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You'll get quite a lot of messages that are - essentially - a resounding 'yes'; personally, I'm not that militant - I'd rather CVs were fixed (they're clearly too powerful) but I don't get irrational when people play them. Submarines, on the other hand, are a bloody menace, and I report anyone I see playing them in PvP, until I run out of reports; if you don't want to be despised by the bulk of the established players, avoid submarines. With regards to CVs, you'll probably be less despised if you learn to play them well (at least by people on your own side), so - with luck - some of the good CV players on here may be able to provide pointers. Personally, I don't play CVs in PvP generally, so any advice I might offer would be of dubious value.

Incoming...!

No it doesn't. This might though: 120 games isn't an enormous data-set, but it is suggestive...

I may be messing up my time-zones here (it's lunchtime where I am), but even so, isn't it rather early to have been caning the weapons-grade hallucinogens? No. You said this was the case. Sensible people pointed out - in this context - your assertion is nonsense. In my earlier example, the first player is average (the website helpfully points it out), and the second is 'bad' (ditto). It is not unreasonable - after over 5K Random battles - to think that the former player understands the game rather better than the latter. If you look at the stats of the bulk of players who have been trying to explain why you are in error (not me), you will find their understanding of the game is dramatically superior to yours. A sensible player might even be asking them for advice (I see more than one on here who has given me invaluable advice in the past)...

I think the phrase the less charitable might use here is 'are you mental?!' - the first player has won 49 percent of their games (Randoms in this case), whilst the second has won 44.4% (rounded). That is not remotely equal.

What about this hapless berk: Or - gods forbid - this one:

This is what I currently see on the Des Memes permaflage tab: You probably know, but just in case: there is generally no advantage (beyond aesthetics) in getting the more expensive permaflages for T10s; the normal 5K doubloons ones give exactly the same benefits. You're paying more only for the look of the thing. (That's not to say I never buy pretty dresses for some ships - I have several IJN 'lacquer' permaflages for example - but just to make clear there are no tangible benefits from spending more.)

Passing through, between doing rather more productive things, I'm rather struck by the wanton cruelty being meted out to the English language (generally by the noisy CV enthusiasts; I'll let others hypothesise about possible causality): double negatives all over the place, incomplete sentences, and other nonsensical lunacy. Dammit, there could be fragile young minds reading this stuff!

Ah! I wasn't lead astray until WOT had been live for a while, I think, and it took the chap who did aforementioned leading astray a couple of years more to persuade me I needed to waste even more time with the more moist equivalent...!

I'm seeing this though: Where - per above - the base WG account was created 2+ years before (when I started playing WOT, gods help me)...

I'm not sure this is entirely the case. This is me on WOT (my EU account was the first WG account I created): Meanwhile, this is the same account on WOWS: Might the date on our forum profile be the date of forum registration?

Ahem. You rang?

The example proves that grammar matters, nothing more nor less. I imagine you wouldn't be terribly keen to "help your uncle jack off his horse" for instance, and all that's wrong there is a single, simple capitalisation? Nonsense! It's only irrelevant if the person at whom the argument (what the hell are "argumentations"?!) is directed hasn't completed their studies of the language yet. The use of idiom can be an essential means of increasing emphasis on a point being made, or as a means to take the edge off a criticism, to name but two examples where its use is helpful. I think your usage of the term 'spam' is too general; you seem to use it to mean anything that you personally don't approve of, in many cases due to not understanding the meaning. I would invite you to read up on memes in general, and the derivation of the word itself (thank you, Richard Dawkins!). By definition, a meme cannot survive unless it is effectively communicating something; ergo if there is a clear idea in a meme, it is a valuable and valid part of - in this case - informal discussion. What I actually referenced was the phrase 'a picture paints a thousand words', which pre-dates spam by almost a century...

