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Question being whether or not AA is going to be much of a factor. You really not see that many CVs in T8+ games.

Question being whether or not AA is going to be much of a factor. You really not see that many CVs in T8+ games.

Is there actually a hard cap on base XP? In theory, you could just go around capping a base, letting the other guy recap it, recap it yourself... Is there a diminishing return of rewards on the same action done?

That's why DD average XP doesn't actually tell you anything about the quality of the player. You just get to cap bases and it's relatively easy to get 1500+ average XP on DDs in ranked.

Well, I kinda try to do that. Keep myself from advancing too far, having an eye on the minimap as often as possible... Fire on ships the others are fireing on, not dropping torps when own ships could get in the way etc... Still, my W/L ratio is just above 50% in ranked. So I am trying to find out what else I can do to improve that. I'm obviously running with all kinds of flags, premium repair and premium smoke kits....

Did the introduction mission today... It's ok-ish but for one thing. At the end of the mission, an enemy Kawachi spawns. That's where the assistant tells you to go broadside on to use all guns. I don't think you should should advise anybody to ever go broadside on.

It's not available for all ships, only Kagero and Hatsuharu I believe.

Sometimes, you can appreciate the effort the enemy team has made to win or lose despite the effort they made.

Saw a couple of people last few days. Most of those people have been playing ranked a lot last season as well. Tobl3ron3 Albtraum23 Trem0r

I'd second that. Saw him a couple of times in ranked last season, he doesn't seem to play ranked much this season, though.

Had a ranked game earlier today, Isles of fire or whatever it's called. My team started out north and went for B cap. One of our Bensons and a Blyskawica did the usual Torp drop on A and in the ensuing firefight, we managed to cap B and sink two of their Bensons, with our DDs limping back to safety near B. So, we were leading with 7 ships against 5 of theirs, a quite comfortable lead you'd think, right? Well, yes, until some of my team started to go headlong into A. A North Carolina was the first to die to the combined firepower of the enemy team, which had the sense to stick together until they figured out how to win the game from that position. Not much later, a Tirpitz died, as well as our 2nd Benson, which had tried to sneak around south. We gradually lost ships until only one battleship and me in my Benson were left. Eventually, the latter died too, but he had occupied an enemy Tirpitz long enough for me to torp and sink him. So, I was left alone with an enemy Benson at about 500 HP, an enemy Amagi at about 3/4 health and an enemy Tirpitz. Needless to say, they were leading by points and quite comfortably by now. Being down to 3000 HP, I headed from B to A, and at least go down fighting. I came a tad too close to the Amagi, was detected and fired upon by his secondaries. The Benson joined in as well. So, no cap for me, GG. Popped smoke, dropped torps in the general direction of the Amagi and fired of a defiant salvo with the guns on the enemy Benson. That poorly aimed salvo, however, hit the enemy Benson and sank him, as he was very low on HP anyway. Not only that, a few moments later the Amagi ran into my torps and caught enough of them to sink as well. The enemy team then wrote on chat to their surviving Tirpitz that he should defend the cap. At that moment, I looked at the counters: 920 : 908. GG, indeed. I just wish I had replays enabled.

How about Gröfaz inststead of Großdeutschland?

Something rather minor here. Found that the highlighted area on the minimap is not shown correctly in the low-right corner:

From what I gather, there seems to be little point in using TBs against capitals now when you could potentially attack an IJN DD instead, am I correct?

And I'm still not going to buy that damned Yo Lang!

Bots he said: http://worldofwarships.eu/en/community/accounts/530364490-MairyHuff/#tab=pve/account-tab-overview-pve

Nah, you get 300 xp extremely easily. All this does is getting rid of AFK RB.

Can't get my head around how a company can possibly make changes to a game and then only buff a premium ship so that it still has it's pre-patch stats while all other ships lose quite substantially on their stats and performance. And don't give me the "we don't have data yet" argument. Of course you don't have it, but you don't need it. Mogami is comparable to the Kutuzov, it's the same tier. Do you honestly think that anybody will believes you need more data to rebalance one ship when you already rebalanced another ship of the same classe, on the same tier, with the same guns? Guys, when you make things up, at least make the effort of making it somewhat plausible.

If not, then we'll see this again: 3 Fubukis vs 3 Bensons

Besides, Damage caused may not be a reliable indicator. Someone could do rather well in a DD just by doing caps and the occasional shot, so his average XP would be comparatively high to his average damage.

MrConway, I've read that the citadels on some ships have been made substantially larger. Is that true and if so, what was the reasoning behind that change? Cruisers already are relatively easily citadelled by Battleships, other Cruisers and even some Destroyers have been able to land citadels. It would seem that making them more prone to lose substantial ammounts of HP would be counterintuitive when you already reduce the range of 140mm-155mm guns. And yes, I for one would also want some improvements on the Yubari. She wasn't OP in CPT and now she is just not worth playing any more.

Spotter is not valid since it's only a temporary boost where AFT is permanent.

So they'd outrange battleships?

If you follow that logic through, you'd have to scrap at least the Russian BB tree as well.

Let's wait and see if someone can translate that into English properly. TAP will probably be able to do that, I hope.