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True it is better to use the great Captain Xp flags int o a 19 p captain on a Tier 10 ship you like (any nation) and then use the eliteXP waste on a lower tier, if you have a 19 p captain.

I answer yes and 2 hours a day - do not bother calculate on the exact premises that you OP make, as I have lots of T10 and premium and Bismarck, and will get the Hood in a bundle so I will be able to do it. If it is rainy on weekends I can easily put in 8 hours so I am not so relevant but still if you do a poll it is rather meaningless to ask only non-premium newcomers as the campaign is also constructed with veterans in mind. It is as another post says difference if you want to do every mission or just made those needed for final goal. It is that question I have answered finishing every task is another matter. It depends on what is left and the reward, I now have a few left in honorable service and if I manage to do them fine otherwise not. As long as the campaign last I will have 3 chosen. managing missions smartly is key to success, mixing grinding XP missions with on-off (single battle accomplihments), i always prio grinding missions first (XP, killing X amount of ships over several battles etc). Repeat missions that are easy if necessary for the pins. If they do the same thing as in other campaigns one takes the easy way out - first finishing the campaign then take the one-off missions if it is missions that you know that is not easy to pull off.

Or maybe like Mr Seagal has his bonus, give an additional bonus in Fire extinguishing say 15 % shorter duration (stackable with other skills). The possibilities are endless.

Yes and the WR is also influenced if you are a collector or a dedicated player on a few ships with 19 p captains. I play across the tiers naturally my WR suffers. My WR have been around 55 % since 1500 games , now I am over 10000 , that is because i have climbed the techtree, mostly from stock with new captains, yes new!. Very seldom moved or FreeXP the upgraded hulls etc until recently. The EliteXP for captains was a good thing for me. Now does this techtree climbing make me a player that has not inproved? Of course not .- that I can follow in the results in the lower/mid tiers which are increasing however most high tier ships have started with less good results and with better results after a while. It would have been easy to fix the stats a lot by playing only my most beloved ships. I have several well above 60 mark, soloplay in lower tiers, but do not care in my overall stats. But Ifollow them per ship WR/Dmg over the years incl. captainpoints to see if I improve. So I agree, what does 65% in Bogatyr says if you play T10 DD? Or 55 % WR Overall if I play a low tier boat? Well one could always argue that recent form should make an impact perhaps with some value that values skill at higher/present tiers more but it is after all also a teamgame with coordination. How do you value a DIV player who pads his stats by divisioning OP ships when he plays SOLO in another not OP ship. Yes I look sometimes up persons stats and the difference is sometimes huge between Solo/Div and often also very specialized in ships. People that impresses me have good stats all over the board, solo play. In ranked you have the competion - random has not the playerbase to be effiecient even if one somehow could think out of a system that takes the values into fair account. The programming effort set aside you have also language barriers etc.. It is a niche game this and I think the numbers that really do care in these things (i.e. will I start to play WOWS if there are MM skill based matchmaking in randoms or will I leave the game if it does not) are too few, Clan things, developing ranked I think is the way to go. For me it is more important to present new content. But it is difficult to judge, many of us are real veterans which will always be a problem when new players enters. I wonder how the playerbase looks like?

Yes, defending bases can bring up good Xps also, that can stack up over 10 some games

Stage 5 seems tough are simply seldom up on these values, it is a vast difference for a average but experienced player like myself to reach 2500 instead of 2000 Base XP. The number of battles over 2500 is not many. One need also a team that wins but not steamroll the other team and preferably that both teams have rather poor players so that one has the time to build up damage and caps. You do not want Flamu in your team or the other team. This is no whining - just stating the fact - I know and have no problem with that stage 5 is difficult. I usually concentrates on getting the 4 first in the weekly missions - last weeks stage 5 was easy - probably chosen so that a majority of the dedicated players should do it. The other weeks I am pleased if I make 1 in 8-10. I play if I pull it off it is good - otherwise so be it. I have rather few high tier ships that I can perform good enough in. I have f.e. not yet performed a kraken in T10. By all means if I would play only T10 games the chances would of course be higher but it is not the funniest META to play and the rewards are not good enough to change my ship choices.

Seems like it is really random - have not recieved anything and I have spent at least 700 EUR so far...... So no reward to the most loyal customers. Have been given special offers from time to time - but nothing this year - but not a discount coupon like that only random 15 min offers on port slots, premium time for doubloons etc - nothing that I can choose myself.

Torpedo specialist mechanic/Alternative torpedo settings I would have liked if you could choose speed vs range. It might need a expert 4 p Captain skill or module in the ship not stock. It would f.e. give the options of say base range 6 km 60 kts or 4 km 66 kts or similar, longer range f.e. Gearing 12 km 65 kts 8 km 73 kts. You would select alternatives before every reload or face the full reload time if you regret your choice after 30 sec. Example : You fire a salvo at a close target with fast torps. 1 min 30 sec reload after 45 sec your torp hit. You have been under reload in 45 sec 45 sec left. Enemy sinks. Next enemy is 10 km away, it is a more dangerous adversary and you find it better to launch long range. You hit the reload button 1.30 sec reload before you can fire - same technique as shifting between AP/HE. It might be better alternatives but this is something I have thought of for a long time You might want higher differnces - it is just an illustration, perhaps only a few nations perhaps only one (IJN) the torp boats specialists. There are probably many ways to impement it

Special upgrades: If there was an extra slot the value of these would rise even the useless ones. You could have one slot per ship no more no less. They might be restricted tierwise and obviously if you f,e, have radar or not.

