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If you buff secondary so they are superior, then you just switch those 2 around: Then tankbuild will be a meme build, and secondary build is the viable one. Isnt that basicly how german BBs were when they got released? Everyone played secondary Bismarck and whatnot, and it was awesome. If you ran tankbuild, you were weird. Even when i started running tankbuild GK like 1,5 years ago, i was still the weird guy. But now in the last couple of months it changed, and now secondary builds are the weird one. While i agree, the captain skill should get reworked, because we dont need tradeoffs for 4 captain skills, i dont think secondaries should be that insane monster which shreds every ship to pieces when you enter 10km range from a BB.

I wanted to rant about that video too, but didnt want to do it here since it only covers one part of it Its like a true BBaby speaking... god forbid, those need to use more than 1 braincell to play them. There is one thing i dont disagree with, and that is that BBs are frustrating/unfun to play because of the RNG. Well, thats the price that class has to pay in order to be balanced in my book. And they still produce the highest average damage of all (except CVs), so even while true, they still get more out of it than other classes.

IFHE henri can still pen stalingrad, but (i assume we are talking CBs here) CVs rendered Henri useless. Venezia >>> Henri, because it can disengage at will or get a cap if necessary. Henri is spotted and stays spotted if a CV is close enough. And Venezia absolutely shreds Henris. Alaska still has better pen angles. Mostly matter againsts Cruisers anyway, as at the steepest angles you wont citadel BBs with either of them. Atleast talking about typical engagement ranges.

Autobans get triggered by - Enough (?) misbehaviour in chat reports. - saying ANYTHING, even something which isnt an insult. If you dont say anything, you cant get a chatban from what i know. So for me: Autobans dont work properly, but are only 24h anyway. So complaining about that is futile... Manual chatbans work, as you really have to insult other players, but duration may vary.

I second that Stalingrad is literally worst out of them all. It even falls behind most T9s like Alaska, Kronshtadt, Buffalo and Saint-Louis. Kron seems to be 2nd worst (well, ok Neptune and Ibuki are the worst 2). Smolensk is the only being infront of most others....

Not great not terrible... i think there are worse ships out there, and midtier ITA CAs have a bad reputation, which is not correct imo. People just have a hard time going from HE spamming to SAP, luckily, i never was fond of spamming HE, so thats why i consider SAP to be a broken concept - its just too strong.

Advertising for favourite toy getting buffs? Wouldnt be the first or last...

Ill put that in here, but it could also fit in this one. https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/135606-is-there-something-glitchy-going-on-with-aiming/ But there might be a connection to both. So, yesterday in CBs, i had something weird happen to me. I got shot at by 2 Salems, but my PT only said 1. Funny thing is, it said 2 for some time, but between shots, it dropped to 1 even tho they kept shooting me. And i concluded, maybe i popped in and out of vision for them between shots, triggering some kinda bug? Afteralll, my reload is roughly those 20 seconds, same as being spotted between shots. 1. Pic both shoot me, and PT says 2 ships 2. Pic both shoot me, but i just shot, after that, my PT drops to 1, see Pic 3 3. Pic left Salem shot me while PT shows 1 4. Pic Left Salem shot me again (small shells in the background), right Salem also shot in between. 5. Pic Right Salem shooting me, see small shells in the back, PT showing 1 6. Pic Left Salem shooting me, PT showing 1

I shoot into islands permanently, because the lockon seems to be gone even before the ship fades from my screen

For me its vice versa: I have Yamato and GK equiped, and i can rebuy them. Those that i dont have equipped (Mino, Wooster, Hindi) i cant buy.

That sounds kinda weird, how do you only get overpens with RN shortfuse AP? You basicly have to learn, which ships have squishy armor, you can basicly pen them from every angle. Which are a lot of T6-7 BBs, but T8 BBs are different, they all have 32mm plating. If they are properly angled, nothing you can do about that, you will ricochet. Make a training room, take stationary bots like KGV and Monarch. Then shoot those from all possible angled see what happens. That AP is devastating against Cruisers, you wont overpen them at their citadel. If you get so many overpens, you gotta aim lower.

So lets summarize this: - All Cruisers are crap, except russians and Venezia - Russian Cruisers OVERPERFORM all other Cruisers, which is bad, because they are russian? - Venezia OVERPERFORMS all other Cruisers, except russians which are on the same level (?), which is good, since its not russian How about if majority of Cruisers are on the same level, and some are better, than those are OP and should be nerfed, REGARDLESS of which nation they are on? And at the same time, put down those russian-bias glasses. And one more thing: Venezia cant properly damage Kremlin except for the Superstructure, which is a sign of weakness. Yet, literally all other Cruisers (except IFHE germans + RN CAs + BCs) cant pen kremlin either, except for small parts at Bow/Stern (which is the same for Venezia btw, granted, if its bow on SAP wont work either, while HE does). Its basicly immune to fires, atleast for extensive amount of time. But HE deals less damage in return. So its not a sign of weakness for Venezia, but a strongpoint for Kremlin, since everyone has that problem.

I always felt, TX Cruisers were in a good spot (compared to most other Cruisers) even amongst each other. First one to break that was imo Henri. But Venezia takes the cake now.

