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LOL, can you imagine the rage if they did that!

In a 1v1 situation a single CA shouldn't be able to "beat" a single BB without closing to use torpedos, which opens them up to the close range power of a BB, yet in the current meta of 5-6 BB's it's not 1v1, it's 2-3 BB vs 1 CA as enemy BB's don't shoot at my teams BB's until the CA's are dead. Being singled out in every....single....game just isn't fun, if it's not fun I don't play and if I don't play WG doesn't get my money. It's that simple. How to fix this, other than "punishing" BB players with a number limit (3 per team etc) is a lot more difficult. I only started playing 6 months ago and it was incredibly rare at T3-7 to see more than 2-3 BB's up until the new German release. However the release of the RN CA line was "supposed" to bring back the "balance" again, yet I don't think many people will give up their shiny new BB's for a line of very soft CA's so I don't think it'll happen. I think it will stay at 5-6 BB's per side until WG change something. Yet as they almost entirely canvas the RU server (which loves the BB heavy meta) I don't see any changes happening. It's a good job I really like the IJN DD's with their OP 20km torpe......................DOH!!!!!!

It's the 19th that the rest of the Dragon Flags get issued.

This isn't about individual servers but events/shop deals which are held across all servers simultaneously, like this one currently, which have different rewards/deals for the same event based on which server you use. If the same event had the same rewards/deals across al the servers (just like the Dragon Flags) then 99% of the "My server is rubbish" issues/complaints would disappear instantly. Anyway at this point I'll leave the conversation, there is no point continuing. Neither of us are likely to change the others opinions and it must be boring for other people to read. Good chat though.

That's exactly right - everyone complains about the differences - so if all the servers were treated equally then there would nothing to complain about! Wasn't that easy

It has been pointed out many times that there is a large disparancy between the events and rewards across the servers as has been shown again here. That is fact, not opinion. Yet, despite the evidence to the contrary, there are a very small group, yourself included, who tell people to "grow up" - "nothing is wrong" etc - hence my funny (not silly) picture. There "is" something wrong, the EU server isn't the worst treated by a long way (poor Asia) but all people are asking for is a little equality between the servers, yet the EU server continually gets lesser prizes than others or they are made harder to get. Now none of that makes the EU server a "bad" server, it is just hard to see all good things other people get and not think "why don't we get that" and then ask about it instead of accepting it as per your stance of "Grow up, nothing is wrong". As a positive, at least the Dragon Flags have all been made equal across all the servers and, oh look, no-one is complaining when everyone gets the same thing (Shock:Horror)

So 21 days after the last post and with the BB heavy meta in full flow - how's the Scharnhorst doing? Most of the cruisers which were Sharn fodder have left, leaving it to fight proper BB's and sneaky DD's which must have effected it's gameplay style but I'd hope that, as a new breed of "battlecruiser", it's doing well but I don't play as much now to see what's happening.

Just got my 2 sets of 25 flags - just waiting for Friday with the Dragon flags now - should be interesting!

Just got confirmation of my free ticket earlier - See you there!

Thanks for the ticket, just got my e-mail through. Silly question, is it only valid for one day (either day) but not both?

No notification about Gold Shot in Dark for me - Yet another WG blunder???

The dockyards are 10mins from my work so I'll be there!

Thanks, signed up too, lets see how lucky I am!

I play to win, which is what I find fun and, even if the team wins but I get sunk, I still class that as a loss to me personally. Now if I get sunk to some good enemy play or my own personal stupidity then I'll compliment my nemesis in chat (always leave them good feedback) and start another battle, but if I lose because of what I consider to be poor team play instead i.e. lemming trains, flank collapse against a weaker enemy, people just won't Cap and chase enemy ships instead while the points tick up etc then I rage in a way that is unbecoming of a 40 year old! Even though it's not big or clever, so far I've snapped/broken 2 keyboards due to loses where, I've performed well yet the team has been full of potatoes, that's how much I can rage like a 10 year old having a temper tantrum

