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This is pretty much true for me as well. Although I will give it a few more games, partially just to test out the CVs myself (I strongly doubt I'll be playing the CVs much in future regardless - the gameplay just looks really repetitive and boring). I am surprised that WG seemingly is so blasé about this, considering that of all the changes they've made through at least the one-and-a-half years I've been playing, this is the one that has by far the greatest potential to utterly obliterate their active player base.

That's a bit like saying that Harugumo has a hard cap to the number of shells she can fire due to the 20 minute games... So far, it only looks like the T10 CVs will have anything resembling a reasonable restriction on how many planes they can afford to lose in a match. The other tiers are utterly broken in that respect, but we can of course hope that will change.

This is one of those missions where your mileage may vary greatly. Tech tree ships with only zulu flags to help you, and it's going to take ages. Premium time, some good high tier premium ships and whatever you can scrounge up of credit boosting camos and flags, and with half decent play you'll average 700k+ per match. I'm about halfway there after about six hours of playtime, and I shouldn't have any problems finishing it this weekend.

Weeeellll.... the thing is, that's not really trivial. Even on the fairly uncomplicated software I've been working on, reverting just one relatively simple feature while keeping other changes you've made can quickly become something of a royal pain in the arse. Reverting a large set of relatively complicated changes to a highly complex piece of software like a modern game is often more a Lovecraftian nightmare. Just fully reverting to 0.7.12 is probably not something they want to do, because there will be backend changes (e.g. changes to player profiles) that they probably don't want to discard and that probably won't be compatible with an older version (because the backend architecture will have to be updated to handle changes to ship classes). If they're going to have the option to go back to an RTS model of CV gameplay without at the same time discarding a lot of other updates, they're going to have to maintain two parallel branches of the 0.8.x software, which is a hell of a lot of work. And then there's the fact that they're taking away a large number of ships from players and issuing them compensation for them. What will they do if they decide to revert the changes that made taking those ships away?

I have to say, my biggest concern right now is, is there a plan "b"? If the rework turns out to be a universally hated mess that can never be properly balanced, what's the fallback option?

CV - Conqueror division is the new CV - Worcester division.

I've only played five games in it so far, but it seems decent enough. Guns can feel a bit trollish, but I haven't really had problems keeping myself alive in it as long as I avoid doing anything stupid.

Why not?

It's being removed from tech tree and Arsenal together with Musashi in 0.8.0.

I'd say this is an acceptable result.

Yeah, it does the trick.

Hm. Lots of BBs you say? Asashio makes decent credits as well...

Ahem. Please, @MrConway, @Crysantos. It can't be that difficult for the web team to fix this stuff.

Agreed. WG pls fix, kthxbye.

If it hadn't been for the CV rework, I probably would have bought a year of premium time half off. As it is... the chance that the CV rework is going to kill off this game for me is so high that I just don't think it's worth it. Too many of the ships I genuinely enjoy playing seem like they're just going to get ed by the new CVs.

I figure I'll buy a day or two of premium this weekend and slap every credit boosting consumable I can fit on e.g. Musashi, Kronstadht and whatever T8 premiums I have from other nations. Japan, Russia, Germany and US should be pretty quick. I'm a bit short on good credit earners from other nations, though. Hood will do a decent job, I guess. Wish I had the coal to buy Jean Bart, but I'm a bit short even with a coupon. @FishDogFoodShack That animated gif in your signature is hypnotic. I can't stop staring at it.

Difficult right click instant kill with counterplay options is better than easy kill by a thousand paper cuts that can't be countered.

IIRC it's not collectible from daily containers. Pretty sure I had to get all of the items by buying anniversary containers.

You accidentally took the Leander instead?

-Complains about DD players. -Has 60% of games in BB.

I see one possible solution that might work. I mean, it's still going to be crap, but it might make it less insufferable for non-CVs. Seeing as their stated goal is to bring the CV experience closer to the other ship classes, the logical step is to give them the same limitation as other classes: weapon range. Planes have an action range from the carrier, outside of which you can't operate. They'll behave as if they hit the map border.

That game was fun, I really need to play it again some time.

Yeah, you know, it helps to actually read the full text of the post before replying.

Yeah, that was basically the point I tried to make earlier. While it, on paper, should be no different from e.g. Kagero, some players seem to just go "durr, Asashio can't torp me, easy kill" and rush straight at you where they'd otherwise be more cautious. In which case you just make the most out of her excellent rearward firepower and ballistics.

Can I play as well?