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Kinda. I bought Blyska for Coal recently to not get it in the KOTS container. Apart from that im missing too many premiums, so i dont think ill wait to open it. Already have like 10 potential candidates.

Is there some specific place where Solo WR gets you something, while div WR not? Playing in div is always better (assuming good players) since it helps you to not go insane And you win more often ofc...

380mm guns arent actually bad on T7. But german ships have anemic HE alpha and firechance because reason. Well because they have better HE pen, which doesnt really matter too much...

Well essentially the thing that makes them better is just taking up a cruiser slot instead of a BB slot. Stalingrad is BB-like Cruiser, but imagine if it would take a BB-slot - it would actually be crap. Ägir has a Citadel, but such strong upper belt for a Cruiser, that can bounce every shell when properly angled. It has torps and Hydro (unlike Gneisenau). And 9 shells instead of 6. Dont have Siegfried, but its also a 6 gun ship. But Siegfried can get matched against a Seattle, while Gneisenau gets matched against Sinop... so to say. The problem is, he is looking at average results. As @Exocet6951 correctly said: Its a low skill ship. Like most german BBs. They are not particulary bad, but also not good. You mostly will get average results even as a good player. A bad player will get better results simply by not getting devstruck when showing broadside. This ofc already enhances the average stats from german BBs compared to others. But it also means, buffing german BBs is highly unlikely, as average players already perform better with them. In a sense, russian BBs are the step-up from german BBs: If you are bad, you will still die when you show broadside, or they will take torps. If you are good, you can make a lot of work with them however. Average players will probably get slightly better results, as long as they manage to keep their broadside protected. Thus, russian BBs are usually highest WR ships right now. Since we dont have access to detailed stats, we can hardly know how players of different skill level perform. Good players dont need that much protection at the citadel, because they usually can maintain their angle to not get citadelled in the first place. They rather want strong reliable guns. Germans have good armor with "bad" guns. For a bad player, surviving longer is better as he has a chance to get slightly more damage in.

When you encounter an Alaska, you know what powercreep feels like I played Gneisenau in 2017 - then it was a nice ship. Even when lowtier, i managed to do some nice brawling against other ships, but back then you were fighting Izumos and co, which are totaly different than what we see now with Alaska and what not. Gneisenau and Scharnhorst are Ägir and Siegfried on different tiers, yet they can actually face each other, while one is taking a BB slot and the other a Cruiser slot. If the HE would be better... And the AP pen is so anemic aswell If you are toptier, sure great, the pen also doesnt matter so much. But facing T9? Not that great.

To first i have to say this: Its basicly useless to play a non-radar Cruiser, because when your DDs play "how can i die fastest" its an auto-loss. So every sane person picks a radar Cruiser, in case his DDs suck... and they suck all the time. Non-radar CAs are usually good at dealing with other campy/bow-on CAs like Hindenburg vs russian bias f.e. But its no use playing a Hindenburg, when your DD suicides, and then you get pushed away by the DD and stealthfarmed by the Cruisers. Petro having stealthradar didnt help ofc. To 2nd CVs crap on everything - no surprise there to 3rd meh, first time we had an Arms race event, people never went for buffs. This time, they always went for buffs only to die for it Playerbase is not ready for such complicated mechanics

He has a point tho... its retarded to get a penalty for hitting a bot. Also, enemy Bots can dodge torps when you launch them because they "know", while your own bots never do that. It has happened to me,that the bot i was torping dodged them, but my friendly bot stopped behind him to take them Not to mention getting permanently torped by your own bots aswell, who then get """"" PINK """""... that will teach them

Pleb @ OP You could just gift him a ship yourself if you feel like it?

So how does the majority of the playerbase matter, when they never touch CBs in the first place? Didnt you guys say at some point, only 5% (or some very low %, cant remember exactly) of the playerbase is regularily playing CBs? Its like, you guys listening to Beastofwar voting for CVs in CBs, while he never plays CBs and he despises teamplay

Why not have more testseasons? 1 Week or so, test different things. But dont make such mission requirements like play 15 games to get 5k coal. Naturally, results will be skewed because people dont bother to play properly for something like that. The faster they are done with it, the better. Does it matter to you (as in WG), if the CV can spot in versions A/B/C? For the majority of players, it actually doesnt matter at all, because they dont have the skill level to understand and use it in the first place. At best, they get less punished by good players when the CV doesnt spot them after 50 secs when they are full broadside and get blapped. You could also invite the best clans (like high Storm+), let them test different versions of CV spotting, and let them give you feedback, if you are really interested in that.

