Nethraniel

Stop playing for a couple of weeks.

Well... I could use some extra creds... I am gaining XP for new modules and ships at a much faster rate, then I get credits to buy them (might also be, because I am a hoarder and do not sell any ship)... even have a new ship unlocked, but not even the pesky 3M to buy it... I should stop, playing all the lines I grind for the daily XP bonus...

Partially. SSD do have in fact faster random access times, read latency times, and data transfer rates. In total, you get several ms faster loading of large files.

Signing out for 2016. Have a nice night and a good switch to 2017. HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM GERMANY!

1:35:00 now...

#makeIJNDDtorprunsgreatagain !!!!!

RNG at its finest.

Ha... last 5 medium 2016 Santa containers gave me 4x 40 Dragon Flags, and this little gem:

Here also all smooth. No problems playing today.

Good idea! I like that. Also one single button to remove all flags on a single ship would be nice. And also add an option to remove camo from a ship back to depot... yes, that is counter-intuitive, but I'd like that option.

You entered already with post #137 Else, good luck to everyone participating, we will announce the winners here. Have a Happy New Year!

For you too! And from me also a Happy New Year to everyone!

I am at something like 60 left over. And also still 50 Restless Fire. But they will be out some time soon.

Would buy Dragon Flags and Restless Fire camo immediately.

Yes, this is indeed a fine brew. @Captain's XP, yeah that's how I love it. Had this game in my Mahan, sporting Dragon Flag and Restless Fire camo... forgot to screenshot the overview... but you can calculate (yes, that is over 30k captain's XP)

Means that you have 2 more compliments from other players during / directly after battle, than you have 'plays poorly' reports.

Probably the worst T5 DD around... but this one was carry mode...

[RANT] WHY THE F**K ARE JOE AVERAGE PLAYERS SO GOD DAMN OVERCHALLENGED BY EPICENTER MODE?!? [/RANT] Now, I will take a beer and just sit down in that corner ower there, sobbing...

Well... after a couple of battles on the PTS, let's start... 1) I played the Farragut with BFT, DE, and RPF for some matches... Result: if I contest caps and I want to hunt down the enemy in the cap, I will find him, no way he can get away, because with additional information like 'cap contested', 'spotting range', 'Situational Awareness skill', and 'mini map', the RPF gives me way too much information. Further, even if I sit in smoke, and an enemy DD or cruiser tries to push me out of my smoke, I will know the exact direction of the enemy push even without visual spotting, that is so unbelievable powerful, I'd call it broken. I instantly know how to cover that angle with a torp spread and start running in the opposite direction, or go in aggressively to surprise the would be attacker. Additionally, it is now almost impossible for me, to sail around an island and accidentially run into an enemy, I was not expecting there. Overall... broken like hell for the good and better players. 2) I played the Hatsuharu and Akatsuki with a stealth torp build (CE, TA, TAE) without using RPF. Well... IJN DD suffer... they suffer a lot... you do not have the guns for a DD vs. DD gun fight, so enemy DD with RPF will actually force you to completely abandon the area you tried to fight in, because they always know the angle you will be coming from. Same goes for enemy CA with RPF, you cannot torp them, and if you get too close, they will hunt you down. This is especially 'great' for IJN DD, as they are slow for a DD. Double fighter planes or double spotter planes add to that pain. 3) General observation: RPF hits the IJN DD most. They do not have the guns to do anything consistant (especially against other nations DDs), and torping got even harder with the new skills. If you take RPF in an IJN torp DD, you also have a harder time carrying out torp attacks, because the closest enemy to you (mostly the one you are going to torp), gets an information that there is something close by, having his bearing, so if he is not oblivious to his UI signals, he will start using WASD haxx. 4) Conclusion: JoeAverage and bad players can still be surprised by good players, because they lack the awareness of all the stuff going on around them, however, good and better players, as well as organized and competitive play will massively suffer from RPF. So, in my opinion RPF needs to be removed, everything that points in a direction of something hidden in the game, destroys skill. And I see tons of situations where this skill will break game balance. Additionally, I honestly think, the IJN DDs suffer most from the new skills, especially on the torpedo side, wich is again an indirect nerf to the allready weakest DD line. Other than that, the new skill distribution and the lowered XP ceiling for reaching max level captains is a welcomed change, however, there are some serious imbalances hidden there.

Never encountered something like that in the last 60+ or so games in my T8+ IJN DDs

OP, you forgot one important piece of information: at what tier? I would guess T2 or T3. Will get better at higher tiers. Else, wait a couple of weeks until the German DD hype wears off.

Mind the spirit of Christmas, spread the love!

You are welcome!

First you calculate BaseXP*1.5 for Premium Account = 1396 Battle XP Then you add up all Commander Boni => 250+50+333 = +633% So the CommanderXP are BattleXP*(1+6.33) = 10233 Commander XP I am not 100% sure why it is 10241 in the pic.

Merry Shipmas!