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Also, I searched for "kittens + boat", googling for "*edit boat" will give you other results

6.4 might be on the weak side, especially given newcomers like gadja and the t6 british one, but it can be worked around. I was gonna say, "if you really think akats is the one that needs buffs, try the yugumo or smt similar", but I checked and akats is your highest IJN DD. Might I say that you're in for a treat when you enter t8-10...

Ignoring the other BS you are spreading around here, the akats is in a lot of regards, tier for tier the highlight of the IJN DD line, with excellent torps and (for IJN) very workable guns. The competition for the weekend SkyBuck is strong I must say.

"might even reduce BBs" LOL. Missed that one. The only hypothetic DD that might reduce BBs is a DD with a) stealth-consumable (so no radar4u) b) 15 16km torps c) fletcher like agility d) quadruple torp reload booster and even then... Gotta love pre-emptive BB outcry about too powahfull DDs, while the real thing that is gonna change is that DDs will kill each other faster, helped by cruisers, helped by radar influx, helped by more hardcore anti-DD DDs (lo yang, Z's, and of course Russian masterrace Groz)

Well, compare WG: "Hey, let's discuss carrier rework. Decent carrier mains not welcome." I guess it's contagious.

Damn, you beat me. At least @Boris_MNE can give his seal of troll approval...

Can we maybe stop putting ideas for WG here? Thank you!

Sigh. Go. away

I'm quite sure you already are working for them, given that kind of ideas, you little troll.

I found the 5-9's easier than the khaba in a lot of regards. At mid tiers there is less 20km campfiesta's for one, and a ship like the kiev has way more options. (better range, and I went for concealment) Though you're certainly right at one point. Even though the khaba was already nerfed to the point it is now, that was the final reason for me to do that line. I wasn't interested in the grozovoi at all, and even though the Udaloi seems somewhat fun, I didn't feel like grinding past the minsk once again. I am technically a cruiser main, and I fully agree with you. It is beyond r3tarded how every ship always is expected to git gudder, and adapt etc. But For ages we had 5 BB meta. BB counter cruiser, hard. 2/3 cruisers at high tiers weren't rare as a consequence. Recently we saw regular 5 DD as well. Cruiser and especially radar cruiser, counter DD, hard. I already saw way less DDs, especially the 5xDD. We have had ever increasing idiotproof levels of AA, on about everything. Counters CV quite hard. They went the way of the dinosaur. You know what I never saw? Anything that lessened the 5 BB meta. It's almost like it has no real hard counter...

Sure they are. And until recently when the question was "when?" we memed "soon". I can give a serious answer now. BB AP on DD will be fixed at a time when half of the ships ingame can mount radar. Balans restored.

what the hell? Didn't you just post the end result screen? How is that naming & shaming? And who were you supposedly shaming? Besides, the forum is filled with that kind of screenshots...

Don't play solo on weekends. Or monday. Or any day that ends with -day... And if you do, stop doing it the moment you win the tard lottery too often, and find one or two people to join up with, so there's at least someone in your team you can trust.

That's by definition a light cruiser...

I don't know if anyone ever brought this directly to WG's attention, but the UI sometimes doesn't allow you to invite people. Example with random plebs scrubs. I am in a division, as seen on the right. Right clicking two randoms, one I can invite, the other one I can't. Even more surprising, is that I can "remove" him from the division/make him commander. @MrConway If you can pass this to your UI devs, I'd appreciate it. Also, let them bring back the old div UI please. Anyone else noticed some particularities with the UI?

Hmm. With the beneficial mm for tier 7s, I wouldn't say she has better MM now.

