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If the game is actively 'trying' to keep everyone at 50% then how awesome do you need to be in order to beat the game and get to say 60% or even 70%. It would be impressive enough generally, but with the game actively fighting against you it makes it even more impressive right?

I did actually go through my results and it turns out there was 2 games with 5 DDs, My mistake. Here is a table of how many DDs there were per game in the 16 games I played before I made my comment: Number of Destroyers in match 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Number of occurances 0 2 7 5 2 0 0 16 games and a total of 55 destroyers seen. That means an average of 3.44 destroyers per game... so 1.72 per team. That is my experience of ranked - not 'totally dominated by DDs' by any stretch. Here are the screenshots to prove it (warning: wall of screenshots incoming!) p.s. I wouldn't say you are full of crap - you are just crap. But if you insist in taking a bottom tier cruiser into ranked it is not too surprising that you will struggle. At least you have quit because even with a 50% chance of you being on the enemy team I would hate to have the possibility of you being a team mate.

I didn't know it was possible to make the game look that bad. Truly I am amazed at the difference between the bottom and the top of the graphics settings.

Also, if playing tier IX what are the average tiers of your opponents?

Well that guy is an idiot. Coming top of the losing team only means you are treading water. You need to win if you want to progress...

Thoughts so far: I started rank 17 and moved to 15 quickly. For tier 5-6: Fuso is still a monster Weird placement of flags on strait Not much else to say. Teamwork worse than 6-7 so far? Moved onto rank 15 and generally its gone pretty well: Blyskawica without CE is potentially a bit of a liability. I'm confident in a 1-1 engagement with any DD really but getting spotted early and getting heavily focussed by the entire opposition is... problematic. I'm enjoying CV play in ranked. Hiryu is king. Between the odd Ranger (lol), people running the wrong setup, weak captains (i.e. no 5th skill) and people not just not being very good I have only had 1 game where I have felt that I didn't 'win' the air fight (it was a draw). CV damage is low, but getting the DDs dead is invaluable. You don't come top in CVs really - so if your team loses... you lose a star. Saipan... No chance without 5 skill captain. 5 skills with AS can be annoying to a Hiryu... but it is still inferior to AS Hiryu with a 5 skill captain. For me, I need about 30k exp to get the 5th skill but now I have played against both air wings I'm not in as much of a rush to get the 5th skill. New Dawn - probably responsible for most of my losses. It is really hard trying to get people to work as a team on this map. Far far too often you end up with people sitting behind the islands whilst you slowly get pushed away from both flags. It doesn't matter how much you plead with people to get stuck in... and actually half of the time you get just enough players to work together that it becomes a liability. For now I'm going to stick with my Hiryu. currently running 71% WR in tier 7 ships and if I can maintain anything like that I will hit rank 1. I'm not convinced I can make Blys work without being a bit of a spectator until late game. If Hiryu becomes problematic I will buy a BB... currently sitting on 20 mil so it isn't a problem for me. General thoughts on teamwork... better than randoms. Better by far. But, when there is problems with teamwork they are more apparent than random games. I think a big thing for me is to try and get *some* teamwork whilst accepting that it just won't be perfect.

Ah come on... as soon as I change mine from link (was in my sig) to public it ends up back in Aslains. back to link I reckon.

Excellent news. This has made my weekend.

Saw Strangers123 in his Hiryu yesterday. I was in mine running 3/1/2 to his 2/2/2. Despite one of our cruiser proclaiming an 'auto-lose' we won. Saw JapLance twice in 2 games this morning. We won both pretty comfortably with him providing some heroic AA in the second game to keep me alive. The guy who had tried to make me not alive was Ragweek on the other side in his Saipan. He spent all game trying to snipe me and eventually had to deal with our Sims who had been great. He killed the Sims and got all salty in chat about how the Sims was a failure - he capped both caps, helped deal with their DDs and the enemy BBs, only turning on the Saipan at the end so I thought he was pretty decent. When I pointed out it was a bit of a pot and kettle situation he started calling me a noob for running AS. I had to console myself with our easy win after such an insult.

Generally less idiots and max DDs I've see is 5 (once). Sometimes 2 and usually 3-4. Stop making stuff up about a game mode you are not playing.

