SeaWolf7

He has a DAY job???!!! I like the thread headed " Better rewards for nice players"

Personally I think if your finishing a collection through duplicates (and lets be honest its not the first time for me..) theres something wrong in the first place.... I don't find it fun when I get a duplicate its not much of a reward is it? Well done good game, you did well ...here's something you've already got. Your taking away a sense of achievement IMO...

You want him to report a team member for doing something non pc whilst he himself team kills with impunity? dude...seriously? No castration for him then?....

Players per server fluctuate all the time that's no proof of the general player base of this decreasing, unless you have recorded this over an extended period of time in which case.... as colonelPete said, Yes Proof please, I would be generally interested... In that case logically looking at you stats:

Quit frankly Tier 8 is a crap storm of anything goes territory...Wg cant change it or wont for whatever reasons I wish I knew as I've made a few posts on this topic myself. Generally tier 8 is a gap filler for tier IX and X battles IMO and due to the amount of premiums @ tier VIII this seems to be justification to use them as gap fillers and canon fodder for lazy BB potato captains that have just free xp'd there way to Tier X to point and click at because they are an easy target....Plus all the radar you start getting.... On the up side, it will teach you to play the game better and more safely as ANY mistake in positioning or poor map awareness will send you back to port so it does have an up side or ad least it did for me. But I Feel your frustration as It pretty much ruined my experience of the Eddy wich is one of my favourite ships as it was and is, constantly up Tiered But I cant agree with the OP on the WOWP direction he thinks this game is going in .......WOWP has so many issues its unplayable IMO and should never have been released I its current state. Its like someone selling you a car with no engine or steering wheel and outright lying to you "nah its fine mate, honestly ....that's £500 please"

There was some I think now a couple of months ago, managed to get them for the Eddy and Fiji so I guess it was RNL offer? Is there a way of tracking when I applied these so as to give you a more accurate date if you need?

Too many islands, He's clearly confused on which one to hide behind so he's going for the biggest one !

Trouble is I don't think a separate ranked tutorial/ranked introduction course will do any good. You need everything you need to know from playing random. Just because there are 7 instead of the usual numbers doesn't suddenly guarantee you the iQ of the aver edge player just shot up! Comon sence and patience is just in short supply these days. 3 Clicks of the mouse and your through the training program!!

....whilst the cats away.... And of course I know you get off on causing a little chaos oh and ps...please disregard my last fee xp ing comment earlier ....I know have Minotaur in port (cough cough) (if someone could shame my last post please ...thhaaaank you)

Well 5 games and its all over for me too..... keep getting told how crap tier X is and how many crap players there are free exp ing all the way etc etc and I wanted to concentrate on becoming better so hung at 7/8 some at 9... Now I cant participate in your Ranked season WG oh and...

WR does not necessarily dictate which ship is best to use in ranked or in any other mode IMO...you could have played 20 games (for example..) in something, been crap in half of them but your team bailed you out so you end up with say 50%WR which you had very little contribution in making so... This ^^ Its your DD's that cap in ranked and probably the most important role... DD's are there to cap and counter enemy BB's, Your cruisers are there to protect your DD's and at the same time take out enemy DD's (and at the same time support BB's...somehow) etc etc...

Eerrrr I feel obliged to remind eyeryone that the first rule of the " Tier 1 Radom battles club" is... "YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE TIER 1 RANDOM BATTLES CLUB!"

1. Exactly.. an essential part is covering your self whilst hunting those DD's from long rage volleys that can delete you from somewhere on the horizon... 2.Am starting to use the acceleration boost module rather than reduction in rudder shift time on more and more ships because of exactly this...

Your complaining about cruisers/DD's being some thorn in your side with He and torps (those being the only tools they have to do their job ) but openly recognise that your capable of taking them out in one shot anyway...... conclusion...

I know , I know. In my naivety I thought the system had been set up to purely combat against the opposite side but of course that's not possible due to MM taking president so.... I didn't think it through obviously. Like I said my mistake, My apologies for my sarcasm earlier.

My mistake I didn't realise that's how it worked .....

What you have written makes no sense......So your telling me that the teams are mixed so actually sharks are playing against sharks and some eagles are actually shooting at some eagles and we are all in this giant Wg mixing bowl of Chaos and when I choose eagles and keep loosing it makes no difference to my win rate? Right.....

...So I take it that the Eagles haven't won yet...at all. Im no Sherlock Homes but I think something's not right with this competition period..... Ps. Cheers for the dip in win rate too, all my attempts to get that up previous to the comp have been completely wiped by staying loyal to the chickens...

To me that IS broken...

True...add to the fact that tier 8 MM is also broken only adding to the problems of imbalance IMO

Doubtful....and the rest of the playerbase are fine with it because THEY are probably playing BB's....

My thoughts exactly although I had to go a little stronger after reading that..... ....but a great read non the less. As a cruiser player I have felt the disturbance in the force for quite some time now regards to BB domination in this game, there have been to many examples as @dasCKD has pointed out of nerfed ammunition in respect of doing damage to the BB babies, cruisers being released with armour so thin that a sneeze at the right angle could damage the hull, premium ships being released with terrible gun angles that force you to show WAY to much broadside and a citadels so high above the waterline it makes you feel dizzy and at the same time STILL introducing 5 BB's per match per side in nearly every fracking game even after constant complaints about balance issues all seem to go unheard. I understand that this is a business first, no business no game but I do feel that if WG keep going in this current direction They will loose a great deal of their older/loyal player base and the game will suffer for that a great deal. Its important to look to the future yes but its also important to remember where it came from and what made it a success to start with no?

That used to be true... although im not so sure these days.