Yup, I can prove it (note spelling, if we're being picky). It made international news: https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/15/health/oxford-comma-maine-court-case-trnd/index.html In more prosaic terms, the phrase "let's eat Grandma!" has a wildly different meaning to "let's eat, Grandma!"; I imagine the grandmother in question would probably be keener on the latter. I don't generally teach kids. Adults who don't understand idiomatic English will struggle to last five minutes in a native-speaking environment; this is where I come in. A manager, say, who thinks that "I've got a frog in my throat" means their staff-member is being cruel to anurans, rather than sick is going to struggle to get the most from their people, and so on. It is also an essential cultural reference (arguably; okay, not knowing it is not like failing to recognise "the quality of mercy is not strained..."). English, its usage, and its meaning is about so much more than simple technical language; it can also extend to the visual - you've heard the phrase "a picture paints a thousand words" I imagine? All of these more flamboyant/visual means of communication are the difference between "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night..." and "Big cat. Orange. In jungle. It's dark.".

I was another year older + closer to oblivion over the weekend: I got a couple of super-containers, and some other stuff I think (including a 100% doubloons back coupon), but I'm not sure when my actual anniversary playing WOWS is, so that may be something different. The white cammos were certainly changed at one point; the original ones halved (?) service cost, and the plug was pulled on that (presumably because of superships?).

It isn't. A little light Googling will show you a semi-recent court-case which was won/lost over the position of a single comma. There is also no *need* for sonnets, plays, poetry and suchlike either; yet only a philistine would argue that the language isn't richer for their existence. As a side-line, I'm an occasional English tutor; I spend quite a lot of time providing guidance on idiomatic English to pupils - without a basic understanding of that stuff, you don't understand the language, as it's so prevalent in common usage. Not understanding a chunk of the language gives you no right to try and impose your requirements on others who do.

This strikes me as a decent idea (goodness knows what it would do the balance, but since we're talking about CVs and subs...), although I may not have thought it through fully. At the very least, it would allow CVs to go after the other griefing class. As you say, I'm not sure how many people would take the option though: with a conventional attack squad, you'll always have something to use them on whereas an ASW squad wouldn't generate any rewards if there aren't submarines in the battle...

True, to a degree, which is why I only rarely play 'grammar police'; however, they are not irrelevant when a misstep entirely changes the sense of a sentence. As to your objection to single-word responses (such as 'facepalm'); I would suggest that they fall within legitimate idiomatic English usage. Whilst the response itself may be a single word, the sense conveyed is rather more complex; the single word is simply a matter of economy of expression. It can also be funnier/pithier than a rather more extended sentence might be.

An observation: if you're going to take people to task for their English usage, it might help if you avoid the use of double-negatives where - I assume - you don't mean them...

BTW you may find this site of interest: https://wows-numbers.com It provides a number of different ways to look at your data, which can be helpful identifying your strengths (keep doing those) and weaknesses (avoid doing those), and taking appropriate action on those bases. Beware small data-sets, of course. Incidentally, WG haven't been giving the API much attention lately, so not all game modes etc. appear on the site.

Most people on the forum tend to take the game quite seriously. With the possible exception of Coop mode, you generally need at least some of your team to be competent to win (which is the primary aim of the game). WOWS is also quite complicated, and players tend to do better when they understand how the bulk of things work. At higher tiers, the number of things you need to be aware of and to be able to play around peaks, and mistakes get punished harder. Most of the established players on this forum have seen numerous games blown at high tiers by people who have no business being there (I imagine you saw the same in WOT), and it gets wearing after a while. As a result of this, you may find you don't get a hugely sympathetic reaction to your original post in some quarters. It's not that it's your fault; WG have made the conditions where this sort of thing happens, and it happens a lot, which gets on many people's nerves... I don't believe people care excessively about your personal life; what they're more interested in is the impact that your initial approach has on the quality of the game, and probably the impact it has on you. Besides the already elucidated impact on the game, you will probably have more fun if you understand the game more fully before leaping into high tiers. For example, consider your Cossack; she's a great ship (as I said previously), but how good is the captain you have in her? If he isn't at least ten points, you'll be at a disadvantage against most players, if only because you'll be spotted earlier (you can only get CE at ten points); they may fire faster than you (AR, for one); they may have more hitpoints (SE) and so on. So what? So, as a newer player, you can't rely on everyone you face being at the same place in their learning of the game; if you face someone with over a thousand battles (which isn't that many really), say, the only thing you have in common is the ship tier. Also, with specific regard to Cossack: you have zero Random battles in DDs at time of writing; please trust me when I tell you that Cossack is not the ship (and T8 not the tier) to learn to DD in. If you want to get the most out of the forum, I'd suggest asking people's opinions of premiums you're interested in getting, and for tips for those you already have. A quick search of the forums is often a useful precursor too; people will give you more sensible answers if they haven't fielded the same question from somebody a week or two ago.

