Captain_Newman

This 500 battle veteran that learned to play well but doesn’t want to because that’s boring and who wants others to suffer the consequences of toxicity while his toxic behaviour should go unpunished totally isn’t hilariously self contradictory at literally everything he says.

Owning multiple accounts on the same server is against the rules, and if found out can result in both accounts being suspended. As for the second part, it depends on the situation and the ship you're in. If you're a cap contesting DD or a BB and you're hiding behind an island not being useful, that's not something a good player will do. If you're a cruiser that can't exactly tank a bunch of BB's, but can use island cover to spam them without taking punishment in return, while staying alive to support your capping DD, that's what you're supposed to do and is a much better play than yoloing a bunch of 457mm armed BB's and getting instantly blapped off the map. It takes knowledge and skill to tell the difference between useless camping and playing a certain ship the way it's supposed to. I've literally seen Azuma players get berated for not pushing into BB's. Those people who berated them lack the understanding of the game and that ship in particular. Some ships can tank, others can't and have to rely on not getting hit to survive. That means either kiting or using island cover, not uselessly dying in the first 2 minutes because "cowering behind islands is not teamplay" methodology that comes straight out of the potato handbook. If you see a good player taking island cover and not pushing, he probably has a reason for it, just as there's a reason he has unicum level win rate, damage, exp, kills, etc. So, to recap, you learned how to play well but that's boring, you don't care so you made a thread about your team mates not appreciating your lack of contribution in a game in which you don't care about winning or your own performance.

Actually, I've had a perfect example of someone "doing their own thing" and "not necessarily playing to win" today. The guy was in a pink lightning, all he did from game start was spam "requesting AA support" repeatedly while sailing the map border. He never shot a single opponent, he never spotted, he never did anything other than intentionally annoy his team - and this actually isn't all that different to what the OP has described his own gameplay as; he was doing his own thing, having fun on his own, and not playing to win. Guess what - this is bannable behavior, defined in the rules under "inappropriate conduct". You're supposed to play in a way that you think will give your team the best chance of winning. If you're not interested, like I said, go coop, go training room, or go to another game. No, I don't, never said I did. I have nothing against playing with regular players. If you thought you're one of them, I may have some other bad news for you. There's a reason why profiles are color coded in wows-numbers, and red rhymes with what it represents.

And who cares about the other 11 in your team. Gee, I wonder why your team mates don't like you. They should totally appreciate you for "doing your own thing" and throwing games. Yes, I'm quite sure you've learned to play as a super unicum, but that just wasn't doing it for you, I mean potato moves where you get obliterated after doing 2k damage in your t8 BB, and then lose the game, that's the sort of riveting gameplay that gets the blood pumping. X for doubt. I thought you said you don't play to win, therefore you must like losing, or at least don't mind it...

No, I don’t, given your stats I can totally believe that you get berated for your gameplay a lot. Have you considered learning the basics and improving? Genuine question, not having a go - I won’t tell you that it will completely eliminate those comments because there’s still salty idiots that berate even good players because of their own lack of understanding - but if you’re good, it does become a lot less frequent. Also imagine thinking forum threads attract attention in 2020 These kinds of threads are common. They change nothing, so again, ignore, report, block, or switch game / mode. I guarantee you this thread will accomplish about as much as dozens others like it - nothing.

Do you see the irony here? You literally made this thread because of your failure to suck it up. Like I said above, when someone crosses a line that breaks the game rules, report them to support. If someone doesn't do that but you still don't like something they said or did, you have the option to report them using the in-game menu. Neither of which options requires ranting about it in a thread. No, I won't cross the line and insult you in a way that breaks the game rules if you potato hard and throw the game. I may have a sarcastic comment or two, though, because if there's 11 people trying to win and you're there just doing whatever because you can't be bothered to learn, well, those 11 might see you as selfish since you put your own "just for my personal fun, cba to improve" mind set over the fact there's 11 other people on your team counting on you. If you don't care about that, don't expect to be liked or appreciated when you throw a game. Your options: - talk back; - ignore; - block said user; - turn off chat; - report; - contact support; - switch to coop or another game. You're free to pick any of those as long as it's the last option.

In the gaming world "veteran" and "experienced" mean largely the same. But getting bogged down in semantics isn't productive. You still haven't answered why you insist on randoms (pvp mode) when you clearly don't care about your performance or much about the game mechanics in general. Why aren't you playing coop? Do you know what it is and how to switch modes? It can provide you with the experience of pressing W a few times, shooting some ships, and dying just as well as randoms can, only without angry toxic people belittling you for throwing the game. Also not sure what the point of this thread is? Salty toxic players berating each other is as old as online gaming. Was this thread meant to put a stop to it? Because I have some bad news for you if so. And again, I don't condone toxicity and when someone really goes over the top (racist slurs, even had death threats after torping a guy, etc) I do contact support and get them banned. As for the "good job potato, you threw the game" kind of comments, eh, ignore, or report, just stop making threads about them please. It won't change anything.

