Shagulon

​Moved 2.5XP to next weekend? Source?

Un-do whatever you just did quickly. I want to see the stats screen but I want the bonuses more.... This is intelarable, I cleared stuff to be able to play this weekend, and now it doesn't [edited]work. Compensation now!

OK my stats screens came back However.... I'm pretty sure I'm not getting 2.5 captain XP.

I know it really detracts from the fun without the stats to see how awesome you were...

​How? The stats site I check doesn't show captain XP. Anyone link me to one that does?

Some people in the last game say they are not getting this. I am being tracked on third party sites, and if I hover over the info icon I get credits and XP in the popup, it is just the stats screens themselves either straight after the match or opened from the info back in port.

Is anyone not getting this. In addition has anyone fitted the 5% repair discount flag from ranked? I added it this morning before it started, maybe that is the problem? EDIT: I took the flag off and it isn't the flag.

Over 70 waiting in queue for ranked BB and no queue for any of the other three ship classes. What should we conclude from this? BBs are OP? BBs suit ranked? People like big ships?

Did you guys make it easier to play CVs? They feel much better. Yes I lose a lot of planes, but I'm doing 100K damage most games, and I've only got to Ranger so far. I did 100K damage in a tier 9 match up with the ranger too. I really feel that CV play is missing from the game so this is a good thing. It should be the most important ship on each team really to promote so good, deep tactics.

This is the major issue. All that waiting around waiting for ships to blunder into your area means you sit there 5 minutes a rely on your team. This is not great in random and often you have already lost the game by the time you manage to ambush anyone.

I went on http://wows-numbers.com/ship/4288591856,Atlanta/ Those are the worst stats in the game. If WG really do balance by stats, they must surely have been looking at this and thinking this ship needs some love. It needs to be more survivable, it is too slow. If it is designed for joint destroyer operations it fails as it cannot keep up with them and it turns like a yamato. Why does such a small ship handle like this? I also think the ship suffers form the current meta-game. I rarely see CVs so it cant knock aircraft out the sky, and in the 10 games I had last night, tier 7 is awash with cruisers. It seems to me that it is cruisers that are the worst ship an Atlanta can face. Anything penetrates the Atlanta from any angle so high fire rates of cruisers combined with ranges 6km longer than mine is just death.

had 3 matches now and first impression, she absolutely sucks balls. torps are a bit slow and you can only fire one salvo at a time. Its a huge disadvantage not being able to bring your firepower to bare without a huge 180. with such a huge disadvantage, she should have a huge advantage somewhere else, but I'm fucked if I know what it is.

They buffed IJN early tier cruisers, but what about the Yubari? It already feels like it has much weakened AA.

I must admit I was waiting for some changes to CVs that required all the AA buffs, like a plane speed increase or a change to manual drop. I think the meta game was better before when ships had to combine AA to stand a chance vs CVs, now it does seem like they are to be feared less and less. Didn't get on the public test server, how did it play out?

statistically it is impossible for people to be bottom tier more than other tiers unless the results are affected by playing a lot of tier 2 matches is what I meant

OK this isn't scientific I know, but I was feeling that I wasn't really getting an equal balance of bottom to top tier MMs e.g. I was not top tier as often as bottom tier... I recorded all the MM draws from two separate gaming sessions. I recorded the tier ship I was in against whether I was bottom, mid or top tiered in that match. I avoided bottom and top tier ships to try and prevent that influencing the results. 3 = bottom2 = mid1 = top tier level5 35 36 24 25 34 15 35 3 6 15 25 25 25 25 3 So it seems that I am three times more likely to be bottom tier than top. This doesn't seem statistically possible. Does anyone know any of the inner workings of the MM, or is it shrouded in mystery?

Well that's perfectly fine thing to say, think about it again. I played some more so my sample is now 35 games played 14 bottom8 middle11 top It could well be on the way to being roughly even which is statistically possible. This may well be because it is as someone suggested, just random. This means you can go for ways without being top tier. This is what probably makes people think its unfair more than it is.

ah its random, I thought it gave you some kind of equal go at being top middle and bottom tiered for matches. Random seems tough, shame they can't equalise it somehow.

That isn't how the MM works that is just a list of possible tiers you can be matched against

Interesting, but really just after facts that people actually know. Thanks for taking the time....

Yes but I started making the sample due to the feeling I was hardly ever top tier. I will continue to record them though, and I would ask others to do the same. Is the MM trying to balance on more than just ship type/tier? Does it take into account player rating in that ship?

this... I'm all for the rebalance, the shimi was a bit good. but there is no comparison with the gearing right now. did they forget? even the fletcher has better torps. 5km slower but more stealth.

They gave free captain retrain on ships affected by the nerf in range from advanced combat training, how is this any different. I can't really hit much with the stock shimi torps so I would like to drop down to the short range torps, but I can't due to the extra 20% range I lose from a now useless captain perk....

Gives buffs when fighting against higher tier fighters. This skill needs revisiting with the new match making changes, it is rare to play against higher tier CVs. There is not much else for a CV to choos at level 3 so you have to take it, and really it is very underwhelming.

the mechanism is fine, you can't see that because you don't understand it yet, hence all the advice. if you choose to ignore it then that's your short-sightedness and nothing to do with the developers