Captain_Newman

Not remarkably.. you need broadsides on it for cits anyway. It's playstyle of a mobile fast flanker isn't going to change.

Just grind the wins in coop?

I do hope you're right though...

Honestly, I hoped for 1.5 million, but expected this, knowing WG's recent pricing trends. What worries me is that PTS prices not being the same as live server ones, it could end up even more expensive.

Potatos gonna potate, don't really care about them, but being able to avoid or prolong detection with good maneuvering and positioning would be nice for people who do have awareness. 2 million is exactly along the lines of this 2019/2020 WG we have now.

T9 freemiums make the most credits + Jean Bart is great and is getting removed soon ______________________________________________ total: get Jean Bart. Thank me later.

I agree that the Albemarle needs urgent renaming. I have come up with a completely different and much simpler name: VIII ALBEMARBLEHEAD WG, we can negotiate over royalties once you inevitably choose to use this name. Have your people contact mine and we'll do the paperwork.

Replay or it didn't happen.

I know some good CV players, and I've seen what some who I don't know personally say on these forums. Based on this, I'd say this won't do much - it seems a lot of CV players rarely use this, it's kind of a situational tool, and if one knows how to use terrain it's even less needed. They need to do something about DD spotting from the air, as well as rocket planes. Since it's unlikely they'd be willing to actually remove rocket planes outright, my suggestion would be this: - make aiming with rockets harder across the board - more like Kaga, less like Enterprise. - make DD spotting ranges from the air shorter to give DD's a better chance of some level of counterplay. - possibility: introduce a similar mechanic to radar spotting for planes - when a CV spots a DD, it's the only one that sees the DD directly for, say, 5-7s, after which the enemy gains vision as well. - restore the role of the AA cruiser, which is all but dead now. Not all cruisers need to be no fly zones, but CV's shouldn't be able to strike worcesters, minotaurs, DM's etc with hardly any price tag attached (unless they're bad and fly through flak, but bad gameplay being punished isn't something I have a problem with). These might actually make CV's a bit more palatable, rather than these placebo half measures.

All is fair in love and ranked.

- I'm not dismissing anything, but tier 3 always has far less players than t10, and is thus irrelevant to the example of my t8 bot in a t10 game. - Most people who care enough about the game and their stats are vocal enough to express that care in venues such as this. That is the circle of people you're drawing your conclusions from. The vast majority of the player base are very casual who "just play for fun", have garbage stats and don't care about improving. You won't see them on forums, you won't really see them in any clans short of some of the pure economy ones, they will rarely division, they just log in once in a blue moon to shoot some ships, and don't really care about anything else. Don't believe me? Install matchmaking monitor and run it over how many battles you want. The vast majority of players in every battle will have red profiles, indicating bad winrates, PR, damage, etc. Most of the player base does not care about stats at all, but they do want their t10's. - There are people who sell their accounts, but I can only speculate on how profitable this can be and what would be the point of botting. I agree it's pointless, but it's also pointless that someone with 40% win rate and 17k battles is still playing the game, yet, here they are. Anyhow, MrConway responded, they'll look into it. Worst case scenario, he's genuinely very bad but not a bot, and he keeps ruining games, so no change, best case scenario, botting is determined and he's removed. That's one less person that makes the game less fun, so, worth it. As @MacArthur92 has pointed out, this person has a suspicious amount of battles per day (it's basically necessary to suicide quickly in order to even do this), extremely garbage stats in most ships, then in some ships (that he probably likes and actually plays, rather than run a bot) you can see a sharp increase. The gameplay is bot-like as well, as in, his lightning just moves forward into the enemy (in this case, Alaska, another DD and I forget what else), and keep sailing forward and shooting them until he dies. Kind of like bots in coop. Yes, there are players that bad, but when you look at all the evidence, it at least warrants a look. If there are indeed people running bots to skip grinds, they need to be removed as they make the game much less fun for the rest of us.

