OldGrandad

In theory the base idea is reasonable but for the reasons already stated connectivity is still a major issue with this client. We cannot blanket 'punish' those that have legitimate reasons for not being able to participate and hence not 'earning' a lot of base XP. I am afraid you still get bad players in PvE..........

I will miss your rage little padawan.......... [edit] whay are you hanging around reading what will be in your eyes, 'troll' posts? [/edit]

Did you try un-checking 'Allow torrents'?

You are raging after a poor game, or a poor run, are you not? It would have been better served if you had added screenshots to back up your tale of woe. That way some could then make a conscious decision to offer you critical advice or to agree with you.

@TheJezna - You did everything right - if it had been a BB. As already stated you have found that carriers have a good turn of speed generally and it is always best to confront them rather than chase them. I am totally useless with DD's and have taken tuition from more talented DD sailing friends, but from experience, chasing a CV as you found out is not an easy thing to do. For your information, I have only got up to the Izyaslav so am at the moment only 'finding my feet' with her. Good luck with your grind, for me? I need luck!

You have been playing long enough to know you can 'citadel' a ship from its bow, no? An AP shell will penetrate the bow which is its weakest part and hit the citadel. I suggest learning for yourself before trying something that will ignite fury with 'hit' skins.

Please supply your dxdiag report to enable swift advice to your issue. How to acquire your dxdiag report,

Please use your main account to post anything, you are now becoming tiresome. As for the OP just ensure you contact support with this issue.

Be glad when school restarts Monday............

The Karlsruhe really is poor but the Konigsberg makes up for it. Only 6 battles in her so far and done over 320k damage, as long as you are not too aggressive in going forward and keep jinking you can do a lot of damage with her.

It is lag, data is out of synchronization, ping might be fine but your graphical lag is at fault here. What are your PC details? Attach your dxdiag report to a reply and let us know what your connection is, ADSL/cable etc.

I think you are misunderstanding spotting. Imagine your ship and the enemies ship in the distance, they cannot see you directly, but in between you and the enemy is an enemy ship who can see you and is relaying your location to the fellow enemy who cannot see you directly, This is how it did work so in effect what we have currently is pretty good. yes, it is annoying but then again the boot is on the other foot when you can see an enemy and they cannot see you for exactly the same reasons we are describing here.

Hello the(Cornish)pasty, the Myoko in fact is a pretty decent ship once you have gotten used to her, also not a bad ship at all to use in Ranked Battles. Anyway, we all have those 'muppet' moments where all reason goes out of the window and we play like we are Kermit being chased by Miss Piggy.

Ok, hands up I am an official 'wuss'. I refused to convert free XP to get through the monstrosity that the Karlsruhe was, so ground through completely in PvE. Do you know what? I really do not give a sh*t for doing so as now I have the Konigsberg in my port and to put things into perspective, the Karsruhe was like sleeping on nails, the Konigsberg is lying on a luxurious bed being massaged to sleep by a beautiful woman. Just so very different.

Never worry about kills as a priority. As Conway said, damage is your friend. Just came out of a battle with a friend, both captains of Konigsbergs, he gets 4 kills and I get none but me having dealt 50k damage got much more XP than he did (as he had dealt less damage getting those kills). I am happy

As you thought, they convert free XP to artificially grind through the line.

it is an NA only event.

It is a horrible ship, fires marshmallows for shells and its armour is more fragile than balsa wood. Only I am allowed to buy it

Hello, as a DD player you have found that the SN DD's do have their own niche. They are a little difficult with their guns (traverse wise) in lower tiers but I can assure you (without trying not to spoil it for you) it gets better. Treat them as gunboats first and DD's secondly and you will enjoy them more. I have only tested them pre-nerf so cannot comment on their current artillery performance but I will grind through this line rather than the KM CA's and that is coming from a preferred CA captain.

Ok, the OP was just being a nice guy and some replies seem to think he went over the top trying to help. He was not at fault, the player he was trying to help was by being so arrogantly rude. Do you know? Being polite costs nothing so those very few that tried in their earnest to defend the replies were very wrong. I only wish there were more of the same OP's around than those that seek to be belligerent and offensive.

Hello, This is from the Developers Bulletin: Update 5.1 The whole bulletin is here.

Not a great deal to add to what has been written about this subject to date, but..... Those that do this, are/must be fully aware that this sort of behaviour immediately makes the team you enter a weaker one. I would say it is an extremely small percentage of battles with 'fail teams' that come out on top and it will be up to the rest of the team to carry the lesser ships in their team. As for some way of managing this, well of course WG can do, they managed to do it with CV's and their current MM is far more balanced than it was a few months ago. If we do get that old chestnut of a reason from WG that they want to let friends play whatever ships they want, let them do so, but ensure they can only do so in Co-op only.

I for one have complained about the poor overall performance and statistics of the Karlsruhe and that has been mirrored by many members of my Supertest team. There are particular individuals who believe we have control over what is released into the game but that is far from the truth. We test for bugs and are asked for feedback with which we gave plenty. Now, if the developers read our feedback and choose to ignore it they do it for reasons only known to themselves and not us. I apologise on behalf of the developers** for releasing this particular ship without taking on board the countless critical reviews of this ship from Supertesters from across all regions. Developers** - Would be nice to hear from you to underline why you released this ship in the state it was without proper balanced retesting.

Views from a normally* balanced Supertester. The Hermelin. I am only mentioning her because she was quite fun to sail (as all tier 1 ships are). They have no preconceptions they are what they say on the tin. Average speed, average guns etc, etc. Now, I will skip the next 2 (Dresden and Kolberg) as they can almost be on par with the rest of the tier 2 ships available. But, la crème de la crème** - the Karlsruhe. Aesthetically she looks a good ship and could be at first glance, be mistaken for the Phoenix, but, that is its finest point I am afraid. From there the positives end and the decline gets ever steeper. We tested this ship quite a while ago and common consensus led to this ship being totally inadequate at tier 4 stating all the reasons why that have been mentioned in this thread so far. I was under the impression German ships were all about speed hence their weaker and lighter armour but the Karlsruhe is both weak AND slow. Guns? oh dear I will fear myself repeating what has been said so many times I may be accused of plagiarism. Let's say I accept their 'shoot for the moon' trajectory but what I will not accept is the poor performance of both the (U)AP (UnAble to Penetrate) and H(I)E (Highly InEffective). I always want to grind out the ships as this always gives me satisfaction getting new upgrades, but for this ship? Ok, I will grind, but ONLY through PvE and as much as I could normally do pretty well XP wise in PvE, due to the pathetic damage dealt by this jumped up collier with pop-guns, I am slowly but slowly pulling my hair and teeth out due to the pain of grinding this awful ship. normally* - Before grinding the Karlsruhe I was seen as someone who could be quite reasonable. Now? even dogs run away from me when walking in the street..... la crème de la crème** - Oh come on, you thought I was serious? What I meant that this ship belongs at the bottom of a cesspool, not wanted and definitely not to be sniffed at..........

Also, earnings from Co-op battles are significantly less hence the posters comment.