Of course there is. It's called random battles. Which you didn't want the actually good players to play so you don't get berated when you throw games. So I asked you why don't you stick to coop since you clearly don't heave enough interest in the game or it's mechanics to put in any time an effort into actually becoming good at it? Why go pvp and get berated when you can just play coop, which is a mode perfectly tailored to the casual mind set? There's no shame in it... Your weird Kosovo example notwithstanding, someone with 500-ish battles has far less experience and practice than someone with 5000, 10000 or more battles regardless of how long they've been playing. The fact you stretched that number over 5 years doesn't make you a veteran here in the sense of having lots of experience playing wows - the amount of hours you put in is far lower than most. In fact, stretching that number over 5 years probably makes you worse than someone with an equal amount of battles but all done in 6 months, since they played often enough to actually learn and improve. If you stretch it out that much you simply aren't able to learn from experience as well as someone who plays more often. Not saying you should, you can play as often or rare as you'd like, it's just a fact, and you calling yourself a veteran with barely any battles played is a bit funny. I mean, after 5 years you don't own a single t10 ship, your highest tier is t9 and even that isn't a tech tree ship, but rather a coal one (Pommern). The highest you got at tech tree is tier 8, with.. (drum roll) 1 battle played in total. So almost no high tier gameplay experience at all. Still pressing that X on your veteran status. Let me put it this way: I could own an entire library of books. If I only read 1 page every 3 days for years, it still doesn't exactly make me well read despite me having been reading for years, because the amount of reading I actually did during that time was quite low, and I did it so little with so much time in between that by the time I got to the next page, I forgot half of what was on the previous one, and I only barely read one book. Am I as well read as someone who's read hundreds of books, then, simply on the merit of having owned a library for years? I'm not sure why I have to explain this, it should be common sense.

A conversion for credits at a much worse exchange rate would be nice to have. I really doubt the resident Ferengi over at WG would ever allow this, but it would be nice to have.

He did register in 2015, however you raise a valid point - he has an amount of battles that could be considered low if he had registered last year, let alone in 2015. So if the argument of "considering myself one of the oldest members around" was meant as a "old guard veteran here", then indeed, X for doubt. It's the amount of battles that counts (coupled with performance in them), if you spend 2 months between each battle that doesn't exactly make you an experienced veteran player, does it.. As someone who averages 1 battle every 3 days with, and don't take this as a personal attack, but fairly questionable stats, you basically fit into the super casual category. So let me turn your logic around on you and ask you - why don't people like you stick to coop? You can test gaming peripherals there just as well... And you won't be ruining the game of 11 other people that were unfortunate enough to get you as a team mate, as you took a spot that could have been filled by a much better player and have, in effect, drastically lowered your team's chances of winning just by being on it. Yes, you have the right to do that, but don't expect to be liked when you do. If 544 random battles with those stats is all you could muster in 5 years, it's fair to say the chances of this improving are fairly low, so again, I ask you, why don't you stick to coop? People don't like it when they put in skill and effort but still lose due to clueless teammates. I'm not condoning toxic behaviour, but am also not surprised by it when you approach the game like this. As for clan battles: - they are only available during clan battle seasons, there's long periods of time in between seasons when they are not available. Are you suggesting actually good players who did make an effort to learn the game and develop the appropriate skill sets not play for months between seasons? - when they are available, they are only available for a few hours several days a week, so, same questions apply as above; are good players not allowed to play outside of these set times? - how are people going to grind new ships that might be needed for the ever shifting meta of clan battles? Because they sure won't be grinding a line in CB's that are always restricted to a single tier, often t10. -how are people not going to get rusty and keep their skills in shape / upgrade them if they only play during cb seasons with long breaks in between? - some actually find randoms enjoyable, and they play quite differently to CB's, why should they not play them because there are people there who refuse to put any effort into learning the game and improving, but don't want to be berated when they drag their teams down?

I did not get a Makarov. I feel left out.

If "anchoring" actually worked (as in, if you div with, say, a t6 and 7, the highest tier you should see is t8, not t9) - then it'd be ok. As things are, it's not. Most of the time it's mirrored but I've seen situations where it wasn't. As things stand the only acceptable different-tier division is a 9-10... Maybe just allow it above t8?

I think a lot of people would benefit from pretending they're actually having a face to face conversation. This zero-to-fully triggered-in-5s we have here is entirely unnecessary. It's entirely possible to disagree without getting into a needless fight, you know... From a santa box? Nice! That saves you almost 300k coal... very nice drop, grats!

I'm not sure that this is true. Last year I dropped a crazy amount of prem ships from the crates (saw my rng was amazing after I dropped the Belfast from one of the first ones), so I kept getting them, dropping pretty much all the rares I didn't already have plus a ton of others. And do note that the Belfast and Kutuzov dropped BEFORE a bunch of t6 premiums I got after them (and 7, and 8, but I digress). This year I only got a few big boxes, but I got the Mainz out of it. The Makarov is still one of the few ships I don't own, though - if the theory in the OP was true, I'd have been guaranteed a Makarov from that drop, and only after that I'd have been eligible for a Mainz drop assuming I rolled a duplicate, then getting a Mainz on a reroll in a SC. That didn't happen, it dropped right out of the big gift box.

Royal Navy CL AP does quite nice damage to BB's, if you aim above the belt when they're broadside, or the superstructure. In addition it's possible to pen the bow when they give broadside as well, and get very nice damage before it gets saturated. Plymouth can't eat BB's alive quite as fast as a Mino, due to lower dpm, but that's the price you pay for not having to choose between radar and smoke. I was able to deal quite a lot of damage to a broadside Vermont, Thunderer and Monty in my last game in it - 5k-8k damage per salvo every 6.5 seconds does add up quickly. Let's not forget that 9.2km concealment is really, really nice at t10 so if you positioned right, you can remain unspotted when your smoke expires. I'm glad you're making the effort to learn and improve, btw! Good on you, way too many clueless players around that have zero interest in improving.

This is not the fault of the ships. If there's stuff like Nevsky, Stalin, Petro, etc on the enemy team, or other radar cruisers such as Alaska or PR that can easily push in to radar you, then you don't commit anywhere too hard in a position that would be hard to get out of without knowing where they are. Saying smoke is useless because radar exists is a bit like saying hydro is useless because you can still get torped regardless of it running. I am fairly new to the Plymouth (she only came out yesterday) but so far my lowest basexp score has been 2150 on it. In each game I was able to score multiple DD kills.

Then stop arguing with me? (36 t10's and actually own and have played the Plymouth here). I am actually speaking from personal experience. And now, smoke on cruiser definitely is not overrated if one has awareness and knows where to drop it. In short, if you approach a cap in your Plymouth, stop, drop your smoke, and then a russian cruiser radars and blaps you, it's your own fault, and you misplayed heavily. Good players don't commit without having information on where the enemy is, and are aware of what they can and cannot do. With said awareness the smoke becomes a very powerful tool, especially combined with radar and hydro.

Edin has to choose between smoke and radar, while the Plymouth can happily radar and hydro from his smoke screen, while still having single launch 10km torps. You're also forgetting that the Plymout's t10 status means that it can mount a range upgrade, while the Edin can't, making it's range a very workable 17.7km. In addition, a reload difference of 1 seconds is quite a lot when we're talking about light cruisers, especially if you factor in that the Plymouth gets 16 guns that fire every 6.5s, while the Edin gets 12 that fire every 7.5s The Plymouth would be an absolute monster in t8 or in t9. It fits well in t10.

Yes, all true - I've played her twice so far, both times scoring well over 2k base and winning with multiple kills - but both times I was playing extremely carefully at the start of the game. In the last one, though, the map was Loop and there were no soviet 12km radars on my side, so I was able to use my concealment and island cover to actually get into a cap, and murder a Gearing there getting first blood on it. He was sitting on the other side of the A cap, behind the island that's in the middle of it, and didn't appreciate being hydro-ed so my div mate in a Halland can spam him from the side - he tried to leave, that got him in front of my guns, 3 salvos later he was done. But that's the thing, it takes a lot of awareness to know what you can and can't do because any mistakes will probably not just get punished by some damage, but by a one way ticket back to port. So far both times I've played it I had to take a break after the game because it's genuinely draining to keep on your toes focused at 200% for every second of the battle. Fun, but draining. So far, not regretting my purchase. If I was somehow forced to choose between keeping this one or the Stalingrad, I'd be keeping the Plymouth without losing any sleep over it...

Let's try and troubleshoot this. When you get to the armory, at the top of the screen, to the left of the yellow "purchase doubloons" there should be a "coupons" button. Click that. Does it look like this? It should be the one on the top right, where I'm getting info on when I get a new one by hovering my mouse cursor over it. Is it there? If it isn't and you haven't used it, I would raise a ticket with support.

Did you use it on a steel ship?

It's a good job Plymouth is for steel, and not coal or fxp, it limits their number. If more players were getting it there'd be Plymouths going pop all over thanks to players pushing in trying to use that 9km radar early, or starting their smoke screens while still at full speed

Plymouth absolutely is a t10 ship, however, it's a terrible choice for someone relatively new looking to get their first t10 steel ship. She's a swiss army knife of tools, but actually using them correctly without getting one shotted off the map takes a lot of skill and effort. In experienced hands she will excel at contesting caps and killing enemy DD's and generally controlling a flank - it's a rewarding ship, but not easy to play. Simply do not get this as your first steel ship. Once a player has some other steel t10's, he's grinded the RN CL line and does at least ok in it, then the Plymouth becomes worth a look.

I don't even think she's OP at all, especially not in randoms. Guns are excellent, yes, but the ship has significant drawbacks which tend to result in extremely boring, static gameplay. Plus it's CV food these days. I do agree with the rest of your statement, I just question it's OP-ness I guess. It's a strong ship, just not something I'd recommend to anyone as their first steel ship. Just get a Petro and enjoy the game's first soviet cruiser-submarine (may as well be one with the ridiculously low amount of ship that actually sticks out of the water, making it difficult to punish from the side). For the first steel ship, out of the ones mentioned here, I'd really recommend the Bourgogne because the ship is actually fun.

If I’m honest, you’re not helping your reroll by playing the Yahagi there.