Venezia profits more from AR, since it has a slower reload than DM. At 50% HP, DM wins ~0,55 sec, going from 5,5 sec to just below 5 sec reload. However Venezia drops from 20 sec to 18 secs, so it actually closes the gap from 14,5 sec to 13 sec. Reloadmod would favour Venezia even more. Venezias survivability is far too high, i think its the highest after CVs. No wait, i just checked, there is one ship which has slightly better survivability: Giulio Cesare... big surprise. And Venezia beats the 3rd in line by almost 6% which is Conqueror with the absolute trolliest lol-heal of them all. Nuff said i guess Or lets compare it to Goliath, a ship even newer, so experienced players have it? Almost 9% better survivability, and Goliath doesnt have much more than being a damage sponge. And i dont see a reason, why venezia has even better ricochet angles than the others before her... it has much more guns to compensate for that.

I think its quite a simple fix for both KGV and DOY: - Revert the raised Citadel or - Buff the plating to 27mm, this will atleast make them withstand 380mm guns. I dont see any reason to play KGV/DOY right now, as it is, they are just the worst T7 BBs out there (atleast DOY, KGV is slightly better with the faster reload, which makes it a stronger HE spammer, leaving DOY with the AP). And then there is the problem with the change to MM, where T7 faces T9 more often these days. I think that often doesnt make sense. Bourgogne is exceptionally strong with 380mm guns - smallest of them all on TX, fails at overmatching basicly any Cruiser, except for the bow/stern. Even Alsace was very strong, before they nerfed the Sigma to make it worse than Bourgogne. And Alsace doesnt have the reloadbooster from Bourgogne either, but it still works. So i think smaller guns can work, maybe needs some additional tweaks to other areas.

Could be the layered armor, which might prevent the short-fuse AP from conq to actually reach the citadel. Mino cant citadel a Venezia either, even at a driveby <1km. I found them to be one of the most resilient lines out there. Granted, i havent played much, but out of 9 games i died only 1 time lol... Well, the Pen is pretty bad, even with the 203mm guns. Venezia has >180mm armor on the citadel, Mogami barely has 180mm pen at 11km + impact angle + you never really get absolute flat broadside. Impossible to citadel at that range.

Well, someone who does that would get far more XP than most others. But basicly 9 out of 10 people suiciding by the 3 minute mark didnt do anything. If you see TX BBs dead before 4 minutes are played, you know they were useless. You could just set a minimum amount of XP, if they are below that, they get nothing. I think that would be good for the game, since YOLOing is the mother of all roflstomps.

Its just Noob/newb-protection working as intended

First you need to differentiate between auto-bans and manual bans: The topic which you quoted, is an auto-ban by reports for "misbehaviour in chat" The problem with that is, that ANYTHING you say (even automated chat messages like "well done") is enough to flag you for it. So you say something, and enough people report you -> you get a 24h chatban. Complaining to WG about that seems pretty futile, because the chatban is basicly over by the time someone from support reacts to that. Then we have Manual bans, which seem to last 3 days, 7 days, 10 days, months or even years? They always start at ~12PM CET. I assume its mostly an automated system checking for certain words, and then a person looks into it and gives you a chatban, the more often you get chatbanned, the longer it gets. Also, if you report someone afterwards from the port it might trigger someone looking into the chatlog. You cant defend yourself against automatic chatbans. Well, except saying anything, which is the same in a nutshell? Alltho, i havent been chatbanned like that for years, so maybe positive karma prevents that. But ive been manually banned several times by now, and every time it was deserved, so this system works in my book. Im not sure if WG will tell you the exact amount of reports to trigger a chatban, since that can be abused? Imagine a division of 3 reports you 33 times for misbehaviour in chat to make it stick I would even go so far, that a division reporting 1 player only counts as 1 report. Sometimes you get divisions flaming you, and afterwards you always get -1 karma, which is basicly guaranteed to be from the division, but why would only 1 of those report you? Atleast thats what ive concluded.

Doesnt matter. There are no AA powerhouses anymore. The biggest (basicly entire) influence is the skill from the CV player. Either the CV player can dodge flak, or he cant. Not sure what MM has to do with that. And, if you dont like hightier gameplay, then rather play midtiers? Why play something, which is not fun to you?

Based on what? Tirpitz got into the game first as a premium, only later followed the german techtree BBs. Nobody knows what plans they had at that time, maybe they just picked it without reason? Or maybe they wanted a BB with torps for a reason? See how it goes.

Tirpitz got refitted with Torps later on, so its perfectly viable? Also, we have tons of ships that were half-constructed or even blueprints by this time now, so why not take real ships with supposed refits like Gneisenau? Afterall, why would we need several identical ships, why would you buy or play them? Its like having a techtree Kongo with 4 Kongo clones from ARP collab. Or same with Myoko, but there we actually have 7 clones

I dont think its fair to compare ships which you cant get, to ships which you can get right now. And Alaska is definetely worth it. Azuma and Friesland are another story tho... Even worse are the FreeXP TX ships

Got a source for that?

Im pretty sure that already exists, however, it is one that counts for everyone (atleast on the winning team, not sure about the losing side). Ive seen games lasting >17 mins, where everyone got >1k base XP on the winning team, despite doing anything. One game in particular i remember, where we had 3 guys dead after 4 mins, and almost all of them got 1k baseXP, and i can assure, they didnt do anything.