Aboo, while I really couldn't care, WG doesn't like das hakenkreuz. Don't you have lovely picture with hammer and sickle, symbol of most peaceful and glorious empire? They like that more... And please, can you inform about the origin of that pic? Curious here :)

Trust me, I feel your deliberations. I very rarely play solo anymore myself, although I prefer 2 man divs over 3 man divs, because it feels somewhat more "balanced". I have my NA account for my solo adventures. There the full on try hard divs are still very much alive though - almost never see their purple clanmembers going solo. Though I don't really see a lot of games with more than one, so not really that fun (be it them being opposite, or same team) I am pleasantly (well...) surprised by your feeling that the game has become (even) more lopsided since a few months. I share the exact same sentiment. It is just my opinion, but I have the feeling it somewhat started with the very regular 5BB+5DD (+ leftover) meta. I couldn't escape thinking that a lot more braindeads have started/picked up again on their DDs. And while idiot BBs are irritating in their inability to read the gameflow (or unwillingness to act on it), idiot DDs have a way bigger impact. I still have matchmonitor running most of the time, and with 10 beyond redemption DDs, it becomes impossible to predict anything. Will it be two of my DDs who sit broadside in smoke and get double devstruck, or will it be the red team's? ... Things like that. I don't know for sure if it is the influx of (bad) DDs that is to blame, but I agree that it is in the timespan that you refer to. You have a specific opinion on what is causing this BS?

True, but you still take out try hard division nevertheless. I mean, one of the best CV players on the server, combined with two of the bestAA ships with radar (and dito players). What do you think is gonna happen? Enemy dds die in an instant, the average and even more than average CV has no counterplay whatsoever, you'll have all caps and enemy team won't even dare to contest. "gg" To be safe, I'm not saying here you shouldn't take those ships as such. Just that if you are really annoyed with flat out wipes, you could have tried to go a little bit less weaponized?...

Well duh. I don't know if you have seen the kots stream saturday, but suboctavian made the case clear, what we all know, that ranked has nothing to do with "ranks", but is just a variation of the shitfest (not his words ) we know as randoms, and that if you want to go for a real competitive mode, you know, that is skill based etc, they kindly refer you to CBs. Later they also said some other stuff about the keepstar system, that made me think they have given up fully on improving ranked as smt that actually has something to do with, you know, actual ranks. I've seen them say that somewhere else recently as well (reddit?) Anyhoo, making rewards independent of ranked is the next logical step then...

Yes. An abysmally small amount. I'm not even talking about myself btw, I consider myself being past the elementary learning fase and into somewhat advance territory. The percentage of decent and above players is probably around 15%. No. That's the sad thing about it. This season's ranked showed that very well. If you have to explain to players with tier ten ships and thousands of game that pushing with cap- and shiplead is stupid, then there is something very wrong. That is just one example of nursery school tactics, that the vast majority of this playerbase is fundamentally unable to grasp. For my part, nothing, except for the intricacies of uninstalling games in windows. I have given up on given advice or saying what someone did wrong. You'll probably get reported and or insulted. I just do the insulting, which at least has some real stress relief effects rather than the beyond useless report system. As El2a said, google, like every other question about whatever there is to ask in the universe. If that "new player" can't figure that out, that's very telling. Besides that, if WG doesn't provide decent tutorials, they can atleast ingame make some proper referrals. Just a random example, you unlock your brand new bayern, popup appears: "do you know Flamu (or whatever CC) has made a very interesting video about this ship, see [ U R L ]" Though I have given up hope that WG actually cares about that. edit: just saw @El2aZeR last remark. Yea, WG is indeed in a way making this game's playerbase more stupid. You don't want to learn to angle and eat citadels? No problem, I'll lower the citadel on your bbs and only bring out lines that are untouchable there from now on. There is a skillgap in CVs? You mean some people don't learn and we can't waste our time trying to do smt about it? Here, have an ingame flight simulator instead. You are so bad you constantly lose credits? No problem, here, buy a permacamo and keep derping into eternity. etc etc

You did nothing. For quite a while now the infestation of beyond redemption braindead idiots has been too much. You get stomps on you or the enemy. If you play solo, your individual skill will only matter in a very slight amount of games - the rest just depends on wich teams wins the idiot lottery, i.e. which team will be even worse than the other. You had the bad end of that lottery. WG of course sees no problem here.

just when I almost had suppressed my memories...

I will wear it as a badge of honour

I have complete trust that WG's rework of carriers will be a masterclass in game redesign. Carrier players will immediately casts all their doubts aside in shame, and rejoice in the new fun and engaging gaming experience it will offer.