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You DID do it, you built the ship in a an unworkable bizarre way, leading to 16km spotting range, that led to your immediate death while harming the games of your 11 teammates, by any reasonable definition that's wilful Unsporting Conduct. You admitted you've played it in that state at least twice that led to Disciplinary warnings. But since you're not bothering to refute the point that's been made so many times, I'll assume you know that. Report away, it's our analysis of what you've admitted to, that's not "slander" (fun you using the legal term in a threatening way) it's simply pointing out you've behaved irrationally and are continuing to do so.

Late loading being out (not that I ever mentioned it). The reason the system detected you as AFK is the complete lack of contribution to the game caused by your own decision to run an unsuitable build on a fragile ship that led you to being instantly deleted, not once, but twice.

That's grim reading

Rubbish, sorry that's complete and total bollards. He displayed that he's trying to make a completely unsuitable build work on a ship that's unable to effectively play the way he wants to play and because he's got no stealth at all he's got deleted so early that the contribution registers as the same as being AFK. That's not a flaw in the system, but in his approach. It's not a missplay screwup, we all do those, it's a bad choice of setup that leads to him getting easily deleted, far easier than with a reasonable setup. 16km detection range on what is a light cruiser is just poor choices. The only "pack" is the fact everyone thinks he's made, at best, idiotic decisions and now he wants to blame the system for punishing his idiocy.

It's not a flaw in the system, its a flaw in your approach to playing that ship leading to you getting deleted with no battle contribution so fast that the system treated you as AFK. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Oh and it matters in a team game where one ship pointlessly suiciding can lose the game for the 11 other players.

But your contribution to the game and the team far more importantly, was so lousy that the game considered you AFK and worthy of treating as such, that's the direct result of YOUR choices. So you play on one account and post on another? Nice, you can make any claims you want if you decide to wave your stats at people. I don't make stats claims as mine are (and will remain) hidden.

Try reading your own thread. Using double rudder, no concealment and trying to kite in a large cruiser, which isn't particularly fast or agile with a big citadel and armour that can be overmatched is suicidal, as you've proven in your first post. If nothing else apart from pure luck picking up some flanking DD your radar won't be useful to you or the team and you won't have a clue when to use it as you will be permanently spotted and blapped. The REASON the game registered you as AFK is your choice to be spottable from orbit and getting instasunk, not once, but TWICE in what is a fairly flimsy cruiser. It can't be played like the Zao, it has neither the armour or small citadel, it can't kite like the Khaba as it has a citadel, is slow, large and not that nimble. What you want to do in it isn't what it's even vaguely good at which is longish range bombardment and blowing the hell out of DD's you radar, all the time while being as sneaky as you can. IFHE is good on Donskoi, but not at the cost of Concealment.

Yet you get spotted from 16km and deleted so that devious plan of yours is proven to be ineffective in your first post. To the extreme that the game engine thinks you're AFK. Double rudder and kite works for Khaba which is fast, small and has no citadel, none of which apply to Donskoi.

Yes. Donskoi is a bit fragile, being fairly stealthy is necessary. Moskva handles like a beached whale no matter what you do. They both have easy to hit citadels.

Odds are you set the ally on fire with your "1 shell". Apart from that I can think of no reason you would go pink for a single artillery hit.

Deserved everything you got plus a lot more, learn how to play and an IMPORTANT part of that is to take a prepared ship into battle. There is no excuse for having 16km detection range on a Donskoi, you're just actively knobbling your teams and they don't deserve to have a teammate that wilfully incompetent.

Hell no, with extra dollops of no thrown in, this is a T9 cruiser we're talking about, not Khaba. @Yogibjoern frankly you deserve the pink for Unsporting Conduct taking a ship out in that shape.

Donskoi without Concealment System, no Camo or Concealment expert has 16km detectability (just checked) so it's visible from pretty much anywhere on any of the smaller maps. To say that playing it in any Random game in that condition is unfair to the team is an understatement, it's downright negligent. Let's face it if anyone with guns loaded saw that we'd all fire immediately, it's entirely his own fault. @Yogibjoern, own goal of massive proportions, no sympathy if you're playing even mid tier ships in that condition and far less playing high tier ones. There's no excuse taking a T8+ cruiser out without concealment system upgrade and the basically free (25k silver is essentially free) for the Type5 camouflage. Playing a T9 ship without Concealment Expert on your captain is again unforgivable. How can you not have learned these basics by Tier 9? The mind boggles.

That was my experience, I rather enjoyed the ship. Apply the lessons learned from Kirov, Budyonny, Shchors about angling effectively against incoming fire and be a bit cautious early on and it's a very effective cruiser. Obviously you don't set to sea in a T9 stock ship, the first hull upgrade gives and extra 3.2k HP, the range module helps, but the stock 16km range is workable. It's entirely true that getting deleted by T10 BB's is a reality, but it's true of all cruisers if you're not careful with your positioning and map awareness. Of course, Concealment Expert, Concealment System upgrade and at least a basic camo mounted is obligatory, downright daft not to have those and expect to play in a T9 ship, not fair to the team.

I take it you had him do this in a match? Pretty poor sportsmanship, you can always submit the replay to support...

I didn't mind the Hipper either, I played it way before the recent buffs, the ships after it are great in their tiers, but it was dull. If Prinz had got the same reload tweak as the Hipper or even a good bit of it it would be fine, it just stands out as very meh rather than fun due to the sub standard rate of fire.

Even with a heal it's pretty underwhelming, sure it has endurance compared to before, but it's still got a bad reload time and relatively lousy damage potential.

You have a point, although it applies to all classes of ships . More noticeable in CV's and 7v7 of course.

Why does it matter you don't like them? Some people do, some people find they add a bit of flavour. Anyway you've claimed and moaned repeatedly that you don't play so really, why would you care ?

Not forgetting that short of hitting escape if you see a CV in the queue (if you get time for that, sometimes it's instant you get a game) it's impossible to predict if you need Hydro or DefAA. Additionally by the nature of the random teams, counting on meaningful teamplay and AA defence is laughable, far too many play in a "save a star" mode rather than for a win so selfish play is routine rather than an exception.

Just as an aside the name is a bit close to that of a mass murdering doctor in the UK who killed off many elderly patients having got them to include him in their wills. Harold Shipman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman

I disagree, a Cruiser, DD or BB screwing up (intentionally or incompetence, makes no difference) can be recovered, A CV with the large presence on the battlefield it brings being intentionally crap or utterly bad is more than likely going to lead to a loss. With the relatively low number of CV's in the game it's quite possible to deliberately manipulate who you're very likely to meet if collusion is going on. The huge influence of CV's in 7v7 is not just something you can brush aside especially if the driver goes out of his way to be useless.

So surely in Ranked 7v7 their influence is overwhelming if a good player vs a lousy one.

With a map mod or without? I can't say I've encountered the issue myself.

^^^^^ Ignore what this guy just said. Raise a support ticket, using the reporting rule breaking option, type the player name and a short explanation and attach the replay, they've said they are cracking down on this sort of stuff, you however won't be told what action, if any, they take.