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Everyone who makes a sweeping generalisation is an idiot. Similarly, all extremists should be shot.

So why do so in such an obnoxious manner? You are like this in every place that you post. Have you no concept of decorum?

Why do you feel the need to be so obnoxious in every thread? Was yours an unhapppy childhood? Have things not gone well for you in later life? It is possible, you know, to not agree with somebody without behaving like a total arse.

You said in your OP that your team lost because they ignored the caps. How many caps did you take? You do understand that to do well in ranked you either have to be skilled or, in your case, persistent. If you come to the forum after every loss to complain about your team mates then, even with persistence, you will run out of time.

You aren't the sharpest tool in the box, are you? You keep on making these false equivalences. Why do you keep bringing up changes to other classes in the CV rework thread? When DDs or CA/CLs or BBs are so broken that we get a four month long, 178 page+ $hitstorm about the state of any of the surface classes your comments may be pertinent but as it stands it just seems that you don't understand the conversation too well.

*Looks at state of modern Britain* Erm....!?!?

"OMG, DD AFK!!!!1! REPORT OUR DD" You can guarantee that if I was in that match I would be the Fiji that had spawned next to you.

I do believe it is a mediocre player complaining that there are worse players than him allowed in ranked, and in a CV no less! You know, same $hit, different season.

Come on guys, in the true spirit of brotherly love, let's have a sympathy whip-round for this guy. I can give *checks pockets*... er... no.... actually I am totally out of phuqs. Anyone else got any phuqs to give?

Actually it is easier than that. Just hover over their name when they have posted and a pop up box appears and at the bottom you have the option to ignore that user.

You know they are broken, I know they are broken, most people know they are broken (hell, some are even gleefully revelling in how broken they are) and, more importantly, I think WG know they are broken. The problem we face, however, is, in my opinion, threefold. Firstly, WG have a new premium CV in the pipeline in the form of the Ark Royal so they won't do anything to actually fix CVs for fear that they might jeopardise the sales performance of that ship. Secondly, WG have always had extreme difficulty responding to pressure from the playerbase. Whether it's an ego thing or something else they have a history whereby the more we push the more they dig their heels in and refuse to move, citing all sorts of nonsense excuses as to why they are right and everyone else is wrong. In that regard it is as if their whole team consisted of Beastofwar clones. Thirdly, I don't think their game design team are actually skilled enough at their role to find a way to fix CVs to the satisfaction of both CV players and non CV players. This may well be to do with the fact that, at their heart, WG products are not actually "games" in the true sense of the word but are rather devices that resemble games but solely intended to part as many people from their cash as possible. This principle overrides good game design at every turn. That is not to say that these products are not enjoyable, hell even the rigged games at fairgrounds are played and enjoyed by many, but good game design is not their primary driver. It is this third point that renders much or our discussion here pointless. We can argue back and forth and put forward suggestion after suggestion on how to improve or fix the current situation but because we are coming from a game play/game design angle and not an outright monetisation angle we are just pi$$ing in the wind. Many of us here are old enough that we come from a time where game designers tried to make as good a game as possible in the hope that that would mean their product would sell well but, and it pains me to say this, those days are long gone. The gaming industry no longer follows that model. So what can we, as consumers, do about it? Other than choosing a completely different hobby, not much. Just take a deep breath, bend over, and apply lube as liberally as we can afford to. If we were really serious about it I suppose we could, in theory, start applying pressure at a political level, to have the Belgian ban on lootboxes extended to our own countries. If we were to attack this major revenue stream and have it removed it is possible that some game developers would actually have to try to keep us engaged in the old manner, but this is far from guaranteed. Besides, who can be arsed to keep emailing their politician or hitting up social media to apply pressure that way? I guess, when it comes to WG products, they are all in the free to play model, so we could just play for free in the hope of applying financial pressure but it seems that, for every one of us that does that there is another whale with more money than sense continuing to financially support their own growing sense of disappointment. As Private Frazer (look it up, young uns) would say...

Manual, player-controlled AA is not the solution - it just further complicates things and will not really aid surface ship players in the heat of battle. The solution to the CV problem is really quite simple, just remove spotting from aircraft and have the aircraft only able to spot surface vessels if they have their AA active. This will solve pretty much all the issues associated with the CV/surface ship interaction.

Quite possibly, which will mean it will be 2021 before I spend money on this game again. For every month that CVs remain broken it will be a month that I won't spend money on WG products after they get fixed.

Is there a "More Apps" option? That is how it is labelled in Win10. It is also possible you may need to click the "Look for another App on this PC" option. This will take you to your "Program Files" folder and, assuming you didn't change the install location, the WoWS folder should be in there. When you have found and opened your WoWS folder click on the "View" tab and ensure that the "File name extensions" box is checked else the file you need will just be listed as WorldofWarships. The folder you are looking for should like the image below With the file you are looking for at the bottom as shown (assuming you have the folder sorted by name). Of course, if you get it sorted there is also a chance the replay won't work as they have been a bit dodgy this patch. If the replay gets stuck on the loading screen, kill WoWS using Ctrl-Alt-Del & the task manager and try moving the replay you want to the desktop before trying again. Good luck!

Oh humanity, you so silly!

As do we all but when it comes to reading @Beastofwar's posts it tends to be a high-pitched, hysterical, "oh-my-god-there's-no-hope-for-my-species" kind of laugh.

Soooo.... bananas are OP and daughters should be nerfed?

"Dear DariusJacek, Thank you for bringing this to our attention, situations like this affect the enjoyment of the game for all but please could I draw your attention to the in-game system where you can report incidents of "misbehaviour in chat" such as the one you describe. We hope that our efforts to completely not even read your report properly and proceed to do a grand total of phuq all about it anyway is the response you were looking for because, let's face it, it's all you're gonna get. Have fun on the battlefield, CommanderClueless."

Unfortunately, mate I fear that is exactly how it starts. It may just be a few CV games now and then, to see what they are like, but by that point the seed is planted and the damage is done. Over time the, once quiet, voice in your head will become louder and more insistent, gradually drowning out all other thoughts until one day you will find yourself looking at the Enterprise in the premium shop and will be totally consumed with dark ideas. "We wants it. We must have it. My preciiiooouuus!"

Logic is hard for some people, what can I say? Mate, I can assure you that, speaking from experience and despite what you may see on TV or read in the papers, people on drugs have a better grasp of reality than this.

That's correct, yes. As far as I am aware aircraft no longer spot torpedoes anyway and I believe the game would be vastly improved if ships could only spotted from the air when they have their AA turned on. As with all things, how I would behave at any given moment depends entirely on the situation. If there was only an enemy CV left and we needed to cap to win I would cap, if we needed to kill the CV to win I would do that. So you were visible for 10 minutes, permanently spotted. If aerial spotting were removed from the game the enemy CV would have been able to attack you for 10 whole minutes too. This is why I don't understand the objections to it, CV players act as if the enemy fleet would be invisible to them the entire time, but as you demonstrate this could not be further from the truth.

In both cases the amount of spotting is far too much. The fact that one is or isn't better than the other does not make either good. A broken little toe may be better than a broken big toe but neither are desirable. Removing aerial spotting would improve things no end.

The problem is that they don't understand that they have made mistakes. Their whole design team is essentially that one 37% WR player who blames the rest of the team for his constant losses. "It's not me, it's the players".

The sun will have expanded in size to beyond the Earth's orbit before WG admit a mistake.