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Bearing in mind that I'm an airhead at the end of a long week, my recollection is that you keep the bonuses if you already have them (can you imagine the uproar were that not the case?!) but there are currently no plans to make such bonuses available after the changes are implemented if you don't have them already. I assume this is mainly about making the silver economy harder, and encouraging actual for-money sales of silver. Of course, we've been assured that no-one will be worse off (on average) after the changes, but we haven't seen the details yet (of course).

Apropos the Beer Can permaflage, with the boosted income: it's worth keeping an eye on WG's releases on the subject of the upcoming decoupling economic bonuses from aesthetics. I seem to remember reading something about - essentially - not being able to buy any of the 'boosted' permaflage bonuses after the decoupling happens...

Doesn't one of the 'rewards for beta testers' ships have actually zero AA? Arkansas, perhaps? Too lazy to look it up...

To *very slightly* reduce my ignominy, the game count I showed was for Coop; I think I may be in the seventies +/- for Randoms...

I have a feeling the RB also unlocks if you complete a Dockyard mission that rewards RP; this is a screen-shot from my NA account, and I think I only have one tech tree T10 on there: I can't recall if the current Dockyard includes any suitable missions (if memory serves, it was the one for the RN T9 BB - whatever she's called - that did it for my NA account)...

<sad IJN torp DD noises>

This happens to cruisers too?! <insert deity of choice's name>! It was bad enough when it was DDs (I had it happen twice), but at least a DD (sort of) makes intuitive sense...

<red face>

Are there any premiums that are available only for doubloons? If we're allowing doubloons *and* a money option, the last one I got was Maya; this was entirely against my better judgement, but she turned out to be enormous fun in Coop...

Related Dev Blog: https://blog.worldofwarships.com/blog/325

This - wasn't there a thing (that I didn't know about) in another thread that you can have the entirety of one side in the current brawls being one large division?

I understand the sentiment, but suspect it'd be quite hard to do; for example, if you look at me as a (mediocre) DD player, and ships where I have 100+ Random battles: My WR varies from deep red (Harekaze - 43.48%; an early premium from before I knew when/how to use guns) through to almost okay (Fubuki - 59.81%). If you eliminate the mid tiers, I top out at 52.05% (Vanilla Asashio; S&M Asashio is 78.95%, but I only have 19 battles in her and got her more recently). If we worry less about decent sample sizes and - say - factor in anything I've played 10+ battles in at T8+, we get a range of 27.27% (ZF-6!) to Kinky Asashio's 78.95%. My overall WR in DDs is 49.74%. So, where would you have MM put me? Even if you go with my average, if I pick something - say - a trifle French, I'm going to be a bit of a liability, whereas I'll be rather less so in something sneaky (or will I? WR in Yamagiri is currently languishing at 39.29%!)...

Pretty much this. Submarines could be a positive addition to the game; sadly, WG seem hell-bent on actively avoiding this outcome at all costs...

The freebies were all obtained in the previous patch to the current one; you can still get tokens, but only through using doubloons to get them. They basically followed the same pattern as previous recent early-access things i.e. a patch of freebies (enough to get the T7 + permaflage tops, as I recall), followed by a patch of 'paid for' options, with alternative freebies - the collection awarding the free T6 permaflage in this case.

I think I'll be joining you...!

I don't think there's a LU yet (unless I missed it), but FWIW this is the build I run with her: As to the captain, I'm running a fairly typical gun-orientated 21 pointer (without RL), although he's shared with Haida.

Vampire II in a heartbeat, if you want something that is good at being a DD i.e. good concealment (5.8 km with full concealment build), decent anti-DD toolkit, and tolerable single-fire torps - she's basically a T10 Haida (kind-of). Druid is fun, but isn't very good at fulfilling the traditional DD role, for the reasons other have outlined.

Hang on; for the slow kids who weren't paying attention - you can have an entire team that consists of one division, and have that unified division (potentially with voice comms) facing a random collection of non-divisioned farties?! That strikes me as an extraordinarily poor design choice...?

51 in a little over a week...! Jayzus! What the happened? I could have sworn I was still in my twenties a few months ago... Time/Space Continuum is clearly busted.

Of course, for chaps of my vintage, her mum is rather magnificent...!

Assuming WG do what they say: Anyone who did the PR grind the first time isn't doing an easier grind for PR, they're doing it for *any* T10 they don't already have (or rather the resources for same). The rest of us who are lacking in the PR department are doing the same grind, but we only have one choice of reward: PR herself. While that doesn't make up for the original hideousness, at least those who went through it will get a superior reward (if they choose to complete the new one, and recalling that you can't complete the new one without some doubloon expenditure) this time around.

Sorry! I'm mainly trying to remind myself not to get too excitable about upcoming newness (although mainly it's the IJN CLs and/or RN battlecruisers in my case), because I'm less likely to blow a gasket if I'm already mindful that the game could easily go down the plughole in the meantime (assuming WG take their usual approach to the new - clearly bollixed - underwater w4nkers). A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed

I was thinking something similar, assuming the grind really is reasonable, *and* submarines aren't making it too unpleasant to do the necessary missions when we get to the relevant part of the year...