lup3s

Yes I know that; but if I want to report an AFK player in-game I have only 3 options: - bot - plays poorly - chat misbehaviour The last two don't apply so it should be the first one right? But semantics aside, being bottom tier is still no excuse to quit the battle beforehand and leave your team with a major disadvantage. I hope WG can find a way to identify these players and take action against them.

The same applies to Bastion. Try to cap a red base with a DD if no one even bothers to shoot the forts or surveillance towers. But I have to agree that Epicenter can be utter crap sometimes; however in my experience that's mostly due to your team being utterly clueless (or at least the most important ships in this game mode, i.e. DDs).

You have a great eye sir! Shiratsuyu: 16Mahan: 21 Sims (BL Mk. 7 mod. 2B): 15Sims (Mk 15 mod. 0): 8 Leningrad: 22 Blyskawica: 28 Myoko: 12 + 1 = 13 back to the top with you: so happy I could get all these ARP versions! Indianapolis: 3Flint: 22Atlanta: 17 Shchors: 12Fiji: 20 Belfast: 28 Nagato: 3 - 3 = 0 sorry Nagato that you're the first T7 BB to fall.. I liked playing you and you're a good ship, but you're just not as good as the other T7 BBs Colorado: 11 Gneisenau: 17Scharnhorst: 32Hiryu (2/2/2): 17Hiryu (3/1/2) : 20Ranger (1/1/1): 5Ranger (0/1/3): 16Saipan (Torpedo Bombers): 22Saipan (Dive Bombers): 11

OP, just wow

Exactly my thought. How can people still not know about the Yokosuka port? - especially one with that many forum posts.. Or; why don't people first search through these forums (or Google) before making yet another topic about "where are my ARP ships".. There's literally a new topic about this almost every day. Putting Hiei on the ARP Takao? Heresy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- :edit: I was about to add a list with links to all these topics but I'm afraid I'll reach the character limit before the end of the list. :edit#2: Google-search "wows arp ships". The first link that appears on my screen is http://worldofwarships.com/en/news/common/arp-returns/ . Opening that link; I only have to scroll down twice to see a box with red text that says:

-> It's not impossible to complete, just rather situational (as in, one evening you meet almost no RU ships, while another evening there are plenty). I completed the Nachi mission early in November; got my 20 RU kills around the same time as I got my 20 KM kills. I think I could have completed this mission twice by now. Playing the New Orleans was a great help. Using radar to spot those pesky RU DDs in their smokescreens - or the Kutuzov. iirc, I killed 6 or 7 RU DDs during a single gaming session (~2-3 hours) But as I said, it's situational and you need to get lucky sometimes. Like devastating a Kutuzov at 17km with my Amagi

I feel bad sailing the (new) Hatsuharu in any game I have to resort to USN DD tactics if I want to have any decent result.. But the Hatsuharu isn't even that good at it. And the screenshot you provided.. Such MM is quite rare in my experience. But even with little damage done the Atago should still have received a lot of XP (as you get more XP for damaging / sinking higher tier ships). If I would have such MM in my Atago, I would just try to HE spam from behind islands or try to intercept / hurt some DDs. BBQ-time

I know, I was trying to be funny but it was quite funny though .. spotting another forumite and few minutes later he devastated me

nice one

I might have misinterpret your post (so correct me if I'm wrong); but it seemed to me like you were saying that a player will get better MM if he gives more money to WG? That's a big tinfoil hat About the use of premium ships: I bought some to ease with captain retraining (as I don't want to spend 500 doubloons each time I move a 14+-point captain to another ship). And most of them I bought when they were on sale (-20% or -30%). Also (but this is just my opinion), if I were to play a game by e.g. EA, I'll probably 'lose' more money than playing this one (especially with all those stupid expansion packs). About the use of premium time: I didn't buy any premium time yet, but sometimes I do have a premium account because it was rewarded in-game (new account level, ranked battles, missions..). I don't really think it's necessary (for me) to have a premium account; but having one does facilitate grinding through tech trees (and in the end that's what people want right? to get to TX? ). About the use of premium consumables / camouflages: As I've played quite a lot of battles, I have a sufficient amount of credits in stock (~36M at the moment). With these credits I use premium consumables on all T4+ ships and camouflages on all T6+ ships. Unless I die very early in the game, I usually don't lose credits (even with repair, consumables and camouflage cost). Tbh I only (consistently) lose credits when playing CVs because their economy is kind of screwed.. But that's another discussion And no, despite the money I spent on this game, I don't get better MM. I'm still as much bottom tier as top tier (but at T5 & T8 mostly bottom tier).

hah ahahahahaa .. oh wait you're serious If you don't participate in the battle (either by being AFK or quitting the battle early), you don't have 'human interaction during the actual game play'. i.e. no interaction < no human interaction In my opinion AFK players (or cowards like you that quit the battle beforehand because "cry cry I'm bottom tier") are bots in my opinion. In fact, even the worst written bot program (external software and/or scripts that control actions in-game) would be more help than just doing nothing. :edit: I understand the frustration at T5 (as I'm still there in some tech trees), but there's no reason at all to leave your team with the disadvantage of an AFK player. I also understand the frustration you can get by being bottom tier multiple times in a row, but again there's no reason at all to leave your team with such a disadvantage. I'll repeat myself, at least TRY to do something in stead of just cowardly quitting the battle beforehand. And anyway, in the long run I'll end up as much bottom tier as top tier; so I don't mind it as it teaches me to play my ships in different ways.

