Akula971

I only have a Shimakaze at tier X, and I received 1000Gold.

Some of the worst players I've seen are clans. Just because they are in a clan does not mean they are good. Never underestimate the stupidity of people in groups, they are often distracted by what the group is doing, and not focusing on what is happening either to them or around them. I've seen very good (on paper) divisions of clan mates in O/P premium ships fail utterly. Hubris has its own reward.

I've had umpteen disconnects in game, and the game has minimised to the task bar too. Always in game, always at a critical point in the battle.

HMS Hood, and IJN Kuma

I keep any ship I enjoyed playing, and I keep a stock of ships for the various operations. Notable ships:- Kuma, Minikaze, Myogi Clemson, Farragut All RN BBs, cruisers down to the Emerald. Got too many premiums, and rarely play tier IXs, and Xs, too boring, too expensive on the credits. I prefer to try and max out as many captains as can. Every so often will look at my stats for each ship I played, try to improve the ones I can't seem to get to work, or just sealclub around mid tiers. Shameless.

Tonight I took out a Tirpitz with the Asashio, @_interceptor_80 at the controls. Did not like it and was abusive and toxic in chat. Which made those two torps that sank him all the more satisfying, even knocked a point off my karma, toxic child

This is happening more often than I can stand. Games are ruined. 1. Disconnecting from server, usually at a critical point in battle. 2. I'm pressing the keys for consumables, usually smoke and nothing happens, it as if the key was never pressed, the 3rd or 4th go usually gets it, by which time I'm dead. Some of this might be my service provider, but I'm on a 100MB line, and pings are usually 35mS when this happens. I'm using the new game portal too. What is it? Anybody else having similar problems?

For the Shima, I can get good games with both the 20Km and 8km torpedoes. Using RPF, one can saturate an area of the cap with the wall of "Skill". Knowing who and where your opponent is, is key to success, as well as knowing when to run the hell away!

I ran pingplotter during a game and it showed no issues all the way up to the server. So I guess there are issues with the server?

When I start a game, I always look at the comparisons in the team list as the match loads. I see so many IJN torpedo boats that don't have concealment expert for a captain skill. Most newer players have no idea of their spotted distances, and they race into a cap, fire some torpedoes, get spotted, get deleted. So many don't play smart, they don't know their turning radius, or the best angle of attack to get a devastating strike. A good IJN captain can go the whole game without being spotted (aircraft and radar excepted). You can ruin another DDs game just by keeping him spotted, you don't always have to fire either guns or torpedoes, your team can kill them. Unless they have RPF which is doubtful as they usually don't have CE, you are safe. IJN torpedo boats are just fine, unless you take on an IJN Kitty or Haru.

Dasha, Russian Girls!

Just had a cracking game where Mr @creamgravy handled his Blys like a boss. Nice game and I sneaked a Kraken in by burning down wounded ships, and radar'ing DDs in caps. Which was nice.

Its working again

If they did give you a super container, it would contain 50 of the useless flags. Extra credits for example, when you have millions and millions anyway.

I would never call someone a retard in game. It is insulting to [edited], they are born that way. I much prefer Imbecile, it seems to be understood in many more languages. Thanks to this game I now know quite a few foreign words for idiot.

Met this chap and his division mates, all in Atlanta's. When I saw that division, I thought Oh No! and to top it off, I thought all hope was lost, as our team lemmimg'ed up to one cap. . Enjoyable game all the same. My Belfast sank two of them. @Unintentional_submarine

Its great fun being manually cross dropped by a good CV player whilst playing a DD. Its great fun watching your CV sending all his planes to try and kill the enemy CV, whilst the enemy CV is killing your capital ships one after another. Its great fun having a fighter over you, and being perma spotted whilst your CVs fighters are guarding an island somewhere. I don't like them. With some ships, you can't counter them. Hide in smoke? They just wait, or manual drop anyway. A good CV player can carry a game like no other class, mostly immune from direct counter measures. Glad the class is being reworked.

Its the players that provide the levels of frustration I just cannot take anymore. They charge in to multiple ships alone, and get deleted in very short order. They don't learn the mechanics of the game, they fire HE at broadside cruisers, again and again. You find yourself defending a flank and the rest of the team just dies on the other flank, ships with huge health pools, gone in minutes. Games are not decided by the skill and ability of the good players, but are decided by how many imbeciles are on your team. The team with the lowest number of imbeciles wins. It is like WoT all over again, the worst players have rocketed up to tier X, with 43-47%WR in a thousand or so games. They must have bought their way up there. But why? What is the fun for these players? Why do they play when all they do is fail? Online gaming has taught me, not to expect that people will see the world as I do. Some people are genuinely stupid, they can't be helped. They can't play the objective, or it does not matter to them. It is like giving them a very high performance vehicle, with no training, or will to learn how to use it, they end up dead, in game and in life. My last game saw myself in a Z-23, a Pensacola, and a Bayern, trying to stop an IJN capping our base whilst two enemy BBs approached. We were all very low HP, except the Bayern who was full HP. He sailed off in the opposite direction whilst we tried to reset, he then hid behind an island whilst the two BBs took us out. He is now alone, emerging from the island, and calling out for support!!! He is alone, and calling out for support? What type of mental defective is allowed near an electrical piece of equipment? I despair at the human race. Eugenics is the way forward, or its the idiocracy and downfall.

