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But banning a single ship is not the solution. Assume Enterprise is banned, skilled CV players will bring in Shokaku. They will rain hell on surface ships again in ranked and CBs. It will only take them a couple of games longer to rank out with Shokaku or Lexington. Keep in mind that some top CV players didn't (haven't been) even bother to play ranked. Long story short, it is more of a class problem than a single ship.

Good luck rushing a Benham

Because WoWs is the thinking man's action game.

It is easier to obtain steel compared to past but it still doesn't make it easiest to obtain. On contrary it is the resource that takes longest time to obtain for general pop. - Daily missions give insignificant amount of steel. - CBs give good amount of steel, however, this is valid mostly for typhoon and hurricane clans and to those who play CBs as not all clan members participate. - Regular Ranked Seasons: Rewards much less steel amount than typhoon - hurricane level CBs but is still more than what you can collect through daily bonuses. - Special events such as Christmas, Snowflake events: Depending on the amount of T10 ships it may or may not give good amount of steel to players. Steel requires a player to take part in all these events to collect the max amount. Depending on event participation players get more or less steel. Totally optional for players, but the resource is available and waiting to be collected. Correct. Regrinding is the only way to RB points. Regrinding includes burning as much FXP as one can to reset a line, it includes camos, signal, right. But still the easiest isn't it, considering WG's aim was veteran players who had all these in game accessories/resources available and had nowhere to spend them. For instance, there are many players sitting on 3-4 million FXP while having the FXP ships already or thousands of camos, signals, etc. It will take only a couple of days to reset a line without using FXP for a veteran player who has all mentioned above. In 10-14 days such a player can get Ohio or Slava easy. Mentioned about Ranked and CBs above. Not everyone plays these modes and not everyone can manage to rank out or reach hurricane to get maximized amount of steel. Unlike RB points, these semi-competitive/competitive modes require relatively more skill and dedication as there is also time factor. You are right, all one has to do is be stubborn and keep grinding for RB points. If i am not mistaking, your definition of competitive currency is based on the ships offered in each mode. The ships you mentioned above are all good ships. I have all except Shikishiki and Slava. From my pov, i can't say this is better than that as they are all different. I mean they are not comparable, apple and oranges but imo, they are all good ships (again, except Slava and Shiki as i don't have them yet, no comment). Staligrad and Somers have been very competitive steel ships in CBs and Kots. Even Bourgogne as a steel ship was played by some clans. On the other hand, there is only Ohio as a RB point ship which was played in CBs and not by every clan. Who knows what tomorrow brings...Maybe the whole RB will be canceled. Anything is a possibility. I think addition of new ships in different forms like FXP, RB points, Steel, Coal, Dobloon, Cash, Campaign, Super Containers are better than having them obtainable through one or two forms only. IMO, variety, within reasonable limits of course, is always better. One important point though, the coal, campaign, FXP, steel and RB ships are all offered for free. Some of these require more skill, some more time, some more patience but they give away free ships. I.e. there are ships available in FXP for the ones who can't bother gathering steel, coal, RB points or don't want to spend cash. There are events and Campaigns that give and gave all players the opportunity of obtaining free premium ships with a little effort and time, i.e. GS, Indianapolis, Cossack, Kami, Shino, etc. IMO, criticism is unnecessary for freely obtainable ships but of course everyone is welcome to raise their opinions.

Well, it would be useful to know for sure before Friday. Should we ask someone from WG?

On Ranked Sprint Season 9 it was noted on the official channel as below: "Battles are fought in a 7 vs. 7 format. Team lineups are mirrored in terms of ship types." Link: https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/general-news/ranked-sprint-9/ On last Ranked Sprint Season and This Ranked Sprint Season pages, there is no such information available and last season wasn't class mirrored.

No, it can be a DD+BB div vs 2 CL div. The number of divs will be mirrored. Divisions have always been available in Sprint.

nah, why care? No chat=no ban don’t care if banned or not> no chat=no ban

The safest option, turn it off.

Thanks for your response. Don’t you think it would be better to implement a word filtering system into chat and this way it would be less work for you all and less punishment to general player base? Cheers,

It would be so nice if EL would be included in the box.

Will there be a Tier VI container with ship if all 3 missions completed?

Nope, i wrote you in previous post that your suggestion 'in bold' sounded like you wanted an easy access for RB ships because their current state did not motivate you and hence, in my first post i asked if you want an easy access to RB ships although you don't have a single TX ship. It is true but also depends on premium, how many good camos and special flags a player has, like you wrote. If the player is new, naturally he/she wouldn't have many special flags and camos, hence would take even longer time for him/her to grind/regrind a line. So, new players are already at disadvantage here. Personally, i do regrinds but i am not one of those veteran players who asked WG to create something like RB because they are bored of same stuff and i do think too, it could be easier than now (i.e. half the RB points for a ship, 32K RB points for Slava instead of 63K). However, it would still not make reaching those ships easier for you, would it? On the other hand, i know tons of people who would scream TY WG! if they would have halved the RB points on ships. This is a valid complain raised by many veteran or non-veteran players. Grinding a line today is easier, quicker than 4-5 years ago. For instance, i can and many can jump to a T7 ship from T1 by playing some games in less than a day time. However, reaching to tier 10 takes a lot longer, and resetting it for 5-6 times over is just pain and pain for anyone. But in the end, the rewards are high or highest tier ships. No one (okay, except a few sick ones) would grind RB points if the reward was a Krasny Kirim, imagine.

