MyopicHedgehog

Someone did an analysis on the likely cost to produce the whole dockyard & PR thing and worked out that with the current number of PR on all servers there is very little chance that they've covered their timecost.

No you balance the ships and balance the game (e.g. maps and mechanics) instead. A high skill player should always have an edge against a low skill one - that's what encourages people to improve!

lol! That's kind of why I discount it as it's not effective. Smol has the ballistics that make it much easier to hit things @ ~ 19K. Seeing the RN CA reloads and the HIV nerf just suggests that WG don't want anything to threaten the glorious RU BB master-race, unless it's by DoT.

You can get the range on Smol to 19k ish though - compare that to the Wooster or any other high RPM ship - it's just too much. Increase the citadel armour so it actually arms shells too. HIV needs its maneuverability and ability to quickly change speed due to its visibility and it being an open water cruiser. Smolensk could cope with less range (or different - say US CL - ballistics) due to its smoke and nimbleness. Basic point is people use HIV as Hindy is a bad pick (currently) and Yoshino just too big a target - they wouldn't need to go for the improved HE pen if certain ships didn't have rediculous levels of deck armour.

The game engine can't keep up with the RPM and doesn't render the tracers from the gun barrel so it's much harder to hit it in smoke as you can't see properly where the ship is by tracer spotting.

Fair point, but it is a RU ship so won't get nerfed ;) If it does get nerfed, it will work out to be a buff in practice... (Yes I agree that it does need a nerf)

Really slow reloads on the T9 & 10. Thats going to be fun. Oh well, let's see how it turns out in practice.

This. Please, this. They could start by listening to their CCs that give solid suggestions...

RE bolded bit - we didn't though did we? They buffed BBs with the citadel lowering in ages past, Monty is getting a buff (probably as it's been powercrept!), Kremlin exists etc so they should be looking at nerfing/rebalancing BBs before crapping on cruisers (again). Yes the French DDs are too strong, but they don't have smoke and we do have CVs so there's no way for them to balance them via spreadsheet - they actually need to understand their game and how certain ships play, which circumstantial evidence suggests they don't. End result will be a nerf hammer (like to the YY) instead of incremental adjustments. I'm going out on a limb and suggesting that the real reason behind the FR DD nerf is to get people to get the pan-euro DDs...

WG balance - it's soviet so tickle it with a feather. It's not soviet and it's a DD - HAMMER TIME. At least Montana & Hindy got a bit of love, but why hit the HIV?

yay to 7v7 - but cyclones? Please, no!

Given WG track record with balancing, they gonna ruin it. Plus it's a cruiser that is a threat to OP RU ships and BBs so they will overdo it. So I'm grabbing the pitchfork in advance - don't want to get to the store and find I need to buy a premium booster to get one... Yes, it's bad that HIV is a no-brainer pick for CB, but that is all due to WG game design. Nerf Stalingrad and Smolensk a tad, make the RN CA a viable pick for CB then lets talk about nerfing Henri.

Had family over & with Junior, only managed to get to finish Directive 2 yesterday. Didn't buy Gorizia as I wasn't feeling in the mood after the whole PR debacle. So, yeah, I won't be completing Directive 3...

The Gorizia grind is not an easy grind for the average family person over the holiday season. The PEF grind was MUCH easier in comparison.

It's pointless to discuss the bit I snipped, partly because there's a lot of "personality", personal bias and feelings involved - not all ships suit everyone etc... However, this part I agree with you on BUT you still require a good team and a DD spotting for you. If your team's DDs are dead, good luck. They are VERY team dependant cruisers with very few tools at their disposal and, at lower tiers, you would most times be better off in any other cruiser.

Are you seriously using 3 battles' results to prove this? The ITA tech tree requires your opponent to make a mistake for you to be able to punish them. They require your team to function so that you can support them. Given the WoWs playerbase, you'd expect that the first part would happen more regularly than it seems to when you actually play an ITA cruiser (also RU BBs exist)! But consider the second. How often do your DDs stay alive and spot for you intelligently? How often do your team focus fire and play well enabling you to play to the ITA ships' strengths? The answer to those questions is, not very often!! It is very easy to be shut out from contributing to the game in a ITA cruiser.

No, just like Wales is not England. That is a better compaarison.

Especially in a game rated suitable for 7 year olds!!! Hang about. Lottery for 7 year olds? Rewind. Rate the game 18+ as it has a lottery in it AND ensure the % is shown. There, that's better.

Funny that putting resources into OPs would have been more productive than puting them into the failed CV rework and could have even resulted in greater sales (with some thought).

Nope, not going to do it.

HNY!

Happy New Year all!

Warframe does trading between players and it works really well.

Now just think if they'd used the wasted resources from the failed reeeework on actually balancing the game, adding new mechaincs that were actually "cool", new (non cookie-cutter) maps, new game modes, new operations, and some actual (madatory) tutorials how the game could look now! Instead WG just showed us that they have the collective mentality of toddlers when dealing with feedback. It's also readily apparent that WG don't actually understand their game!!!

Add a reward of 1K dubloons per sucessfully completed stage - bet that'd do it!