Play by your own rules. Don't be tempted by all the free goodies given away in the events and missions. Just play your premium ships with your 19 point captain at what ever tier you like. I much prefer the lower tiers, less radar, more forgiving and most importantly more fun.

You have to be very naive to think it is just random chance. Next time your "team" is rolled over and sunk in short order, go to the team results screen, and look at the stats (profile) of each player and the ship that was played. You will probably find that the losing team has a higher number of sub 50%WR players and often sub 45%WR players. Premium ships with >50%WR make a big difference (committed seasoned players). One must also consider the very secret match making algorithm. The sole purpose of which is to keep you playing, grinding and hopefully from WGs point of view, paying. Players must not lose interest with too many losses/wins or they leave the game. The game must also be challenging enough for a player to want to keep playing, as well as being entertained. They have perfected this match making software over many years in WoT. There is even a published patent for it. Although Wargaming say they don't use it, however they still pay to protect it and probably use an improved version of it. Many players deny that it is used, as to how they know this defies all belief and logic. The free to play game model depends on micro transactions to thrive and survive. Wargaming are very good at it. Do you really think the match maker has no rules other than ship type and tier? Ever waited in the queue when it says there are 40+, 100+ players in your range, but it can't put 12 vs 12 together? Think again.

Since it was buffed in terms of concealment and torpedo range, I've had some good games in it. The reason why so many people have shockingly bad games in it, is that they play it as a front line ship, and get quickly deleted as a result. I usually follow some DDs at a safe distance, help them with enemy DDs. If I come across a BB or cruiser, I'll smoke up and annoy them with AP, they will usually charge the smoke, by which time I've already left it, together with multiple spreads of torpedoes for them to run into. Keeping the smoke between them and me, and not firing, means I can usually get to concealment range again. All they find is an empty smoke screen and lots of tin fishes :) It needs a high skill level, and a 19 point commander to get the best from it. But who in their right mind keeps a 19 point commander in a tier 5 ship? ;) (me) LOL.

I just looked at the Winrates for the players in an "easy" win game. They are as follows from the score sheet. Winning team Losing Team 1.55% 52% 2.59% 51% 3.57% 45% 4.55% 54% 5.46% 46% 6.48% 47% 7.57% 41% 8.53% 56% 9.47% 44% 10.49% 47% 11.43% 50% 12. 41% 51% Winning team Losing team 5 players at55% or above. 1player at55% or above 1 players between 50-55% 5players between 50-55% 6 players below 50% 6players below 50% 3 premiums on winning side, 1 premium plus a reward ship on losing side. Make of that what you will.

The game, for it to exist has, in my opinion to be both fun and challenging. At this point in time it is neither. It is soul soul-destroying frustrating. When a game makes you frustrated and angry it is no longer fun, so why play it? Why get premium time, why spend money on it at all? never mind time. As I've said I don't mind a lost game, if it was a close run thing. But these games where the lemming train does not even try to cap, and your "team" dies one after another with little to show for it? How is that fun? Are these people whose existence in the higher tiers with very low damage done, and continual failure having fun? Why is it fun to fail so much? I question if the match maker is random, we all know that WoT MM looks at many other things other than the tier and type of vehicle. Fun? entertaining? Its like giving a group of virtual toddlers loaded guns, and sitting back to watch the results.

The quality of game play improves noticeably when the schools are back. Especially late at night, when good parents have ensured that their offspring are in bed for a sensibly time, as tomorrow is a school day. The games are difficult to enjoy when the team melts away before your eyes, just like in WoT 15-0 roll overs. This is very noticeable at weekends and school holidays. There will be a component of older adults freed up from the school routine that lack the skills to play well too. It is great when the MM gives you a competent team, but not so great when its defeat after defeat, when the players have not or cannot learn the basic principles of the game, strategy and playing to win! I agree that wargaming have dumbed down their titles tocaterl to the lowest common denominator. Such a shame.

Is it so hard to understand? Yes for a few weeks until the schools go back. Is it important? WTF does that even mean? Are you some sort of smart arse with that attitude?. Besides I find that it will be good to get away from the computer for a while as my full time job is stuck in front of these screens every day. Have you even played recently? There is no doubt in my mind that the quality of play has declined enormously in game recently, and the discourse in the forum it appears as well.