ForlornSailor

So, Ive been thinking about the "back to port" button. It is active and useable all the time. It should not be. Only when your ship was sunk, should you be able to use "back to port". Here is why. Ive seen, on several occasions, people leaving the battle. - They leave the battle on spawn, cuz they are not happy with the matchmaking. I had to read things like "im lowtier, bye" - "im the only DD, I wont play" - " eff it, another CV game, eff you" - They leave the battle in the middle of the game, because they are unhappy with their teammates - usualy the ones that died - or think, the game is lost. - If seen 6 people on stream clicking in, it didnt work out, so they ALL went back to port to try again. Its harmful for the game. remove it. Now, someone might say "but what if I have an emergancy and have to leave?" No problem. There is ALT F4, Quit the game completly. But there is NO reason, while your ship is still alive, to go back to port and be able to select the next ship. Its also awesome, that our shipjesus on one occasion did this and spread the idea. And here we see a person, that leaves battles all the time (only one of several examples, I could show a Henri, that left the game, a Yamato, that left the game - and from his stats, it was obvious, he does it all the time - or a DD, that refused to play a game with CV and left on 00:01) These people do not care about the gaming experiance of the other 23 people. They are activly harming the game, the community and destroying the fun. And the game is giving them the tool to make it easy. Make them atleast quit the entire game, so they have to load and login again, when doing their shite! Reporting them one by one is a) a lot of work b) I dont really know what will happen to them and c) not solving the core problem of this. @MrConway @Crysantos

Atleast on that point I have good news for you: CVs dont spot torpedos. Well, make sure to atleast remember the name of the guy above me and spare him - he is your ticket to victory.

Just checked your stats: 55% recently solo, PR is climbing, so is average damage. K/D ratio is on the positive side now, survivability is up. Everything points in the right direction and looks decent. Damage you can still improve but that will come over time. Nice one mate, keep it up! And gj to everyone giving advice - community at its best!

You really want us to go into detail? Ive been there with you and you just gonna claim, we have no idea what we are talking about... But ill bite. Couple of things: Germany. DD Line = Clearly Anti BB --> clearly not. Its THE anti-DD line by design and was unchallenged in that before the arrival of later later lines (which automatically defines them as anti-DD aswell: RN, IJN, stuff like Friesland & Black) UK BB Line = Frigging HE Spammer Anti BB.... --> first of all: if you only use HE on RN BBs - you are doing it wrong. Ive used AP excusivly on QE and > 75% on DoY/KGV/Monarch. Short fuse AP is BAD against BBs. You cant cita many of them because the shell arms too early. Also: small caliber. But you make Cruisers bend over so hard... I´ve had so many opening devstrikes with QE/DoY on cruisers at max ranges, its not even funny. The reason for this is the small caliber on KGV/DoY + short fuse AP. no overpens baby, just citas. UK Cruiser Line = Anti Cruiser and a bit Anti DD --> how is the UK CL line anti Cruiser? Their lazy gun arcs makes it hard to hit other cruisers. Also, you know whats THE one ship I dont want to see when playing Minotaur? Henri IV. A Cruiser. If he knows what he is doing he will eff you so hard you are left there standing begging for more lubricant to make it hurt less. Also, they are literally the best DD hunters among the cruisers and it takes a real experianced DD player to deal with a radar minotaur. I havent seen many that could.

