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Well, since the team battles are coming, do we even need divisions? Frankly I'd be happiest if they removed them and random was without small groups that can win the battle for their team. EDIT: Yes, I'm very biased. I don't play in divisions and don't want to.

All commanders will get to redistribute their points for free when the patch hits live server.

Many people missed the fact Albany gets buffs to range. One of very few ships along with the Kutuzov (only other ship, actually?).

Many shots are bounces for me, thus 0 damage. Or hit parts of the ship with depleted hp pool, again 0 damage. And yes, most of the other hits are overpens for me. Not sure if it should be typical, but it does make some sense and otherwise BBs would be a little bit too powerful.

Seems pretty much typical to me. That Karsruhe, when you say you hit the citadel area, was it below or above waterline? Cause if it was above, then BB shells will easily overpen a broadside at 6 km. The only way is aiming below the waterline so that your shells are slowed down enough to not rush out of your target the other side. EDIT: If we had access to training rooms, all this could be easily tested. Btw, I have a feeling even HE from BBs should citadel the side of a Karsruhe at 6 km.

'Někdo' mne rád loví i ve všech ostatních lodích, o ztrátu kořisti se neboj. Jinak tedy zírám, jak se nárůst perel tento týden vyvíjí. V podstatě pokaždé, když něco napíšu, tak ze mne udělá blbce. Nejdřív jsem očekával, že perly tenhle týden nedosbíráme, ale že mnoho perel se nasbírá velmi rychle v pondělí. Potom, když jsem viděl, že jen za pondělí se našel milion perel a v úterý pak další půlmilion, tak jsem očekával, že už to za pár dní doklepeme. No, a teď vidím (po 250 000 ve středu a ještě méně dnes), že to ještě nějaký ten den potrvá. Evidentně se jenom všichni snažili dosáhnout na oněch 260 co nejdříve, zatímco minulé týdny nechali hru klidně až na pátek, či víkend. Čili kdoví, možná se ještě dostane na pondělí, byť jen velice těsně. (Tak, a teď, co jsem to vypustil z hlavy, tak najednou poskočíme na 10 milionů perel ještě dnes. )

Když se mi zalíbí, pojedu japonské DD od začátku, když ne, nebudu na nich vůbec plýtvat silami. Volné XP nehodlám utrácet a jsem v podstatě mizerný hráč, takže by to pro mne bylo mnoho bitev ze stocku na plně vybavenou loď (nemluvě o modifikacích, které nechci kupovat pro lodě, které si nemíním nechat). Jinak moje Kuma a Konigsberg asi budou mít Kamikaze plná děla práce. EDIT: A nebojte, s Kamikaze nevletím hned do Random, nejdřív budu hodně zkoušet v Coop. (Ostatně tam bych jinak hrál i běžné DD, takže XP bych na nich získával opravdu velice pomalu.)

Ono to HE není zas až tak k ničemu. Překvapivě snadno zapaluje a vyřazuje prakticky cokoliv i na křižnících (DMG je ale zanedbatelná, pravda). Jak ale ukáže bok, pic do něj citadely s AP. Myslím, že důležitá výhoda např proti japonským křižníkům je jednak kadence a taky počet děl. Jak na vás ale kdokoliv začne střílet, máte zaděláno na hodně problémů (to se mi bohužel stává pořád).

Bude snazší vytrénovat kapitána (ostatně jakéhokoliv japonského kapitána). A odpadne nutnost hrát se 'stock' variantou.

Cruisers, at least from tier 5-6 up should get a buff to turret rotation speed. That'd be the least to give the poor paper hulls that are often bigger targets than BBs and don't always turn faster.

Maximum možných je momentálně 293. Já mám 288 poněvadž nevlastním žádný DD. A zkoušet se je učit nemělo pro těch pět perel smysl. (Možná trochu paradox, vzhledem k tomu, že výhra je DD, ale jako snad prémiová loď by měla být příjemnější k učení.) Jen ještě jedna věc. Zkoušel jsi tu stránku projektu R sdílet na Facebooku (pokud ho používáš), respektive co za činnosti se s facebookem dá se stránkou dělat? Existuje tu malinkatá šance, že za to dostaneš perly (sám facebook zatracuji, tak nevím).

