IanH755

I'm what is probably referred to as a "whale" in gaming circles so things like Freedom/Bismarck crates etc.

Yeap, fairly sure I'm OK there I got the Kronsdaht a few weeks ago and I've already built back around 200k Free XP without converting any Ship XP.

As I'm using mine in Co-Op only I can set aside a lot of the "better" skills needed for PvP (CE etc) and concentrate on a Manual Secondary & IHFE build for some ridiculous brawling fun!

Everything Premium time, premium ship, VE Day camo (+100%), Hydra/Oroboros "special" signals (+250% & +777%) & finally the Papa Papa Signal (+300%).

It'll be interesting to see just how this Op changes over time as, like many in this thread feel, I think WG are going to increase the difficulty within the next 1-2 patches. Anyway, it took about 6-7 tries but finally got my first 5 Star win - Everything else has been a mix of 3-4 star with 4 Stars always losing a Regiment and 3 Stars being both that and losing too many friendly ships. Took my Max AA Spec Kutuzov (900dps at 7.2km & 1500dps at 5km with Def AA) out and ONLY concentrated on DD's unless there were none spotted so I did fairly low damage and, yet again, had quite a few "kill secured" by the team after I took 75% of the health so I only ended up with 1 kill but I think I did fairly well!

Thanks for the info, didn't know that!

Don't you get Oil from playing in a Clan and Oil can be converted to Coal?

Thanks for the info. I've only ever got the Credits which is why I thought that was a "default" pick.

Hi all, If you have enough XP for a container but don't pick one at the end of a day, the current setup by WG is that a "Credits" container is automatically chosen for you and left unopened. Could we get an option to set what we, the player, wants for our own "Default" containers instead? I'm personally doing fine for Credits (see below) so I'd chose Flags and Camos instead as my preferred "Default" pick rather than the current useless (to me) Credits container, although I did have to laugh when I opened this one - Cheers WG

Made me lol ;) But honestly @OP - this. I mean sure it would be a feature we could add, but since we already have this mechanism to choose it doesn't seem like a critical change to me - we have bigger fish to fry in the UI. So you're too lazy to pass this on to the UI team and, even if you did, the UI team are too lazy to do anything? Not that it matters about this reply as I assume you're too lazy to read them just like you're too lazy to read the page on customer relations which says "don't insult your customers". Hey you're right though, it is funny to laugh at people who are just being lazy, LOL!

Yeap, that is absolutely the ONLY SINGLE REASON IN THE WORLD I DIDN'T COLLECT IT, I MUST BE 100% LAZY!!!!!!!!!!!! Trolls are gonna troll, I know

[Co-Op] - Found myself in a Map against a Graf Zepplin with 4 other friendly AA ships so I wasn't expecting much in the way of AA activity. Luckily I'm pretty sure I know where the CV will send it's planes, and the rest of AA ships were either out of range or dead letting me do a bit of very rewarding farming - until an untouched 5 billion aircraft DB squad popped up just as my Def AA was on cool down! Luckily it only took about 2/3rd's of my health in a single drop and once my Def AA was back up and ready, oh boy did the CV pay! Also, made it 20 Karma, only taken 2.5 years!

While I'm not saying DD's are the worst choice to pick, the trouble with the vast majority of DD's and their players is that once a player smokes up and stops, they tend to fire their torps at max range and, as the Bots tend to head at them bow on (despite not being able to actually see them - Good Job WG) and have very good torp-beat skills against undetected torps (No really, GREAT JOB WG) the usual best case is that they get 1-2 torps hitting per salvo, which may/may not be enough to kill a cruiser before they get close enough to spot you firing in your smoke-bloom while you are torp-less and then you're focused to 1/2 health very quickly and doing that twice means you're dead. I am extremely good at Co-Op DD play (4100+ PR on Wows.numbers for DD's) yet I don't really take a DD into Scenarios because of those types of reasons. The best one I can thing of is the Monaghan due to it's 30 sec TRB giving you the ability to fire 16 torps in 30 seconds and it's 15km gun range which can be very useful for spotting purposes by baiting AI ships with good concealment (10-12km) into firing as soon as they are in max firing range of you (usually 14-16km+) spotting them for the rest of your team who now have longer to shoot at them (better DPM). So does all that mean you personally can't have a great DD game in Op? Nope, I'm not saying that at all, but "generally" they are the least optimal ship type to pick.

[Co-Op] - Plane kills and Solo caps are the best method of padding your XP I can think of, as the damage etc I did in this game was worth around 500-ish Base XP at best!

A well played CV in scenarios is such an unbelievably rare event that, for all intents and purposes, his "CV's are useless" rant is fairly accurate. The vast majority of Scenario CV players that I've been teamed with just aren't very good, so while a very small number of CV players, like yourself, can do well thats just not how CV's act for the rest of us.

