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Well i guess that WG also wants you to buy containers which sometimes can give coal in various amounts, directly or indirectly (by tokens and then choose boxes in some events)

Smolensk is not OP at all...I am not sure if this is the first game I have crossed 1000 BASE XP mark in Coop, and with room to spare 1121! ... Says it all

Had a nice Fuso game, we were ahead of points but not in ships so it was close until end. The enemy Izmail was more or less deleted in two nice salvos around 30000 K (he damaged me also a lot) but I was victorius in the end. When you have angled up your ship and his salvo does 2000 and your last return finish him off with around 30000 you feel blessed by the RNG gods. Had also a lost Fuso game with around 130 K but no pictures saved of that -it was a loss so did not care, if that game would have been played after this and not before I would have saved it probably. It is my second IJN BB reset, hence the reserach bonus.

Well not quite, if you play with only bots left it sems that if you in some circumstances log out of game after being sunk, f.e. in standard mode there is a possibilty with draws. I play a lot on high tier coop when there might be only a few humans early morning before work f.e. just to shoot some stuff so it had happen a few times.

Maybe it is of interest some numbers and overall experience. I did 3 resets (see table for numbers) French, US and IJN Battleships. For reserach purposes I set up some conditions: Only skip modules, play all tiers in random. Use premium flags and camos, buy and grind all ships. Credits do not matter other than to try map the drainage, FreeXP should cover all skipping of B-hulls etc and made a good increase to get my stock back after Friesland, always want to be a bit over 1 000 000 FreeXP. Dont grind too hard i.e. play for first win, and then play other ships for economy and variation as usual. As you can see in table I did it in roughly 2 months. I noticed that I played more random mid tier ships a lot rather than high tier in coop compared with previously, this transition took place the last month. Lots of Warspite, Kutuzov, König games. Credit is not a problem per se but it was more to conclude that if you want to keep pace with financial outlay (i.e. loss when you sell and rebuy), one must think more about which ship you play. I use a lot of the luxury camos (asian Lantern etc) around 75 around 50% of my stock, several hundred of the premium flags. I must say that a few surprises when I saw some ships again after a really long time. I have always liked the US BB line and I still do, but Iowa was not a pleasant experience, tended to overextend easily. On the other hand Amagi and to my surprise Izumo!! was quite alright Had 15/11 of 26 games in Izumo. All B/C hulls etc was as I said FreeXP, so it was the usual full ship that was played, maybe that helped a lot but I played IJN BBs first so it was Izumo prebuff then. French ... well not that fun. Results other than 40000 Res points was naturally a cpt improvment with 1-2 p in general to get all T6 and above on at least 14 but many in the 16-19 region. This will be enhanced in further resets. I will however in next reset take same country - IJN DD gunline + BBs. I may play a lot of the gunline slow in partly in coop (cheaply outfitted) whilst grinding BBs in random. I have now my IJN captains as follows Fuso (yamamoto) 18, Nagato 15, Amagi and Izumo 16 , Yamato 19. So will see how that goes. I think I will take a few lines at a time. It is no hurry but I do not want to sit with too many regrinds if snowflakes return during christmas, at least I want to know in enough advance so I can handle fast grind to T10 if necessary, I missed the extra SC for Republique but that is life.

well I have at least a 10 p on nearly all ships, I have kept all silver ships (missing only T8-10 FR DDs apart from regrind) and they are climbing up higher and higher

You work as a consultant with too little inflow of work so the first two years of Wows I played extreme numbers, but even now I play 15-25 hours/weekly but your game numbers rise fast if you play coop a lot. The first years 20000 was almost exclusively random. Later the directives and time limits make me play lots of more high tier coop. There you stack numbers fast.

If you are satisfied with a 10 p you can get that pretty fast.

No, i have gained roughly 364 000 FreeXP, as I have used 1 000 000 for Friesland. 50000 of this increase was due to a Supercontainer during anniversary event, so I have compensated all FreeXPing and a lot more during the period. No moneyoutlay but the prem signals and camos have naturally a cost.

Dreamhack does not interest me but meeting WOWs staff does so I will probably if I can try to drive from Gothenburg to Jönköping, at least if the weather is tolerable.

I think you can see the season in the Events section of missions also, there you have both the starting and end date. Now I have not the gameclient as I am not at home right now.Just scroll through the various 3-4 events, at least i am fairly certain it was there a few days ago.

Free XP stock hulls etc, Now when I did 3 Line resets I play even low tiers to use as little as possible, The Friesland lowered me down to about 700 K so it is necessary to be back well over 1,5 M again, always want to be ready to put in 1 000 000 for a new ship + reserve. I have around 2 M elite Xp for captain training which I use with intervals bettering captains a few at a time i.e. grinding the ships with captains approaching 14-15 in silver ships I enjoy and taking 1 p /week on some ship. I never want to be under 1,5 in reserve but I never use FreeXP for captain. I normally do not use them for nomal (after B-hull etc) grind. Only if it is a SC waiting or similar. I hate CV play so there I used some. When I am down in FreeXP I grind hulls etc in coop. I use special signals from time to time. But I want a good supply to use when it is missions so I am conservative sometimes. If you are not a whale @Sir_Sinkalot I consider planning well ahead both usage and also how to grind FreeXP most efficiently.