THIS IS NOT A RANT THREAD So, with the release of the long awaited German BB line it's understandable that the number of BB's in the game will rise. In the 11 Tier 5-6 Random games I've played over the last 2 days (+3 co-op) there has been only 1 game with less than 5 BB's per side with the rest having only 3 cruisers. By the end of the matches it was usually BB's and DD's left, all the cruisers died in the 1st 10 minutes, or hid at the back of the map trying to survive.. As a mainly Russian cruiser driver (Kirov/Molotov) it's obvious to me that it is now impossible for my ships to do "well" in the game, even with +50% damage over the average, due to the understandable nature of BB captains as they will prefer to shoot at a "no armour" Cruiser rather than shoot at another German Battleship (hmm tough choice). Cruisers lack the stealth of a DD, lack the armour of a BB but make up for it by hunting DD's, protecting BB's from planes and their speed allows them to scoot around the map at ease. Only, none of that is really possible at the moment because the BB's numbers are so huge they are literally all over the map and all shooting at cruisers first (it's a good tactic). So where does that leave me, and the thousands of other cruiser players? Well I could go out in one of my BB's or DD's but that only increases the problem for those poor cruiser players who, like a masochist, keep hitting that battle button. While not an answer I think I'll just swap to Co-Op for a month or two until the RN cruiser line comes out and forum is of full of "World of Cruiser" threads If you're an abused T5-6 cruiser player what are your plans while the current BB-Heavy meta exists? (T7+ it's coming to you too guys, sooooon!) PS If the replies could leave out the "never show broadside, use HE" etc that'd be great. We know already this because we're here on the forum seeing it everyday.

They know that when you ram/get rammed it resets the amount of matches you have to play to get rid of the TK status so you have to play even more matches to get rid of it..

It's not a "whine" it's a valid comment that, currently, the number of BB's vs Cruisers is too high for people to enjoy, so they stop playing Cruisers which starts the cycle over again. I'd like to see some stats from WG regarding the number of cruisers currently played since the German BB line arrived vs before. I'd expect to see a dip followed by a return but the dip has been 1 month long so far and "feels" like it's not over yet, maybe another month or so when the RN Cruisers come out..

Ah my tale of woe starts with a really fun set of games yesterday. I haven't taken my Fubuki out for a spin in what feels like a long time so I spent 14 games having a great time, with another 2 really fun games spread between an Atlanta and a great match in an Atago. Wow, it was was great, fantastic, one of those days where, even though I only had a 50% WR in the Fubuki, I did really well in every match and it kept all the negativity I feel about the current BB heavy meta away. Then I woke up this morning and I think RNGesus decided that I'd cheated with his wife, beat his dog, stolen his car and taken a big smelly poop on his front lawn as not only couldn't I buy a win for love nor money, it felt like I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn from the inside (even though I did better than yesterday) and my decision making was truly awful - Lets shoot at the Khab in my Fubuki at 6km, that'll end well!!!! So I've put the game away for the night (may sneak a few Co-ops in later) as I'm not sure my body could cope with yet another Nut Punch from RNGesus. It just goes to show how quickly things can turn 180' around and hopefully tomorrow will be a better day! Have you guys got any stories of days like these, from epic highs to crushing lows, from being best friends with RNGesus to watching him murder your stats?

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Hardcore Mode Activated!!!!!

Hi all, I've had this twice now and it's ruining the game when you can't see anything to shoot with. Effectively the UI flickers rapidly (4+ times a second) then disappears completely followed by a CTD, this happened after 5 games in a row. Nothing in my system has changed recently, no drivers, updates etc. I've had 1 UI crash on the Public Test which gave me an Error box saying BigWorld had fallen over yet this one on the live server just flickered, went blank and CTD'd within 30 seconds of the match starting. No other game, program or service causes any PC errors so I'm, hoping it's a WoWs issue. Is this a well known issue with an existing fix or is this new? ***EDIT*** - found this temporary work around posted by Jethro_Grey - "Just press Ctrl - Enter ( or was it Ctrl - Shift -Enter). If you running full screen the game will switch to windowed mode. Press same key combination again and the game will go full screen again with the GUI back." http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/54166-suddenly-lost-all-the-gui-in-game-and-cant-get-it-back/page__pid__1096392#entry1096392

What I've leaned is that this forum is full of people who don't understand basic English which, being an English "speaking" EU forum, is a worry. My last post on this because I'm sick of saying the same thing again and again - ARE THEY OP - YES/NO - it's that simple, I say yes but apparently I'm completely wrong - LOL. PS Warning to every other poster - Never EVER say ANYTHING is OP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldn't stay alive long enough to get Witherer/Arsonist - My average was usually under 5 minutes from my first shot to dying, all while trying to stay at max range, dodge 3-5 BB's trying to touch my citadels with their big guns all while getting shouted at in Chat for leaving the BB's alone for the enemy DD's to torp and from the IJN DD's begging for support to fight Gunboat DD's! Ah Fun Days

You have a poor grasp of the English language - if English isn't your first language then that would explain your difficulties with my posts. I have not once said that it needs to be nerfed. I have even said that it shouldn't be on post 18 (HERE), which you obviously didn't read. I'm just pointing out the obvious fact that they are OP yet you're reacting like I'm telling a lie. Pointing out that something is OP isn't a "bad" thing. For example, the Gremy is widely regarded as OP at T5, yet that is still un-nerfed so simply pointing out how good something is isn't suggesting that it should be nerfed.