Excavatus

Dear OP, I am completely agree with the above statement and in addition to that, The best player in WOT has around %80ish WR I watched his games and watched him carry 14 potatoes to the victory. I was in awe.. ! He made my chin drop. The things he did seemed so easy.. but I've never could think and made those decisions at the exact spot as he did. So, even If you do everything perfectly, (ın your own / and your ships capacity) you will lose some games. and trust me there were much more losses than 2 in every 10. Believe me, you cant carry them all :) Even the best cant carry them all :) This is all about decision making. The best and most important skill in WG games are the decision making. Nothing else. And none of us are that good to make decisions.. Mostly in under duress.. IMO, professional F1 drivers would be superuber unicums If they play this game in their prime time.. :)

I summarise you problem above. Individual good performance doesnt mean you are playing good or aimed at the victory. This is a team game and you can have the greatest stats and not a single contribution in the victory at the same time. We all see that borderline HE spammers racking up damage but doing nothing towards to the victory (I am not saying you are playing bad) I am just saying, It has been proven you are doing good enough for YOURSELF.. but ask yourself this question, are you doing good for your TEAM? The question you asked, about never ending up in the winning team is the part of the fallacy you are concluding. You are the part of the team. But you are thinking, you are winning but your team is losing. No. You are the part of the defeat. Which brings us the above paragraph. You are the only unchanging constant in randomly composed teams. Ask yourself. What are you doing against/towards to the victory. For a CV for example, Are you sacrificing your fighters just to save critical capping team mate? Are you using your fighters for spotting instead of protecting your attack squadrons, Are you manually dropping your first torp and bomb loadout at the start just to see all the enemies at the start and give a planning advantage to your team? and manage to do the same damage with one less squadron each? I dont know about the CV gameplay so much. But these are the ideas I've watched from streams, videos etc. and the last part.. It is just tinfoil.. Nothing changed. Nothing rigged. No one ever asks "Am I loosing one too many in the recent times, what am I doing wrong!" or no one ever asks " I am winning more than ever, is MM rigged and favoring me? " That is always the opposite..

That is a totally different problem about mission / campaing designs.. Even WG, dumbs down this game into individual performance.. rather than teamplay with these missons and campaings.

No they cant... yes they can but not making a great portion of the player base unhappy.. So as I've said before, They have the exact same situation with the ARTY in their hands. They have a complex game mechanic which makes a part of the player base unhappy, no small changes or tweaks will make that part happy and carries the risk of making a happy player group slightly unhappy, They cant completely rework the class because that doesnt guarantee to make both parties happy but evidence suggest it will not. The complete arty rework in WOT only decreased the unhappy population %10 but made arty players unhappy at least %70.. so.. they will not take that risk in wows, to give that much resource and time to rework CVs.. and on the otherhand, WG numerously stated that they will not open the door for refunding no matter what. Nothing will ever NERFED or which may slightly considered as a NERF chaged in premium ships.. Yes they can globally change a mechanic which will ultimately affects the CVs.. like they can change torp mechanics completely.. but that is too much and too risky to do..

When you have a relative working for the big evil monster you tend to follow what they do :)

I take this as a joke, you must know that they moved their HQ and all the executives to the cyprus and left developers for WOT and WOT blitz in Belarus They took CCs to the new headquarters every year for a tour. They have their own little WWII museum in Nicosia and there are hundreds of hours of CC videos there.. I dont want to think you believe all those are fake :)

I dont know @El2aZeR personally, But Have seen him playing a CV.. a couple times we were in the same team.. Have you seen him playing a good battle in a CV? Have you really read what he writes? In my opinion there is no way to completely balance the CVs.. WG has another arty situation in their hands..

HQ is in Cyprus :) no vodka there.. mostly beer

you are totally right. But I am just saying, with the todays tech and money, it is possible to keep the down / hiccup times below a min.. as I've said.. 1 DC.. no problem.. I didn't think about that too much.. when it happened second time.. I was angry.. then I just imagined late night people.. sweating out from their afts.. and trying to solve "WTF is wrong with you this time you Piece of dung!" then I calmed myself down.. but when it happens third time.. no.. A company with the size of the WG cannot let that happen.. never ever.. not in any circumstances.. not todays world.. a couple years ago, Facebook servers comprimised.. they shut it down.. globally.. and was back up after around 30 seconds.. a frigging thirty seconds.. nobody realised what happened before they announced what happened.. so again.. a company with the size of WG cannot let the system hiccup more than once.. That is not acceptable.. at least for me as a costumer who has a slight idea about the servers.

3 times and got back in saw I was killed and logged out after the last one out of frustration. It was seemed like at least half of the people in my battles DC'ed too

Maintenance must be announced.. Disconnecting hundreds of people at the same time because of (reasons) is not maintenance... If it happens once.. then it is ok.. totally acceptable.. 3 times (at least for me) in the course of 4 hours.. And If a server is going into maintenance mode by itself in the peak hours.. that really shows the incompetency of the team who is responsible for the well being and stability of the servers. Not a pro expert like you but I am giving service for around 300 users in our company. last year, I put in budget, backed up the server system with an exact replica.. now anything slightly happens, even If the servers has a little hiccup.. backup system takes charge and the main system stays offline until we look at it.. Dont tell me about the cost and the money. All of us knows that, they can afford it quite easily.. selling 50K prem ships or tanks (30 Euros each) in one sale.. means 1.5M euros in one go.. they had probably 2x or 3x of that just in the christmas... They can afford to pay another 200-500K for a backup system (I found these estimates out of my arse) And If they already have it... then it is worse... really worse..

so on the other side, you can easily claim that the ONLY way to play a DM is to hide behind an island for 15 mins and lob shells.. and anyone who doesn't do that is a noob. Am I right?

