Scismoz

So, meanwhile November, I didn't see any update on this. Any new informations regarding the issue?

The current state from a CV - Noob perspective: I started to play with a totally stock Independence at 0.5.3 and played 7 matches so far. Truth is: I don't plan to play any more at the current state. Only encountered fully upgraded AS-Independence or Ryujo and/or had multiple T8 Ships (most of them having a pretty solid AA, like the NC, Baltimore, etc) in the match which resulted in my wings getting absolutly vaporized within a blink. Me beeing a CV newbie, all the "bait" tactics etc you can see in several guides, didn't work out at all. When I tried to focus on weaker ships such as T6-8 DDs or T5-6 IJN BBs I usually lost the whole squadron, except one plane if lucky. I've played quite a number of stock ships and quite aware that stock isn't very useful in most cases and actually can't be really considered in the final effectiveness of a ship in WoWs. But in the case of carriers with unlucky MM it can result in very frustrating and time wasting matches you literally can't do anything useful except a bit of spotting as long as your planes are not getting focused. Therefore I can't gain any decent XP to upgrade my carrier, let alone even get my captain retrained (~avg. 643 XP). Usually I even loose credits. It's an absolut vicious circle, I don't plan to grind out ever or will spend any kind of doubloons/free xp in. The whole thing feels so unrewarding and demotivating I'm pretty much sure to be done with CV's as long as there are no major improvements. PS: Ship upgrades should be really considered in MM. A stock ship vs fully upgraded ships (stock colorado vs fully upgraded nagato, for example) is utter nonsense in most cases. Observed quite often, that the team with 1-2 stock ships (more) usually loses. Plain unfair, imop.

We all experienced this, a fellow captain of our team was unaware of his surrounding and rammed our ship, in the middle of the battle, at an unpropitious moment. Happend to me to, although I try to be most wary of my surrounding and evade incomming team rammers, often resulting in presenting the enemy broadside and taking more damage or even getting killed. Some team rammers doing it on purpose on the other hand, forcing you to "tank" damage for them. Sure, in general both players could be made responsible, both unwary of their surrounding. But even if you try ur best, it can't always be avoided. I think everyone knows, that this can be situation-related a matter of getting killed or even losing a match, since maneuverability is clearly constrained = taking more damage or even insta-kill through torp-salvo or citadels and alike, which of course... sucks. But what I seriously dislike about it, is the fact that in 95% of these cases, I have to pay way more compensation fine to the actual rammer, then the rammer himself to me. The mechanic is insomuch god-awful, it makes me insane. Here is an example (Beware, it's a large Picture!): 1st ram, 2nd ram, I have to pay more then double for this players stupidity. Wtf. Before questions arise: No, I don't play only BB's. I know of other ships maneuverability. That's why it is even more incomprehensible for me. I encountered dozens of similar situations, in which someone rams me because of whaddefuckdoiknow, although I try my best to evade. It's not about the amount of the compensation fine, it's about the principle of doing nothing wrong and beeing forced to pay for someone elses brain malfunction. I simply can't stand this. A fine for damaging through any kind of weapon is totally fine, since that really very rarely happens and if so, it should really hurt. But the mechanic of ramming compensation needs serious rework or better has to be abolished completly, since I doubt it can be coded reliably to determine who is the actual perpetrator. If I were Wargaming, I would abolish this mechanic asap, since it doesn't work as intended, nor will work as intended in the future, since no one with the slightest bit of brain and/or responsibility would put any kind of (human)ressources into something that stupid. tl;dr: ramming fine is far too minor to make players care, nor does it work reliably - has to be abolished. I want to be compensated for that all of that btw.