team in ranked. It all sounded organised in chat but somehow wasn't - either I misread the flags or everyone said yes to B+C and did their own thing... but I sailed towards C in my Colorado on Tears of the Desert and then spent most of my time in a fighting retreat towards the islands behind B. I was in limited danger due to only facing 2 CAs at about 12km (breakfast) and long range fire from their 2 back line BBs. Phlogistoned died relatively early but we had command of A and B and seemed to have a comfortable time of things for the duration of the game. That was win 2 of a mighty 4 win streak in ranked pushing me to rank 11... then a loss that left me with 0 stars on 11 this morning.

I'm going to store this away for the next time some cries 'WG WHY YUO NEVER LISTEN TO THE PLAYERS?!'

Of course he is entitled to post after 45 battles in a ship. Stop being ridiculous. Also you say And with 45 battles in Warspite compared to my 200 you should not even be posting on this thread. and then follow it up with I have no problems with what you write as long as you respect the opinion of everybody equally - do you see the irony? I expect not:/ There are plenty of people who come to the forum complaining about this being broken or that needing fixing and as soon as you look at the stats you can see that the problem is not with the ship but with the player. For example, if the server average damage for the Warspite is 46k and yet someone saying it is weak only manages 30k dmg, 0.6 k:d and 20% survivability then you can see that there is something fundamentally wrong with how they they are using the ship. Or you can see that all their other ships are tier 3 and they are perhaps out of their depth. It isn't about stats bashing in the sense of admonishing someone with 10% less win rate and it isn't about insulting someone who has less experience in a ship - it is about using the figures to see if there is a reason why someone is struggling with a ship that the majority do fine in.

The Warspite is a decent enough ship. My only slight issue with the Warspite is its inability to bounce anything. It takes damage from anything that hits and burns very easily (and as Damanta mentions the 5 seconds of repair party makes fire a real threat to this ship). The speed, the range, the turret traverse are all things I can work with but when you a) limited range and b) limited ability to get out of hairy situation my wish is that it could tank just a little better. It does annoy me to see people complaining at the turret traverse speed. Sure it is shocking but the ship itself turns very nicely and there is this thing called 'planning' and what it does is allow you to minimise the affects having to switch your guns to the other side of the ship.

I got my free goodies. No idea how I managed to hit the criteria and I feel bad for those that didn't... but I will have to just drown my sorrow in with the freebies I got...

I'm moving to Blys/Colorado for ranked starting tonight. Hiryu last night was a horror show - 5 out 6 were losses. 1 I screwed up and got my ship sailing where I shouldn't so it should have been 4 out of 6 but the CV hate is becoming all too real. It is relatively easy to get clear sky, spot the enemy DDs and to lock out many an attack but it seems if your team take 1 torp then it has to be your fault... it doesn't matter if your planes are re-arming (and recovering from losses). You should have been there. What there is an Atlanta the other side of an island stopping you getting close even if your fighters were in the air? NOT GOOD ENOUGH. You see people like like Lemasive trying to claim CVs are too OP in ranked but you essentially have to run AS in ranked and your damage potential plummets. What CVs can excel at in ranked is force protection and spotting of DDs - particularly if you can get the enemy DDs killed early... but often the kill is achieved by someone else. CVs enable your team to get the upper hand but god dammit if some teams just refuse to take that advantage or squander it later on. I'm hoping that as a DD/BB I can actually get the damage in at critical moments to decide a game.

The video said is was for 9-10 ships so I assume the 7 and 8 ships are only affected when they are in with 9 and 10 ships. It means an inevitable reduction in the number of standard games at 7-8 though.

The free port slut is definitely welcome... I have been doing ok in Ranked without a BB but if I need to buy one I am (or was) clean out of slots to put it in.

It appeared to be more successful... should have checked my credit balance before doing it though...

No official response yet? FWIW I got the email but it was unsuccessful. I thought it looked like a new player email so was pretty baffled that I got sent it (since they really should know I am an active player and have been for some time!) but to find out it has worked for some current players and not for others is twice as baffling. Then to top it off with there being no clear pattern to who got the email in the first place and you are right up there at 4x the bafflement which is standard WG policy...

Rank 12 because I don't get enough time to play. Progress has been going as well as or even better than I could have expected. Not sure that I can keep it up but will keep trying. EDIT: my concern is that a 3 week season window is not that long especially considering the number of games needed for rank 1 - think you need ~57 stars to get from 12 to 1...

Snuck in 4 games last night for 3 wins which made me get to rank 12. I do find it an incredibly stressful game though - some people just seem to play so conservatively and whilst there has to be an element of that, so many people literally watch their team mates die and then complain when they are left 3 against 6. And then sometimes you have a go at the Ognevoi sitting behind the CV (I'm not even joking) because what they are doing is ridiculous and then they sneak in at the end get a cap, kill a 2k health ship and finish second and the scoreboard seems to give them positive verification of their playstyle. Makes me mad.

You shouldn't really be using ranked as a credit generator. I've been playing lots of CVs in ranked but due to the different nature of the game it (reduced team sizes and perhaps a slightly more team-focussed approach to playing) you just can't do too much of the things that earn the credits. If you want credits from CV playing you really have to go randoms and farm damage. I know this is kind of your point, but I feel it will be difficult to balance plane kills and spotting as credit earning options and still won't make ranked a huge earner because there are 5 less enemy ships to do things to. My experience playing against them in my Hiryu has been 100% victory rate.