NothingButTheRain

Of course winrate sais something. It it were meaningless then winrate would've been totally random and it is not. And when it starts going above 1000 measurements (you could say that a single battle is, in a way, a measurement of skill to win), the winrate becomes a more representative number. Of course it also depends on certain circumstances, like if you play low tier or high tier or if one plays OP ships or any ship. I kinda agree with the elitist bit (which is not what I was on about, but whatever), but it also matters if the winrate is solo or in a div. Especially if you toss a couple unicums together using voicecoms, it will probably increase their winrate by a lot. And about operations, I've also noticed a lack of skill here. Lots of 40% winrate plebs and very few (if any) with a winrate above 50% except for myself. I've played operations hundreds of times, maybe even more then 1000 times by now, so I know the drill lol

I have no idea what the problem could be, it's too vague. Maybe you can get it going by fiddling with the network settings or restarting a couple times or something?

Don't be so dumb. You know perfectly well that this game has dynamics and that these dynamics fluctuate. Heck, you got even higher winrate than I have so you know all this. And so you are playing dumb with us here. Cut the crap please, thank you. Nice troll. Sure fooled me once.

Sounds like you want to make it more like WoT? No thanks. This skill is too good to miss out on. Another DD main spotted? Never enough buffs to DD. Never enough nerfs to anything that isn't a DD. So you gonna start complaining about radar next? Or hydro? oh wait you are alraedy complaining about everlasting hydro which is in fact not even possible in this game. How cute, another suggestion to make the most OP class in the game even more OP. Lets not. DD is already easy enough to play as it is. Can't even pen the bloody buggers anymore and some DDs can even outgun some cruisers which are supposed to be DD hunters

It seems to happen here and there. It's not always bad, especially when someone like MrConway thumbsup the post you're quoting now I don't know what else to add. It happens sometimes.

Continued from my previous post: Tier 8 cruisers, seems Kutuzov is #1 only in the damage department. I see a lot of tech tree ships at the top of this list, so imo tier 8 cruisers may even be fine as is? But I wonder why Kutuzov was removed then? Poor Hipper. How I hated that ship.... Tier 4 battleships it is clear that the Imperator is woefully OP. Compare this to Missouri and how the latter seems distinctively bland in OP-ness Orion used to be stronger and got nerfed. Even that beta ship seems not as good as Nikolai and the beta ships has like, 6 upgrade slots? Tier 6 DDs, T-61 seems to be the strongest, but not by a large margin. #2 is Shinonome. Kinda sad that the top 5 ships in this list are all premiums. Seems like a tier where there is work to be done, but not sure on what to make of this list here. Tier 5 DDs. I think it's clear something has to be done here Another top 5 of only premiums. Lets hope the formatting does not break this time It did break... Sorry for the inconvenience.

Missorui and Musashi are not on that list. Or at least not on any list publicised by WG. Missouri I'd not even consider OP (compared to other tier 9 and 10 premiums it's actually quite shitty if you ask me, just another Iowa witha gimmick that is far less useful than the Black one). And all of tier 9 is in a weird place anyway, I'd not even consider Musashi worth it to nerf as tier 9 tech tree ships are often kinda "meh" in their tech trees. This situation has improved with the recent buffs to certain weaker tier 9 ships. I think they would be better off improving the tier 9 tech tree ships (and perhaps also a few improvements to some tier 8 ships, but only slight). It's more ships like Stalingrad, CG, Kutuzov, Kamikazes, some tier 4 ships (don't remember the names) and Belfast. And perhaps that T-61 or whatever its name was, the tier 6 German DD. I've taken the liberty to make some lists, in an attempt to see in a more casual way how strong certain ships are. I took the top 25% players as a (somewhat arbitrarily chosen) measuring stick to determine how good a ship is at carrying games (mostly winrate and damage done as those are easy to measure) Stalingrad is woefully OP. And I mean broken-level compared to the other tier 10 cruisers. Kronstadt also seems much OP, but not to the same degree that Stalingrad is. Seattle seems to be up there thanks to its good utilities? Its damage seems quite poor tho. Now when it comes to battleships, there doesn't seem to be any ship as grossly OP compared to the cruiser section Musashi is even 3rd place (except damage where it is number 1, by a very small margin followed by JB) Missouri seems even weaker then Lion, even though it's not obtainable anymore for the large masses for a year and stats should have settled down by now. It does appear better than Iowa, but I think that has more to do with Iowa then with Missouri. Cesare seems broken up to a level like Stalingrad is Belfast seems not AS broken. Flint takes the #1 spot here (Belfast is still second place). Tier 10 BBs seems interesting to analyse, since hjere Bourgogne seems to be the broken one. I'm wondering if this is at all correct, but seeing how well JB performs and it has 50% more guns, this may be a correct assessment. EDIT Unfortunately the forum software decided to ruin the table formatting after having submitted it. This is a mere quick fix for now to make the (ruined) tables at least kinda readable

