NothingButTheRain

I hand't even noticed or considered this, but it's a nice side-effect indeed. I REALLY like the new radar effects! Also much easier to actually see who is radaring by looking at where the expanding circle is coming from I think this radar rework will disappoint some of those DD-only BBaby haturz because they expected another DD buff. But they can't appreciate that WG did listen to their feedback and prevented the spotted+instablapped by half the enemy ships like I can, I think this radar update turnedout great and I really notice receiving less return fire immediately after I get lit (and not just as a DD, but also as a supporting cruiser I appreciate this change). It rewards more risky gameplay. Or perhaps depending on how one wanna looks at it, it punishes it less. For both the radar ship as well as the radared ship. Great change

Lol, only now noticed this one. This is a nice specimen! Here's mine, of today

I'm not the one making stats up. You are.

The Nelson is actually the main reason why I later got serious doubts as to whether raising Conq citadel would actually be a good thing. Now, if I do my positioning and timing right, I can tank a LOT of damage for my team. But the problem with Nelson is that its heal is less useful, even though its heal recharges faster. And their citadels can be hit, but moistly from longer range (kinda like ther German BBs). No, not just the big guns only. Reserve that for the HMS Thunderer! The Nelson citadel is the main reason why I prefer the silver tree. Most important thing you said here is that you find Nelson a fun ship to play. I find DoY more fun compared to nelson (no regrets on getting Nelson tho), but Conq is much more fun then Nelson to me (and Nelson is fugly and slow and easy to citadel no matter how you angle). Well, if you find Conq relaxing, I could say the same about Yamato (which is totally different, but also about positioning) and USN CLs that you can park next to an island with. I find no ship in the game extremely relaxing to play, tbf. Well maybe except for some ships in certain ops that is.

I also remember this, but have not looked for that as I had forgotten. That's probably visible in these youtube vids somewhere.

I muted all ingame sound and listen to my own music. Especially now that all sound is just weird

Dude, it's the left mouse button. Left

I had one (ONE) game with no DDs and it was a real exception (mostly US/RN cruisers trying to get those 30 plane kills). Each team consisted of 2 battleships and 10 cruisers! That was weird as heck! But DD numbers have absolutely not gone down. Also not just because you say so. I see so many games with 4 DDs each side, the limit of 4 max is still needed for DDs. EDIT: Now I had a count of my matches the last 3 days. What you describe was totally not what I printscreened. You probably FEEL as if there's fewer DDs in the game then there are in reality. So far I counted in 18 matches: 0xDD 1 (this was the weird match with 10 cruisers each) 1xDD 1 2xDD 3 3xDD 8 4xDD 5 I don't see any lack of DDs here. And what you state is certainly not true unless your data is somehow corrupt or inaccurate. How many games did you MEASURE the amount of DDs? Or are these experiences of yours mere underbelly feels?

The tech tree meh? I think it's one of the more interesting lines in the game. Iron Duke was solid, QE was kinda slow but workable. KGV was amazing, Monarch was workable (check my stats), Lion is the stepping stone for to learn how to use the superheal and Conqueror has an amazing and unique playstyle unlike any other ship in the game, with profound strengths and weaknesses. It's done a good job at making a ship line unique and not OP.

I heard good things about Warspite, but don't have one myself. I got DoY and Nelson and personally I prefer to take out DoY. It's more mobile, the superheal of nelson is kinda negated due to the ship taking too much pen/citadel damage and DoY has a hydro. And the hydro along with the one heal less not mattering in ops make DoY a prettyy solid choice in ops. I don't know Hood, alas. Nor Vanguard.

Fighter plane consumable had longer duration on Musashi then on Yamato. Twice as long actually, when you check out the youtube links whiuch display the actual use of these consumables.

Also funny when seeing a DD smoke right at the start. They are always so high on themselves, must be really good stuff

Yes, freedom for every USN citizen!

Apart from being on the forums and contributing in an unbelievably positive way (always and without exception :) ), ingame I like to flame people :) With Conqueror, Wooster and with USN DDs from inside my little smoke bubble :) And sometimes I remember that I don't need to shoot the green stuff :) And I'm looking forward for to trying out my new flying megazao :)

At least you weren't a tier 8 carrier But seriously, for me matchmaking has been kinda really bad lately. I get bottom tier most of the time regardless of what tier boat I'm in.

May be useful if you got a mission which consists of something like "earn x milion credits"

Save the fxp for now. It's easy to spend but also easy to regret having spend fxp on the wrong thing. This is coming from someone who already earned millions of fxp so far and got all fxp ships.

I don't know about your world record in a kagero. I was meaning more along the lines of that you are not a new player to this game. I wanted to mention this since this is actually quite significant, also in regard of how to play it smart.

You did know that the economics part was I was talking about. Don't bother to go narcisticstyle on me. You're overreacting here. I decided to skip the rest of your rant once I saw you went in with a meme instead of going in with more common sense.

I recently finished my Benson grind and now the only eligable ship I have left that is also a grind, is Edin. But what's the point if there's no planes to shoot down anyway? And I never got a respons from a clanmember as CVs are apparenly inherently unpopular within my clan. And I'm not gonna face that dreadfully slow UI just so I can open up my friendslist and ask around there. That UI is horrible enough as it is and it's making me grumpy.

I als tried Emerald yesterday. Noticed I had in fact not elited her (which I believed I had) so I went and finished the job in 3 games and get some plane kills at the same time from happless tier 4 CVs, right?

Sounds like one of the dev hamster slavers was getting his early morning coffee and unplugged the gaming master server so he could power his Espresso machine

Minsk was actually a top pick for anything that was not a Sims And Brit DDs were also allowed. Cossack was basically the tier 8 pick for Dynamo kinda like how Rich and Gasc are the tier 8 picks for Hermes and both are great picks for their respective operations

Is this a fact according to you? You're making up excuses and writing up a whole essay just so you can disagree with me or something? I don't really care about the rest you wrote as it had hardly anything to do with economics. Apparently I've gotten (yes I rechecked a couple older games) very little spotting damage when I was Shokaku in bottom tier. Usually teammates either don't shoot what I spot or my planes don't last long enough to be able to get any spotting damage in. I don't know exactly, but 100k spotting damage and 80k regular damage games from a bottom tier carrier? Are you for real? Or are you just making stuff up here?

You know that back then the RN was in troubled times and had to make some cutbacks. They decided to save pennies that way as carriers were the least possible threat to a surface vessels, right?