Ocsimano18

Napoli WR after nearly 4k battles: Alsi not bad in ranked:

Actually, my forefathers might have been Swiss.

Seal clubbed some seal clubbers:

Me not getting a Swiss level of salary, is also a discrimination.

This is not a product but a service. You charge as much as you can, in the given market. It would be foolish for them to rise the prices in Russia and lose revenue, or lower the prices in NA and lose revenue. Also the additional costs, like marketing, customer service, community building are much cheaper in Russia, because of the Russian wages and office is cheaper than those in the US or in Europe. Why would the Russians cover the wage of European employeés?

The 200% bonus XP is stacked with other flags, camos, premium time bonus and first win bonus. If you put your flags and best camos there then you can make a lot of commander and freeXP per battle, if you have a nice baseXP, like around 1500 or more. There are 200% first win bonus days that have the same effect, if you are lucky, you can make 30k freeXP and 60k commander XP in a good battle, but it needs you to have all the dragon flags and the basic bonus flags, and your best camos. I usually stock them for such events and can make 600k+ freeXP in a couple of days. Hayate is 2000k, so you would need a lot of flags. I’d rather recommend to aim for an 1000k freeXP ship, first.

And how do you survive a brawl with Pensacola armor???

Moral of the story: WG focked over Germans again with the release of punchbags like the Schultz.

So what’s your opinion after having a couple of games with her? Do you think she was worth it, or do you feel buyers remorse?

Stats seems to be nice considering that everybody and their mothers can get the ship for doubloons, coal, and cash: Also, in ranked:

I opened my first veteran container and got 30k freeXP. A bit lackluster compared to how many liitle things you need to do to get one.

People trying to play her like an usual cruiser find her mediocre having short ranged lackluster guns and no utilities. Highly skilled players can find a sweet spot to have much fun. A connaisseur from the NA forum wrote the following summary:

Also, to sell you the next unnerfed premium secondary ship a few months later.

The problem is that is a bad deal for veterans. You're learning the ropes of the game at T10, generating a lot of blowouts and reducing the fun for the others, resulting in player churn and decline. You should really learn the game at mid tiers.

You're getting it the proper way, for cash, right?

Well, the torpedo spread gave the first hint, it's typical Ise torp spread.

No wonder, Flamu and WG make an inseparable pair...

Flamu also said that the servers could not handle 15 vs 15. It seems to be a typical BS from Flamu. The servers were able to handle 12 vs 12 five years ago, so they can probably handle 15 vs 15 with current hardware. Also, would you really like to play 15 vs 15 with more chance of yoloing noobs in your team? That would just increase blowouts.

By the way, WG could have implemented a feature preventing people not having T10 ships to buy her for doubloons/in the shop to avoid annoying the player base and prevent churn.

Also: However, she uses the same large super cruiser dispersion found on ships like Alaska and Puerto Rico, so her guns are less accurate than many of her cruiser counterparts. Source: https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Napoli

She has cruiser fire duration, as far as I know.

A lot of players don't speak fluent English. I had a non fluent speaker mate who interpreted "high rate of fire" as "high fire chance" on Plymouth, thinking it was the next HE & Smoke cruiser. Also I had an experienced mate fluent in English who bought a black ship because of the extra doubloons he expected to get by playing her.

Yes, and the optimal ships are quite different depending on the player numbers. Tirpitz is a star one on one, but mediocre otherwise. Pommern is a star 3 vs 3, mediocre otherwise. Non utility cruisers suck in 7 vs 7 but are kind of balanced in 12 vs 12. Also gunboat DDs dominate 7 vs 7, while torp DDs need 12 vs 12 to be in a BB rich environment. The balancing is far from being perfect, but WG is not lying in this case.

She's a brawling cruiser, balanced by having subpar performance at range. You have to look for brawling situation from mid game on, using your smoke and high speed to get close to use your secondaries and torps. If you are not into brawls, then it's not a ship for you.

The Ise torp planes dropped torps on you. Watch the torp plane icon over your ship on the minimap.