ForlornSailor

But honestly: so what? you *might* thus get a steel ship somewhat later but what if you would get it faster? Then you would want to play that, right? so you would need to play even more? Else you would have just been grinding a mode you dont like just to get the steel and just to get a ship with that, that stays in port. Is that what you are saying? Just ignore it. And same here. If its too much for you, then you are forcing yourself on the wrong level. Let the hardcore players put in 6 to 7 days a week if they enjoy it. If it would be too much and everyone would see it this way, those competitions would die down. Which they dont, atleast at this point. So check your own pace, check how much are you willing to put in the game and stick to that. Its obviously too much for you right now so take a step back. If the clan demands you to, well, it might not be for you then?

How about - just dont play that much? You dont need to participate in everything you know. Neither do you have to play each clanbattle evening for the full duration. Just saying, the choice is yours.

Cant tell if those are serious questions but ill provide something anyway...

50% CV - someone in WG office was lighting up a cigarr when that happened.

Trying to find the time to get Rank 1 - sticking to Z-46 seems a good choice. I was holding up 2 BBs + enemy Jutland at that small island you see in the back of the endscreen. Before the island, Georgia pushed close to the Jutland into me. I smoked up and killed the Jutland with hydro, then pretend to run with my smoke fading. Georgia was 4 km away from me going full speed towards me. So im thinking: alright mate, lets play. I turn around and steam towards him. He didn expect that, it was obvious from his reaction. So I go behind the island and he stops there aswell. He is 1,7 km away, so we proxy spot each other. He is working with the speed, changing between 1/4 and stop, to slowly crawl around the island and make me waste my torps. Which I dont do. I play aswell with my speed, going back and forth and keep shooting the tip of his bow. After he lost half his ship with this game, he decides, its better to reverse XD. Meanwhile, the points are ticking in our favour, since we have 2 caps so im more then happy to sit there. Enemy Hizen joins the party and wants to be smart. He comes in in the shadow of the island and picks the other side around the island. Well, I ofc have my torps ready - dev strike, which lifts us above 1000 points.

- Are you talking to me or did you just want to gave a nice example on "whats whataboutism"? - The person in question doesnt have a clan, nice try coming up with excuses tho. Neither would it help. - EU playerbase is competetive? Give me a rest. Neither am I sure what it has to do with a suciding, useless player, that doesnt even manage to deal 2000 damage per game. Clearly he is very "competetive"?

So do you also enter their credit card number for them, when they have to buy credits to keep on paying the ingame maintenance fee for the Midway? And the premium account? Because there is no way to make a profit and keep playing after 484 games with 1k avg damage. your credit income is way in the negative. If you are resposinble for these persons and let this happen, you are, in my eyes, acting negligent and subject to a criminal charge for wasting their money / failing your job as a supervisor. There have been cases and convictions like that you know? Not about wows in specific but for things, that could be seen equally.

What? Just one example: German DDs. TBH even bothering every few months with new skills and especially respeccing is F************** ANNOYING. Cut this crp! Make a decent rework if you think its needed but now I read like "oh we will continously adjust captain skills". nice strategy to annoy and confuse players. But thats what they like to do all the time so why am I surprised. Lure the players into making mistakes --> spend money to fix them. great business.

Yup, me for example. And that aswell - its already enought to warrant a captain respec for DDs.

Replay.

Here is the funny thing: thanks to the law of mathematics, we should see a rise in Winrate of the potato-hords soon. Also the damage. Even if everyone is stupid, 50% of the players win and someone WILL deal the damage, right? So the statistics will correct itself and mmm wont look as bad anymore. Gameplay itself will still be abysmal ofc, but hey - cant have everything, right? Name us ONE game in the history of mankind, where the goal of playing is NOT winning. The very first game, invented by humans, the Royal Game of Ur, was two players facing each other and playing out the winner. One would call it "PvP" these days. There is no game, where people sit around for 2 hours and then just go along without any decision. And yes, in every game, winning IS fun. Its coded in human nature.

I once got a 1000 PR when I hunted, ambushed and manage to perma-proxy spot 3 DDs over the game with Takao, because my team had lost all 3 DDs in the first minutes. I had no option but to focus on capping and countering the DDs, could never fire at other ships and farm BBs. We won the game but apperently I suck... Anyway bottomline is this: Many people will dismiss and/or use stats at the same time to somehow shoehorn the narrative into "im actually the greatest player in the world and im for sure better then YOU are, it just doesnt show in the stats beeecaaaaause..." We kinda see this in the OP already. Here is the thing: there is no list of players sorted by skill, where you can look up yourself. And its silly, because its based on randoms and randoms are just that. You want to show the world how good of a player you are? play clanwars, KotS, stuff like that and if you can hold your own against the known top clans, who have proven to be awesome by winning mentioned competitions, then chances are, you are a really good player. Everything else is just blabla, and that goes for each and everyone of the "oh, you have to look at XXXX, THATS they real meassurement".

