Karasu_Browarszky

I call that shoddy balancing. I remember it too. See it way too rarely these days. Mostly just the landlubbers' maps, not much fun for us salty old sea dogs.

IIRC also not Jingles then.. but I could be wrong.

Yes, apart from a very few select cruisers, most of them fall into the support category. They should either support their DD's or their capital ships, depending on the situation.

Also depending on the island, if the cruisers gets spotted, there are circumstances where at least some BB's can land a devastating salvo on them, island or no island.

No chance R'ing a single fire could be interpreted as a show of bravado, as in 'I'm p***ing on your fires you little squint, now I'm gonna come and get you!' kinda thing?....

Did your ping issues also cause the FPS problems and the stuttering, in other words, did they go away too?

Hags...

I set the FPS at fixed 30 again, because basically setting it any higher was pointless as it was dropping and fluctuating a lot. That probably as such had nothing to do with it, but today my game seemed to run smoother than earlier days.

Here's what I got. Look quick if you want.

MOGA

So... given this, how realistic are WoWS spotting mechanics and 'concealement'?

But on modern ships, you'd still have the lookouts.

That tells me people avoid playing cruisers. As a matter a fact, so do I.

Spotting is something I still have no clue about. I mean, in terms of game logic, BB's and bigger ships get spotted earlier, DD's and small ships later. However, IMO as bigger ships have taller masts, they should be able to spot enemy ships further away than say, what DD's can being very close to sea level.

Kleber? The little grey shells at work.

There was a time, fondly remembered, when those 20 km torps worked like a charm... They might still be useful for area denial though.. at least if the maps were not littered with the remnants of the Star Wars asteroid field which WeeGee was apparently able to buy cheaply from some movie props clearance sale.

In which case they fail, because most cruisers can be found behind comfy rocks.

But then the problem is they are all the highest threat, and if they all are, then none of them are. How do you solve it? It seems most teams just shoot (myself included) at what they see first.

IMHO all of this depends on team coordination. If you give the enemy multiple targets to shoot at, it is all the better if they cannot coordinate their team to focus fire on any one target. Sadly, too often I see the kind of behaviour ships on my team are almost waiting for their turn to go in and suicide... no team effort whatsoever.

On occasion...

The problem with this is it makes the BB's prime targets for the enemy HE spammers. Logically, I'd expect the ideal tactic to be based on successive elimination of whatever is the biggest threat to you.

I wonder if the CV's agree....

BTW, I often wondered who is supposed to support who in battle? I've always thought heavy cruisers support the DD's, uhm.. light cruisers support the BB's... what's the role of the CV's, and do BB's support everyone or do they just do their bit by engaging the enemy BB's...

Fire is very dangerous on a ship. Extinguish all fires immediately.