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How else should they make money? If the premium ships are not better than the free ships, only bonehead collectors like me would buy them. WG have to sell things to stay in business. I need to give my tripitz a spin today and see how massively OP it is now... i suspect other than a few extra purple ribbons, it will play as it always has. This thread is way too dramatic for such a small tweak.

you two were dating, and the breakup was ugly... sad that you forgot the reasons you blocked so quickly

If my memory serves me right, the event started like at 2pm or so last week in the EU, so maybe they wont start the next round until 2pm this week too?

This is where I ended up too... What is frustrating to me is not necessarily the final number I got, its the fact that 50% of my reward came from the first 10% of effort. It disincentiveates playing beyond the first 100 or so coins each week. Give me the same amount of coins per time spent so I don't feel like I am working for free at the end.

Many times the belfast (or other ship with radar) lights it up from behind an island, you may never see them or even know whty got in range, before you are target #1 for all enemy ships in range. Between radar and the changes to visibility after shooting, IJN DD's are practically useless above T7 now.

they can be spotted from 40km though... makes them nothing more than a lottery ticket.

Yesterday the imperial war museum showed off 22 rare color photos from WWII as part of a publicity event for a new book they are releasing. Http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/22-amazing-colour-photos-of-the-second-world-war some are quite cool, like this one: THE BRITISH BATTLESHIP HMS HOWE PASSING THROUGH THE SUEZ CANAL, 14 JULY 1944. © IWM (TR 2618)IWM Non Commercial Licence There is another one of the Admiral Hipper that is cool but I cant post it atm.

Yes thats it, thanks!

its still faulty because it does it give them the option of "no".

Without radar, if a dd is tryig to cap, and there is no CV to spot him, it forced the enemy to send someone into the cap area to try and flush the dd and spot it. Now from 10km away you can just flip a switch and he is exposed. Smoke will do him no good. Islands mostly do not provide protection from artillary inside cap zones. So radar is just another reason leading to long range shooting over melee combat. And the problem is not the damage the ship that lights you up will do, its the 6 other ships that insta target you. Its getting to the point where the risk of capping just isnt worth it on T7 and up, and regardless of your feelings on radar, when games dont go for the caps until half the other team is dead, that is an unhealthy condition for the game (at least imho).

I like your idea of visibility being only what your ship sees... that could also help with the current bb edge camping problems... if they want to sit on the edge of the map they wont see anything to shoot at.

Ive only played my Dirpitz 5 times, but I have done terribly in her ... for many reasons ... not least is the fact that EVERY SINGLE TIME my matchmaking with her has put me in a 10-9-8 battle.... in battles against T10, she definately needs buffs.

The good thing about buffing secondaries is it will help courage close quarters combat.... hopefully reduce some of the current edge sniping meta.

nvrmind -- delete please (am I missing the delete option for posts, don't see one?)

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OP you cant let it get to you, but honestly I find responses like this one to be worse than the 12 year old off his meds you describe in your post. The reply from this guy just highlights the true assholes you will encounter.

4-5 dd should be the norm, right? 12 per team, one of each class without a CV will lead to 4 dd per team.

To me this is the perfect example of why high-tier camping is present, there is no recognition or reward for being a "team player" at the expense of doing damage. I was a dd in this epicenter match... even though I was Russian and have crapfor stealth and craptorps (4km) I rushed to the epicenter to stop the enemy from capping it. I spent my match running around, dodging things, and spotting for the rest of my team, doing a little bit of damage when I could in the epicenter. I end up getting eventually killed but my team goes on to win. What do I get for that effort? Third to last in the team rankings and crapfor rewards. (See screenshots) But it was still a fun game, just not a profitable game and not a game that will be good for my stats. If WG wants to encourage people to do this, they should increase the rewards. They should also increase the rewards for secondary batteries, those are a good indicator of when a bb or ca has decided to get off their asses and join the mele combat (like the Nagato and Kongo in this fight should have been near the top because they got into the middle of the heat of battle and duked it out with the enemy... counting their secondaries would help show this for score purposes).

Not after the last patch.

I agree this is a faulty poll, all the options are Yes. I'm off target to get this ship currently, but given that the grind is so over the top, I think the people that are insane enough to actually get it should have something unique to show for their efforts. Since the ship itself is not unique, the only thing left is the camo. If you make that available through less painful means, then there is absolutley zero reason to do this grind (not that its worth it now, but at least you would end up with something "special").

i think we're soul brothers... your feelings and expereince are just like mine.

So I just had what felt like an great game, but I was surprised to see I was only third on the team score page. See the screenshots below. My question for you, why do you think I had a lower teamscore than two others in this battle? Is it because of my damage done? Because I didn't cap?

Dude--- Its the best flag ever... a Grateful Dead Flag... I can't wait to deploy the smoke on my DD's..... If this DD's a rocking, don't come a knocking!!

Is it just my bad luck or did the last patch break how accurate Dive Bombers are now, especially at higher tiers? What I mean is it broke it so that they are way too accurate. I don't think I've had a single battle since the last patch where a DB has missed me... regardless of the ship or tier. When I'm zig-zagging at 44kts in a DD, DB's shouldn't have a 100% hit rate. Period. I've tried also throwing in changes in speed, hugging islands, etc, it doesn't matter, they target me I get hit and burned (also 100% burns). The only things that work are smoke when available, or simply not being seen. Please let me know if this is just me having a bad string of luck or if there really was a change.

Maybe reduce the death penalty? What I mean is make it so that if you get killed and leave a match, you dont have to wait for that match to finish before you can use that ship and commander again. This certainly could lead to other problems, but i think it would encourage more agressive game play. It also solves that problem when you are trying to level a ship and get unlucky and killed in the begining of a game. Then frustratingly have to wait 20min for that ship to be available again.