And this is kinda my gripe I have here. If WG is going to nerf this certain bunch of OP premiums so none of the premiums existing now remain in an OP state (perhaps even a sellable state, in case said ships wereremoved because of being OP (which does not necessarilly mean they should sell these premiums again)) AND WG not releasing any new OP premiums anymore, then I would be satisfied IF the compensation I get for the OP premiums I lose is also something I can be happy with. And it's not just OP I want, something unique and something that is worth it to me (and this may be money, or this 200% coupon or doubloons + unique premium camo or whatever it is that was mentioned before and I can be happy with). But to me, I would lose my faith in WG if this ends up being merely the opening of a door to start affecting other stuff in the game in my disadvantage (like starting to nerf premiums on a more regular basis).

My recent winrate has been looking like this for all of 2019 and it's pretty much consistent I'm basically getting a consistent 60% winrate overall and this makes my average winrate climb all the time, so I'm doing something right no matter what I do except apparently battleship in which I seem to loose a lot...probably because I don't know h2p Iowa , these Iowas never really suited me so looking forward to Montana lol.

Isn't there some way to automate this so it does not forget the previous setting? It even deletes the replays before I played a single battle, so often I will have not thought about it. I just want to be able to log into the game without needing to start worrying about stuff like this before I even played my first battle. Is this really so hard??? Is there any way to have all the updates remember this setting automatically? Not much fun this way.

This is what I've been doing, but with all these hotfixes and me wanting to focus more on RL instead of having to focus on to babysit the wows installer like every week now (I just want to play without needing to worry and to escape, mind you), if I forget once then all the previous replays I did prevent in getting deleted by previous hotfixes will also be gone. Unless I back up everything manually of course. This is an annoyance and it doesn't need to be here. And Aotearas mentioned him not having this problem without explaining anything. You have any idea what he's talking about? He's not answering my initial question anyway.

I'm using the exact same build on the exact same ships, I can recommend this build

You don't need to be a 40% winrate potato to have a preference for a single class and/or to dislike any other class or to have an opinion which is based on nothing but their feelings and having these feelings only be there for them. Or anyone that may have lemminged along. There was even like 70% winrate (??) unicums who were absolutely against the CV rework and claiming all kinds of silly things. You may not like the idea, but winrate doesn't seem to be the determining factor here. I'm not sure where you read that but I presume you are missing something. And about the radar thing, I can actually reverse this and say that having a bad winrate does not solidly imply that they must be wrong (and the certain unicums I mentioned earlier in this reply will of course not like me for saying this, they just want to be able to continu to statsshame as a way to strengthen their stance). And you'll have to come up with numbers/stats if you want to solidify your statement that "Nearly all complaints came from players with well below 50% WR. Complaints about Conq are the same across all “levels of play”.". And like I said, the complaints against the CV rework were actually usually very high winrate players. of course they didn't like their CVs getting reworked, but your winrate argument isn't a valid one, alas. And I've already explained this bit: and particularly how this functions. I think I was pretty clear in this. A factual complaint (which is not just player opinion) is frustration caused by the port lag. Or because of the recent sound bugs. Frustration caused because you don't know how to dodge torps is frustration which often causes non-factual complaints (like wanting a nerf to torps or torp boats). Can you tell me WHY it is factually frustrating to play against Conqueror? What is so supposedly frustrating about it anyway? Because I'm hardly ever frustrated by playing against these ships and their lack of influence on the game compared to other tier 10 BBs is obvious. And again, don't forget about the little kid anology. The major difference is that if you give in into factual complainers, the complaints will lessen. But if you give in to the crying complainers, they will be thought that complaining/cryharder is rewarded and they will complain more.