last night it was a server problem.. people disconnected in dozens and cant get back in because "Cannot login now, server is busy"

In the mean time, I am in my hipper, spamming AP to the semi-broadside BBs and scoring 4 to 6K salvos! :)

If boss likes it.. We like it too!!

so.. tell me If I am wrong, but you want, Planes with radar capabilities, (cruisers) Planes with smoking capabilities, (DDs and Cruisers) you want main battery guns for CV, (all ships except CVs) you want unlimited planes, you want concealment BETTER than cruisers So you want every ability from every ship to be available for CVs.. (because reasons?) and while you are automatically fighting close Quarters fights with your CV, you want to smoke yourself, radar the enemy and torp them with unlimited planes and because you dont want to worry too much about the fighters, you want them limited to 1 Squadron... Some points you missed.. I wanted to add. CVs must do 35knotts min.. and shoud have a rudder time of 2 seconds. WTF just did I read? Really?? What are you using?

Every kill counts on the team that gets the kill.. Stop thinking individual success in a team game.. If everybody does that, then we can step into the progress.. On a different note, @El2aZeR really explained the system well... There is no kill stealing in this game. I always try to think, people are not trying to steal kills, but focusing on low damage targets to get rid of one set of guns faster. Less guns, less danger... Kill is a kill... it is just a stepping stone towards to the victory. Doesn't matter who gets it.

Next time OP, when you have a problem with a mechanic, before acting like "I know everything, this is wrong, this should be like this" try being more "guys, I am having problems with this, thinking like this.. and I don't know what to do? any ideas?" you cant believe how the community here can be helpful If you approach in the correct way. There are 2 sides of this community, and both are extreme. we are exteremely helpful or extremely rude/sarcastic/snob etc etc.. the responses you get, decided by the questions/ideas you produce. For example, at one time, I sucked with Gneisenau and asked for help.. I said "Guys, I cant make this thing work.. what to do?" I got more than 100 responses a lot of people even gave time to watch 4 - 5 of my boring replays to analyze them and give me advice.. result? I didnt suck anymore after that point. What do you think If I posted a message like that! "WG, YU NEED TO BUFF GNEISENAU! THAT SHIP IS HORRIBBLE. CANNOT HIT A BARNDOOR FROM INSIDE. TO LESS GUNS! BAD ACCURACY! TURNS LIKE A BRICK! etc etc.." Then the only answer that I would get was "L2P noob that ship is very good" Read your OP again, realize where you did wrong... this is not a complaints/ideas box for wg. This is for community to discuss/interact with each other. You cant barge in and say, this! this! this! this! then you wonder why you get those "COLD" responses.

I disconnected 3 times last night.. in the first.. I was just about to proxy detected by a nassau in my smoke.. and trying to get away from there. When I got back in.. I was beached 2km away from that nassau. He was beached and still offline. I felt a little bad when torping that guy :) and the other guy 2km away behind an island.. still offline.. the other 2 disconnects happened while I was dogfighting with DDs inside the danger zone targeted by at least 6 ships.. in both I regain conciousness in a grave :)

necessary editing has been done on the OP regarding the suggestions in above message! Thank you for the warning :)

I've just finished my tier 4 grind tonight.. this is my shenyang not a single loss! 1.8 average kills.. 1.4K base xp average in tier 4.. %79 survival in a friggin DD???? 47K average damage.. This is not me.. not totally at least.. this ship is strong!.. really strong!

If that data is collected by playing the game by yourself that is not evidence becauase that cannot provide any actual data then "i cant hit as much as i did" And the official statement thingy, If they announce some changes that doesnt fit your silent changes. If they didnt what the hell are you talking about? Where is the statement that says "we change things and stats from time to time without telling you, for example we changed something with some ship recently.." The only viable evidence would be 2 numbers.. dispersion stat of a ship before and after suspicious silent nerf.. Other than that sadly you cant prove anything or convince anybody. Try removing tinfoil and taking a short break Basically give the evidence.. what was the dispersion before.. what it is now.. Tip: it was goos before and bad now ia not a viable answer

You know that the main cause of death in dd captains ia rushing or being forced to rush in a cap blindly at the start.. especially in high tier battles.. I myself actually dont go in caps before seing which one is capped, how fast and where the radar ships are. There is no point dying to prevent enemy team gaining points for a minute or two

Who needs to learn something before doing it! dont be ridiculous... There is a "Balance department" in WG which contradicts to your argument in a corporate level..

This is a very nice and nearly perfect summary. Coming from a SCRUB I am not surprised.. I agree all of them, for the RU DDs I may be start grinding them after I get more Cruiser XP in some lines.. but KHEBAB looks sooo sexy.. I want to have her at some point. As for the PA line.. nice torps.. slow but invis.. very very nice guns... but that smoke is a little bit overkill If you ask me.. Not that I am happy with it.. but it was like.. a little bit OP If you know what you are doing. Last night in tier 4 battle.. I 've just sailed inside an imaginary circle consisted of enemy ships with a radius of 6kms.. pop next to an island... and smoked up.. torped.. farmed.. torped.. smoke gone.. hide behind island.. in 15 seconds.. rinse and repeat.. no one every thought of coming into my smoke to proximity detect me.. that is tier 4 what do you expect.. and there was a Kamikaze R with a 19 point captain (yes I've asked him If he is a stetpedder or not when he give RPF data at the start) he was outside of that imaginary circle.. It was just like a training room.. yeah.. I've seen that too.. I asked him "are you really torped me in an PA DD?" he asked.. yes what? then I said, "you really dont know that you cannot hit DDs with PA?" he replied "Stop making stuff up!" when you target enemy DDs while your torps active... there is a huge arse warning on top of the screen.. "UNABLE TO HIT TARGET" Some people are really something!