"They will not tell us, to prevent us to play the system." <<your sentence. ^^If you mean WG not sharing with us what is insulting or not, IS the way it works, sure. But i disagree that this is not an excuse. There is no such thing as "if we give the list of words to players, they will play around them"...Do you believe in such a statement yourself? They don't have a list, simple. Yes, and the less you fail or don't fail at all you don't get banned, can keep playing around words and insult others. What is the determining factor again?

You shouldn't and it is not my comment but WG's that the RB or NTC ships were primarily targeted for veteran players who were looking for something new in the game. Check the forum and videos and you will find it. Also, you are welcome to criticize anything you want. We all do. You can form an opinion, you just can't grind for the ships in RB if you don't have TX ships and i agree having to regrind lines is painful and many are unhappy about it. "Does somebody even still use this RB system? Grinding and regrinding 5x lines seems to be an huge time sink, which isnt even worth imo. I would rather play missions to re-play T5-10 than loosing access to all my once hard grinded and personalized ships for some RB points (10k at max for 1 line?!). As a kinda new player i will hard pass on a game design/system like that. I does not motivate me at all tbh, it is not worth the time. I hope they rework this or keep focusing on missions." ^^That sounds like a suggestion of a change for an easier access to me.

This is just an excuse. If you want to play around with words, you can do it now without knowing the threshold also. For instance, one can write fu instead of the whole sentence right? Or they can write tato. I'll tell you what, they don't have a list of words other than the obvious F or similar words, and they check the logs personally, then decide what is insulting or not and this is not good. Because some words can or cannot be offensive depending on where they are used and the meaning of being offensive can change from one person to another as i wrote earlier.

What is the threshold? Do people know what is insulting to type or not? I don't know. Do you know? "WG already explained that they use such a system." Then, why don't they implement it into the game chat system?

Well, it already exists in pink form. If a player keeps repeating team damage or kill, they end up in 3-5 coop games before being able to play randoms again? But this one is specifically for team killing and it doesn't matter if the player gets reported for it. It is an automatic sanction. What i meant was, plays poor option should have some similar sort of function, or simply should not exist if it has no purpose.

One person reported you during the game because you wrote "you hacker". Another game one person attacked you and you wrote buzz off and you got reported. After ten reports and an automatic chat ban WG decides to give you 3 day chat ban, based on what? What is insulting or not? I don't think they have a word filtering because if there was one, it could also have been implemented into the chat system and whenever someone writes f you, f off, similar stuff, the word would be automatically detected and not even appear on the chat screen. I still can't understand why it is so difficult for WG to do this sort of word filtering in chats. By doing this, there would be no need for reporting system or it could be kept at minimal, and there would be much less punishment. Current system is set up on punishment mentality only.

If they get offended, they can use the report and/or blacklist option and "buzz off"... There are way too many problems with the chat system. - Most reports are completely useless - Level of insult in words, is decided by WG and no one knows what is insulting or not to write which also changes from one person to another (i.e. "sup old fart?" may sound like insulting to you while not to me, what to do now?). How does WG determine the foul language by the way? Is there a description of what insult is or is not? Because, i may get insulted by people writing in other languages, or "WG sucks", "MM sucks", You suck", "Blue hair doesn't look good on you, change it to green" and report them for misbehavior in chat. What is the determination factor? I guess the determination factor is the screening person's own evaluation of what he/she thinks is good or bad. If this is the case, then players have a bigger problem than the chat system itself. - The degree of punishments are overkill (this is my opinion as it was already settled with WG that they are in disagreement with this opinion but regardless, it remains valid for me) - Someone writing i.e. tard, potato in chat can be taken as insult by WG and punished while on the other hand a really really bad player just ruining other 23 people's precious time and get away with it is not punishable. My point here is, not to remove option for "misbehavior for chat" but also to make "plays poorly" report option meaningful by giving it some punishment functions. Toxic chat exists, but toxic play exists (and not only shooting a friendly is toxic), too. So, it seems like WG is also aware that the chat system is not perfect and has deficiencies but since nothing is being fixed for a long time, i think it is reasonable to think the chat system is not in their priority list. Also many players don't take suggestions in a positive manner in the game -as stated previously (i.e. they think they did the right thing by rushing the cap at minute 18:00 although got sunk). In this case, the best option seems to be turning off the in-game chat.

No. KM DDs are not as good as before and not worth spending time for them anymore. Go for Daring, Halland, Grozovoi, Harugumo lines if you don't have them.

Personally, I never used in-game chat during CBs other than map marking. Speaking on TS or Dsicord was sufficient. Cheers,

Waaaaattt?

A good CV player in a Shokaku or Enty will kill you in 2-3 attacks in your fully AA specced Cleveland on 1 vs 1. Other CVs may take 1, 2 more attacks. Tl,dr; no surface ship has a chance against a proper CV player on 1vs1.

Do the crime, do the time or eye for an eye sort of mantras have been meted out in real world. But I understand you don’t see blacklisting as an enough punishment for a player. thanks for the response. cheers,