This. I really dislike Bastion and I know I won't have fun playing it. I can understand other people like it or want to play it; so I would just like to have the chance to opt out of this game mode.

Shiratsuyu: 16Mahan: 21 Sims (BL Mk. 7 mod. 2B): 15Sims (Mk 15 mod. 0): 8 Leningrad: 22Blyskawica : 27Myoko: 13 +1 = 14 Myoko needs more loveIndianapolis: 3Flint: 22Atlanta: 20Shchors: 15Fiji: 20Belfast: 27Nagato: 9 - 3 = 6 imo worst T7 BBColorado: 10 Gneisenau: 16Scharnhorst: 32Hiryu (2/2/2): 17Hiryu (3/1/2) : 20Ranger (1/1/1): 5Ranger (0/1/3): 16Saipan (Torpedo Bombers): 22Saipan (Dive Bombers): 11

What exactly do you mean with 'additive'? AFT increases the range of the secondary batteries and the AA mounts by 20%. e.g. if your normal AA range is 5km, than your AA range with AFT will be 6km. (5km +20% = 6km) BFT decreases the reload of the secondary batteries and increases the damage of the AA mounts by 10%. You can't really say that AFT and BFT stack as they have different effects. (though both will increase your AA rating) A captain skill and ship upgrade that stack are, for example, AFT and AA guns mod 2. Both increase the range of the AA mounts by 20%. So, if your normal AA range is 5km, than your AA range with AFT and AA guns mod2 will be 7.2km. (5km +20% = 6km; 6 km + 20% = 7.2km)

Nassau is god at its tier

met tenacious_torps on the enemy team (but didn't notice until I started a BBQ on his deck) I said "Hi" he replied by devastating my Belfast nice shot man! too bad you had so many AFKs on your team

Just want to quote this as it is exactly why a cruiser can't win a 1v1 against a battleship. (i.e. in a 1v1 you can't stealth fire) Also, as you need to spot the BB yourself, at such close range it's very unlikely you'll dodge the battleship's shells. Maybe an Atago with CE and stealth torp? Although you really have to rely on your torpedoes hitting.. And most BBs are running Vigilance anyway + one mistake and you get deleted (and if the BB has any brains he should just sail towards the torpedoes and try to push the cruiser to the map border)

very impressive!

y u no effort? --------- literally the only one I could find though..

imo Nachi has by far the most soothing voice

Not really, a bot could also just be an AFK player who doesn't participate in the battle, or a player (like you) that instantly leaves the battle when he gets bad MM. Everyone will get bad MM at some point at the game; but you just don't leave your team with the disadvantage of an AFK ship / player. Try playing the Mogami as only T8 ship in a T10-heavy battle. Big chance you'll get sunk quickly, but you can at least TRY to deal some damage. You could try to go after the enemy DDs or sit behind an island spamming HE; even forcing a single repair on a T10 battleship can be sufficient. I see no difference between 'going AFK' or 'quitting the battle'. There is actually one difference.. If you go AFK you can still rejoin the battle if you want to, if you quit the battle you can't rejoin. Thus quitting the battle is even worse than going AFK (in my opinion). I do agree that T5 ships have the worst MM at the moment; but you can be bottom tier at any tier. Everyone wants to be top tier and very few like to be bottom tier; but just try to make the best of it when you are bottom tier. And don't forget; bottom tier usually means a lot more XP for damage dealt. He did offer you the opportunity to play in a division; so you could learn / see that being bottom tier isn't the end of the world, and how you can still have an impact on the battle even when you're bottom tier. I'll give you plenty!

I thought it was something like that last spotted he had ~300hp and we both landed hits on him but he didn't get sunk

It was really nice playing with you And a couple of entertaining games too! e.g. That flanking manoeuvre on the Friedrich and the Izumo in our first battle! Or that massive salvo you landed on the Montana But we also met our fair share of potatoes.. e.g. 2 allied BBs thought it was a good idea to rush through the channel on Two Brothers at the start of the game.. You would think people would know better by now But despite such an early disadvantage we still managed to win.. Somehow That Kagero though

got a couple of nice achievements this evening and last but not least: