TessellatedMind

+1 also thinking of moving on to something else. This will likely be my last premium subscription.

Cheers for the guide dude! Indeed a strong ship tho after playing 13 games I'm struggling with it compared to Tallinn; perhaps it's the recent week of lopsided games or just me misplaying it or both. A particular thing got my attention yesterday: I ended up alone on the flank chased by 2 GKs & 1 Bismarck bow-in mode; not an ideal situation to be in but had to at least slow them down. Long-story short I wasn't able to get any meaningful consistent damage to any of them with AP & HE (no demo expert) from ~14-15km. 90% shatters and AP ricochets while aiming for deck & superstructure, even when they slightly turned. With AP against bow-in GK I understand but I wasn't expecting the HE to be soooo underwhelming. I was basically useless and tried to go undetected and navigate to get to their broadside but it was too late. Any thoughts around this?

Thanks for clarifying! On sharing stats I was thinking of high-level analytics like: This month we analysed X tickets and have made X account terminations, X temporary bans, X warnings etc. How would that inspire folks with bad intentions?

Thanks for clarifying @Crysantos. Is there a place which documents what is WG doing to prevent this behavior? As a user I'm starting to lose trust. Also it would be great if WG releases data on sanctions in order to show that this is actually enforced.

Cheers they hear you out on this.

Lots of good advice here. Yes the game economy and many of its components are designed to force the user to do certain actions; behavioral science 101. Being in a clan and having free xp or coal premiums that I like helped, however at the end of the day I managed to raise money by playing non-T10 ships which I like, while researching a single ship at once and not going to the next tier straight away. I have so much fun playing lower tiers. When I have fun I don't care about salt,CVs, this and that BS. Also I try to set goals (with anything in life). I do so with my resources, like not making any new investments unless I'm above X value. I'm careful to stockpile stuff which I can invest in signals or other stuff. I religiously keep FXP and resources for ships/captains. Otherwise you burn through resources A LOT. For ex I lately had like 100M credits and decided to go from T8 to T10 with both German and Russian BB lines. I now have to only research and buy Kremlin but I already burned through 50M credits just like that. Hope this helps.

Thanks so much for putting this together! Over the last months I've actively taken a much harder look at my plays and I've observed that when things go wrong it's usually due to the mistakes you've outlined. Hearing this from a much more experienced player gives me confidence that I'm on the right path to improve my game. Tunnel vision is what gets me at moments. Anyone here who managed to overcome it? I'm trying to observe what situations send me into tunnel vision mode and I try to be conscious of when they happen next.