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Yup. They said "it would be better to have a harsher economy, but we won't do that cause most players wouldn't like that" The subject where they should ignore the majority's opinion the most, they don't of course. I voted yes on this topic, but XP gains are just a minor detail. As said, ppl will get to high tiers anyway. It's the lenient credit making on those tiers that keeps them there, even when so many shouldn't.

Both of these descriptions are highly subjective of course. I went into playing CVs with the idea of "let's try to get as decent as possible before I get sick of it". Truth be told, I had thought I'd be sick of them by now, but I am not. I keep enjoying them, especially since I have room for improvement left. Regarding the (un)rewarding. In a lot of games - mostly map and ship composition specific - you will be quite teamdependent, and being unable to strike for a while might be unfulfilling. But it is still nice to see even just your spotting rewarded (not really in XP, but whatever) - or striking heavily AA specced ships from behind a sneaky island. I think a lot of people are having difficulty opening up to even the possibility of enjoying the renewed cv play, cause they refuse to accept that the old RTS style is dead. I might be having less difficulties with that because being less invested in that style.

Lol, even at midtiers you attract (future) shima players like flies :D

Well I needed to test "new" yubari somehow ;) And I'd still say Hermes play is not as bad as I expected from seeing low tier CV on yt - though I wouldn't especially call it fun or engaging. What is that pancake plane? Did the US started production of that thing after Roswell? :D

mirror mirror on the wall, who is the ugliest bird of them all?

I haven't played shoka on either server, but here I have haku and I take concealment on her too. You have a point with CE would be better on US cv too, for getting closer, but with the plane speed it isn't that much of a problem. Some midtier maps are somewhat too small though if your team decides to go for the full mass suicide taktik. Losing even a minute of active concentration on the map can cost you dearly. Sigh. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to go full concealment without any disadvantage whatsoever, just like mighty battlesheep?...

Unlocked Lex on my NA account, cause reasons... :D I ignore the Hvars, cause you want to hunt dds with the DBs, just like with the Midway. Use Tinies for cruisers & BBs. The DBs circle stays bigger than the Midway's, but it is quite workable. Also, Tinies aren't even that bad against DDs, especially the bigger ones. 1. Didn't play stock modules, and I highly recommend to freexp them if you can. Out of those seven games I was top tier once (AND BOY IS IT GLORIOUS :D).... You'll need every health you can have when uptiered. 3. Concealment (both captain & ship module) is a waste - take better things.

Does anybody know what happened with warships.today site? It always had some problems, but now it just gives me "unable to connect". Too bad since I preferred it over wowsnumbers. Edit: Topic moved to the most appropriate section from gameplay. Excavatus

You just keep providing usefulness to the world on daily basis, right? Don't forget to mark this post as boring too though. You've skipped a few lately - getting sloppy?

Thanks for the confirmation, so I don't have to look it up further. And now I am wondering if it is florins or crowns that I'm short off... Aargh. WG stop implementing those monthly new currencies please.

Hey Leo. I've gotten Her Majesty's Herpes already, say thanks to her for that. Now I have enough florins for the Furious, but I''m short like a dozen crowns. Tbh, I just now for the first time ever went out to check the rules ( see here in case you're curious) of this "competition" (or any other like it), and it certainly is, err, convoluted? Tbh I don't bother with trying to understand it all, I just play and see what rewards I get. From that site I now understand though why I've gotten regular free day(s) of premium recently. From your previous post with the estimates I do remember that f2p implacible is impossible, right?

etc So with every ship interaction you account for teamwork in your definition of balance, except for carriers? So if damage can be avoided, even if you can't shoot the offending ship, balance is restored? Well isn't that nice. Here, let me tell you the big secret of avoiding CV damage. TAKE OUT A HEAVY AA CRUISER - or - go hug one. Tadaa, balans restored.

yes and no. In the current system you are much more flexible cause of your speed, while rts made an attack (prepping, attacking, coming back) quite time consuming, so you can now launch a few attacks on targets you wouldn't go after before (i.e. camping bbs) You're right that the damage is probably less than in RTS of course. I'm the first for saying BB AA should get nerfed, if only so a lot of cvs might be tempted to leave DDs some space.

Well yea, that's what I said. Someone else is able to shoot me, but I can't shoot back, either because of range, or because it gives another penalty, or whatever. So what's the difference between a cv shooting me, and I can't shoot back?? I'm not denying they have the highest survivability rate? Why would I? So what - you want them to rush the enemy fleet with their cv? And if you want to discuss cowards and campers, great. Let's discuss the typical BB... Cause that's the class that attract the typical coward in this game - maybe together with CVs, I don't know. And they still are vastly in the majority. It's one of the reasons I like the reworked CVs - some kind of revenge, because most of the time I can still find one or more reversing bow on BBs at 15-20 km from my team - and in the rework it is less of a waste of time to go strike them; on the contrary often, as it creates an opening for the rest of your team.

