NothingButTheRain

WG does change the contents of the collection crates if they arrive in the arsenal. The premium crates have usually contained the best loot. I think these rewards are not bad. I got both the DoY and Scharnhorst cool camos from the 2017 x-mas grindfest Iirc the Scharnhorst one was for the campaign and DoY is for the collection. The Scharnhorst one was later sold for doubloons and now the DoY one is obtainable for others. Kinda sad to see these camos becomming less exclusive, but ok for those that missed out and can now obtain these cool camos

I played way fewer and I got the first. Gonna keep it till it's removed and see waht happens

These ones cost 5k coal for 5 containers and contain (according to the discription) - Two collectible items from the "Battle of the North Cape" collection. - Ten signals of one of the following types (Zulu, Papa Papa, or Juliet Charlie). And its for this cool camo

I think we could actually do with a couple brand new operations. I wonder if there are any in the works right now?

Looks like Battle of the North Cape containers were also added. I'm sure this will make some people very happy.

I notice very few CV players actually using this skill. I used it btw, till the carriers got a hefty nerf to their torp bombers and I moved the captains to other ships (I did put some lowly spare caps back so i could at least play them in some way). But other than that I'm doing very well with DD in the current meta. Atm I'm grinding Benson, after having elited the 2 t6 IJN DDs Most recent: Warships Benson VIII 23 65.22% Super Unicum 1 462 Good 33 469 0.83 5.48

Well, this hypothesis is kinda debatable

And returning Cherry Blommon as a farmable ops will probably also help sales of Wichita Players/WG win/win! (but a bit less so if dynamo doesn't retrun as an at least decent farmable ops, as many people actually bought cossack/sims for this ops specifically).

Since the rework, I've seen 30k+ numbers on the EU server multiple times. Highest I've personally seen is 34k It seems to have dropped off since then. Making the carriers less fun to play probably helped a bit in this regard, but iirc numbers were usually more around 20k on EU or so. It's really too bad those stats graphs sites are down atm.

This site has been down for hours, as I was also curious as to the server numbers.

My guess would be that chances are very good they will retrun, if only for them not returning being a vast waste of resources and because they stated they were removed due to plane AI basically needing a rewrite. I always found carriers not as powerful for the t7 operations, mostly due to relatively strong AA. But the thing is, for some reason I actually liked the operations more without enemy carriers (after they got removed from the operations), but the t6 ones were extremely fun to play with the RTS carriers My guess will be that the arcade carriers we got now will be less powerful, but it's still early. We may get some new favorites yet. And as I kept my t6 CVs, I'm sure as heck gonna be taking them out in the next coming months (unless they really get nerfed into the ground, but I'm not expecting this).

In discust? I dunno. I have mixed feeling about WG competence. Sometimes I think more on a level of "wtf dey doin?!?!?" and other times I see nothing short of pure wisdom. I did see him in a stream once, he seems like a pretty young guy. I know a thing or 2 about balancing and in the end it's for a large part a matter of experience...which is something more young people are typically inherently lacking in (usually! As there are exceptions). I tried the formula thing (making my own formulas and devising my own theories on balancing), but in the end these ended up being no better then basically mere tools instead of final products of simple input/output formulas which would spit out final and infinite balance. For one, it's not just a matter of how much damage you can do, but also of its intended and potential uses and about how much fun something is, amongst a pletora of other things. And it's about min/max, but in a sense of how good any given item is for the new or average player vs if it has any potential exploit. And in the end it's virtually impossible to never release anything that is not OP in some way. It simply doesn't exist. And it's all too easy to stand at the sidelines and think the other screwed up or is incompetent. But a lot of work goes into it. Anyway, to keep this at least kinda short, balancing games like this one resemble RPGs and there is no such thing as perfect balance. Nor should there be. And rebalancing is inevitable unless you want your game to have broken items in them or if you actually want your game to stagnate.

NDA, sorry

Oh, only notice the ST bit now Thanks for clarify

Where did you get this?

Hi. Sorry for my slow response but at this point I would take any improvement.

Haha! You got brekt! Stick to USN DD, it definitely works for me

Game is currently a mess. What about premium time ? Hi. Premium time is currently not a mess. Thank you for your time.

Odd that the name of the topic is about rockets, but the suggested change is for all carrierborne aircraft. I prefer to not change it back to a CV vs CV game of aerial chess, along with the problems this will inevitably bring. And imo rocket planes are fine. It's the other planes that I found to be no fun anymore (I played tier6 and tier 8 CV before I threw in the towel and focus on DD for now).

Iirc Clear Skies was ridiculously hard to get. I'm glad I managed to get one before it was gone forever. I think the name is ingenious.

I noticed this as well as I saw there were 17 signals available again instead of the 16 that we had since 8.0 was released. I knew about the removal of these signals when I noticed the NA arsenal had 16 and I noticed the discrepancy, so I stocked up a bit on those as EU gets updated a day later (I had less then 100 of those remaining). Odd thing is that when mouse-overing these signals from the main tab (when you see the 17 signals on the right hand side), these signals were the only ones not carrying a discription for its battle performance (the 5% more damage yada yada).

Operations was also as lively back before Narai got it's big nerf. After the nerf it died again until well you know when But it was really alive back then as well, including the blind invites for to join Narai as people start to get to know you.

I think this Moskva buff was also done in light of Stalingrads imminent release or shortly after. I don't really prefer playing a paper ship or ships that really existed (although I do have some preferences, like Yamato and Alaska and some other). I was thinking about this increased visibility of BBs due to this radar specific for BBs, but more for BBs behind islands (like Shatter). It's already risky to try out a sneaky move with a BB between these islands and with this radar this will get even more risky. But of course in storms and cyclones this would also be a nerf to BBs that are closer to the battle area. I do want to point out that I am not against putting radar on battleships. I don't mind and it doesn't really affect me. Only radar I kinda mind is the one from ships like Moskva (and of course Stalingrad). USN radar is kinda easy to evade most of the time.

Probably. Frankly I don't believe Cherry would even deserve a nerf. And the operations channel is now pretty much on life support at best. Used to be the most chill place to just hang out in. WG should really capitulate on this channel, it was really a hub of players while ingame.

Division with a carrier and start