More than you might think: besides the obvious sorts of things, the pace is wildly different - you have to get used to thinking at least half a minute ahead (in the case of BBs). Almost everything has ballistics more akin to the KV-2 at best; a lot of the US ships have arcs that the gods of rainbows should sue over. The other thing that often catches people is that the vision mechanics work rather differently (and you don't have things like hydro/radar in WOT).

I'm another WOT player that moved to WOWS; my perspective is that reading up on premiums before opening wallet is a good idea - not all premiums are created equal. For instance, the really unfortunate shopper at the moment could quite easily end up buying Cheshire... The best place to start is arguably with Little White Mouse: she's a former CC on the NA server, whose reviews tend to be very thorough and well researched. You may not always come to the same conclusions as she does, but her reviews always contain plenty of detail. There's a list here: https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/210980-mouses-catalog-of-ship-reviews/ Bear in mind that the game has changed drastically over the last several years, so older reviews may often be wildly unrepresentative of the state of play now (for example, anything to do with AA changed out of all recognition a couple of years ago; captain skills changed a lot too). Something else to watch out for: almost all newer premiums are 'nerfable'; older ones are not (outside of global changes - look at the pitiful remnants of Atlanta in this latter case). To determine the status of a given ship, look at the blurb in the shop/Armory [sic]; you're looking for something like this: Text along these lines means the ship in question can be nerfed. Technically, *anything* can be nerfed (WG just generally don't), but the newer ones are official, as it were. As to the ones you bought already (which I would have advised against until you've played enough to work out which ships you tend to like/don't like e.g. in WOT, I usually play heavies, and heaviums; in WOWS I'm a DD main, at least in PvP): Mainz is widely felt to be excellent, although all cruisers can be hard work, with the plethora of BBs out there. Atago is one of *the* classic premiums and very much recommended once you can play T8 cruisers reasonably well (no cruiser is newbie-friendly IMO). Hornet will help you farm -1s for playing CVs; if you want to learn about CVs without being hated, get a T6 or several and use them in Ops (if you haven't worked it out yet, CVs are WOWS' arty i.e. hated by most players to a greater or lesser extent). Warspite is good, especially for Ops, but most people get her for free via recruitment codes etc. She has an optional 'National' permaflage available (for doubloons) that boosts her silver earnings dramatically. Bagration is a vaguely similar beast to Atago in non-expert hands i.e. healing T8 cruiser with torps. Atago's torps are better (and more numerous), but Bagration has better guns. Cossack is outstanding - a strong candidate for the best T8 premium DD (or any tier even, tier-for-tier). She does however require that you know how/when to use dakka on a sneaky platform, and her AA is almost entirely worthless (see previous remarks about CVs being hated...) although you do have RN smoke which is pretty useful for temporarily evading CV attacks/spotting. Finally, it's always worth asking on here for people's views on any given premium; the views may well be diverse, but you can usually get a sense of how suitable a given ship will be for you from them.

Details are a bit thin, but this Dev Blog came out the other week: https://blog.worldofwarships.com/blog/318 This gives a sense of where things are at the moment...