A lot of people will get their furious quite soon, which will at least temporarily give a high amount of mid tier carriers. You can try again then?

If you like to point out myths that people "spout out". There was never a "balance" as you phrase it, as in 2 parties can damage/kill each other equally, even disregarding cvs. I remember plenty of atago games where I got spotted (be it by a dd or plane(s)), and BBs opening up on me way beyond my gun range. With the same boat I can/could go close to a friendly DD, and if he spots a red dd, I can blap him. Sure, the red dd, let's say a kagero, could theoretically shoot back I guess... Wouldn't be wise though. What about cruisers that hug their waifu's that good they don't get spotted the entire time they shoot your ship? That unbalanced too? And that is ignoring the cancermap called strait, that you will see the entire time in ships like kuma, omaha, etc, where you have zero other options than to close the distance towards the enemy bbs with your floating citadel if you want to do something meaningful. Closing within the perfect shooting distance for those red BBs that is. Or ignoring maps where there's a radarship behind enemy corner. DD can't shoot them back right? I am genuinely curious from what shipclass' perspective these complaints about "CV is "imperviously" hitting me and I can't shoot back", are coming from. Cause cruisers are (should be) used to it. DDs are (should be) used to it. You know what players in such circumstances got as a reply? I was one of them, and I still think some complaints (especially sending limited range cruisers into extremely hostile open maps) are valid. That response was "learn to adapt". There certainly were no weekly hotpatches to "fix" some of the worst bs. Aka git gut. (And yes, some complaints about CVs are valid. The one that would stick out the most is their anti DD character)

Against tier eights as well? You probably don't shoot down a lot of tXs yea. Let me tell you, I feel sorry for people who have to grind at the moment. Sure you can still do nice as the example from @Bear_Necessities shows, but it is extremely heavily luck based. (map and ships mainly) Yesterday I had a midway game, and every team had one tier 8, a lex and an enterprise. Except for one tier nine, everything was tier ten, with triple DM on the enemy team and whatever AA spam we had on our team. They can't do anything except feed their enemies plane kills. To give another aspect of the hermes btw, I had one game the first day as top tier. I can hang over tier three bbs all day long. Cause reasons. None of those seven planes the reds (red...) killed are mine - didn't lose a single one. I have no idea what WG was thinking/drinking/smoking, but the AA difference between tiers is just the stupidest thing ever. I'll play the furious with the tokens, maybe a handful times. After that, I'll just freeXP to tier ten, cause it just isn't worth it.

No, but I do have a problem that cruisers lost (yet another) niche thing of theirs. Sure, that tier ten carrier screwed up, but it still doesn't justify how bb AA is that powerful. Which exactly is the reason why even cv players like that go hunting DDs instead. Better example: I got the hermes two days ago with those special tokens. Played a game with @MortenTardo (yes :P) in it. All was tier 5 except us and another carrier. If I flew near a BB, I lose my planes. Simple as that. No, not eating flak, just from a few seconds in passive AA from things like oktober revolution. Which means I trade off an entire strike group for a few thousand damage. See also where fara has the exact same problem.

61 plane kills by yamato. 40 by republique. All is fine

You're really getting me nervous, being that constructive and all. Did they put something in your food while in gulag? Did they do some brainsurgery?

XP and credits are based on percentage of damage to a ship dealt and dependent upon tier. 10K to a shima is worth more than 20K to a kurfurst. 10K to a kurfurst is worth more than 20K to a Bismarck. etc You should know that by now tbh.

I'm not exactly sure about lex's plane reserves, but looking at those plane losses, I'd say he was deplaned. So he did play. Not saying he's right or whatever. Just that all it indicates is skillgap is still here, as has been mentioned by plenty of people.

"To reduce the high attack potential of Graf Zeppelin Torpedo Bombers, the damage from one torpedo is reduced from 6,000 to 5,500." You have words now? :D

Indeed. One can say a lot about "immersion" being very relative in a game like this, I don't really am that immersed myself when driving normal boats, but I am when flying planes with headset on almost max volume :) The visuals of other ships "below" the planes are also provide nice sceneries.

with 18 games... Are you trolling now? Come back when he has enough to be applicable to be in the top list on wowsnumbers - 80 games afaik. And also, again, there is ONE PLAYER with 94,44 solo midway, not "there are players". Stop manipulating the narrative. And as you know, I'm all but denying there is a skill gap.