Aragathor

"Everything is as planned, go screw yourself, here's a pittance of a day premium as compensation." This isn't a mistake they will be able to fix in any way that is fair. They will just try to gaslight us and say how sorry they are. But again and again we see how unable they are to even setup a simple calendar entry, something a child attending school could do. I could say more but I don't want to get banned.

I'm disappointed they call this a PanEU line, when it's overwhelmingly Swedish. They could have gone for a nice selection of ships from several nations instead. Oh whale, they were probably too busy researching napkin Russian designs to bother with putting in any research work into PanEU.

To make money and generate profit you have to convince people to buy. Last week more people played the Oct Revolution than Poltava. Source.

I agree and would add more. It seems to me like WG just stopped caring about balance, they can't be bothered to properly fix ships before and after release. We have to bug them for years to get things done. Look at the Poltava. It could have been a good solid T7 BB, not OP but interesting, due to the high velocity low caliber guns. WG blew it by making it an inaccurate shotgun. Based on the stats and reviews, DoY is much better. WG doesn't care, they release it and call it good.

I'd like to try the duck, and participate in the lottery. I'm also throwing in one HMS Dreadnought to the pot.

Yes and no. It's great if you like IJN DDs. It's also a historical ship. But it's completely helpless against CVs. In my opinion, you should split the campaign task slots between two campaigns unless you really want to hurry up.

Save for the lack of TBs the Indomitable doesn't look that bad:

That's an awesome thing to do. Per year this should bring 36 slots for every regular player. This is quite generous. Much appreciated @Crysantos @MrConway.

Same for me, I'm willing to take money in hand for things I enjoy. While I have lost all respect for the devs and think they should all be fired, I still love the game and my clan mates, so I don't have any problems opening my wallet. And I love historical ships.

How is your experience with the drop rate of duplicates from the boxes? I have already opened 5 standard boxes and got 3 duplicates right off the bat. Of the same item. So I'm not optimistic.

Solid four figures.

Bought 1x box for 250 dubs, 1x for 1250 dubs, 2x for 4,1€. Got Sims B, 2500 dubs, 14 days of premium. Not bad.

Yahagi is a horrible and under powered boat:

After playing every single one of them, I can say the ships are mostly garbage and a detriment to the team compared to other lines. They don't even have the excuse of the German CAs of being jacks of all trades.

Don't forget that the T10s now don't give any steel, instead they will be Christmas boxes. Most likely the cheapest possible ones. And let's remember that besides a cr@p chance to drop a premium ship, last year they only dropped very low rewards: 300 doubloons 10,000 Free XP 2,500 Coal 2x Type 59 camo 4x New Year Streamer camo 50x Zulu signals 50x Zulu Hotel signals 50x Equal Speed Charlie London signals 50x Papa Papa signals Unless WG creates a special T10 box, the rewards for T10s will be a joke, as most people will get economy flags.

They won't, they don't care about the quality of the game or how mechanics can be abused. I think this is the best idea. Doesn't punish the player, doesn't allow him to game the system.

I don't think that border surfing is an issue in randoms, however in game modes with smaller teams it can be used to game the system for an unfair advantage. I have seen enough scumbags specialists who hit the border in CBs to juke shots. There is no reason for such behavior to go unpunished.

I noticed that the ship models often have strange wavy lines on their deck, which disappear when zooming out or moving the camera. They look like this: The lines can be seen near the first secondary turret. I have no idea how to get rid of them or what causes their appearance. Anyone can help?

This is the new SOP. Test the ship, make small changes, put into test again, then pull the ship out of testing without implementing any changes, stealth release a ship that is effectively not complete. See: -Yahagi -VU

The thing is, last two years Christmas boxes excluded recent (~3 month) premiums.

it looks like WG is hellbent on pushing out badly tested designs, just to make a little bit of money. Luckily it won't be my money.

You forgot to add:

It doesn't bring in any money, so it's low priority.

Yes.