ColonelPete

That is why you should play better from the start. And it is highly unlikely that someone manages significant improvements after 41k battles.

Yeah, and some gunboats and cruisers would need to get completly reworked as they would not work in open water...

And you still do not get that the randomness of MM is not based on a function. That WR reflects your ability

Because you can see it in the results. That is how people find out when pseudo random functions are bad.

ELO systems are not based on winrating. A top chess player can club chess newbies with 100% WR and his ELO rating will improve less than having 55% WR vs players of his strength. ELO systems are also hard to implement when the player is part of a random 12 player team.

There are fail divisions that make sense, the 899 with CV for example.

Only when you do not read my post. The MM randomness is not based on a function.

Algorithms are Random enough and do not create swings. Depending on you implemention, there are even true random functions using atmospheric disturbances as a baseline. Apart from that, the randomness of the MM is not based on a function, but the actions of players. Depending on when you click on the Battle Button, the game puts you in a match. And winning small prices on a lottery ticket is still luck, unless you cheat. And a solo player can have divisions on the green or red team and their skill can be an advantage or a disadvantage.

Battleships still tank more damage than any other class. And long range tanking does not really work well in Domination as someone has to get to the caps. Even in Standard you risk losing map control. There are many islands you cannot shoot over and the majority of ships cannot shoot over smaller islands while staying hidden.

When you do not see action in a BB, you are playing them wrong.

None of which are responsible for the current decrease of cruisers. It is the result of the introduction of 2 BB lines and a CV line, with an anti cruiser focus, one after another. After the CV rework, CA numbers even increased...

From Tier VII to X, Supercruisers make up roughly 10% of the Cruiser matches.

It is a premium ship. You can put any captain you want on her.

Cruiser population was above average until June. Doubtful the plating and IFHE rework played a role.

CA have around 0.01%-points higher winrating than BB and that is probably a statistical anomaly or a rounding error. http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/20210508/eu_2month/average_class_u.html Since we have mirrored MM, no class can be superior in winrating to another class.

Yes, the dropoff since March 2020.

Random.

Then why are we arguing? There must be a reason you prefer it to 15 or 20km+ combat distances.

Then Tier VIII is not for you, as Tier VIII gets uptiered to Tier X. And the difference in Free XP is not that big compared to Tier VI and in general the Free XP gain for new players is not suffcient to research whole nations. It is better to play them.

We have a drop since March 2020... we had UK CA in February 2020, which increased the CA numbers far above the average, after that the numbers went back down a bit in March to May we had the EU DD, but CA stayed at above average levels from May to July we had the RU CA split which kept the numbers stable, but in the end the numbers went down a bit, probably because the ships were not that attractive for the majority of players from July to August we had the KM CV, which were not really friendly to CA and the numbers started to sink in October we had the US BB split, which increased BB popularity, which in turn is not good for CA CA numbers were stable in the weeks before after the skill rework end of March we got the RM BB, which increased the BB popularity again and lowered CA popularity now we have the KM DD, which increases DD popularity even further With the Dutch Cruisers one can expect that CA numbers will rise again.

yes, it is, and Bayern can turn away from an Aoba when she gets too close, but thanks to Overmatch that should rarely be an issue which is a strong argument vs backline sniping and when 15km is ok for you, maybe try 14km next time on average you are not dependent RNG and getting closer removes RNG people who are afraid of getting closer will not get the job done with stronger secondary builds, as they will not survive long enough, to make them viable for them, that is why I said you should get as close as possible as your skillevel allows

Depends on how new you are. What is your highest Battleship Tier and on which Tier do you feel comfortable?

As you can see the development started March 2020. That has nothing to do with deadeye.

I rarely see them do it, it is usually the result of a first push and the BB needs time to recover before going in again when people cannot play, it is their problem we are talking about average results and you hit more when you get closer and it is your responsibilty to know how close you can get before risking overpens on the enemy citadel, and 15km is not backline sniping on many Tiers I wonder why better players hit more often then... we were talking about backline sniping and you bring up the opposite after you explained that staying in the back is better...

We had weeks with over 42% BB. During March we had two weeks with over 43%. But yes, the softcap of 5 BB reduces the BB ratio.