Fits the current state of the game: its a mess :D I also think it depends from which point you are looking. The thing about CV-BB interaction is painfully obvious on T4: CVs are not a huge threat to a BB if you just look at a 1vs1 situation. Atleast not if you compare, what the CV can do to a DD or a Cruiser. And then when you broaden the picture, it changes again. Spotting is all over the map, it takes away the advantage, the cruiser has from hiding at islands and the concealment of DDs. And this impact on the gameplay has made it very safe for a BB to cruise open across the map. Before CV Rework, DDs on T4 were a huge problem. Now they arent. The average player simply does not get into position to torp you or doesnt survive so long in the first place. And then we have the way above average players in their CVs, that can read the flow of the game, focus specific targets, stack DoT and so on, that they bring down a BB faster then any other ship (with the exeption of another BB dev striking another BB - which still has a cita - or a DD that yolo rushes to hit enough torps for a dev strike). But at the same time, for these players, a CV is even more powerful against Cruisers or DDs. Its funny how often we read topics from a BB whining about AP bombs ruined his game - yet he doesnt give 5$ everytime he dev strikes a Cruiser 90 sec in the game because the CV provides early spotting - or any other time he ruins a Cruisers day. Also: ask a Cruiser, how his day is, once a skilled CV threw his "purple rain" AP bombs on him. I think @El2aZeR can provide the needed screenshots if in doubt, but I had to suffer a couple of times aswell. Here is the thing, where I think, the game is very wrong at this point: BBs have damage reduction/immunity from everything. Most of them effectivly never take full AP damage. They are the best class overall to handle HE spam. Vast majority of cruisers dont have a heal. On top of that: the BBs have damage reduction against torpedo hits. These things need to change. - Every cruiser needs a heal. its not like it will make them OP! Do the math, if a T4 Cruiser has 2 heals with a health pool of ~20k - Torpedo damage reduction of BBs need to go. If anything, Cruisers need to have it. Think about what 1 torp does to a Chapayev - and then compare to a torp hit on a LoLqueror. The difference, how cruisers can deal with torps, is painfully visible, when a Mino f.e. takes one and heals a lot back. If you rebalance the torpedo damage reduction, you can also adress flooding and alpha damage of (CV!!) torps. You know how I laugh in my Orion, when a Hosho tries to farm me? Usualy he doesnt hit both torps either way. I can just ignore and push on. Have you seen, what happens, when a CV hits a T4 DD with 2 torps? And then there is the thing about AA... Cruisers took a huge nerf with the CV rework, yet everything we heard in the forums was "Mino AA is OP" or "I cant even spot the Mino before my planes are dead" (which is a blatent lie, btw). At the same time, effectivly BB AA got massivly buffed. Something like a Musashi can now deny drops of CVs, while before it was huge XP Pinata. The funny thing about it: the only way, why this happens is, that 80% of CV players on high tiers are useless and collect every black puff. Let me show you something: 39 planes shot down. On T4. BBs have it too easy. And thats the reason, why we lose balance more and more. Also: playerbase is abysmal, which is another reason for all the problems.

But those are not problems of the mm. Or would you be happy if those guys are on the other team? What you are criticizing is the playerbase and the easy economy these days, that makes it possible for potatos to play T10 all day long.

They dont need to listen but only draw their own conclusions. One example really shines in that sense: Asashio. Why do we have a DD that can do nothing else then hunt BBs (yes, it CAN do other things but thats his USP)? I can tell you: - Because BBs dont die from 1 hit - Every game is almost guarenteed to have 4+ BBs per side So it is possible to introduce a ship, which torpedos are, compared to all other torps, absolutly OP without breaking the game. And only because its limited on hitting BBs. And I cant remember anyone in the forums askign for torpedos, that can only hit BBs and a Ship named Asashio. So there we go.

It doesnt. It doesnt. Paper DPM =/= real damage dealt. Else DDs are THE monsters out here. Dev Striked quite a few Smolensk. Just because you dont know how to do it, doesnt mean its not possible. Again, total myth with the shell speed. The air drag makes it so that even DM has a shorter flight time at that range. These freakin myths... Also: if you are getting constnatly hit at 19 km from a Smolensk in a Worcester - because thats what we are talking about here - you are doing it totaly wrong, deserve to get killed and would be killed by anything either way. Seems like it, yes.

I saw him again. the "could be" can be changed into "absolutly is" Its the Top tier Georgia and yes, he went afk straight away. @MrConway @Crysantos isnt it maybe time to do something about this guy in specific? Its painfully obvious he does this all the time. Can provide replay, he steers his Georgia to J1 and thats it.

Something similar happened to me, when I just started playing wows. Back then, the ARP missions were on. And you needed torp hits and secondary hits. was it 100 torps and 1000 secondary? and it was T8+. And Im not even sure if I dare to speak this out loud - my only T8 at that time, since I just started playing, was the Chapayev. Now you might think "oh no you didnt..." Yes. I did. I farmed 100 torp hits and 1000 secondary hits with Chapa. At some point I switched to Takao, since I unlocked it on the way. And dont even ask for details - in retrospective, I should apologize to all the people on my team

I think the area around T4 is turning belly up. More and more people just quit playing that tier with surface ships thus increasing the percentage of CVs, which makes the experiance for the remaining players even worse, so more ppl are tempted to quit... and so on. I quit playing T4, which I always liked. And becoming part of the problem aka playing CV myself is not really what I want to do to other players. Although it might the one thing forcing WG to finaly do something about it - everyone queing up in a T4 Cv.

