Aragathor

I think you missed the point of the campaign. The finishing reward is quite average being only 7 days premium time. The true rewards are the rewards for single missions. These allow new players to stock up on consumables of all kind. If you are looking for big rewards look at Honorable Service and Yamamoto campaigns, one gives you a premium DD and the other a unique captain.

Just met @iEarlGreyin ranked, didn't notice him at first. Thanked him for convincing me to buy the Gallant.

I unlocked my collection by playing 1 coop battle in the HSF Graf Spee.

I find the lack of ducks among the insignia, disturbing.

I like them, but I used a mod to make them look like this. In my opinion they should give us a choice between standard ribbons and these.

Aaand just like that my wallet closed itself. I'm not paying 4k for a camo, no matter how much I want it. 15€ is just too much for a camo that offers average bonuses.

Yeah, the quirky ships like Atlanta get removed and what's left are expensive TVIII ships. Of course, I never stated that this was a smart decision. This is SerB Real name Sergey Burkatovskiy, VP of Game Design at WG.

And which of those ships have you seen on the first page of this thread? In the first post with the list of premium ships that will be available for sale after 0.7.1. Zero reading comprehension...

I'm not even mad, that's awesome! Considered buying it for S&G.

Pretty ok game in the Scharnhorst. The only thing that pissed me off was a KGV that kept setting me on fire. Also Adrenaline Rush on the Shinyhorse is ludicrously good, 16s reload FTW.

I also forgot to mention a benefit of having the ships available in the tech tree. The dreaded impulse purchase. Completely unplanned and spontaneous, these happen when people want to treat themselves to something nice. And these will mostly go the way of the Dodo after the change, as the offer is meager and limited. So WG can forget about the guy who always wanted a Scharnhorst and just noticed that he saved a bit extra this month. If he can't get what he wants he can always go elsewhere, and since the tech tree will look pretty barren soon, he will also be disinclined to invest in doubloons to catch a sale.

This is a very valid market strategy. But there are problems with it, that might cost WG more money than it will bring in. The greatest benefit for them is an increased interest and pressure connected with a short sales window. A good ship available only during one weekend in a year may sell well. Plus they can offer the ships as expensive bloated bundles. However this is counterbalanced by the fact that some people may miss the sale, don't have the money at the moment, or not be interested at that particular moment. And in the case of bundles it may go over the price that people are willing to pay for a particular ship. This is the greatest risk, if the ships are sold in bundles, but don't sell well, WG will have a bad quarterly report. And that's always bad. From what it looks like WG decided to keep expensive ships in shop, while removing or the quirky and inexpensive ones. Almost every line save USN cruisers has a captain trainer, albeit many of them are high tier. The removal of TIV- ships baffles me, it almost look like they will be offered in bundles. This will of course limit sales to people interested in all bundled ship, and keep the people wanting to buy one ship away. This is risky as it may end up garnering WG a net minus compared to the previous year.

Well premium ships are already behind a paywall. What WG is doing reminds me of a classic Monthy Python sketch:

I must disagree. I have several clanmates that had asked about getting some help in mastering the game. Telling them to install a mod to train is counterproductive, as not everyone wants to install mods. And then there's my own problem with the mod, it never worked correctly on my machine. I tried it several times and gave up.

So? Do you really believe that people are just swimming in cash come Christmas? That's naive, especially since a lot of players have families and these tend to suck up fun money this time of the year (in January it's the time of the insurance companies to suck on your wallet). Giving new players no access to mid tier premiums, while having top tier premiums in shop, is a recipe for wallet warriors to fail. Because having no option to buy a decent mid-tier captain trainer is a fatal flaw in the genius WG plan. Unless they plan to scare people away from the game. And lastly let me get on the box against the removal of TIV and lower premiums. That makes no sense. Those ships are mostly there because of a fun history and just like their tiers, they weren't competitive. But now WG gives them an axe, because earning cash is so 2017.

Agreed. The problem is WG devs have certain ideas about the training room that just don't mesh with what we want. I have hoped to improve my gameplay with this mode, but passive bots are just useless for that.

There's a reason why De Grasse is greener... La Gal is a weak ship, it's not bad per se, it's just that it performs worse compared with the preceding and succeeding ships. The Emile Bertin is fast, has troll armor, and has more torps. Algerie has better guns and range. What's worse the De Grasse just outperforms the La Gal in all the categories that count. I have managed to make the La Gal work, but I would never keep her in port.

No, no, no. That would require work. WG knows better than that. Instead they will use what the Germans call Torschlusspanik, the fear that you will miss out because of time running away. They will put up a premium that was long gone from sales, say Warspite, as an overpriced bundle and state that the ship is for sale for only 24h. This creates pressure on people who might not have the money but want the ship. WG is just using psychology to put a proverbial gun to the head of the players. And a lot of people who might have bought the ship if they had time, will be forced to choose between spending money or missing out for a long time. This will of course generate 0% good will from the player base, as such underhanded tricks are pretty transparent. But WG doesn't care. Nah. Instead they will put the Saipan for sale as a super rare one time only 100€ bundle that will contain the ship and some flags and half a day of premium.

It's called Russian marketing - "We're going to increase sales numbers by removing products from sale." WG's reaction:

I think this hits the spot. Instead of offering just the ships + port slot WG will turn towards making bloated bundles which will offer a lot trashy filler to justify an overblown price tag. I am very happy that I've spent some serious coin on the Christmas boxes. Now I don't really care about these changes. By doing this WG just hurts new players, who instead of having access to good captain trainers, will be left with a choice of buying a TVIII ship or not buying anything. And let me tell you removing ships like the Indianapolis or Warspite is just a disservice to the player base.

You can also play Operations, they have a better fXP payout than standard games. Especially good with premium ships, premium time, and signals.

I have seen many variants they tested after they pulled that ship from sales, but the one in my game (2/0/3) had almost no impact. And it is a test version. Just look here - https://www.facebook.com/wowsgraf/

Just had a guy in a Graf Zeppelin on my team, he made some lame excuses about hitting the enemy planes, but did minimal damage with his bombers. We lost. Test ships should be prohibited from entering ranked. The stacked MM is also true, every guy on the other team was higher ranked than us. Started to lose interest in ranked because of that.

I will wait and see whether the new version is bad. I know one thing, the new version looks better than the old one. Reminds me of the Big Race map.

The recent Flamu vid (link below) says different, in that the Musashi earns about the same as other premiums. In fact WG didn't confirm the extra earnings multiplier when Flamu asked about it. And he himself said that he will need to do a lot of testing to see whether the ship earns extra silver.