For me its the replay reward in itself and the sort of double effect by using flags that now not only gives elite XP/XP but also very expensive RB tokens. But take a line at a time or two and advance slowly that is my advice. The reawrd or more interseting ships might be better. F.e. to be able to exchange Research tokens into steel? I would not be surprised if such a move would rise the interest a lot.

If you look in the tech tree the research token symbol are bottom left on the ship icon also visible if you do not have won on the ship that you are currently playing in the regrind at the ships in port. Its like Yedwy says above only from T6 so you have got a few already. T6 + T7 500 each x2 for the first resetted line during season = 2000 hence 10 + 2 K=12

Yes they might do something, but if its a bad performer you are less likely to win and that is in the long run more important to good income and xp

Well might I ask how you get that figure from as there are several hundred players (1024 this morning) with 100 % Wr. (I have 97,92 % this morning) according to wows stats and numbers. Last place is 115128 Player with 44,74%. Where do you get your numbers from? Minimal number of battles? Other stat page?

I have played a lot of coop as its efficient for missions and directives, as I have permacamos on most T10s its OK creditwise. XP also consider Time/reward vs random at T10s if you compare a cheap (without flags) game. But the resets that I did on 3 lines has made a deep impact in the creditflow, that has made me play more randoms again. I want to keep the credits balanced. So I have needed to A/ play a lot of Warspite, and Kutuzov f.e. in randoms which I like and B/ play less of the XP wise sound T10s silver ships. The premium T10s are OK the difference in service cost matters. Tactics? The tactic is to use the bots in your time to best effiency (tanking for you) as damagespounges, if you have several bots in the team you must adapt a lot. Otherwise no direct tactic other than target selection. But apart from missions etc. I have now a cat and other commitments which disturbs my play from time to time, that means that coop might be better during parts of my sessions. Especially when i stream football games, that not really is my favourite team but interseting fights for my hate teams etc. then voop game 5 min and then back to the streaming to see if something interesting has happened etc. Other sport like Athletics which might be 3-4 hoours but much "down time". Teh 5 min games is there much easier to combine with other activities. I want to play random with full focus, that I do not need in raandoms. BTW looked for fun at my stats in Coop 97,92% on 9290 games, and I know that it has been compromised by numerous games where I play 1-2 Human players in your team against bots. to paly open water cruisers or DM/salem, French DDs etc its unavoidable to lose a few when te opposing bots etc sink each other but in the wrong outcome i.e. 3 of your own bots sunk vs 0-1 enemy around the map. However it was the first time I ever looked at coop stats, despite recording random stats since the beginning of my 20 K randoms I do not care at all over progression etc in coop stats. It has simply no value. Random I put in figures at regular (longer and longer) intervals, latest was at 20000 on ship for ship basis. Before that 15000 as the more you play progression over all is lslow apart from new lines. Next time will probably be on 25000. ,

Todays best performance for me was in Warspite - I have really played that ship a lot lately - its credit potential (i.e. restoring credits when doing resets) without using the premium flags is quite good (only Zulu here). I do not need credits per se but I want that my resets should not drain too much. Those nice 15 inch AP guns deliver. With Jack Dunkirk (JOT) and Nov Foxtrot its 51,3 sec reload on repair which is tolerable, the 5 s immunity is easy to blow early. She is slow but for me hard hitting guns is the key to a fun battleship.

The real advantage is service costs and that you play with 19 p captains = elite XP , and that they might give tokens/coal etc in events

Yes agree, just a free 10 pointer I assume, better than nothing but thats about it

well yes I like several ships and I like many of them but Izumo was a ship together with Emerald the only one I have used FreeXP on (aprart from B-hulls etc) so I hated Izumo. The other ships were more or less as expected but if you play a ship that you hate and suddenly it feels almost good. Let us say that I have ruined my Iowa stats that was acceptable WR to medicre and raised my Izumo stats from outright catastrophic to just bad (+7-8 % in the grind). When I reset again I might become average......So the stats for this latest 26 fights were 15W/11L (the previous 43 16W/27L. The old ones included the B+Chull and all those long grinds so that was awful until I could not play more and FreeXped the rest. Fully kitted the Izumo is very clumsy but have good guns which for me is central.

Congratulations! Izumo is a way better ship now than at the beginning, i had reset the 3 BB lines from US, FR and IJN and Izumo was the best experience, was surprised but it went very smoothly, had left that ship alone for years as IJN was my first line.

Perth, but I had all the ships so it was doubloons, that extra commander is 0 value until they come with a silver tree.

yes, could not resist that either, it is a must have though I play mostly in standard camo, but will take it out now in the coming weeks a few times surely