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Short fuse works fine, but at the T4 level of Orion the cruisers you're shooting at really have less armour value than damp toilet roll, it's not hard to overpen. Emile has a very trollish armour scheme too with some spaced bits.

I understand your point, but as far as I'm aware secondaries (even manual ones) will only fire on ships you have in visual range. In a cyclone a Kurfurst would certainly have been visible to you if he was in range to physically see you and his secondaries firing. Maybe if you were right at the edge of his visibility range and kiting away he was just barely spotting you so his secondaries were auto firing. Other than that I can't explain it. True the Des Moines can see you with his Radar at 8-9.9km, but I don't think that makes you visible to the other ships and you said he wasn't radaring you.

It may have been marginally true with the Sims at T7 as it has a large XP modifier, but to come first in a DD with the heavy emphasis on damage in the scoring system and very low value for spotting it's a gross exaggeration. Trolling and not even good trolling.

He's trolling, hardly new for that particular poster.

That would be a useful chat enhancement, I'm far from the worlds fastest typist and I've often wanted to warn of spotted torps. @Profilus, I see your point, but there are a lot of positives to the idea (not dumb torps shots obviously).

OK, that's positive and thanks for listening to the large quantity of feedback. Good move.

I struggle to disagree with you more, I'm a DD and cruiser player mostly and I've been 2nd line torped from >5km or had to dodge and got killed as a result far too often.

Please can you confirm? If I fire a salvo of torps and hit someone at 6km and sink them I will no longer go pink? Considering how many ships have long range torpedoes (many of which I play) this seems a bit strange. At the moment people fire inconsiderate second line torpedo salvos and as a DD driver I frequently dodge them if I can, but sometimes it's impossible to get out of the way. As has been discussed any number of times on the forum it is ALWAYS the torpedo firers fault and I've gone pink a few times from my own stupidity, frequently unintentional, but usually plain inconsiderate or poor sportsmanship like play.

Yup a few days ago I saw Skybuck (yes the forum banned one) torp a friendly LoYang who was forward spotting and harassing the enemy effectively he did his best to blame the LoYang for failing to dodge. The whole team disagreed of course and his swearing stopped pretty rapidly, presumably as he got chat banned. The LoYang was some 8-10km away from Skybuck's shima, would this mean that he wouldn't go pink with the new system?

Always welcome, worked, thanks for posting.

I know that syndrome, just been downvoted in a 4 kill, 2 solo cap, top score DD game. Yesterday having come top in a hard fought Hindy game where both sides played well I got 2 downvotes. Neither game was there any nasty chat by anyone. Think it was bitterness from the losing team tbh.

Well I have multiple emblems, but I chose to use the default patch.... Not to give the impression I'm a newbie, but because I don't actually like them much and have them disabled by mod in the client. Emblems and patches aren't any kind of indication, nor is the Ranked number as people can spam their way up. Come to that since we were in the same losing match I'm pretty sure it's not premium time related as between the 3 of us in that division I know we have at least 2 years of premium time remaining and I dread to think how many premium ships between us. - Your theory has some holes in it, gaping Grand Canyon sized ones.

You are aware that many WoWs players are adults, with real lives and university and professional qualifications? Some are military or retired military and not just juvenile trolls like yourself. It's far from impossible that those posting knowledgeably on this thread have been involved in the engineering, firing or potential targets for shells.

I thought he was a new player, but 2,675 battles, can't be. Anyone got the BBaby Bingo card?

Amusing you posted that as I know 3 of the players on the losing team in that shot, all with well over 50% win rates as I'm one of them. Map was Trap and there was a massive, ineffectual lemming train to C, leaving the 3 of us that tried to take B with our arses hung out to dry while people hid behind the islands. Red team pushed into B with full force including BB's while the Green team BB's did nothing, the game was lost in the first few minutes by a combination of camping and cowardice. Not the fault of the matchmaker, just some players using bad tactics. B cap controls the map, camping loses.

That's handy to know, thanks

Sorry to sound harsh, but the above is very much a case of learn to play better. Learn to aim, learn to position and learn to angle. None of which come instantly.

So you're saying that if you're bottom tier or in a battle mode you dislike you break the rules and just quit the battle and leave your team 1 ship down? You may wish to hope fervently that someone hasn't submitted a ticket to support over that or you could be looking at some time banned from the game. @MrConway has posted that people who behave like you've said get "special" treatment. In the near future there will be a variant on the teamkiller status for those displaying such bad sportsmanship.

So you're saying you quit the game until the matchmaker is +/- 1 instead of +/- 2? OK, you may not be playing for a while then if ever.

Result then, glad I could help a bit.

Unlikely that it's lost, if it is then it's a bug. You know that particular captain was renamed John Doe as the deal with the actor in question has been ended? Check your reserves hopefully John Doe will be in there.

There's an issue with that, even though I'd personally like it as I'm sure would everyone irrespective of the ships they're playing. Yueyang and Chung Mu can carry radar, they often don't, but I've seen it. RN Cruisers Edinburgh onwards can carry radar, but often don't, far from unknown though. Chapayev A hull, no Radar New Orleans A hull, no radar (I think, not sure). How do you go about balancing that? I suspect that the MM has no functionality to check on consumables mounted so it's not just a tweak to which ships can go on which sides. Plus of course there's divisions which can have 3 radar capable ships, how does the MM cope with that? There's a max wait time and a load of potential whining if people have to wait to get a balanced MM. Not so trivial really.

About the only scenario with constant coordinated radar usage is in Clan Battles, in randoms the chances of multiple radar ships coordinating their usage in one area are close to nil. Sorry I'm totally unconvinced there's any merit to your idea and I play DD's a lot.

I've survived full hydro durations in DD's...... Not easy, but it's doable. If DD's became Radar immune they would ALSO be Hydro immune as it's incredibly likely it's the same code, there's no reason that the devs would code things twice when they operate the same way.

Yes, upper tier maps lack cover in general, but some have usable places to sit out the radar to gain future immunity, Atlantic and Tears for a start. Your suggestion would likely lead to DD's plain camping until radar immune, I don't see your idea as even remotely usable. PLUS ----- WHAT ABOUT HYDRO? - As I've said twice now I suspect it's the same code that is used for Radar are you suggesting Hydro immunity too? Because it would have a serious impact on all cruisers, which, let's face it, are the hardest hit class in the game, one reason you see so few of them these days.