tenacious_torps

That second pic... wasn't there some movie... Operation Pettycoat or sumthing? Anyway, more effort in the educating players department is always commendable, especially on that subject. Of course, won't do all that much for those matches at low tiers that are just utter mayhem right now, but let's hope it contributes in the long run.

They have range, but they're so slow that you can't really make use of it without creating total random outcomes. And lots of pink in the process.

... and if you think it's been an expensive ride up until now, then just wait for the divorce.

http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/69386-05160-severe-bugs-after-reconnecting-due-to-lost-connection/ 1. Description: When a player looses his connection during a match and re-establishes it, he is unable to resume playing, while the running match is displayed as normal. After the match there is no results screen and back in port there is no GUI, just background and ship. The player cannot quit the game neither. 2. Reproduction steps: Play a game and loose connection. (Possibly: get a new IP assigned.) 3. Result: No interaction with the client after reconnect, missing GUI, player has to quit game by taskmanager 4. Expected result: Resumed gameplay after reconnect. 5. Technical details: No crash log could be found.

1. Description: Ship doesn't react to rudder commands "A" and "D" 2. Reproduction steps: Play any ship class and get into a tight corner, where precision steering is required. Likelihood for the bug hitting increases with danger to ship... 3. Result: Ship sinks. 4. Expected result: torpedo beat 5. Technical details: it's bloody keystrokes, how technical can it get? FFS this annoying crap is in the game for ages now. Get your act together at least once, at least when it comes to technical basics. We've all given up on you in the customer care department anyway, but at least fix your bloody code before you throw more and more stuff into the game.

When I read the title I was expecting a scathing remark about teamplay.

Met Corvi yesterday while I was derping around in the Lolanta. He was taking the Warspite he got from gift boxes (lucky bastard, I got 3x the bloody Emden. As if I needed another ship with catapult arcs...) for a spin.

I somehow managed not to realize that there are two of these threads... Nearly didn't sign up for free stuff, I'd never have forgiven myself, so count me in.

What people often fail to grasp: Random chances are not influenced by the last one. If it's 2% for a SC, it's 2% every single time. It's not like 98 times 5 flags in any way whatsoever means the next one has to be a SC, the chance is still 2%.

The Atago can be extremely powerful - with a 15pts+ captain in the hands of an experienced player. Otherwise she's a big floating citadel that's easily sunk. You absolutely need experience at high tiers to make her work. If

I'm honestly debating recommending him for tenacity.

Well, what ship did you enjoy the most? Let's start from that.

Let me expand a bit on what tools I have in mind, it's basically an expansion of what's already there. We have the chat and we have a tactical map - that could do with a bit of love anyway, for one example it needs to display the exact ship, not just a class icon and the player name - and with that we have already two of the necessary ingredients. What's missing now is a GUI to move ship icons around and some additional icons for movement and basic tasks (push, defend, scout). Before a battle starts players first are directed to this new and improved map with activated chat and can lay out a battle plan, that then can be transmitted to all team mates, who can cycle through the different suggestions and commit to one. (Let's hope it's the one with the best reasoning for it...) Once the real battle starts the agreed upon plan is available in the tactical map as an overlay and the intended position of the player is also displayed to him on the minimap. Since all of this should require very little loading time, discussion and planning can already start when right now we're just sitting, waiting and watching the teamlists. Overall this shouldn't delay the actual battle by more than two or three minutes. We don't need to create art here, just a quick sketch. Cerry on top would be the ability to save and load plans, maybe even community made presets. An additional benefit is, that players enter the match in a more communicative mindset and have already taken part in some light team-building. Since doing battle plans on the fly requires quick thinking and also a bit of skill, I expect the experienced players taking the lead here in a more natural manner than just by shouting in chat. A meritocratic manner. And then we can still descend into the usual chaos, but at least we tried. No, seriously, this is better than punishing bad performance and imho has the potential to lift the game up a level or two. I simply can't see how anybody can arrive at top tiers and still be a total vegetable, when he's been exposed to constant tactical debate along the way. Too ambitious? Properly. But it's Christmas and I didn't write a wishlist yet.

See my edit above. I needed to log off and back in, then an appropriate amount of doubloons appeared.

The friend who dragged me into this game responded to my rant about today's events by gifting me 6 of the mid price containers. I got 90 days premium, which is nice, some camo and 3 x the Emden + 10pt commander. Three times the Emden. In a row. I don't seem to have received any compensation for two of them though. Apparently WG screwed this up too. GJ, guys, terribly impressed right now. Edit: Never mind, apparently logging off and back in fixed this and I got compensation in doubloons. So, if the same happens to you, don't get even more upset, try this first.

Yup, as a DD you're screwed in that mode. I've basically stopped giving a flying fornication about those matches. Since there is no teamwork anyway it's the same option to try and sail around caps by a big margin to torp from an unexpected angle and just farm some damage. The only way to win the mode is for you doing all the work without much reward, I make more XP on losses with my method.

Nope, he's playing on the EU server just as everybody else, but with even less of a say...

It's quite nice, sadly WG EU are on the embargo list for past and present shenanigans, so I must refrain. Instead I decided to get fellow captains dear to me bottles of quality crap tolerance enhancers.

See? If there's an externalized memory for his convenience, why doesn't he use it?

Which rather puts the whole business model in question, doesn't it? Maybe fix that then.

Maybe try considering the non-shitty options then?

My pleasure.

Filter settings in port, just untick. Edit: Poi?

That is indeed an issue. I'm beginning to think domination mode needs maybe specific MM. Parity of DDs by nation, not as when possible, but as a prerequisite, otherwise switch to standard.

Nah, the prupose of the chat is so you can yell at your team after you died. Berate them to victory, question their manhood until all enemies are slain, discover your inner drill instructor.