Xevious_Red

Theres's no real reason why WG would want to screw you over (what would they gain financially?). However theres's enough player bots for grinding, and then theres's players who are just terrible. Unfortunately since theres no requirements to go up a tier beyond xp/credits, even the worst players can get to high tier eventually. Faster if they give WG money for prems/xp conversion. Wowp had bots on teams (still does) that were designed to be human like (presumably so you didnt get depressed from being the only actual person on a team), so would periodically put something into chat like "hey xxxx want to division?" Or "first time flying this". The worst part is that although they were stupid, predictable, and easy to beat they were still about 10x better than an actual terrible player. AI bots in ships would actually be a welcome replacement for some players - the co-op bots at least push, head to caps, and attempt to avoid torps. They're also ok at shooting people going in a straight line.

They changed the smoke recently so ships have a detected in smoke when firing range now. For most destroyers its 2-3km but for the MK its 7.7km iirc This means if at some point you're sat in smoke firing, a destroyer can come and get withing 7.7km of you and you'll become spotted

In England its £2.40 for 200ml or £4.65 for 400ml. So thats €2.70 or €5.23 I don't know how much shipping would be, and therefore if its cheaper to get someone to post you some.

I always thought it was there so terribad players had a chance at sinking something. So yes their Gneis would suffer meeting fletchers, but would get to pick on omahas and furutakas. I suspect if it was changed to be same tier there would be the same ammount of complaints, just instead they would be about how its not fair the myoko has 10 guns while they have 6, and why cant they have lower tiers to shoot.

I keep the langley around for precisely missions like this - get plane kills, do torp bomber hits etc etc. Its not even like the langley is hard to play (just click on stuff), nor do you get any grief (low tier arent really toxic)

Had a game yesterday 3 cap domination on islands of ice, 3 DD per team. Enemy team went 3/3/6 to A/B/C. Our team went me/me some more/11 to A/B/C. By the time I died Id sunk 3 ships and captured both A and B. My team had killed nothing and had instead lost 5 ships, while failing to take C. The remaining 6 ships then decided to sail back to our spawn, and sail all the way north to A. We lost with me doing all the teams capping, and getting 50% of the kills

A cruiser or BB becomes detected if they fire in smoke if an ally (or you) are close enough. The distance they are detected at varies from ship to ship. A neptune is 6.5km. A tirpitz is 15km. If you would like to detect them, simply get closer (or get an ally to get closer). You can also use hydro, or radar to detect through smoke. However, theres a much easier way: When they fire, you see the shells. Although you cant see the ship, you can still shoot it. So just watch where the shells are coming from are fire at that area (remember guns are on the deck, so you'll want to aim a little lower). Use the spotting aircraft to get a better angle for ease of shooting.

What other ships have you tried it on? Works fine on all mine

Easy way to remember it is any captain can go in a premium ship of the same nation without needing any retraining. For someone to captain a silver ship they need to be trained in it. For example my des moines captain can happily go into Atlanta, sims, indianapolis without any retraining since theyre all premium ships. I could even put him in the saipan if I really wanted. However my tipitz captain could NOT go into a bismark without retraining since its a silver ship and hes not trained in it

Ok, so you're this guys friend. He knows you. You know the game well. You can explain it to him in ways you know he will understand. You can go into game with him and show him how its done. You can advise him when/where to do something. You can repeat it if he doesn't get it. You can phrase it differently. You can answer his questions directly. Despite this 1 on 1 tutoring, you still can't get him to understand it. How the hell are WG going to make something that is better at educating him than 1 to 1 tuition with someone who he knows? Now WG certainly need some extra training stuff, carriers for example are a mess for a new player if you dont have an experienced existing player explaining it. However, theres only so much you can do to explain something to someone who just doesnt want to learn. And there are lots of players that don't want to learn - some simply don't care, its an idle thing to occupy 20 minutes. They care about wows about the same amount other people would care about solitare. Some are happy with their level of play. They get satisfaction out of winning, but dont strive to become better. If they win "some" they are ok with it. Others simply are incapable. You could tell them about the mechanics till you're blue in the face, but they will do it wrong again and again. Lastly there's the omes who are simply so stubborn in their opinion they won't change what they do even if its demonstratably better

I think its an idea fairly likely to happen. Firstly it reduces the skill gap. The better CV will probably still win due to better priorities etc etc, but they wont be striking AND locking down enemy CV This means potato players have more chance to do damage. Potato players love doing damage while not being shot at, so may be a return to when CBT when CV was the go to class for potatoes. It also drastically reduces the number of things a CV is expected to do, since they're no longer providing air cover. This means easier to play, less toxic (since people are less likely to complain about no air cover if you dont have any), and more role for AA CA. As a middle ground they could keep the fighters, but have them act the same way catapult fighters work - flying in a circle around the ship engaging anything in range, but as a squad of 4/6/7 instead of a single plane. This would encourage CV to be in the middle of the fleet, which I believe is how WG see them "suppossed to be" Realistically they'll probably still hide at the back, and fighter duels are half the fun, so its not exactly an idea Im keen on, but it seems reasonably likely to happen at some point