Mine in PvP is 2,575,463 in my Missouri and in Co-Op it's 2,594,300 in my Tirpitz. He means this - In port click on the "Profile" tab along the top, then on the "Profile" page on the left side there is a menu and "Summary" is at the bottom. After clicking that the Potential Damage figure is in the bottom right of the screen.

Thats just an opinion really and everyone's going to have different experiences. Thats why I specifically put "thats just my opinion" at the end rather than saying it's a fact. You have obviously had a different game experience to mine, thats all.

Those numbers are Cruisers at the same tier as you whereas the BB's have had additional numbers dragged in from other tiers to make up the numbers, usually T8 in your pics which maybe BB heavy still? Before the German BB release back in Sept '16 the EU server was a Cruiser heavy meta one with only 2-3 BB's for the majority (but not all) battles and 6+ cruisers but understandably BB drivers complained about the constant HE rain (it was bad). After the German BB release and the shift to a BB heavy meta the MM was floodied with BB's so to cope (and reduce BB waiting times) the MM started to fill up with 4-5 BB's per match (and sometimes more) whilst the cruiser numbers dropped rapidly to 2-4 and, despite everything WG has done since, that 4-5+ BB meta hasn't changed and I believe has had a more negative effect on the game than WG anticipated, but thats just my personal opinion.

Hi Maxim Thanks very much, I find it very helpful when I'm trying to remember which results are which. Ian

[Co-Op] - A tale of two battles as I tried to get my "first win of the day" bonus in the Missouri. My first match had 3 bots and 5 humans, 3 of which had under 41% WR, and while it's rare, I had a "bad game" too after I misjudged a Zao's torps (swear I knocked them out) with only 60k damage done and a broadside Zao & Missouri to punish. After I died I watched the human Hindenburg and Zao go broadside to BB's trying to get torps off (rather than waiting next to an island that both were near) and both dying very quickly, so at that point I walked away shaking my head at the defeat! The next match was just 2 humans - Oh Great!!! - so after the last match I decided that I'd have to get my Man-Pants fitted and carry this one this one like a lunatic. After starting with a 9k salvo on a DD I got a few citadels on the Hindenburg and another on the Missouri as they headed to the other side of the map before drive-by'ing the Alsace at 2km and finishing off the Buffalo. I then realised that I solo cap'd twice and with only the CV to go I became his sole focus, which is always a mistake for a T8 CV to make! Anyway, looks like my "man Pants" did the job and earning just under 1 million credits in Co-Op is always nice! PS Well Played to Singulus_1who was also having an epic game too as he killed the Missouri and helped damage the 2 DD's and Hindy on his side (turns out he's a Hindy Co-Op specialist).

Hi Maxim, Is there a way of seeing how many "stars" you get in Scenario wins or is that not included in the Replay/API data? Ian

Well broke my own self imposed "no try" limit and had another go but this time in my Huanghe with it's rolling smoke cloud for cover and TRB for surprising Bots around islands. Did 130k and 5 kills for 1200 base XP and the Assistant achievement for a 3 star win. I also had a very enlightening conversation with the full health Fuso sat in the health-regen area as he told me with a straight face that avoiding damage in a BB was a "skill", while all the remaining cruisers were now dead which lost all our DPM and the chance of a higher win. He's played 6K+ battles and is a 42% WR player with an average damage of 24k overall and only 30k average damage in the 2300+ TX games he's played - Guess I should listen to the expert! After that I've stopped playing again

Played one game in my Molotov today, got a 1 star win with 5 kills and about 120k damage and topped the team score with 700-ish base XP. I died under the focus of about 4 ships while the rest of my team sat behind islands unwilling to fight except for 1 NM BB who can second with 550-ish XP. Eventually they all slowly got picked off one by one until the NM BB finished the game as the last one alive. There's only so much carrying one single person can do if the majority of the team just don't want to scratch the paint on their shiny pixels ships yet, unlike Co-Op, the amount of epic carrying that single person can do just isn't enough. I mean I could have played another 10-15 games and won them all with 5 star wins (you never know) but after the disappointment of yet another poor team in Scenarios I just couldn't bring myself to hit the battle button after that and I doubt I'll try it again during this rotation.

Thats one of my biggest gripes with the reward system. If you win you get PvP levels of reward but losing gives you Co-Op levels. So, with the teams being so poor so often, it's just not worth wasting 20 minutes of my time to come away with <300 base XP when I can just pop over to Co-Op and in 20 minutes win a guaranteed 2-3 games each with over 500 base XP instead.

Yeap, the lock is in the \res\Engine_Config.xml file and can be removed/changed there - <engine_config.xml> <renderer> <cacheEffects>false</cacheEffects> <gammaCorrectionOutside>1.0</gammaCorrectionOutside> <gammaCorrectionInside>1.0</gammaCorrectionInside> <gammaCorrectionSpeed>0.2</gammaCorrectionSpeed> <tripleBuffering>true</tripleBuffering> <maxFrameRate>75</maxFrameRate>