ForlornSailor

You did read the part, where OP spent 150 Euro, right? And you think, he was the only one? Then you havent figured out yet, why this mechanism of converting / buying free XP exsists. On the contrary, you are one person. And you dont seem to be that detached yet, because you are still posting here. I dont do that in the offical forum of games, which I dont play anymore. Shall I bookmark your stats and we check in a couple of weeks if you have sticked to your decision? Or even spend money again? You sure you can rule that out?

Noting special and for RN CLs its daily business because of their heal. Just lol. Well, keep playing Mino. Come back after 100 games please and show us your results. Lets see if you can keep up your 150k average dmg and a decent WR. Id concider >65% WR a proof for your claim. Funfact: I just finished game no. 100 in my Mino. Its rapid fire is actually its biggest weakness against skilled opponents. And countering skilled opponents is what you want to have to influence games. Everyone can rrpe a bunch of newbies. Other RN CLs in the line are much stronger / infuental for the outcome of a match.

I was thinking today, that there could be more bots then humans? As in 8 vs 12 or something like that? Got the idea, because the last days you are sometimes the only BB vs 3 bot-BBs (because of the CVs) which really made things challenging from time to time. The enemy bots are 100% equipped with better KI than th bots we get as a replacement for missing players.

Hello snowflake?

Yea right. Nerf Minotaur. Whats next, buff Nikolai? Or, in the new spirit, move it to T3 maybe?

@pali_tz1f0s I think you should stop posting at this point. You could have kept this story for yourself in the first place. But I cant help, I have to react to a few things: Lost hours? suffering? You feel... you are suffering and losing time when you are playing a video game? Dude, maybe its time to look for another game, and I say this will all honesty as a friendly advice. You are falling for what WG has implemented (and every grinding f2p-game uses) - show the players, what superb stuff is waiting for them to keep them playing and/or make them spend money. The thing is: when YOU have this strong ship - others around you have it too. So it doesnt help you.

You can spare yourself the stupid pictures, that only count for the bs that you write. The "hiding behind an island as a BB" is something, you made up yourself. But yea, if you dont want help playing BBs, then im not wasting my time on you anymore. Who am I to tell you how to play BBs, since you know better, right? I rest my case.

If you really think so, then you really havent been reading the forums a lot ;) There was a pretty long testing phase and I cant recall many coments on that matter. Guess people were too busy pwning bots, instead of doing, what they were supposed to do - testing things. Nah, "muh damage" also counts on PTS. If that is so - we should ask the question: why was the established mechanic changed / replaced in the first place?

No cruiser is speeding full speed over the map all the time (at that tier). They usualy stop at islands to use them to substitude their non-existing armor. And if you have a team, that scatters all over the map, running like chicken, well, you lost either way. So then it doesnt matter what kills you, right?

You dont even understand, that you are delivering the perfect reason why the hotfix was applied...

The average was the way it is, because A) part of the players cant achieve anything, they are dealing <20k per game in a T10 CV. They are alreardy way worse then any player in 3 years have been before. B) part of the players, that figures out how to play, did avr in the 200k+ area, setting one new worldwide record after the next. So d´oh, you end up with an average of 103k which.. doesnt tell you anything about the performance and the balance of the class. Stat-genius. and C) We are very early in a completly new class. If not adressed, the avg dmg of Haku would rise. By a lot and quick.

more lies? This guy is the worst. If I ever meet him and ask him for direction to the next toilet, and he tells me "left down the road" ill say thanks and walk right... I know, and you are 100% right about that point. I just feel, that WG is pushing this "we do this for balancing"-narrative in front of them but its not their true agenda. Lets be real: when has there been the last GC whine thread? And they could have nerfed the GC before the Ranked sprint, right? But thats another thing: GC was on display there, making people envy, but the solution: buy santa crates & gamble to get your own! It would have been way less fishy to just put all T5 premiums back in the shop when Ranked Sprint started. But this is the same behavoir as with Stalingrad: Give it to the best players, let them display (advertise) it on the randoms, so that people get envy and blame the ship (forget about it, that the best players are playing it) and THEN sell steel for money. Bah I hate this attitude and I fight it, because I believe, WG makes enough money from us as it is. Lets face it: premium ships costs as much as a full game. On top premium time, perma camos and what not. Look at the ports of the people posting here and you can easy see, how much at minimum they have spend. We support this game enough as it is. We dont need to be tricked and drained more. Man im drifting from my original point, but sorry, to me, it all boils down to this. So yes: Im all for balancing. But it needs to happen at the right time. 1,5 years after release is not the right time. If we cant stop them, yes, they need to make everyone happy. Im yet to see how they will achieve this in my case. Asked MrConway yesterday but he didnt pick up on that part of my post.

From the perspective of the GC alone - that wouldnt be that bad. But you forget two things: divisions and weak players. You punish both of them for no reason. WG wont get out of this with some weird work arounds. There is truly only one solution: stay off from premium ships, that have been around for so long. And I will not move from this position. Whats next? Put Belfast on T8 is the obvious thing. But hey, there is no T7-replacement Belfast premium in sight - or is there... #StopWG This.

