FixCVs_Nautical_Metaphor

Can't really say that that was borne out by Ranked Sprint the other day.

Why would that be unlikely - with the best concealment on tier?

Worth it (finished two days ago) in much the same way as Emden is better than Dresden. I'd never dream of keeping a maxed out captain on the Bello, which I sold a long time ago. Now, I can just put my BB-focused Dunkirk brother on for a spot of seal clubbing, at which in some respects she's better than König Albert. Except for the part where she has even less AA (aka none at all.) I wonder whether that's the reason all those low tier carriers were out in force the past two days.

Hi, in Port, I notice the Daily Win bonus percentage is missing from a lot of ships that I do not remember even playing today. One or two i can't be 100% sure I didn't maybe play in the wee hours of Friday. Others though I have definitely not played in weeks and months, others I haven't played yet at all. Tachibana, Mutsuki, Smith, Farragut, Mahan, Okhotnik, Gnevny, Minsk, Leningrad, Gaede, Maass, Jervis, Blyska, Aigle, Vampire, Haida. These are just the DDs. There are also cruisers, BBs and carriers. It's an extensive list. What's up with that? Is that a bug or a glitch or something? Has there been an announcement? Has anybody else noticed that?

What I need is no longer see any of your childish content on this forum. Luckily, there's a function for that.

Well does anybody at least have an idea how long it is going to last?

RPF. or Radio Location as it is called today, is not straight up detection quite like the others, where you just pop and they can see you. Rather, your opponent just gets a somewhat fuzzy indication of the direction you're in, and no direct distance information. And only you're his closest enemy ship. Players can still infer a lot from this, and so can you in fact, even if you don't have the skill yourself. But in order to do that, they have to use their heads and combine it logically with other pieces of information from different sources. Read up on these things in the wiki. http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Commander#Radio_Location

<slow clap> It was just a question. That's what the forum is for.

Make it possible for players to swap power camos for other types of camo. It need not be a 1:1 number swap since some camos are obviously more valuable than others. Besides the value, there could also be an unlock system, meaning you can only swap camo types you have previously unlocked in some way, i.e.. of which you owned at least one at some point.

Hold the Tab key. Hold Ctrl to free the cursor, point it at the ship/plane/whatever and hit F3. Maybe enter the settings menu and have a look at the third tab, Controls. You can also change most of the controls there.

Start selling the Shadow Lurker camo. In-game for doubloons, Arsenal, Premium Shop, I don't care - it is just too cool.

Started today at 17:09 with Ranked Sprint, trying to get a win in each of my Tier VI ships except the carrier. Starting out in T-61, Graf Spee, Bayern and QE, and getting the wins in the first attempt, I then thought it might get more difficult toward the end. It seemed therefore prudent to save the other BBs for last and continue with the cruisers instead, which everyone seemed to think are just fodder in Ranked Sprint, getting instantly blapped by a flood of BBs. However, there were lots of cruisers in the games, usually not more than two BBs, three at most. I had about three games without any DDs, and only three or four carrier games total. Huanghe took two attempts, Budyonny four, Aoba, Dallas and Duca three each. Leander, Pensa, Nürnberg, Gali and De Grasse all succeeded in the first attempt. Switching to Gallant, it took three games again, the first two of which were used to break in the new Icarus captain. Icarus itself, Monaghan and Fubuki went off without a hitch again, Hatsuharu and Anshan took two each, before ranking out in Fushun, in a brutal explosion of violence despite only a 6-point captain, thanks to a competent Leander player (Nomis_Accurate, Kudoz mate). In all, it took about ten hours, breaks included, and 36 games total if I'm not mistaken. Using maxed-out captains in premium ships in only three of these, mostly playing with basic 10-pt commanders. I therefore did not get to play Aigle, Gaede, Gnevny and Farragut, as well as any of the BBs except the two mentioned above. And I'm sad it's already over. Strangely, I had two games sabotaged by DDs on my team who proceeded to hide behind an island for the first half of the game without capping or spotting. The second one then kept on trolling by partially capping before leaving the cap again for no good reason. The first one even had the word "Troll" as part of his nick. Both of them were reported to customer service via the ticket system and hopefully receive a ban.

I was just going to write "Give us a light cruiser with guns/shells like Budyonny, but smaller and much more agile. For balance, it could have fewer guns." Then realized I was basically describing Duca D'Aosta.

What do you mean by "suddenly"? They were included in the last Ranked Sprint as well.

Played Ranked Sprint all day today, 13 games so far. Haven't seen a single carrier the whole day. Does anybody have a link to the WoWsnumbers statistics for the current Sprint season? Why don't they put that on the site somewhere? Re Cruisers, I am seeing multiple cruisers on every game so far. Had two or three games without any DDs at all. I am trying to get a win in all my Tier VI ships. Got one on the first attempt in most games so far. Huang He took two, Budyonny took four, one of which was actively sabotaged by a DD on my team who even had the word "Troll" in his nick.

