loppantorkel

WG is making you lose games and those other guys above win games in order to earn more money? Have you spent a lot of cash during your losing streak? I'm not arguing the issues about new, often F2P, games and the methods to make profit, just questioning your reasoning how WG benefits specifically by making you lose.

I believe you're mostly mistaken in your analysis. The current system works fairly well. 1. A vast majority of these high-number-of-games-players do not reach Rank 1. 2. Reaching Rank 1 this season is easier than before due to lower number of players per team - 1 in 6 saves a star for every loss. Increasing the numbers per team to the usual will prevent below average players to an even higher degree. 3. The players that have reached Rank 1 - a huge majority are well above average. A hand full of players or so are below average and all those need to grind a huge amount of games + have some luck to reach Rank 1. 4. Most of the players that have grinded several hundred of games are above average players, despite having an average WR in Ranked. You just lose more in Ranked due to higher average skill. 5. If you're a total liability to the team or AFKs - you won't reach Rank 1. There's no 'carried to Rank 1', just below average and a liability to the team, sure, but the player still need to contribute to at least a small degree to reach Rank 1. 6. A large amount of players do not participate in Ranked. Not because the players are bad (regardless of what they may think), but because it's frustrating. It's frustrating not being able to progress in the manner you want or hope. Making it tougher will exclude an even larger amount of the playerbase. 7. There's already voices on the forum asking for more 'safe-ranks' - Rank 5 or so. Why? Because ranking out is difficult and for most people a grinding in frustration. Safe ranks closer to rank 1, like before, would of course enable more potatoes to reach Rank 1. So, what is the objective of changing the Ranked system? Is it to prevent a couple of potatoes out of a few thousand players from ranking out and in the process perhaps make Ranked even more frustrating? What is the issue if a potato or two Ranks out every season? What is the target number for how many players should rank out? Is it 10% of the participants? is it 5%? What would the benefit of this be? I wouldn't mind testing a new system in Ranked Sprint or something, but I doubt it would improve the current. There are flaws in the current, but it's decent enough. Edit: Starsaving system is fairly good too. As long as cvs aren't in and/or WG gets XP-accumulation right. Edit2: SkybuckFlying ranked out, cased closed

You should, or you could end up like OP

What does this mean?

I should be due for a comfortable carry to Rank 1 soon, I hope. I've had some pretty obscure streaks too. Not sure what to think about it. I suppose it's me and RNG, but I'm not ruling out any conspiracies

https://wows-numbers.com/season/13,The-Thirteenth-Season/ Seems to be a very balanced season between ships at least. A bit heavy on dd popularity maybe. Can't see much to complain about this season.

Jaguar and Guépard both are fine/strong imo. Both Aigle and Vauquelin seems a bit too underwhelming, but maybe Vauquelin should be a 'bad' dd.. most tier 7 dds are pretty bad, except for Jervis and Gadjah. Otoh, most other dds at tier 7 can do the other dd stuff well enough. Vauquelin has speed and a good health pool. It's just that it's not effective when it comes to executing. I don't find a good way to work around the badness of this dd.

Vauquelin seems to be in a pretty tough spot compared to the earlier French dds.

Meh, I just bought Georgia, seems like a more fun ship, and a decent Smolusk blapper.

I wonder if there will be a module concerning depth charges for dds coming up...?

It's a slippery slope... Do I want WG to spend more resources on Support for all the droves of players who can't get their ships to work properly or do I want WG to spend more resources to improve the game...? How about this: For a nominal fee you get to refund ships < 10 games played? Just to cover the Support costs.

IF/when you feel that cvs and AA are in a good place - please make some tutorial/play guide for cvs again. Preferably how to make most use of rockets/bombs for different cvs. I've not kept up at all.

*bump* Easy to miss this 'offer'. Pretty well-hidden if I may say so.

I've got mine safely locked away in a storage depot until something changes.

Maybe 6 players per team also benefits dds. Maybe a change to IHFE is enough to bring Kita and Jutland down a bit. Last proper Ranked had cvs in and it wasn't great for dds. Point is that most Ranked seasons have different meta. This 13th season favours dds. No reason to believe this will continue or do too radical changes to the format. It's still quite good. Nah. You got CB, Randoms, Ranked Sprint and every co-op for div play.

Have all Ranked seasons been dominated by dds? Restricting mm like this seems like a WG sledgehammer blow to fix a perceived issue this season, but do you think it's necessary? ..and why drag divisions into this? It has been discussed before with few good reasons.

Why?

The point of ranks is that you need to carry to some degree to rank up. Easier to carry when the teams are worse.

I wasn't super into the Token grind of the French event, but I got 2 dds - Guépard and Jaguar and later Siroco which got me close enough to finish the overall grind of tokens for the last 'loot box' where I suppose a chance at the Mogador was the grand prize. I get to buy Wyvern x12 + 500k credits for 1000 doubloons? 1/30 chance to be able to buy the Mogador slightly earlier..? If this works to entice players, go for it, just not for me.

yea, and hope that the enemy is totally unaware of your stealthy move....

It seems pretty logical that it would be the case. In what way doesn't it make sense?

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JB has decent stats and doesn't seem to be a bad or maybe deciding factor in Ranked. You're right about yugu though. Tashkent is an even better predictor of a loss.

...you had one bad ranked game and managed to save a star...

plus people might believe derflinger is a papership just based on the name. ..or so I've heard...