Jethro_Grey

It really depends on which shops OP visited, what exactly he bought and how much he spent.

WG seems to be working on a 'crew' thingy, which is however different from the system WoT uses. Iirc, they trying to add an XO which represents the 'crew' and has his own set of skills and perks, which sounds quite nice to me (tho, knowing WG, there's a lot room to eff it up^^).

There is a simple solution: don't leave the battle early! Like many others, i had to go through the same, but at least i yolo-ed in Coop until i got sunk and then moved to the next battle. Blaming WG because you violated the rule is kinda wrong. That being said, the requirements are indeed a bit $hitty, however no reason for anyone to break the rule. Division with someone who sails a german/IJN ship and you can make it in no time.

Donskoi is a very good cruiser and not as squishy if you play it right.

Oh my, a broken seal clubber has been nerfed, how sad is that? ...when i think about it, not at all!

In case you're not trolling, here's my take on it. You are bad, but there is still hope. Stay in lower tiers for a while, skipping the lower tier ships will bite you in the a$$ later on, it's quite a lot of experience you are missing, and i'm not talking about Xp you can convert. Resist the urge to play higher tiers until you have improved, stick to Tier IV and V. Also, don't play ranked. Just don't. You are not ready for it and you're more a liability for your team.

Cruisers are fine and so is the damage output of BBs. Cruisers are meant to be squishy but have the RoF and BBs are heavy hitters. If you have probs with survivability use islands for cover and WASD hax and make sure you position yourself correctly. Except for CVs, the classes are pretty well balanced (with a few exceptions) against each other. Besides, a minor decrease in fire chance will Cruisers not make any less BBQ kings.

Your version of the ideal MM distribution of ships?

I'm for a more immediate punishment system: the second you do team damage, it gets all reflected even if no previous team damage was done. Easy, fast and it prevents griefing and abusing the system, plus it's clear from the get-go. The player may or may not forgive the guy who tried to damage him, which may remove the neagitve karma. But ingame? Frak no. You do team damage, it gets refelcted straight back.

I did start a thread on the WoT forums, sadly those don‘t have the ability to summon WG employees like WoWS forums do. Besides, threads get buried rather fast under a flood of MM whine threads and premium ammo kills the game threads. So, i offer a deal: you tell me how much gold the FV 201 A45 costs, i‘ll buy that amount, you take the gold and give me the Tank! Deal? I wants my precious, pretty pleeeease with a golden cherry on top!

And the best way to punish passive BB play is to introduce a ship that'll make BB play even more passively! Genius! While the ship does indeed whack them hard, it's not healthy at all for the game. The screenies i posted above somewhere, seem to indicate that those BBs were camping. They were not, they were pushing with their cruisers. Our BBs, on the other hand, haven't left the spawn area well 10 minutes into the game and were mostly camping behind whatever cover they could find. Good play punished, bad play rewarded. And since people seem to be buying the Asashio like mad and consider it 'the messiah that'll fix the BBcalypse', we'll see more bad play rewarded and good play punished.

I played 5 Coop battles and got my ship sunk in three of them, i left all three battles right after i was sunk and didn't get a warning.

Wrong. That thing will not 'enforce' team play. Where do you get the idea from that it will enforce team play??

I should have be more specific, as in: ' Ranked is the same stupid $hit show with 95% brain dead window lickers as players, as it always was.' Fixed it in the original post.

Ranked is the same stupid *edited* show with 95% brain dead window lickers as players, as it always was. And no, Asashio is not for ranked. Edited for great justice.

If you are really comfy with a ship, you like it and want to keep it after the grind to play it and cuddle with it, then go for it. ^^

Well, the only camo i which i don't have is the Alsace and Republique, but i haven't grinded the Richie yet.

The very first game in the game breaker named Asashio, what a broken ship. I wasn't even try-harding to get damage done (that may be something i'm gonna try soon-ish). Welcome to the new meta, where BBs camp ever harder and cruisers take even more beating then they ever did before.

This ship is so retardedly stupid, and will over time have a negative impact on the game. Thx Wg for releasing a truly broken stat padder ship, that will make BBs camp even harder. My very first game in it and i wonder how much fun these BBs had...the last Yamato on the enemy team only survived because he ran away all the time. What else could he have done? Everyone that wanted to punish BBs for camping: well, it seems you gonna punish yourself in the long run. Thx for that!

My suggestion to reduce toxicity in chat is for Wg to find a way to increase player skill and to punish bad play by whatever means necessary. This alone would decrease toxicity by a fair amount.

The karma system is flawed beyond repair and needs to go to the same place WG put their good sale practices and logic decisions in...

Well, Wargaming isn't really known for logical decisions when it comes to sales in the shop. Right now they have a rare tank in the premium shop, the FV201 A45 which i wanted for a looooooong time, as 'Collectors Gem of the WEEK(!). It's the first time the tank is available without bloatware, which made me very happy. Sadly, Wargaming decided that a week is no longer 7 days long, but only two. And since i bought a new PC for renders, i'm broke as frak till the paycheck arrives in two days. So yeah, nothing new about sales in the shop, just the usual Wargaming policy. Any chance Wargaming would prolong the offer for the FV201 for a couple more days, @MrConway, @Tuccy, @Kandly ?

MM is not the issue in WoWS, the players are. You can't fix those, but you can write down all their nicknames and once you come to power and become the evil overlord and start your world domination tour, you can remember them and have them executed.

Ranked is going to be very interesting if players already calculate how many games they need to get carried to rank 1.^^ Personally, i wouldn't worry too much beforehand. Play every game without thinking about losing the star or winning, it'll only achieve the opposite. Just play the objectives, don't suicide, don't be a hero but a team player instead and you'll make it way faster to rank 1 than when you obsess about stars and victories.

Get recked by GZ, come to forums, throw around false data and abuse the p2w phrase. Same old, same old. This sums it up quite nicely.