Everything they do is to make money. Everything. Once you understand that, you understand every decision they make. To be more blunt: they are not working on a game, its rather a business sceme for them. And every day, they walk into office, they question themself "how do we make more money?!" And by that you gave WG the feedback "sceme suceeded" which will result in more experiments like that.

It will be a help for some but not for all, so thats not a solution either. Anyway. I think, we still need to start one step earlier, before talking about, what kind of refund is acceptable. This quote cant be stressed enough: - WG knew, GC was going to be OP. They had enough feedback and Data. - They didnt care. But now all of a sudden? Moving back to the subject. Everyone has a different reason, why he bought or plays GC. You will never ever be able to list them all and you will never ever be able to find a solution, that makes everybody happy. Not even a stright up cash refund might do it. Im playing GC in division with someone, who has a T5 premium aswell. Thats the reason we have those ships. Rebalancing, even buffing GC, wont help me/us at all, unless anyone things, a Marblehead should be facing T8s in a fail division. I havent heard WG adressing that issue. So, for me personaly, Id have no problem nerfing GC - although I have a problem with the timing! - but the switching of tiers is bs. Its the same as they did with Kaga/Saipan, as I can imagine, there are people pissed about not having their T7 CV anymore. We need to focus on stopping WG from doing such moves in the first place, I feel very strong about this.

Do you know what the word "balance" means? And why do you feel that one class (CVs) should be immune to everything? I dont find words for your attitude actually. You critizse that ONE ship - that is not even there in every game - can hurt you, while at the same time, in this very same sentece, you demand to be completly untouchable yourself.

Yep. because dedicated AA ships ride around the map, totaly immune to any other ship, just hunting planes, right?

Ever thought about that.... thats how its supposed to be? What on earth makes you think, you are entited to fly in with your TBs every 30 sec spamming about 200 torps during one game? IF you think that, then please open a thread and demand, that every salvo of any BB in the game must always yield citadells only, because the poor BB is losing damage, wasting salvos on overpens or even bounces.

How many free XP did you get for that exchange?

You make sense ! Keep it up ! But this guy is even better! Yup, absolutly. Doesnt matter, that the server stats show, Minotaur and RN CLs in general are one of the ships that gets sunk the most (survivabilty ranging from 16~32%), we have your feelings facts (!!!!) now, that show us the reality! Long live the king!

Well, I also have the same damage with Haruna. Granted, played her only once, but still managed to pinpoint my ~60k. KGV - I had tons of roflstomp wins in the first games, where I wasnt needed at all, because my team pretty much took the win, thus giving me a high winrate + rather low damage. Also, please keep in mind, that Ive played the KGV stock and during some games, I lacked the ranged to get some more damage. I know, im expecting you to take my word for it on that case, but thats my recent / 21 days in KGV however: Oh yea: and buff DoY please ;) I love that ship but the longer reload compared to KGV isnt fair. Hands off muh waifu ;)

Looks fine on my behalf. Also one question: What If I got the GC specifically to play with a friend, which happens to have a T5 premium aswell? Shall I fail divi with him in the future and bring his Marblehead fighting Bismacks, Clevelands and Kutuzovs?

Yep, thats the big problem this game has, when trying to attract new players. Guess why all our guys in MIA, that started playing after 2017, quit? Because they kept asking about stuff like Kamikaze, Belfast, Kutuzov, Missouri and ofc the GC and everytime the answer was "oh yea, thats OP, but you cant get it anymore". WG is digging their own grave with these P2W-ships (oh yea, I said it, deal with it folks). And they just keep going down that road - Musashi / Kronshtadt anyone? And, quite frankly, moving GC to T6 wont help at all. Only a change in their policy would. But not releasing OP premiums anymore wouldnt fill their pockest so fast. What a dilemma they are in now. Anyway, its too late all of that now. Only thing to balance this, would be to bring all of the premiums back to the shop - balance them properly & offer cash refund to everyone, that isnt happy with that premium ship anymore. But no, we will forever have to deal with Kamikazes and losing new players because they are - rightfully I may add !! - pissed of getting their a$$ handed to them by OP ships, that they cant get anymore.

!!!! Way ahead of you

Yep, I agree - that wasnt very usefull. They should/could have listend to the feedback of him and others with experiance. We would be a couple of steps further by now and people would complain less. But WG didnt listen in the past, didnt do so now and im sure they wont, the next time the community is willing to help with constructive feedback. Now they need to work fast and fix this. Also, I think its much harder to see through the feedback now. The forum is a mess and who is to decide whats valuable feedback, whats whine and who is already trying to protect his new favourite toy? I think you have to decide, especially with the low/mid tier CVs, if you are going for personal damage (and rewards) or if you dedicate yourself to help the team win. Harrassing / spotting DDs is usualy good to win games. But yea, you might end up with ~10k dmg then with these CVs. And ofc XP/credits arent going to be woth mentioning then. Which is actually anothter, long time problem of this game - spotting isnt rewarded the way it should be. (and the game is focused way too much on damage). But I/we wont be convincing WG of that either - one thing of the rework is obvious: its focussed around dealing damage. They removed the tactical aspects and the direct interaction betweens CVs, which gave neither direct Damage. Its a real shame, since this game gets so much more interesting when you focus on teamplay and tactics. But if WG wants to go the fast paced action way - nothing you can do about it, exepct telling them, I disagree and hope, the majority agrees.