lovelacebeer

I would love to see more WW1 ships the problem is WG are only interested in developing the higher tiers these days.

I got the Devonshire after doing directive 3 and most of the daily missions. Whilst I am not really getting on with the ship itself I do like the camo and it's good enough for scenarios so cannot complain.

I had never actually noticed this usually WG do a good job of roughly mirror imagining their maps, I mean there are bad maps (North being an obvious one) but over all they usually are roughly balanced for either side. Still not sure the island was the most deciding factor in this particular battle.

This is why I never buy loot boxes, if I grind them for free that's fine as I enjoy playing the game and then when the rewards inside are rubbish it's no big loss, but I would never spend money without knowing exactly what I'm getting.

I would be all for increasing the breadth of ships at the mid tiers even CVs, I for one would like to see USS Yorktown (CV 5) of the Lexington class added that would fit at tier 6 with early war planes, I would like to see HMS Unicorn added but not sure if she would be a tier 6 or 8.

The Yamato is still a good ship and I enjoy playing her, its ability to over match is very handy. Still it's best to play her at slightly longer ranges.

These days it wouldn't surprise me if we do end up with just going full on into the Cold War era. WG have made it very obvious they are not interested in developing the breadth of lower to mid tier ships. Also with the smaller nations it's hard for them to find plans for designs that fit well against the big navies that easily populate the tech trees. Still I wouldn't complain if they made a separate game of world of starships, hell if it's got an Imperial Super Destroyer (clearly would end up in the Russian tech tree) I'm getting that ship no matter what.

Best way to look at it is anything over 50% means your making a positive contribution. You can't win every battle but as long as your win rate is over 50% you can be pretty confident your doing something right. Considering your very new to the game your certainly onto a good start. On their train of thought may I offer this small bit of advice, learnt from my own mistakes. Dont rush up lines in a race to tier 10, take your time learning how to play a class of ship and also engage with its nations particular play style. There are plenty of good community contributors out there who can give useful advice.

I would certainly be grateful if they would make clan battles count towards daily missions, it would be a huge time saver. Also considering the CB population is pretty small its not exactly going to hurt WGs pocket in any conceivable way.

Islands of ice on epicentre mode certainly is annoying the snow storm doesn't help, but it's also the location of the islands that doesn't help. I know now we all have our most hated maps and it's a very personal thing, the issue is when the map is badly designed because we know that the majority of players are not going to adapt. For me I hate North above all other maps because it's a series of narrow corridors that encourage and reward defensive gameplay. I'm sure we all know the joys of either watching as your DD suicides or just as common the DD manages to get the cap safely, spot a large part of the enemy team but the battleships and cruisers are all safely tucked behind and island unable to shoot. For islands of ice a bit of modification to the islands and the removal of the snow storm would be a huge help, for North the dustbin is the only solution.

I think your talking about bastion, where the forts could actually get multiple kills in a game.

Karma is there as a vent for angry players so they can give you a -1 because they didn't like how you played, killed them or whatever. Still there is no point worrying about your karma having a higher or lower karma does nothing (other than allowing you a few more reports or compliments). The advantage of karma is it avoids too many post battle messages that then get submitted to WG via support tickets, and quite frankly I think more people who be upset getting abusive messages than getting a little notification (or having to manually check their karma to see if they got reported whilst they were in battle).

Cunning plan, I like it

Sadly I fear WG are just bored to trying to balance CVs vs the other classes. The only real counter play for a DD is either hope the CV is busy elsewhere or is a moron.

I suspect it’s to encourage people to be more situationally aware. Although I am pleased it’s turned off for scenarios those often just descend into chaos.

I personally won’t bother with any of them

My money is on it only being available in loot boxes in the future

During clan battles last night a teammate suddenly got 3500 ping and his ship just started going in circles, listening to him in chat he was getting a tad frustrated

I'm sure it is a visual hint that we can still buy the PR, and I completely agree it's annoying if I wanted it I could buy it, the fact I have not is a conscious choice by me.

Damn it so I actually have to do some work rather than just pretend to the Mrs Im still doing paperwork, ah nuts.

Personally I prefer doing it in a cruiser for the rate of fire as a lot of teams forget to shoot the DDs, but it's also quite possible to win in a battleship but way harder to 5 star usually only 3 or 4 is achievable. If playing as a BB the best way for me was to be fairly aggressive but very alert for torps, also never relyon teammates to correctly assess the priority targets So focus those DDs like crazy. Cannot advise for CV play as I only use Ark Royal and even then I'm a poor CV player.

Karma does serve one useful function it's a vent for angry people who resent being killed. You go back to port and -1 karma you don't care and move on, it avoids lots of post battle chat messages that then get sent as support tickets that WG then are forced to deal with.

I'm all for encouraging more aggressive gameplay but I'm not sure this is the solution. This is because if a team has pushed ahead grabbed the caps and built up a substantial points lead but taken a lot of damage, then a shrinking map would punish them as they would then be in close quarters with an enemy on near to full health.

I have always believed the karma system was a abandoned project where the plan had been to give rewards for getting high karma, however then it was realised people would try to rig it, so WG just gave up and left it as a meaningless number we can look at. Personally I found it quite amusing last night when I was reported twice in one battle for killing an enemy Smolensk/ Midway division in my Daring ( I got 2 other kills but they didn't consider it cheating) because how dare I have a good game supported by my teammates.

Prehaps the Russian forum has a point it's all part of French bias lol On a more serious note people have complained about being too quickly deleted just because they decided to sail broadside in front of half the enemy team. So the shift has been to HE spam, and sadly I don't think that it's going to change anytime soon.