Clear sky in my Hiryu. Die. 2v2 remaining. Our hatsuhari shoots at a Nagato which only lets its secondaries find him and his 387 health. Luckily he torps said Nagato for his third kill. He did well but fucked up at the end. 1v1. Our 1357 health Pensa runs too close to their Hiryu... that has no planes. 2 CQEs later and we lost. I quit until tomorrow.

Played 2 yesterday morning. On first lost with top XP which was as nice as a loss gets. On second we won but I thought I got everyone to agree to a plan and then 1 guy got 1 shotted and 3 other players did their own thing and left me horribly exposed. We won but we could have done so much more easily with some coordination... That pushed me to rank 16... will see what today brings

You are doing it wrong.

What I liked was the link to the developer blog... not updated since last July.

The event is this weekend. They put up half an article about the weekend announcing the missions and winners of the lucky dips: http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/special/gnb-wrap/ If you look in the comments section it says that article will be updated to include the modifiers.

So, standard behaviour then... The announcement will appear at some point...

You get plenty of free XP without converting by just playing the game. If you can afford to and want to convert XP for dubloons then great but it totally isn't necessary. Here is my guide to free XP: Don't spend it on crap. This includes never spending it to unlock the next ship - play a few more games instead! Free XP is for modules and only modules. When buying a new ship find out if it is terrible stock or acceptable - there are plenty of ships that you don't need to use any free XP on and if you don't have to spend it... don't spend it! If your new ship does needs some help getting into a playable state, find out what modules will fix the major problems - don't free XP all of the modules. For example, on a CV you might want to free XP to upgraded fighters immediately but you don't need to waste free XP for the TBs/DBs. On the Fuso you need to get away from A hull ASAP but you don't need to get other upgrades as the Fuso will earn great XP and upgrade itself v quickly. It is all common sense stuff but some people are impatient and waste all of their free XP only to complain when stuff like this happens. I find it hard to be sympathetic. Nope. See above. And does stock just mean no upgrades? Someone could buy the Ranger, upgrade the hull and still be essentially stock (no flight decks, no upgraded planes). So do they face full MM?

And yet you are still here sucking the life out of the forum for everyone.

Yea negative karma score doesn't exist - you can get negative reports against you but once your total sits at 0 it will go down no further. I once got mine to 6 but then it went back to 0. It has been at 1 for over a month and then the other night it went to 2 so recently it has been relatively stable. That being said I only check it about once a week so it might move around more than I see.

Add to that the fact that DDs wouldn't be able to just disappear from sight (no ships would), the speed, the reload, the accuracy, secondary gun ranges and about a hundred other things and it really is an arcade game and as such you shouldn't be expecting things like historical fleet compositions. Historical information obviously does have a big place in the game for loads of aspects from modelling, armour, armaments, speeds etc but not at the expense of balance and fun. But history should not be used as an argument for any aspect of this game because it just doesn't work. The fact is too many of any class is not an ideal situation although it is more noticeable with BBs/DDs but I make this assertion based on how it impinges on fun/balance.

I fall foul of making snarky replies but usually it is in response to what I see as snarky posts in the first place. I probably should rise above it more but it can be hard not to be. Also, there are plenty of posts and threads that appear that look something like: imagined nerfs (no proof) pre-determined fire/citadel chance at game starts (no proof) mm deliberately targeting an individual to make them lose (no proof) aim bots on every opponent (no proof) ...and usually these don't deserve constructive replies. Not that I haven't tried - not that many people haven't tried but people who develop these "theories" are often really deeply entrenched in them. As others have stated people asking for advice and help are pretty much always going to get help from the community... but people whining, people presenting factually incorrect information and/or people being aggressive/rude are likely to not receive a reply that is both pleasant and constructive.

You cannot make this a historical re-enactment in this arcade game so why the hell would you want to have historical fleet compositions?

No, this is what happens when you look at 1 screenshot and make sweeping judgements. I'm at work but I'll maybe try do a couple of tier 10 games when I get home. I only have BBs at tier 10 so I'll contribute to this 'problem' and see if my games show a similar number of BBs/game.

For you to create a new account requires them to do nothing. For you to play it on your existing account requires them to do something.

You have to question how the Ranger made it into C tier. It is properly trash tier. I mean, I hope plenty of people do use it* because it will be an easy CV opponent but nobody with any sense will use it... EDIT: to clarify, I only hope people use it when I'm in my CV. I hope no one on my team uses it if I'm in a another ship!