Hey! No objectivity and facts, ok? This is a rant-topic after all, have some respect! Now on topic: if you follow Flambass for a while - every cruiser in "completly OP" in his book. It has lost all meaning. Aswell as constantly claiming that cruisers are OP, i mean come on. Cruisers of all things. He lacks the concept and relation between time and damage. When he plays Stalingrad he goes like "OMG OMG DID YOU SEE THAT? 12k ON THAT POOR BATTLESHIP THATS SO OP". Igoring the long reload. Then he plays a ship with fast reload and the perspecive turns - all of a sudden small chunks of damage are "completly OP", when they are dealt in a small time frame. Now you go on and actually calculate the dpm and what will you see? oh, it evens out... ... and at the same time, instant click 40k damage with a BB is ofc ok because reason. That beeing said: the concept of ships like Austin is questionable. SAP is questionable and the reload booster consumable is aswell. Its already crazy what you can do with Henri when you reload boost at the right moment. Now such a CL with SAP reload boost - obviously we needed more stuff that kills DDs, right? And thats one thing, that got me scratching my head. Pretty much every change over the past 3+ years was lowering the impact of teamplay. Introduction of Smoke firing penalty or making CV-AA-divisions useless, just to name the two most obvious that came to my mind. And now they introduce a ship, which just screams to be paired with a Gearing for example?

Sadly doesnt exist. With some add-ons in the browser you can auto-translate it. Ok, fun is one thing, maybe I should have worded it different, as in "which has more impact towards winning the game". At the end of the day, you will have to decide whats more important for yourself. You can push your playstyle towards winning more games or you focus completly on farming damage. The definition of a "good player" also depends on many other things, especially decison making. Can you read the game? do you know, what you need to do in a certain situation? Those things often dont reflect in the stats or if they do, they improve the WR. And thats why some guys take WR as the key-meassurement for player skill.

You can dig deep into the development on proships.ru, like you can filter the results of a specific timeframe, say games from only 2021: https://proships.ru/stat/eu/p/540427929-ForlornSailor/all/h/2021-01-05~2021-03-17/ I mostly use it for myself but can be used ofc to evalute any player, if you really want to go the extra mile ^^

Just to show, how little weight behind damage is, ill ask you a few questions: What do you think, is worth more? 20k damage on DDs or 25k damage on Battleships? What do you think, is worth more, when playing Thunderer? 80k fire and HE damage on Battleships or 50k AP damage to citadels of radar cruisers?

How could he? Unless for some reason you are sending him your adress and other personal information. I mean overall... just dont take it serious. Reminds me, that I still have to attend a 1x1 manly, bare-knuckle fight in some polish village, to which I got challenged once. But my opponent couldnt decide, if we shall meet right side or left side of the potato-field so I didnt knew where to go But yea, people overreact when they are angry + its the internet. Easy to feel like a tough guy when you can just type anything you want. And that also says a lot about the seriousness of those threats. If he gets a chat ban for 2 weeks, thats enough.

Ranked carry with the Z-46. Damage doesnt seem that impressive but one move I should have never ever survived.. I was forced to do it, because the enemy Riga, Jutland and Akizuki held the 2nd cap and the reds were headding for a point win. I actually didnt thought the Riga has moved into the cap and had gun angles on me... I had the Jutland in my hydro and moved parallel to him with the island inbetween. Once I came around and he had LoS on me - I saw the Riga aswell. So there I am, 4km away from 18k Akizuki, 11k Jutland and 20k Riga. I thought my Alaska supports me but he ran behind an island. I keep my guns on the Jutland, because he is the lowest target, throw the torps in Riga, predciting him turning to use all guns and turn my ship into kiting position. I win the gunbattle with Jutland, since I have full health and the Riga turns in my torps as hoped. So its me with 8k health vs 18k Akizuki. I dont know how but I survive - with 470 Health.

well, then that is you. Doesnt make them OP. I hate strawberry-icecream. So strawberry-icecream is crap and should be banned aye?

Yo, First of April was yesterday, you are late!

Back in the day, many people warned, that the game will suffer, if cruisers will be extinct. Ofc hardly anyone took them serious because why would cruisers be extinct? The warning signs have been there for a long time. I had several ranked games yesterday with 3 BB + 4 DD. they were all horrible roflstomps one way or the other. Conclusions is, the people from back then were absolutly right. Prolly more right than they thought they would be.

On the other hand: this can be seen as a threat to BBs / buff for DDs, so it might actually get priority. As someone, who plays mostly DDs, im kinda leaning towards: why should I report something, that gives me a benefit? Especially since the customer service doesnt really seem to care? But lets make a deal: Ill send in the proof, once I see a CV detonating &burning for 60 sec aswell and finally get my first liquidator achievement since 2018. Deal? Deal.

implying, that they are able of thinking.

Let me add to this: by avoiding the things you mentioned, you are already a 60% WR CV player. And thats without any form of skill yet shown :)

Same goes for the Udaloi vs. Tashkent. In this meta, you build Udaloi for range and just gunboat as often as possible. But on top, you have smoke, better concealment (although still high) and better torps. Just much more versatile. But Kiev is fun tho. My advice for OP is, get both Kiev and Ognevoi. Dont let the gameplay of Ognevoi distract you from Udaloi and Grozovoi, its very much different. So go for Grozovoi but dont miss out on the dakka fun of Kiev (if thats your thing).