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Ok. I concede - if you want to use the anti detonation flag in all of your games then yes, an active player won't have enough. However, if you choose to use your anti detonation flags on the more vulnerable ships then you need less. If you are talking about people who only play DDs and play them a lot then they are a minority. If they provided enough anti detonation flags that every play could put them on every ship for every game they played then they have wasted their time introducing the mechanic and a flag to counter it.

I'm not claiming it to be an unconscious decision. I of course agree with you that it was a conscious decision and it would have taken more effort to put a system in place that allows for variation. They will also have known that there would be some complaints because I have yet to see an event that hasn't had some people complaining at some point. Some people always want more and some people are never happy. However, it is the number of people who are unhappy and the volume of their protests that may well be a shock and a) far higher than what they would expect and b) is hopefully beyond what they think is acceptable.

Thank you for the response. It doesn't answer the questions but I didn't expect an initial response to answer everything. But it is good to know that the feedback has gone back and it is being discussed. I will keep my eyes peeled for any official response to the feedback you have passed on.

You exaggerate. You earn them in battles and missions at a huge rate. I'm surprised if anyone needs to buy any!

I have 0.88% detonations but I use anti detonation flags in DDs. I don't mind them. I did apologise to the full health Iowa I detonated 3 days ago with my first salvo of the game - 1 shell was a citadel... don't know if that or another one caused the detonation. Got called a cheat for it... but not by the guy I killed.

It is weird how this issue repeatedly generates topics in the forum and yet I spent years playing WoT which has the same mechanic and never saw much fuss made over it at all...

The problem I have is that I am in a clan for WoT... but only about 6 people play WoWs and they have largely stopped. But, I don't want to leave my clan in order to join a WoWs one...

The Shima team won surely? Not even lower tier DD opposition to get in the way and spot you. It should have been a cake walk for your team.

I expect the reward for the 3x will be everyone.

Personally I like the fact that you need to say 'I want to be a part of this'. If people can't manage that then they don't deserve the chance of getting the Kamikaze that you could probably stumble into by just playing enough.

No. I do not have an ego problem. As I said in my post it was you who said that one day I may be able to join the elite. THAT is ego. It was only after the game I saw that your stats were worse than mine. And I did not 'camp all game'. From the start I pushed towards A at full speed until I made contact with the enemy. From there on out I kept the enemy generally at about 10-15 km (where 3 of my kills came from) although the DDs certainly got closer. I was outnumbered and outgunned and yet managed to stay alive long enough to make a good account of myself. That is not camping. You on the other hand went B and got yourself into a situation you couldn't get out of and died. And you died early. Should I have been in B looking after you? I could play that game 100 times and I would still never head from spawn to B in my Iowa. I'm not claiming I made perfect choices - we did lose after all. Our team was crap. But I had a decent game in a crap situation. It was me and our Fletcher sat top of our team and that was because it was me and the Fletcher did the most. My problem with your comments in that game were that you rounded on me - not the rest of the team, half of which YOLO'd to their deaths without doing anything to help.

Yep. It all sucks pretty hard. But if you are focussing on yourself then the reality is you want as few participants as possible so more pearls = better. Yep, but there is a very low bar to pass to get involved in this. You actively have to sign up on the project-r page otherwise you earn 0 pearls. Now, I expect a huge volume of players will do that... but given the intelligence of some of our player base I think we will also be playing alongside some of the mouth breathers who won't have taken this small first step...

You had 18 people speak up to say they used it? I think you set a record for the number of different people chatting in a game - usually it is about 4 max!

Maximum number of players necessary surely? Not minimum. The minimum would be 1... or if the time limit is too tight then the minimum would be more. The more people who get over 150 pearls, the less people who can get 150.

Well, if you didn't have bad luck you wouldn't have any luck at all

Ah, missed that. Thank you. Well, it is for all participants. So, even if you can't be bothered earning 150 pearls, you can get all of the rewards for signing up and then carrying on as normal seeing as you earn a pearl for winning a battle. EDIT: argh the link didn't load for me properly as it didn't think i was logged in. Ok. I have now checked all of the link and understand all of the rewards.

what a joke. not only is it random but there isn't even a sense that if you get 1k pearls you are ANY more likely to get the ship than someone who gets to 150 and stops. I'll try my hand getting it because..new ship but I don't like that having got there it is in the hands of the gods. And what do you get if you get over 150 pearls and not the ship - is there an alternate lower prize for people for investing in the competition?

I have lost 3 turrets in my Tirpitz before and 2 out of 3 in my NC and Izumo... but never every single turret. But, even if that happens I only tell my team mates... no point announcing to the enemy that you can't fight back!

I call CVs torping DDs in ranked 'helping the team'. Far better use of time than chasing their opponent CV... On a side note I got called a kill-stealer by a CV in ranked yesterday after he left a Mogami on 3k health (repaired) as it was 11km away from me heading straight for me in my NC. Apparently I Was supposed to leave him alone whilst the CV's planes went back to the 2 line to re-arm and return to the fight

With regards to 1) not only do I think it is too soon for the lessons to be learned an extra week or so break from ranked would be nice. I do enjoy ranked as a change of pace from randoms, but I also like to play a wider selection of ships than I can in ranked seasons - I currently just spend a lot of time in my NC... which I was just spending a lot of time in for season 2! 2) yep, again I agree. It would have been nice that even if it is the jolly roger there was perhaps some marks under the skull and crossbones to denote how many times you have achieved it... or perhaps hull markings? Something. 4) and 5) kind of touch on the same thing. It was hinted there might be extra rewards for season 2 which would have been nice since mentioned but tbh I don't really care about too much. But, given there was a round-up of season 1 I was fully expecting one for season 2. It might be the only time my name appears in such a list and just appearing in a news article on the home page would have been nice. 6) Yes, the crossover is frustrating - I am pretty active but it is a lot of things to focus on in a limited amount of time and that is before I think about my progression up the tech tree. If they had done a proper round up (5) then that would have given us all a bit of a break from ranked (1), allowed us to progress the ARP missions (6) and potentially given them time to do something about the prize of the jolly roger (2). This break and improved jolly roger alternative might have increased people's enthusiasm for getting stuck back in again which would help with queue times (3). So a lot of the... annoyances about season 3 could have been negated by just taking their time a bit.

Congrats to everyone who got one

I would have said the Colorado and Izumo but the Colorado post buff is very capable - the poor reputation it still seems to have is residual and not deserved. Also, the Izumo is solid enough BB - great accuracy and can take a pounding when played correctly. It really is nowhere near as bad as I feared it would be. On a side note... and I have no idea whether it underrated but the Langley is troll level 1000. Having decided to start the USN CV line I have been amazed how well it can perform - today I was against a Hosho and Zuiho and some simple barrage attacks completed smashed the Zuiho's tier advantage and I claimed clear sky (yet again - easy to farm with this) and 90k damage. I can hard carry at tier V in it.

Did it start at 0 and move there? Or was it already above 0 when it got implemented? I know I certainly gave you a compliment (maybe 2) during last season's ranked battles.

If people play in the wee small hours to get 150 plane kills then they are mental. 150 is not a lot.

My karma has sat steadfastly at 0 since being introduced. I do well in quite a lot of games. I do badly in some. I type in chat when I notice people doing well. I rage in chat in occasion when I feel people's actions warrant it. I use some reports and some compliments every time I play. ​ I find it really hard to believe that I have not received some reports - good or bad! And if this is the case then I don't know how I could possibly have threaded a line of keeping it neutral every day for a week.