Hmm, what a day! Started with 6 Konigsberg losses in a row. Then continued with 4 Amagi losses in a row. The Konigsberg just had an unbelievable lack of luck. Somehow it always became the focus of all enemies in range at the very start and given how paper-hulled ship it is, I always ended up on the bottom within the first 5 minutes. (I usually managed to take an enemy with me and damage significantly another, but well...) And somehow, not one of the teams could manage to win the match afterwards, even when it looked like a sure thing (say 3 BBs and a carrier against 1 BB and two cruisers whose locations are known). What didn't help was that in each battle there was at least one AFK player (what's up with that? There's more and more of those the longer I play). One particular scenario that got me killed several times was that the enemy CV decided to sink me. The konigsberg simply has no AA to speak of. I thought maybe in previous battles I had most AA guns destroyed by HE fire, but no, this time even before I got even shot at, I couldn't down more than 1 plane out of 16 that kept circling above me for 3 mins. And that's with both BFT and AFT! Obvious result: sunk by 3 successive torp spreads (if the ship could at least turn faster to avoid the torps in the water...). The Amagi? I had one good battle with it yesterday, but looking back at it, it was just thanks to my team (and the enemy team). Otherwise, for a week already, I just can't hit my targets. Today I targeted a stationary Cleveland (probably another AFK player) at 9km right above the waterline behind the funnels (AKA the rear citadel), just 2 hits for a thousand damage or so. And that just keeps repeating itself over and over. Can't citadel obvious and clear targets that even the Fuso with its shotgun accuracy sinks in one salvo (yeah, the Fuso somehow performs much better this last week). And as if this misery wasn't enough, I also just can't get in the good spots and keep getting ambushed and sunk. Then at least I got some better battles with the Kuma and in the and even the Konigsberg (if you're not focused and against a couple cruisers, it's without equal). From what looked at first thus: 10 losses/4 wins, I managed a more bearable 11 losses/7 wins. Couldn't get the Amagi a win, however. Not a single one.

Out of the need to share my terrible luck lately (after all: Misery loves company), I decided to start this thread. Hopefully it will make all the losses easier. Also, I don't intend in the slightest for it to become a rant, an angry argument or an attack on anyone. So, let's start. Overall, it's been a pretty underwhelming week. My favourite ships were either underpermorming or they were just unlucky. And my less liked ships were permorming more or less as usual, that is not great at all. Then came today's afternoon. I started off with the Amagi (one of the favourites) and it looked grim, hits were rarer than water in California these past few years. I don't believe I got a single kill in two or three battles. And my teams definitely weren't saving the day. It was in fact going even worse than before. So I switched ships and then, to my delight, the Aoba, the Kongo, the Kuma and even the Nagato performed great, vastly above their usual. And not only that, either I did so well that I pushed my team to victory or the teams were simply good and managed wins independently of me. But they were wins and I was almost ecstatic. After about a dozen battles came time to exit the game. I returned in the evening, hopeful that while maybe not doing as well as before, I could still manage sufficiently well to keep me happy. That turned out to mostly be the case. Namely the Kuma and Aoba were still hitting and sinking targets, maybe not as efficiently as before, but still well above my expectations. What changed however were the teams I started seeing. Many of the battles were lost from the very beginning when it became clear everyone was rushing headlessly in one direction, ignoring caps, advice, leaving own cap defenceless or even harder to understand, ignoring the enemy home cap when they reached it. So I was still doing fairly well, but many of the battles were losses despite my best efforts (to cap, to defend, ...), I'm no champion to win by myself afterall. Another dozen battles later, I noticed I had as any losses as wins on that one session. As it was time to go to sleep, I decided to play one last battle, hoping for a win to roughly replicate my long term winrate for the evening. I chose the Nagato again and i sure wasn't disappointed: lovely spreads, citadels, even two kills, what more could one wish for. And all that after I narrowly escaped an ambush by two enemy DDs. But all wasn't as perfect as it looked. The fact the ambush could even take place showed that once more, the bulk of my team was cowering in one corner of the map, rather retreating than pushing ahead despite larger numbers. But it hasn't been lost just yet. After some admirable fight from the remains of our team, winning seemed possible. By misfortune however, mere minutes (figure of speech here, it was only one minute and some 20 seconds or so) before the end of the match, two more of our team got sunk while only one enemy. That cost us the points and meant a loss. I really should have exited the game at this point. But as the battle actually went fairly well for me, I decided to try another one to try and equalize the wins and losses for the day. I chose the Fuso that so stubbornly refused to cooperate in the past week. Afterall, all bad luck must end at some point. Well, it didn't end at that point. The battle was an utter failure, both for me and for the team. Annoyed, i stubborny refused to leave the game after two losses. Once more I chose the Nagato, one that didn't fail me yet today... And it must be said, it wasn't really the nagato that failed me. It was simply by misfortune that the first great target, a broadside of a Fuso, attracted the shells of my New Mexico teammate faster than mine. By a mere second or two. Unfortunately, the second perfect target, a broadsiding Nurnberg that couldn't turn bound by islands from both sides, exploded from a DD torpedo salvo right as I was readying to fire. And thirdly, another BB that appeared from behind an island, again showing its broadside, didn't mean any damage or kills for me. Once more, while my incredibly tight salvo was heading exactly at the chosen spot beneath the front turrets, the BB exploded a second early. Again, my teammate in a New Mexico was able to land a citadel or two moments before my shells impacted. I sure wasn't lucky. And at that point, a teammate called to defend our cap. Me with the New Mexico being on the other side of the map, proceeded towards the enemy cap closeby. To my horror I observed as the whole other flank of our team, much closer to the cap, didn't seem to care the slightest about defending it. And what's more, it was getting decimated even though outnumbering the enemy. In short, another loss. Angry about the first truly bad battle in the Nagato, I quickly entered another battle. And this time, the odds truly weren't in my favor with several Tier IX in the mix on both teams. Nonetheless, I joined a Tirpitz and a cruiser to form a (weak) flank. One DD escorted us. All other teammates steamed in the opposite direction. To my dismay, us four encountered the bulk of the enemy fleet: two Colorados, one Tirpitz, another BB, one Mogami with another cruiser and at least one DD. Despite such inequality, we somehow managed to hold (mostly thanks to our Tirpitz) at least some 5-6 minutes. This game me hope our other flank will in the meantime crush the smaller enemy force at their corner and win us the battle despite our probable sacrifice. This hope didn't last. Even before our Tirpitz was sunk, the other flank lost two cruisers and a DD. When only the DD supporting our small party and me were left floating, the other flank lost another ship or two, while not sinking any enemy. How 7 of our ships (1 DD went alone in the middle of the map, eventually sinking an enemy DD) lost utterly to at most 4 of theirs (only DDs and CAs, also) frustrated me enough to just leave the game at last. And here I am. Well, I doubt anyone actually reads this, not that it matters. The point is I've gotten it out from me. And hopefully, tomorrow will be brighter than these four losses in a row at the end of the day. Good night and calm seas. EDIT: Wow, this ended up being longer than anything I've written in a very long while.