Might be but several tasks you will combine - I agree though that it will be far tougher without Hood - when I looked at the news side with the missions Hood helps a lot with pins. Probably they are repeatable as before so right combinations may make it doable. I have Biz already so and I have no less than 8 T9 in Grind meaning lots of T10 something not even I with above 100 Mkr in credits can easily afford as they will arrive in short order -so even Biz extra credits might actually be rather welcome. My plan is to take eventually a break in the premium account after that (40 days left) so I hope to generate cash before.

Well it is not only ships - remember when they give away all Dragon Flags? The more battles you had the more you recieved + bonus for Tier X ships. I crossed the 10000 battles mark a while ago - Not even a little Medal

I find DM fun enough to invest in Premium camo.

Added smoke generators etc: You know that you can use the little arrow to buy the premium repair, DCP II, Smoke II etc for credits? 22500. Be sure to tick that in. Doubloons is not necessary. It is an option if you use doubloons or credits.

Well both High Caliber and Confederate is rewards that is sort of based in carrying damage by you, perhaps these rewards should if they do not do it already give extra XP. But it is important to do the final kill also: A Battleship like Yamato can if left alive heal back lots of damage, a DD with 1 hp can send out deadly torpedo walls so the kill is not just the the tiny hp it is important to kill and not leave low hp ships. A 1 hp ship can cap scout and win the game for the enemy. A 1 hp BB can one shot a cruiser or any other ship with a 30 K salvo. Therefor the final kill is very important, I have had games when I am below 1000 hp but have managed to deal 50 K damage (and survived). One game I won as the only remaining ship on 12 Hp or something like that. The enemy had plenty of opportunity to kill me, Being in a New Mexico I could not run or hide but strangely enough I was left when they killed my teammates, in the finalshowdown I killed my contemporary NM in the enemy team w around 6000 hp seconds before the time ran out, one of the most enjoyable games in my 10000+ career..

Beautiful, fast, well known, Nelson? Ugly!! Warspite is already in harbour.

Well the prize will surely be what the market can swallow but there are ships that I have ignored to buy because of the prize. I did not buy Tirpitz f.e. when it was a discount last autumn on German BBs I bought the Scharnhorst, then I recieved Tirpitz as a Santas gift by luck. If it costs around 60-80 EUR I may find the bundles attractive, I will count on them when I see them, as the flags are a ot of value also, but what I think they are worth and WG may differ too much. It is after all pixels, if they think they sell volumewise better with a more reasonable prize they will probably do so. I think the prizes have been rather reflective to the tier, besides they throw out a large number of attractive premiums now, so they want us to buy many ships. But i am not sure I will buy the largest I may take the mid size (after 1 week in campaign) , I might try the other missions first. Duca I boought the max package because I needed doubloons for my Des Moines an Yamatos premium camo so I try to buy these large bundles instead of smaller ones if it is cheaper overall. Ochotnik I bought ship alone. So it varies. If I know that there are interesting premiums on the way in I usually wait to buy doubloons and wait with premium camos until these first bundles arrives. It seems that the forum is very divided and that there are lots of negative players who finds it fun to be negative (my wallet is shut etc), well fdo what you like but do not be negative to us who buys it. I like the game very much, but I find WGs market strategies and mission (COTE) strange at the same time. Nevertheless i will buy Hood anyway. Alabama I did not buy f.e. Perth I did not buy - last ship I would have bought if it was interchangable with RN captains. But for me RN and HMS Hood is to attractive as a ship not to buy. And 12 cpt is attractive - I have several captains to train for the forthcoming RN. I may start directly with a 3p captains so I have several decent captains (Warspite is in service since a long time. As a collector that not moves captains these are wonderful and worth a lot in grinding time.

My Dunkerque game was really good personal best 197 K helped of course by some not so angling enemy ships

We might need the doubloons and if you get the useless upgrades etc for free you buy them, at least I need doubloons now.

Would make the German BBs when they where released look rare. If I remember correctly there were some 500 BBs or so in queqe. In RN I would expect to see 12 vs 12 Dreadnoughts day 1 as the norm.

There I agree with you Bare ship should be buyable directly - I think that all ships before has been released with port slot only. Personally I have 8 tier 9 ships now and at least 2-3 I plan to buy the premium camo on for the forthcoming tier 10 so I will probaly go for one of the more expensive.

Anyone knows what the flags brings for benefits?

To be fair at least some of the bundles in Premium shop usually are decent if you are in need of flags or doubloons, always useful for prem camos for Tier X ships.

Nice - Hope you finish stage 5 also should be a piece of cake A medal for you

No 3 from same clan/playergroup is enough. They are already if they good a vast impact on the game. Shall solo players be just fodder and just quitting the game at the start. You must find other modes i.e. clanbattles when you and your say 6 friends can play not with solo players withiut any voicecom and coordination. Your suggestion would just lead to more steamrolling in random battles.

A few of you are somewhat serious in this thread, I think you are something on the spot here with alcohol etc but I want to add one thing. If you have work during weekdays you may play perhaps only say 3-5 games and then you probably play your favourite ships and stay focused and concentrated. It is certain that during longer gaming sessions which probably takes place on weekends even for good players are that they can not play with same concentration for 5-7 hours. It is also when the bonus missions and 100% first win which eases the grind comes into play neither will increase performance. I probably play worse statistically on weekends partly because I play more but also more diverse, changing ships a lot (after the first win bonus) + that some of these grinds are in ships that I hate so I just play them when 100% win bonus. On the other hand I like Admiral_Noodles tip if you want good results, choose ships with high impact and (you are good in). I have some ships well suited for this. Taking out Kamikaze is nice f.e..