Sigh, making an argument there aren't many players with a tier 3 queue time.. you literally can't make this **** up. Point 1: This was on tier 3. Q times can be long on that. It has nothing to do with my example. Point 2: Saturday, sure, didn't say what time on sat, though, kind of irrelevant because of point 1. Point 3: My suspected bot was in a lightning, that's t8, in a t10 game. And I had no q time, so your counterexample is irrelevant. Point 4: All we want is for WG to check if this is indeed a player abusing the bot program, is there a point to your arguing against it? Does it hurt to check? There is literally nothing to lose here. Are you arguing for the sake of arguing, or are you genuinely opposed to WG checking for bots when someone looks suspicious? Again, all we're asking for is for WG to check. Not sure why you're arguing against it? Is there some downside to us asking them to check for botting? As you can see in this thread, there have been examples of accounts being removed because of this. Everyone's a winner when that happens. Apart from the guy running the bot, ofc, but good riddance there. With respect, you're arguing about your experiences in MM with someone that has over 22 times more battles than you do. You might not have spent enough time here to spot a bot, and that's fine, but stop arguing with people who have, please.

You're missing the point. There was no shortage of players, it was during prime time, and there was almost no q time, taken into battle instantly. This isn't some tinfoil WG bot to bolster player numbers, this is a player running a bot 24/7 to farm stuff with. WG does populate teams with bots in coop when there aren't enough players around, and you can tell it's a bot by the ":" in front of the name. This does not happen in randoms, and if there's a theory they do it secretly to bolster numbers, fine, but I highly doubt this is the case here. What we're trying to do here is get some action taken against people that are making the game worse for all of us, if that's all right with you.

I agree, we need this in the game:

If that was a bot, I'd be asking you where you bough it

Done, thanks for the advice. Sent a PM to MrConway with all the relevant details and the support ticket ID that I raised. Hopefully something happens. Another reason why his profile is highly suspicious: when you check his individual ship stats, you'll see that he actually does surprisingly decently in some, while the others are a sea of red. Basically, the dude likes his Yamato and play it, lets the bot handle the rest.

I remembered it wrong, but I did find his profile. This is him: Not allowed to name him. Shame he's allowed to mess up our games. I did raise a ticket to support and asked for them to check for botting.

I had a 40% wr lightning on my team with.. what was it.. 16-17k battles on my team yesterday. He played about a thousand battles in the last week alone. All he did was go to the 10 line on Northern Lights, charged an Alaska and died. Has to be a bot.. right? Reported him, but I doubt anything will come of it.

There's people with thousands of battles in Hosho. Unicum stats in that, garbage in basically everything else. t4 CV sealclubbing has been a thing for quite some time now. The problem he's trying to solve is triple CV per team matches where sealclubbers chase new players away. I mean, if my first contact with wows was multiple CV's farming me, you can be pretty sure I wouldn't have made 500 battles, let alone 11k.

From Wargaming's Big Sikrit Book of Balans: - you can't mess up what you don't have. Big Brain strats on WG's part right there.

So, while waiting for clan mates to come online to div with, I decided to take a Smol out to farm that fire damage directive. I got my directive, but.. this is why you don't play solo in randoms. Would have been won easily if I didn't have a few teammates who don't understand about going dark when low hp when it's a close game. Nah, just go charge a full hp mino and alaska with your 4k hp roon, what could possibly go wrong...

Same, in my opinion those changes will cause more problems than they will solve.

I can't explain it, but I kind of agree. Speaking realistically, the Surrey and Albemarle are far from the best in their respective tiers; there's nothing they do that you couldn't do better in some other, same tier cruiser. Albemarle especially can be a bit painful when it sees t10's.. you're slow and clumsy for a cruiser, and if forced into a kiting stance, well, there are cruisers that do it way better. I felt bad for one yesterday when I blapped him in my Repu while he was performing pretty much textbook perfect dodging maneuvers. Mind you, he wasn't a bad player either, in fact, he was pretty good, but in t10 the Albemarblehead is just very, very limited - there is no angle in which he can bounce me, and dodging is far less effective with it's lack of maneuverability, speed and range. All that being said, though.. I did have fun with this line so far, and I do want to see what the Drake's like. I should be hating the Albemarle grind towards the Drake, but for some weird reason, I don't. I guess if the guns work, I can forgive a lot - and if there's anything that works well on the new RN CA's, it's the guns.

I once took a break for like, 4 months, and it's amazing how much I had to re-learn. Never mind being away for 2 years after WG has been making one radical change after another - in a lot of ways, you have to learn from scratch. Good luck!

139mm is French DD caliber, not russian. Gremy, like other russian DD's all the way up to t10, uses 130mm guns. But yes, it's AP melts broadside cruisers. I had a Murmansk that thought he'd go gun duel me while broadside the other day in it, 3 salvos and 10 citadels later, he was dead Granted, an Omaha clone broadside is a pretty ideal situation for a Gremy, but still, lots of fun to cit cruisers with it.