Speak for yourself. With the amount of camo and flags I can easily do games that give me 5-10k xp. Similarly with a different set of flags/camo I can fo 3-6k free xp per game. Add that to the free xp that WG keep putting in containers and xp is no real problem. However having just bought and equipped the roon completely I now have 3m in the bank. Unfortunately I have also researched and need the credits to buy: Iowa Neptune Chappy KGV Shira Plus from halloween I want to re-buy bismark and benson since I have camo for them

The playing for 16 hours a day isnt hugely unreasonable if the person in question is unemployed and not in education. You could also fit a lot of games into a small time frame if the person just yolo's constantly. Pick something fast and make a beeline towards enwmy spawn firing at the first thing you see. You could probably be dead in 2 mins? This lets you fit 10 games into 20 minutes (ignoring queue time etc). I can't image spending every waking hour every day just simply pressing W and dying but there are some. Its far more likely though its just a bot running 24/7

I believe I read that they've remived this option for the PTS. Presumably so they can do more internal testing. Its both breaking AND crap at the same time. On the one hand you can have a division put 90x 20km DW torps for the biggest torp soup possible. On the other hand you then have 3 destroyers without smoke who's torps cant hit destroyers OR cruisers (these are extra deep) and are useless at contesting caps

Imagine the possibilities of combining the two bugs: people who have ended up with the ST DW torp reload booster shima in their port trying it out and getting the torp bug: 30 DW torps heading back towards your own team.....

Ok well smm could have 3 versions and each has a glaring problem; 1). Balancing each team by a value. This is where each player is allocated a value, and both teams have an equal value. Glaring problem? The better you are the worse your team will be. Guaranteed. 2). Having each team mirrored. This is where if you have a unicum cv, then the enemy does too. If you have a bot dd, so does the enemy. Glaring problem? Not only can you still have a crap team (just the enemy will have exactly the same), but the wait time is huge because you need to match each team exactly. 3). Leagues. This is where everyone on one team is of a certain quality, vs a team of the same quality. The problem with this is simply wait time. Imagine you're a unicum. You want a game. Well you now need to wait for 23 other unicums. In addition you need to wait for 23 unicums who are at the right tier and have chosen the appropriate ships. To put it into comparison, look at overwatch which puts you in a game with roughly equal people. The teams on overwatch don't have different tiers. They're much smaller teams. Nor do you pick your class until its put you in the game. Nor does it care if everyone picks support. All the MM needs to do therefore is find enough people who are roughly equal to you, and it has a much larger pool to draw from. Even though it has much less restraints, much less variables and a much larger pool, it will still frequently take 5 mins to find a game. So much so that overwatch puts you into a random skirmish while it waits to find you an actual game. Even with leagues, you'd still get complaints about quality, because lots of people dont play consistently. I might do a 200k game. I'm sure you wouldnt mind having me on your team duting that one. Conversely I might do 18k. Im sure you wouldnt be quite as happy to have me then. Also everyone is someone else's idiot. You might think that 47% guy is an idiot. Well you probably find that the 52% guy isnt as good as you'd like either. If you get the 60% guy then you're happy but he's unhappy because he thinks he's stuck with you.

I'm 100% vanilla with an average rig and I get it all the time

Whats the difference between a campaign that is only available for a limited time and a multipart mission that is only available for a limited time?

If you're going by campaign format, there's DoY, shinome, graf spee. If you include the older mission formats theres tachibana, smith, emden, katori, mikasa, kamikaze R, all the arp kongos/myokos and the tier 8 takao Edit: and the okt R

You shouldnt "need" to lock divisions. On something like battlefield where you can spawn on squad members, get squad bonuses and get extra XP/unlocks for doing squad activities it makes loads of sense to join an existing squad. On ships you get none of that, except some random dude in the division chat

Hello, I'd like to be included in the draw. 1). Enterprise 2). Molotov Everything else: Doubloons, and marblehead Much love to all the generous people.

Wows has cosmetic weather, but it also has cyclones. During one visibility is lowered gradually until the max visibility is 8km

Basically this. The MM needs to match the division against another tier 7 CV. It cant drag an "innocent" solo tier 7 CV into a tier X game, and due to the mirror MM nor can it match the saipan against a tier 8. So what it does instead is put the division into a tier 8/9 game. What this means: The two tier 8 ships are guaranteed to be either top tier or mid tier. They're guaranteed to never meet tier X, and they're guaranteed to never meet a CV higher than tier 7. The saipan will always be bottom tier, but thats not a huge problem for saipan anyway since it has tier 9 planes.

When using the missouri: There's no guaranteed spot in open water unlike the chappy. In the chappy, detected ! Icon means there's something in radar range. With the missouri the ! Icon means theres someone close to you, but not neccessarily in range. Instead you usually look for guarantees that they're in range such as a last spotted, smoke cloud, or a cap being taken. When against the missouri: there's no guarantee the enemy missouri is going to play "sensibly" and wait for a sign. Instead it might just count to 10 and press it. Or maybe never at all. Or maybe after 30 seconds when the player notices he's spotted. Or maybe he's baiting you in. Or maybe he'll press it when he sees torps. Because you dont know, and will likely die if you pick wrongly, the safest option is to avoid 10km entirely unless you know for certain he's used it

Since I have encountered it twice myself while being the other tier 7 CV, it does happen.