Tak to je mi Tě líto, ale už je asi pozdě bycha honit. Screen jsi mohl poslat tak jedině onen týden, kdy se Ti mise neobnovily a ukázat, žes ještě nehrál a nemohl je tak už znova splnit. Podle všeho se to dokončí za pár dní (od pondělí perly přibývají závratně rychle) a už nebudeš mít šanci na 260 perel dosáhnout.

Well, those two posts explain it all. Thanks.

Jo, Fuso je zatím jediná loď, na kterou jsem použil volné XP. Konkrétně na B trup (dostřel 13,6km na Tier 6 je sebevražda, nemluvě o pomalém dobjení, pomalejším kormidle, ...).

Taky mám týdenní mise splněny. Ale asi za 15 nebo i víc her, dneska to byla mizérie. Absolutně nic mi nešlo (když už jsem náhodou nebyl rozstřílen v prvních 5 minutách, tak jsem nezavadil o cíl; když už jsem pak nějaký cíl konečně našel/dohnal, tak jsem se zaboha netrefil; když už jsem byl v takové šanci, že bych se asi i trefil, tak cíl bouchnul po salvě někoho jiného; nemluvě o tom, že jsem byl neustále házen do bitev jako low-tier). Až mne překvapilo, když jsem zjistil po kouknutí na stránky, že to mám splněno. S oddychnutím jsem vypnul hru a hotovo. Jinak, nestoupl dneska ten počet perel až závratně rychle? Už víc jak milion perel od včerejší noci. nepamatuji si, že by to v dřívější pondělky takhle rychle vylezlo. Zřejmě se všichni snažili co nejrychleji nahnat těch 260 perel. To ale znamená, že po zbytek týdnu budou perly přibývat už jen velice pomalu.

Za sebe bych s tím rozhodně nečekal a vyzvedl to dřív, než celá akce skončí. Záleží, jakou máš důvěru ve hru.

Tak to je dobré vědět, kdybych se náhodou někdy dostal s německými křižníky na Tier 8.

To vypadá, žes minul první týden. Máš perly za komplet 2x týdenní mise a všechny stálé kromě BB a CVs, které zmiňuješ. Čili alespoň jednou se ti týdenní mise obnovily. Teď už končí třetí týden projektu R, čili ostatní mají maximálně 3x týdenní mise (3x57= 171 perel) a všechny stálé (65 perel). Momentální maximum je 236 perel.

Já to nechci zakřiknout, ale zatím po každém dni jen zírám s otevřenými ústy na své statistiky s Konigsbergem. Už je to můj zdaleka nejlepší křižník, co se potápění nepřátel týka. Přitom ale v samotných bitvách si jen zoufám, jak každá salva z bitevní lodě trefuje mou citadelu a vyřazuje pohon nebo kormidlo. AA je taky úplně k ničemu (i přes BFT a AFT), leda by to bylo vinou dost poničených děl po pár schytaných zásazích. Každopádně jsem zažil snad minutové kroužení proti 4 torpédovým letadlům ze Zuiho s žádným sestřeleným letadlem (samozřejmě jsem je ručně zaměřil).

Souhlasím, je lepší neupínat se na specifické cíle ("Ještě potřebuji jednu výhru a pět killů!") ale prostě odehrát alespoň těch deset bitev. Jelikož vlastně asi nikdo nepotřebuje všech 57 perel, tak je velká šance, že potřebné perly získá už v těch deseti bitvách, byť třeba nepovedených.

Jen ještě poznámka k proxy spottingu: Od tieru 8 výš ho lze zvýšit posledním modem na detekci na 3 km (spolu s 20% navíc na torpéda).

Mám dojem, že už jsem to někde zodpovídal. "Page down" a "Page up".

Ne ze bych nesouhlasil se základním sdělením, ale tohle je sakra povedená série bitev. Tohle se mi ještě žádný den nepovedlo. A předpokládám, že ani většině ostatních hráčů (překvapivě mám lehce nadprůměrné skóre).