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A reason for me to not really play much tier 5/6 also is that the chance of standard games, which I detest, seems much higher there.

not really Don't forget that if you are totally new it will take a while to reach tier 5, especially since you'll probably start a few different types. If you don't like the game, you quit much sooner. What will happen is the dubious psycho-economic model that is behind this game: Yes, ppl will think, once at tier 5, that the tier difference is unfair and that it must be their ship that is weak (partly true, but partly because newbie) so they will want that higher tier ship faster, cause higher tier = stronger, right? And there is, o so handy, another way to get higher tier ships, other than grinding through the pain. Either unlock xp with doubloons, or just buy a high tier ship (highest will be tier 8, so still a lot of the pain of course) or make the pain last less by buying premium time... At that point, you will be hooked even more. Not only do you have this drive to get to higher(/better) ships, not only have you invested quite some time already which you want to make feel worthwile, you will also want to make your financial investment feel worthwile. How do you get higher ships? Play more How do feel better about your time & money spent? Play more And by playing more you will still stumble upon some harder grinds, encouraging you to invest even more, of course alternated with easier games, because the addictive cycle also needs its high's. All quite ingenuous PS Wanna know my bet what the WG data (because there they will have data, contrast to certain game mechanics) has determined to be the general point of no return (i.e. hooked/not hooked)? About the time/games needed to reach tier 5. Hence the +1 protection until that tier - can't demotivate all those potential customers. Once they reach a certain point (t5), the customers won't care anymore, at least not enough to just quit the game.

Wow @lup3s you are a very generous sinterklaas ;) ## EDITED 0. I'd like to participate 1. Prinz Eugen please (yea I know) 2. t61, if not, molotov 3. doubloons 4. t61, if not, molotov 6 - 7 doubloons 8. have both marble & tachi, so you can give them to someone else thx

I was pointing out the irony of you stating "LONG text" while half of the spam here has been coming from you.

irony?

Must be part of the depth & complexity of the game, right.

Said the BB to the cruisers: Surrender your ships. We will add your technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile

I'm Belgian and I never heard of it, until I just now looked for it (btw, guy is called Geens) Finally we did something good

some ppl get all the luck...

Not sure what you mean here tbh. Are you implying hipper & zao have weak AA? They might not be des moines like but I wouldn't call it weak, especially if specced (never did it myself though)

I think you are looking for @El2aZeR That guy has been doing long long hours the last couple of days with it's going to be love at first sight

Meh. It doesn't really relieve much stress of cruisers. Luckily, like a lot of ppl already stated here the british bbq's don't seem that plenty atm, but they will still rather shoot that cruiser at +-15km doing its job near his dds than at some bb in the middle of nowhere. Those moment where my marblehead & my chapayev lost engine + rudder + had a fire(s) and needed to repair only to have the same with the next volley surely didn't feel less straining. It's the same BS as the deepwater torps. Both those & british bb HE are being sold (PR wise) as anti BB, but relatively speaking, cruisers will suffer much more. I for one take, in general, defAA over hydro on cruisers, so if there will be any moment where PA dds would be abundant, I would be in trouble because 4 seconds reaction time. The complaints about BBs that you refer to haven't diminished afaik. Both measures won't do anything against the biggest frustration players have against that certain type of BB player (which is the vast majority of them), and it is them not doing their ffing job: getting to a decently close position, pose a threat to the enemy team and bloody tank. There has been a solution for that I've seen around here sometimes: and that is the gradually decreasing of the map - any bb that hugs the border will just detonate. But that would really punish so many BBs - so it will never happen.

ftfy

Since still grinding multiple lines (just bought the khaba & saint Louis), I am constantly in need of credits, so most of the days I play Kutuzov and or Belfast Kutuzov is rewarded by the horrible tier 8 cruiser matchmaking for more credits. Belfast makes it somewhat () easier to win that game faster. Both ships have 19point captains so that's nice xp in the pool. When I have enough for ifhe for degrasse captain I'll play her some more again, I quite like that ship. But most importantly, besides seeing someone like @El2aZeR in his cv on the enemy team, there's nothing that makes bbabies cry as angry ifhe spamming smokes

I skipped through some songs btw. Not my cup of tea. It's me, I know, a lot of metal bands have been experimenting, and it's one of the reasons I moved more & more towards synth/ebm/etc. I did like e.g. theatre of tragedy's excursion to electro in the early 2000s (where I was the exception ;) ) & e.g. Anathema's general move towards progressive rock (? dno) is allright as well, but it will (for me, of course) never surpass their earlier work, which was pure genius. *radio pzycho presents* (also, smt for the asia lovers to look at:)

Sure, I'll give once a try. Ghost love story certainly is beautiful. Will never like that other though - I detest swing and I'm not a fan of what you call "esoteric metal" (i.e. weird eclecticism) I'm rather oldschool I guess. Sigh

Old school nightwish can not be beaten "forever shall the wolf in me desire the battlesheep in you" I always loved this song, but boy, that nineties video making...

Ah that was you. Yea, CE isn't overrated. There.

Watched the first two. Two times standard battle surely sux. In both games I noticed you don't use hydro that easily. That could have saved your life in the first game. You should do that automatically if there are dds that close. In the second game you might have shown a lack of map awareness, because one (or both? - looked replays ad triple speed) red dds were spotted quite close to you, so again hydro should have been online and you would have to be prepared to be proxyspotted (or whatever we can call the being spotted in smoke because red is close enough), at which time you should either get closer to the island to avoid shells or ready to flee. The other guys gave good advice as well. I don't really know how you don't have CE yet, and, indeed, stop shooting when enemy isn't spotted :)

That would certainly explain the ridiculous amount of "peakaboo'ing" (spelling?) I have been seeing for a while.

but but... that's not a ship designed for tanking or close combat!

(also: didn't you use the module? ) -- edit: ffs @MortenTardo

Eugen, Kidd, Atlanta

All hilarious and, most importantly, very original puns, but can you start with using the right articles? La capitulation La Baguette

If you go for french cruisers, take it, and not only low tiers. I'm at Saint Louis now and that thing still gets its rudder knocked out constantly. In my last game as Martel an enemy Kurfurst knocked out my rudder with secondaries, only to do it again the moment it was repaired. Skill is not a waste on that line. Edit: also, don't take IFHE on german cruisers.