Karasu_Browarszky

Is this going to be somewhat similar to how the Chinese server operates then?

Yes but... what I've seen happen at 'unusual hours' is that the MM reverts to some kind of reduced format with seven or so players on each time. Then again, in some cases you see those bots being used to fill the vacant spots, so maybe where are now additional 'protocols' in place. Still... wouldn't necessarily want to be 3 tiers down in a high tier match. If it did happen, I'd prefer it to be a very very stealthy little DD.

Sounds like a classic D/C. To me this happens typically during a battle which is bad. You come back and see that your ship's been sunk in the meantime, and if you D/C'd early in the battle, like 10 seconds after you started your engines which means you became a target drone for the enemy... Additionally, you may also be rewarded with a pink status.

WG developes the game like I do my cooking. Throw everything you find in the pantry into the pot, mix up, stew up, and the results are guaranteed to leave you breathless.

In the past, the advice was to go and check if you had a session open and close it. Doesn't help if the problem is somewhere else, though.

Great! In my experience, in layman's terms, what happens when you connect is the game server won't let you in if you have a sub-optimal connection. I notice this when using VPN to connect and on some days certain connections won't work, while others do, and the situation may change by the following day.

The point about the ballistics is a good one. I always struggle with those high arcs and like the flat arcs much much better. For me then, this would be something to factor in when I'm thinking about what would be the best cruisers. One other point where I struggle is when trying to support the DD's out there. Typically, what happens is that if I go far enough out to be able to do that, I immediately become some kind of a damage pinata for the enemy team and the enemy teams DD(s) 'drop out' of sight, mostly because our own DD(s) has decided to sit in smoke while I get focused....

Moskva seems to have been enjoying an explicable resurgence in popularity lately. Can't understand why, mine just keeps sinking. Yes, Juliet Charlie goes without saying. Aleksander Nevsky seemed alright to me, but I'm not much of a cruiser player. I'm currently on the abysmal t9 Riga, grinding for Petropavlovsk. Shouldn't that ship be part of the Kazakstan navy, though?

And just so that things stay interesting, the button shows up under a random section.

@SkipperCH As you demonstrate, there is a powerful incentive for getting more and more premium ships as you don't need to retrain your unique/special and/or high point captains, and I think this isn't coincidental. @BlueMerry An option to ... er.. clone these commanders might fix this, but I expect the cost of such a service might be at the very high end of the monetization scale. I have no idea how high the price might go, and it would also start verging rather uncomfortably on P2W. Overall, because there are many famous, and real ships that are tech tree ships, I'd be interested in an option to 'premiumize' some of them if the cost would remain reasonable. If we assume it had no limitations, the cost of conversion would be very close to the price of the equivalent premium ships. As for WoT, AFAIK there isn't and never has been an option to 'remember' your past tanks. The crew members are each trained for one tech tree vehicle at a time and require retraining for anything other than a premium vehicle. The WoT system is actually worse than what we got because they don't have different skill sets for different classes like we now do in WoWS. In WoT, they have a similar function where the crew can be quickly switched between two tanks, one tech tree tank and the other a premium vehicle. Similarly to how this works in WoWS.

If you mean what to do as it is now, you can buy even more premiums ships and commanders. That's what WG wants us to do, and I realize this can be a problem if that's something we don't want to do. WG does not necessarily have any incentive to change how this is set up.

Would be nice, but I think there really are some monetizing factors here at play which limits the options.

As I understand it, Neptune comes highly recommended. I'm not a cruiser main by any means, but I may have to look into this at some point.

Dare I even comment here, it seems after every time I post in a thread I start hearing a certain type of vroom sound approaching. On topic, I have pretty much stopped using any signal flags following this needless change to game economy. If that was the intention, I'm obliged to thank the devs for this opportunity to go stingy, but I question was it really necessary to do just on my account.

Can't actually remember that happening. They've only been a problem in special operations IIRC.

... in the deep, then, as it were... it's best to play ships that don't have to rely on others in today's meta.

Perhaps... Slava, anyone? Seriously speaking, that is one of my biggest mistakes in the game. Wasted a heap of RB points on that heap of trash. The only good thing is that it wasn't a steel ship... more like a steal ship in my case.

Would a tuned up scooter count as a ship?

NP, mate. We were on the same side, I was a few ship's lengths behind you when you entered that cap.

This sales pitch is so good it makes me regret I stopped grinding that line.

That refers to WGC content, if you hit the 'Play' button the game should still run normally.

Well, NC was a very good ship at least some years ago, I have no recent experience with it, though.

For me, I suppose the first ship that came into my mind was... Being somewhat of a weeb, it's not surprising that many of my other favourites are also IJN ships, like Musashi, Nagato, Asashio, HSF Harekaze.. Ensign by @fugetsu I could probably expand that list, certainly to include Mikasa (if only there was more reason to play t2/shorter queues) and Kongou/Kongô however you want it spelled (Kongoo?). Cruisers.. more likely Tenryû/Kuma, and then Aoba. High tiers.. not so much. Other nations, it's mostly about the BB's.... but some DD's, too, most notably the Swedish line up.

Haven't you yet noticed that word games (and others) on the forum are more fun and engaging than the current game meta itself.