Ahhh. Ok I get it now, that sounds likea bug alright

Maybe I missed something, but what exactly is WGs fault for this anyway? The only thing they could change is to make changes to the operations so it becomes easier to carry on your own (with reduced stars, but that would still be better than a loss, right?). Imo Sunray was the best balanced operation for this, especially normal mode was excellently balanced if you ask me.

"No DDs. Oh my god this is paradise" EDIT This was actually pretty nice to watch. I did basically the same yesterday or so, escorting a NC with my Edin (was a tier 10 match and we spawned left while the rest spawned mid and right, so I knew we would get attacked by both enemy carriers). Alas, at some point my escortee did die but he sticked till the end of the match to thank me again ^^

WoT has 12 ranks? I need to check that out. EDIT Found it here: https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/clan-wars/new-clan-positions/ It kinda looks like this in WoT: Commander Deputy Commander/Executive Officer Personnel Officer Company Commander/Combat Officer Diplomat/Intelligence Officer Treasurer/Quartermaster Recruiter/Recruitment Officer Junior Officer Soldier/Private Recruit Reservist

I noticed a gradual increase in the number of toxic players coming over from WoT. usually these can be recognised by the typical WoT 'teamspirit' behavior consisting of (but not exclusively) telling a teammate during a battle to uninstall (of course by then theythemselves are already dead), telling teammates they are sub-human or something along this toxicity and post battle they will send another message while you are in port with again uninstall and how you are the wost pile of dung that humanity has ever seen. This is actually THE one thing I miss the least about WoT. And these players themelses? They don't see anything wrong with their behavior because if you are so soft you have no place on teh internetz or some crap like that.

Stalingrad. End of line.

true true

Well, whats the difference between playing coop for years and playing randoms for years? In the end it's all the same thing over and over again, right?

The issue with measuring the lower tiers is that it may be difficult to assess any trend in player numbers, because somewhere half a year ago or so, prices and research costs of tiers 5 and below were decreased, so new players will need fewer battles in these tiers now. There's all sorts of reasons why players play in coop. But coop is quite popular as even during sleeping hours (like, 3am and such) I still get full or nearly full teams quite often in coop. And during the day it usually takes much less then 30 seconds before getting thrown into a game with 7 other humans High tier coop is still playable with high tier premiums. And it helps (a lot!) to not use any premium consumables in coop. Frankly, it's barely even needed. This helps cut down on the cost of playing coop with high tier ships.

Yeah well I bought it wil cold hard eurocash. I don't need any more doubloons but I could use the cash. Or gib me steel or one of those 200% doubloon coupons that never expire or something. Something that is really special since this event is also really special (the nerf of a premium boat. And yes it should not become a habit, but it should affect like 5 of the most OP ships in this game right now). I bought it because it was relatively cheap at tier 5, because it was strong (yes, I'm just being honest here) and because I had been wanting a Kongo-like shipin premium version ever since I got the Kongo and GC seemed to be kinda like that. This latter reason is also a reason why I bought the PEF but oh boy did I get home cold and soaking wet and disappointed

Copper and Molybdenum?

But seriously. Just get the Scharnhorst and play it only in coop and in oprations for now (do NOT try it out in randoms because you will probably get slaughtered and have no fun! (and people will hate you for it)). Especially in operations it can generate a lot of extra credits for you and because you do the same thing over and over again, you will start to get to know what your ship can do and your inexperience will not bother anyone. And due to the coupon you will get a nice stash of coubloons which you can later spend on other things in the game. But my advice would be to get the Scharnhorst and (and this is important) to not play Scharnhorst in randoms until you have a tech tree ship of tier 7 or higher (and thus more experience behind your belt). And play it only in coop and in operations.