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The reasonable explanation is that people hide their stats, with a relatively tiny population of upper tier CV players this is likely to have an effect on the numbers seen off the stats site. In fact it's the only logical way to explain the disparity as the numbers should be at or very near to 50% for each CV type (assuming they're adequately balanced). In fact this type of discussion shows up part of the issue with people who are stats obsessed and who like to stat shame as a way to insult someone as it shows that the stats have limited value. As an example in a DD I can chose to play many ways, but the main ones are focusing on playing objectives or ignoring them and farming damage (over simplified I know). Damage farming/kill stealing skews the kills ratio, but can lead to hopeless losses, where as spotting and capping scores poorly on damage, but often wins games.

Some interesting points in this thread and like most my experience at T8 is that I'm bottom tier far more than middle or top. As people have said it's not just the statistics, but the way they're presented that allows people to manipulate "facts" to suit their own agenda, the 55% T8 top tier world wide may well be absolutely true, but it's far from true on EU. Nice to see that the mid 30% number has come out for EU. I've just played 5 games in a row in Z46 (T9) and each one had mostly T10's and a few T8's, mostly cruisers who got rapidly obliterated by the T10 BB's. T8 ships don't need buffing (as that argument would be an endless requirement downwards) other than Hipper/Eugen rate of fire, they need to have a more favourable MM that doesn't put them against T10 ships most of the time.

I think it's unlikely (possible, but I seriously doubt it) that a discounted conversion will happen before Missouri goes. They can get more money from the people who really "must" have the Missouri.

Entertainingly silly ship that, effective if played well

Same here, same ships from the mission containers and a hell of a lot of collection duplicates. No containers bought from the shop.

@Estaca_de_Bares and @ToxicPig in a win, got roflstomped somewhat in my Ognevoi when double radared, but the enemy team collapsed drastically.

I've never seen a notification when downvoted, but do see one if complemented. Only way to know is to check the Karma numbers.

Had a match on Ocean twice yesterday, once in Baltimore once in Kutuzov, deleted from full health by a single salvo from an un-spotted Montana in the Kutuzov game while the friendly BB's camped the A line. The Neighbours map does appear an awful lot at T5-8 games, you would think that people would learn how to play it.

With all the duplicates from mission boxes including no less than 7 dupes of the Flying Boat Loire 130 I won't be completing it either. While I'd like to complete the collection I won't buy containers from the shop to get it finished, after all the French commander is an entirely mythical non person with no historical significance.

I happen to agree as I went pink once when a BB pushed into my Kutuzov smoke while I was spamming HE at a target, of course he caught fire with a shell clipping his mast and I ended up on 1/3rd HP while the fire burned. That said all the other times I've been pink are me firing torps a bit carelessly and I take full responsibility for those.

Perfectly reasonable and I agree it would be a very good change. It would prevent an intentional TK artist from being a complete pain to their teammates.

Not forgetting some people have no freeXP to "fine" to pay to the poor sap that got hit. The Teamkill system is OK (ish) people should take more care how they fire torpedoes and that's what the system is there to encourage.

There's really no such thing as an "accident" when torpedoes are involved, just carelessness. Every time I've gone pink it's been me aiming carelessly or not paying attention to where allies are. There is no argument to be made. This is NOT a bug, you went pink because of the TK rules which are quite reasonable, learn the lesson and move on.

So you hit a friendly with a torpedo and got him flooding to the point that you did enough damage to go pink. This is a classic case of do NOT fire torpedoes where you can hit friendly ships. Just as possible to do in a CV as in any other torpedo armed ship, admittedly less likely as air dropped torpedoes are shorter range than most. Learn the lesson that going pink is intended to teach, take more care where you shoot.

So a bad Z23 (which is a fairly uninspiring DD to start) with lousy torpedoes and indifferent guns. No thanks, won't be buying it even though I really want a premium German DD. I appreciate the review @Strefs, very useful.

Sorry, but clandestine support for either side, both sides in fact if you take the iron, steel and other supplies sold to the German regime, is not going to war. The nation was officially neutral and in the Naval sense it most definitely didn't go to war. While I understand national pride, trying to claim Sweden was anything other than neutral is rather daft, it's a matter of history.

Now you're just trolling, I simply pointed out your few hundred is not a significant test. Try harder, I didn't need to do any workings to make the statement your "test" doesn't prove anything.

Alternatively don't get chat banned

That's fine, they've at least acknowledged there's a fault and it will be fixed.

There are also a few who think the idea of a nation that remained firmly neutral in both WW1 and 2 really can't expect to be represented in this game. I'm not Dutch, but the concept that the Swedes would get a line before the Dutch who did actively go to war is as absurd as the Pan Asia line.

Sorry @Capra76, just because it looks like it from a few hundred, it could easily be a fluke, you could have had no fires and concluded it was broken your sample size is far too small. The term statistically significant is important (that's why it's used in formal mathematics and science papers) and it's the only way to establish the facts other than a statement from the developers.

As pointed out testing it with a statistically significant number of shots would be exceptionally tedious. At least 10k shots and on targets not on fire or damage saturated. Basically we can't know for sure without a clear statement from the developers if it's a bug in display or the effect of IFHE being broken on the ship.

Detonations aren't fun. 5 in a row is really miserable.

Had a game about a week ago with an Iowa who was pushing (I know shock!) and kept asking for smoke, he didn't know about the changes to the smoke mechanic and actually listened when it was explained to him and reacted politely. Pretty exceptional player.

Not just a raise to citadels. The concealment values of many upper tier BB's are better than those of many cruisers. The benefit of Concealment Expert is backwards, benefiting larger ships more than smaller ones. The gun bloom on big guns is the same as on smaller ones which do far less damage, in fact on BB's they do blink out due to reload times which was specifically what WG stated gun blooms shouldn't do.