What you don't seem to understand is that this is one of the ways Wargaming employs in an attempt to protect new players and curb sealclubbing. Advanced players that play their Tier V+ ships to get the bonuses don't spend that same time sealclubbing. If there are any concerns on Tier IV, it's the OP DDs Clemson and Isokaze. Overall though, I think it's in fairly good shape actually.

At the risk of sounding repetitive, if you want less dispersion, you need to get closer.

Nobody's forced to do anything. It's a game. It's free to play. Let's call it "a strong incentive".

Remember your ABK ("Always Be Kiting"). Don't skip any tiers. Don't progress beyond Tier V for the next few weeks. Instead, unlock all of the low tier DDs and play them a lot. Unlock a single Cruiser and BB line, either Japanese or USA, including the Tier IV aircraft carrier (ideally also Tier V) and play those ships a little, just to see what it's like fighting DDs from their perspective. This will help you better understand some of what the heck some of the other players are doing. Your opponents as well as your own team mates! Go to the Wiki and read the page on Consumables, especially Hydroacoustic Search and Surveillance Radar. On Youtube, for starters, watch the Flamu video on the low tier German DDs, and any of his videos on low tier DDs really. The Tenryu video is also very good. Actually I'd be hard pressed to find a bad Flamu video, he used to do a whole "low tier guide" series. Some of the content is obsolete because of changes in some game mechanics, like the smoke firing penalty. He also changed his opinion on some issues like the first Captain skill, where he increasingly prefers PT over PM these days, especially for gun boats. You need to figure that out. But many basic tenets still hold. Once you make some progress in restraining your recklessness, and start to encounter radar ships with increasing frequency, start watching any kind of Flambass videos where he plays a DD. There are a few from the last Ranked Sprint in the Nicholas that make an excellent start. He doesn't lay out his points as methodically as Flamu but only drops the occasional nugget of wisdom, so you need to watch what he actually does, compare it to what you yourself would have done differently, and keep drawing your own conclusions.

https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/game-updates/update-0711-rule-britannia/#balance "Furutaka, Aoba, Myoko, Mogami, Ibuki, Atago, ARP Myoko, ARP Ashigara, ARP Haguro, Southern Dragon, Eastern Dragon, ARP Nachi, and ARP Takao now have improved accuracy, similar to that of cruiser Zao." So the fire chance was not upped, but they should have more hits, increasing the fire chance per volley. Especially since Myoko etc also got a turret traverse buff. Also the japanese DDs of Tier VI and up got a 2% fire chance buff, so maybe the odd extra fire was caused by them. As I recall, there are some in this operation.

Missed opportunity: In order to use that event, not only to up the server population, but also to get players to make more of an effort at decent gameplay, the prizes should have been awarded only for multiplayer battle types with human opponents. Or at least not for Co-Op, if possibly for Scenarios. And more importantly, players should not be getting unlimited shots at them but maybe just three attempts at a win. Or even just a single attempt.

Missed opportunity: Seeing as the Snowflakes challenge can be completed in Co-Op, it would have been an especially good idea to finally implement one or more of the various GUI enhancement ideas to make it easier to set up a ship for Co-Op, for which many players don't like to expend valuable signal flags, camos, or premium consumables. These have been suggested in the appropriate thread on this forum multiple times before. What I'm talking about: The simplest thing would be a "Demount All" button in the Exterior-SignalFlags screen that lets you get rid of all currently mounted signal flags at once. A more sophisticated option would be to simply have the game automatically save the external and consumables configuration for each of the different battle types, and ideally even the modules. Choose Co-Op, go to your Farragut, mount a cheap "Lidl" Type 1 camo, detonation flag only, and standard consumables. Change to Random battle, mount Type 5 camo, a few more signals and all premium consumables. Switch battle type back to co-op and the game automatically demounts all the stuff selected for Random and re-mounts everything previously chosen for Co-Op. Choose Ranked Sprint and set she ship up with yet more or different Signals, as well as the C-Type hull instead of B-Type, and the defensive AA consumable instead ofthe Engine Boost. And the next time you go to Ranked Sprint with the ship, the game will remember even that. Wouldn't that be great?

Clan Battles AND Ranked Battles without carriers? Things get better and better!

Revamp the tech tree around the new class of Battlecruisers, which should receive its own matchmaking, especially in clan battles, where they could be lumped in with the battleships so maybe you could bring two at most - either one of each or 2x BB or 2x BC. The class should at least comprise Kongo, Dunkerque, Hood, Kronshtadt, Moskva, Stalingrad, Alaska, Azuma. Possibly also Ishizuchi, Mutsu, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, conceivably Scharnhorst, Graf Spee, Henri IV. And make it so that Asashio deep water torpedoes can hit this class.

Don't feed the bleeding troll, bitches.