I so hope you and @DFens_666 can play the next 4x4 clan brawl and dont have to work. Thats gonna be hilarious :D

I so agree on this one. Anyone, that joins a multiplayer/team game should always do his best. If you dont care, play a single player game. Easy as that.

You know what? Thats something we havent read often and it might just be a problem solver. It would makes games less stressful, HE overload spam less of a thing, new/bad players would have it easier to get in the game without beeing killed by focus fire from 9 ships in seconds, mistakes would be punished less etc... I mean we play almost all maps in 7x7/8x8 Clanwars and even Ranked with as little as 5x5 setups. And it works for the game and for the maps. Ofc its not going to stop roflstomps (we know that from ranked). These are interesting points. I mean often we have topics here, where people complain about grind over grind. And the usual answers "just ignore them". Honestly - in a game like this, this is pretty much not possible. When I log on, its now a habbit to check: whats the current missions? directives? and so on. Then I pick a ship according to what needs to be done to get there as fast as possible, because I dont have 8 hours per day for the game and I wouldnt want to play 8 hours even if I have them. And even describing this it doesnt sound like talking about a game but rather work. Matter of fact, my working day often starts similar. Open up personal space/mails and check, whats needs to be done, act accordingly. Like... these days, I hardly get to play the ships that I want to play but 90% its down to what I need to play. Playing Musashi now to get the Yamato camo. So Im not continuing my Lion grind, because I chose Musashi. Then I did a lot of italian cruisers lately to get the tokens to get more italian containers. Could have played one of my other cruisers. List goes on and this has been like this for a very long time, since we jump from one grind to the next. And then: clanwar season - ranked season - event mode with some fantasy ships and fanatsy maps that have nothing to do with the actual game - ranked sprint - aaand we start all over again. 4 evenings per week where you possibly play clanwars. To grind rewards to get good ships which... you can hardly play cuz you jump to the next grind and there im again forced to play italian DDs, slovakian river monitors, sibirian tugboats or w/e line is next. Its a never ending treadmill and I feel stupid writing this yet most of us reading this know exactly what im talking about, right? And ignoring those events etc. isnt an option for most of us. Because a) we want to have that stuff and b) imagine you´d ignored every even ever, what would be missing in your port. Missouri, ARP ships, Benham, tons of perma camos for T6 to T10 ships. And C: most of those directives/missions go half way if you just play the game casually. Then you see "damn im almost done - might aswell put a little efford in and finish it" - right? We´ve all been there no? But yea, im pretty much perma grinding to unlock nice stuff that I cant play because I have to jump to the next grind and for that I need to play certain game modes/ships. And at some point your are asking yourself: the fook im even doing here?

Ill make it short: nah.

[edited]. this time it got me too I blame the fact, that it was created in November aswell ^^

I like the way to think, sir!

Now we are talking!

wrong link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-80) ^^

Stats are available after the first game played. If they are not, that means, that specific player activly chose to hide his stats. This then also makes this unlikely: There is atleast a 50/50 chance, they know about the loopwhole and are trying to avoid CVs with that setup. And then they threw themselfs under the bus.

I often use the torps for yolo rushes. Like I hide at an island, wait for the BB to move up and then just circle him & torp him. There you can make use of the great manouvarability and the extreme dakka of Mino. Like outrun the turret traverse of the BB and dish out 100k if needed in 30 sec. Even works in clanwars :D Other then that, when there is a superior force pushing, I leave my position early and throw the torps in their way from, say, 12km distance. You might not hit but it slows them down or make the enemys turn broadside so maybe a friendly BB can cash in on that.

So untrue.. Playing radar mino myself, also in clanwars. The important/right things have already been said, so ill just quote them to put a little bit more meaning to them :) You master those advice and you will be a very strong Radar Mino, no doubt.

Comrade! You know we have to stay on track with the 5-year-plan! A little inconvenience.. is not a big deal, once we finaly achieve the great goal! Or do you really question the decisions of the party WG? Do I need to remind you what happens with system critics? Now, get to work, back to the salt mines and harvest some tokens, I can see you havent forfilled your daily quota - which has been increased by 20% to show superiority of our system compared to others !

My last 120 solo games are 59,5%. So by your definition - im better. ty, case closed.

I hope for your own sake that you either quoted the wrong person or are trying to be funny/sarcastic and Its not obvious at all.