black_falcon120

I agree with all of this apart from plane health, it now ‘feels’ like there is some benefit from aa. So WG might increase plane hp to the same place it was it just feels better to the defending ship. I don’t like that WG is buffin cap skills and raising the skill cap at the same time it’s raising the skill cap and combined with the economy of carriers, reduces new CV players, especially as we are not allowed in CW

I mean I’m a CV main, but even I can see the problems. you need a fairly high spec captain to not lose planes instantly. You also generally have a dull first 5 minutes where you can’t do much apart from spot in about half of games in the E. on top of that we’re banned from CW and the directives and combat missions usually cannot be completed in CVs. Also tier 10 carriers need to research modules in order to make them playable, in one of the least fun grinds I have had to do, and to cap it all off the economy on silver carriers is terrible. It does feel like we are second class citizens sometimes.

It could also be an attempt to help a streamer, people have done dumber stuff than that before. It would also explain why WG is being so cagey about banning beneficiaries

Btw reddit has caught onto this

What can WG do? Ban the main? Do you think the main player used their main account to cheat the system? Maybe they’re a script kiddie who bought it/hacked it from an innocent?

Slightly off topic, but with the CV rework is there still a need to stop CVs divisioning together?

Yes they closed the recruitment thread a few months ago

True, but it does force you to be impotent for a while. Even with near perfect bombing on a lone BB, you lose 3-4 planes if you double bomb. it is hard to keep the losses manageable as you also have to keep scouting for targets, which takes all the fun out of the gameplay and massively reduces your DPM.

As someone who failed his way to T9 without speccing ANY captains, I can assure you his crimes are minor. I currently have an 18 pt (specced) which is 50k xp off, and I'm at t10, it isn't such a big deal. People here seem to forget that for people starting out and/or not running premium, those grinds can be daunting. Even with a premium account, it takes approx 5 hours to get 100k EXP with a 19pt, and I do not begrudge him not wanting to wait that long before playing his new t10. True, but I don't particularly like players (and a mod) implying that playing t10 with a training captain is 'the real problem', feels like social pressure on people to spend money and laughing at those who don't.

Difference is CV gameplay is much faster, and the planes' view range is very limited, there are probably about 10 wings launched/game. This means that you have 10 times more chances to either get unlucky or make a mistake than a DD. In addition, being deplaned in a CV is no fun. TBH, right now the best play style is to afk from the game for the first 10 minutes, otherwise you end up AFKing for the last 10 when you can do the least damage.

I mean this tbh it's not that I can't play CVs, it's just I have to get a good match up, otherwise, 50k damage is good one misplay/ambush with a minotaur/DM/Worcester is enough to shoot down enough planes that you can't really recover from it.

Errm not everyone has a jap premium so he might not have had a choice how else is he meant to retrain a Yamato captain.

Why was that, did DD players move to light cruisers?

As one of those people, it's just that I can't seem to do anything in these new carriers, so I stopped playing, I'm sure it's the same for everyone. In addition, with the pre-nerf CVs, you felt you could adapt to most circumstances, which I don't feel anymore, you just lose planes too fast.

Do you think they’ll still abolish vanilla consumables after they cancelled NTC?

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but in the Dev blog on Medium, they said that 50% of all TX ships in TX do not use premium consumables (ie each ship in game has a 50% chance to be using stock). Is there a reason for this? devblog: https://medium.com/@devblogwows/naval-training-center-6ae94ee5b34a

my bank card wont let me :(

I didn't as I was an f2p for a long time and I at one point was down to 8mil silver with a v. expensive ship on the way. I'm now up to 28 mil, but I still don't feel comfortable using them. I'm in the half that don't use them (Except for ranked), but I was very surprised more than half the player base use them. I'm not sure why I can't bring myself to use them especially as I have a stockpile of more than 300 premium repair kits...

i mean even at this amount, need 2 consumables/game, it's 45k per game, actually it makes sense....

I'm not really interested in that change in this thread.

Define old, there have been a couple of ones about wooden ships? I don't know what you mean otherwise...

From what the dev blog said, 50% of ships don't use premium consumables at all, ie no t2 consumables. in fairness, they are quite expensive at 50k apiece.

Just saying, the London one last year was very fun, and different team members do the dev work and the irl events.

I don't understand this buff, it only affects people with 12pt captains, and as someone who always forgets to spec captains, I'm not convinced..

Oh.... I legitimately enjoy the new CVs, I'm feeling more and more like a leper. Also kinda cruel isn't it? Btw OT I can't play my E anymore, I had the perfect match up, could only do 25k damage, and stopped.... This was averaging 80k beforehand...