Because a BB devstriking another BB is not bad in their tiny minds Torps? HE? Cruisers? DDs? Now THOSE are bad bad issues, becuase mightee PeePee does not bow to underaged boats

The problem is, even if you are sincere with this, it doesnt feel like this to the playerbase. And thats the issue already. F.e. numerous times people suggested, CV spotting for minimap only. Yes, its not perfect, but its worth a try. The only thing i know about WG trying it out was "they tried it internally and it was counter intuitive". The problem with CV spotting is, that no other class can spot better than it. So its much harder to overcome being outspotted, if the targets can just sit behind islands and attack you, while the CV is spotting you for them. A DD can at some point spot those ships, if the CV doesnt prevent him from doing it. But then we have petro, which has basicly stealth radar capability, so in order to spot it reliably, he has to be inside radar range. The concealment nerf was not enough to prevent that. 100m buffer is a joke at best. Example: Petro sits at an island, unspotted, shooting at ships spotted by the CV. A DD is flanking around, to spot the petro. When petro stops shooting for 20 secs, if spotted, pop radar, if not spotted dont radar. Even if the DD would manage to perfectly position himself within those 100m, a 2nd petro somewhere else can always be positioned so that he can radar the DD. Or better yet, have the CV move over to spot the DD, so DD has to run or smoke up. Smoking up immediately enables the petro to close the distance to radar, and shoot the DD while not being spotted himself (10km smoke firing detection). I dont understand, why there arent different testseasons with CV spotting. Make it 1 week only or something, there are a lot of possibilities. - Remove spotting from fighters --> this is a huge issue already, since CV can pop fighter with what? <6km concealment so they can spot you from somewhere without you even knowing. In randoms this is basicly not an issue, it is so in CBs. Here how it feels to be spotted, and you dont know from what (2 seasons ago) I thought this is a bug at first, then i got told, no, Full concealment Haku planes have like <6km detectability. - Remove spotting from all planes, let them only spot for minimap. As i wrote above, discussed hundreds of times, why not try it? - Remove all spotting from planes, so they cant spot for themselves. So a ship needs to spot another ship, and then the CV sees it. Otherwise the CV wont see it at all. I think this would be very interesting to see, what actually would happen. - Permanent cyclone-like spotting for planes like we have right now. Also suggested by some, but after we kinda have it this season, i dont see much of a difference. Majority of ships have <8km air detectability, so it makes not much of a difference, ONLY if the target is shooting. This might be a workable solution for randoms tho, but not for CBs.

Pretty much the same here. I think we had it first time after 8 battles or so, and in the end a couple in a row almost.

Can be on every map. I think out of 15 games yesterday, we had it 4 times IIRC.

Dont see any difference. - Initial spotting still happens - Ships can still be shot at, since view range drops from 40km (CVs being able to see only 8km doesnt make much difference for most ships, since their air concealment is better anyway) - You still have to dodge the CV attack - You can still shoot by minimap, which is easily possible for good players. Dealing damage while receiving no damage is always a good trade. The only difference is, when cyclone pops you have to brawl around the caps. Alltho, this is still early season so we never know how it will evolve for the higher leagues. Lineups are all over the place, and so is playstyle.

Isnt that only true if you would only attack once per squad always? I mean, you go in first drop, first plane gets damage. If that part of squad leaves, next plane gets damaged. ofc always depends if that damaged plane gets shot down or not and if yes, if a 2nd plane also gets damaged. Or if part of a squad takes a flak hit and gets recalled (assuming they all dont die afterwards) but i think theoretically might happen. Not sure tho if or how often that would happen. Cant really tell about noob-CV players here, they do all kinds of stupid crap

I heard half of the crew died of old age, when they calculated the shell travel time

Repair time could be equal to plane regeneration. So new plane = 100% If a plane has lost 50% of its health, it needs half the time of a new plane to be replenished. That would make sense imo.

New meta you said Shmells like borderhumppin' We played whole evening with 2 BBs, and various Cruisers. Atleast Venezia doesnt seem to be too good anymore And we had 2 games without CVs. Naturally, those were the most fun, since you didnt get assfugged in spawn after 50 secs "funnily" enough, Petro is even hard to kill for a Hindi, because it sits so low in the water, and is kinda slim. Its usually only couple of k, and soon almost 0 when he is saturated top to bottom. Maybe AP is even better, as it can arm on the superstructure for pens In the end, nothing really changed tho. Cyclone doesnt change ANYTHING about CVs, only you are forced to go close because you dont see anything, thus making Venezia not viable. But Cyclone didnt pop that often either, only in the end we had it like a couple of times, while the first 8 or so it was only once. Seems to be rather "random" so to say.

I wonder why there is a part, which isnt shown And naming and shaming anyway... Usual hindi salvos with 600 something damage

Its really wrong to have all battles count if you want to play ranked or CBs... As i said before, should be atleast ranked tier * 100 random battles = amount of battles needed to participate, so T10 ranked means 1000 random battles. Still hilariously low, but we would get rid of the worst offenders atleast. The amount of <1k Thunderers ive seen this season...

So its better, because WG had to buff/nerf/tweak (however you wanna call it) certain settings to make it more bearable for surface ships, because otherwise CVs would have been more OP? What you are claiming makes no sense: - RTS CVs were supposedly more OP according to you. - Reworked CVs were released - Constant tweaking of spotting and other things. If you need to make it easier for surface ships, it means, reworked CVs are more OP/broken than before, otherwise we wouldnt need to talk about DDs being almost impossible to spot with planes.

Overmatching the deck and ending up in the citadel is basicly impossible.

Alaska works better with a BB captain. Alltho soon doesnt matter anymore, when WG reworks the commander skills, so no more survivability skills for Cruiser (FP/BoS, which are good for BCs)

Alaska actually has higher HE DPM Same reload, both 9 guns, Ägir HE 3600 vs Alaska 4300 Id say Ägir has the edge against BBs, due to torps. Especially those without a citadel. Alaska can brawl BBs aswell, as long as they have a citadel.