ForlornSailor

You asked me for a reason why such a mechanic would make money for WG. I simply answered this question. You however didnt answer my question: What would be the reason, to create such mechanics?

duuude, this is bad. my condolences. you playing alone? Ill throw you a "pity-division" if you need one, maybe it´ll turn the luck.

Protect the bad/news players? Someone who played 2 weeks and 100 games and got constantly stomped on, has it easy to quit the game. Without ever investing anything or only very little. When you artifically protect him for, say 1000~1500 games with some hidden buffs, he feels better. He will throw some money out. Once he is invested, its harder to quit. We can discuss a lot about the patent and I will not claim that it actually is in the game - but this side of the coin, you cant deny. After all, the patent was invented for a reason, right? What do you think was the intention behind making such a patent then, where some players will have different matchmaking? How do you explain the idea behind such a mechanic? Just for fun and giggles? Such patents are there to a) smoothen the gaming experiance and b) make more profit. Else you would go and invest time in the first place.

You think you can put and 3 dudes together and they magically turn into superunicums? take 3 individuals with 39% WR each. You know what happens? theyll get ~20% WR out of it. Does it count as "padding"? Adding to that: from a business point of view, it does make sense, to use the mechanics described in the patent. Now the point is: If we suspect this then what are we going to do about it? Here is the answer: nothing. If anyone is really that annoyed by it and can not get it out of his head and feels constantly betrayed by the game - then the sensible solution would be, to stop playing.

NO

My Dockyard. Apperently, Im building Seattle. Or, did already, since she is afloat & fully fitted. Thx WG?

You clearly never shot at my Minotaur then...

And now on a more serious note: this. For a long time, ive used my stats to find out, what im good at and where I have room for improvements. When I look at my stats, I make it all about me. And then you read stuff like OP and what a few other guys threw in between. Thats just the only advice in place here. Stop blaming external factors for your stats. Accept the current situation and try to find ways to improve your performance, if you are unhappy.

Imagine, how many Systems we have crashed at WG by playing together in a division? How could the matchmaker possibly push through with two completly opposite rigging mechanics. Now that I think of it: those server outages are most likely our fault. The Server just imploded because he didnt found a solution.

And the funny thing is: even if nobody would collect any data about winrate, damage etc - he still would have the same winrate, average damage etc. It really messes with my mind, how some people think, that statistics start to exist the moment someone actually writes them down. Its round the other way. Statistical data always exist. If it wouldnt be there, nobody could write them down. But since it obviously is, we have stat pages. And indeed it must be some kind of "look at me, im such a good player" syndrome, because there are easy ways to look at your last 3 months, last 100 games, games played during full moon or what ever floats your boat. so for yourself, you can cherrypick and pretend to be awesome. But thats obviously not the source of his problem... he wants others to see, how awesome he is...

I disagree. Pretty much everyone else disagrees. Your argumentation is really tiresome. Do you even understand, that no matter how you shoehorn the displayed stats they still remain the same as they are? When you lost 6000 out of 10000 battles you still have a 40 % WR - wheater you look at the stat, force every statistic page to stop gathering and displaying data, only look at your winrate of the last 5 mins or gouge your eyes out. You still have lost 6000 times and still have a 40 % WR. And what kind of complex do you actually have, that you feel the need to try and display yourself in a way better then you are to other players? You think, other cant improve? Your weird argument about the 15.000 battles and then a recent wr of 64%, while the acount still says 44%? You think thats exclusive to you (its not even true. singling out your 2020 results you aint what you claim)? But anyway, you look at other ppl WR and think they cant claim the same? Get a grip.

What @Hanse77SWE wrote tho and linked with those topics, is how it was offically explained to us. 24 hour bans are automatic - they also kick in at the moment you get reported. I can attest to that since it once happened to me. Also I can attest, that a 3 day ban starts at a time, where I havent even been logged in and wasnt for quite a while. So it must have been a manual ban. However: I can also confirm to you, that raging via private messages is handled exactly like typing in the chat during a round. All that has to happen, is, that the guy you are insulting, klicks the "report abuse in private chat" button. So we have the explanation for your ban. Also: they will increase the time of those bans. they can stretch out up to over a month (who knows if not even longer). Since I like to talk with people, I concluded at one point, that its not worth it to throw around insults, and I stopped ^^. Never been chat banned after and I write a lot - every game.

If you want to do that, then you need to play according to it. Which means: constantly moving. Now, everyone plays the ships a litte different, so you need to ask yourself: are you really moving all the time with a ship like Ägir? If you are and you feel, that it helps you dodging, then why not if it works for you? btw: what kind of improvement in seconds are we talking about? that also kinda makes a difference. I havent checked. If you indeed use double rudder then it might be in place to use MBM2 aswell. It again depends: can you keep the guns on the target while turning? Also, EM as cpt skill is the first choice to improve turret traverse.

I learned it too just a few minutes ago. I dont think there is another word, that fits the description of Helmut (besides the obvious one ^^) and I had to browse the dictionary to find it. xD

I wanna solve the puzzle! MONOPTERON ! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/monopteron

No its not, because you dont understand how favourable for a DD it is, that radar goes through islands.

I guess so - like the old / new Cleveland.

Then its prolly connected to both of them

I suspect it might be connected to Moskva... people, that did not have Moskva, are still displayed. Needs some investigation to check this speculation.

Someone, who likes this games and loves to play it would say: I GAINED something because now I have a reason to play Donskoi again and grind 240x XP on her. The reason, why you see it like this, is obviously, that you dont like the game and concider playing it some kind of chore.

Indeed. I can go back to play "little Henri" without beeing molested by Venezia *warm fuzz*

Thats exactly my thought - T9 offers a lot of flexibility for the line ups. There can be so many things that work. Cruiser, I agree, would be dominated by Alaska - but then again, maybe not so much. You might be able to counter it with a heavy smoke / HE spam setup... Some Kitakazes / Seattles / Donskois / Rigas or maybe even Saint Louis would eat up a stationary Alaska in no time, as long as you can keep her spotted.

Once again, Smolensk has radar. Damn. Its been claimed so often now in the forums, I really have to find that zecret zlot where you can mount radar. So that the DD has a way to play around the radar. Not that you would understand how tho... Because the CV player in questions is, well, uber bad.

After waiting forever and not been able to ESC out of the loading screen, I rolled both my hands back and forth over the keyboard - Dockyard opened right away. Im not even kidding.

Add a vote @evergroy_lows ^^