Afghanicus

Random bundles? Thanks but I'll pass. I'm sick of those TBH.

Made a ticket with the (useless) support and after sending a (useless) template, they closed the ticket straight away. Not solved so I can give more input later on or anything but closed so I cannot add anything and pretend it never happened because most people forget too easily and too quickly nowadays. Interestingly enough, I opened another ticket related to another issue (team kill) and that one is marked as 'solved', no 'closed'. I can't express how unsatisfied I am with the WG's support. Not because I don't have words but because those words are not appropriate. And that's not based on one experience, it's based on a few dozens of tickets I've opened over the course of the last year or so. May I remind you that this bot is still playing 24/7? So I'll be well aware if WG does something about it so sending useless templates like these won't trick everyone, certainly not me. The guy's job is to close the ticket, not to do anything about it. He could, however, report to issue to the appropriate department but it's easier not to and guess what he did and what most of them do all the time...

Gotta love all these "opt-in" missions/events/whatever. Remind me again why we have to opt-in for everything lately?

I believe they have server issues again so the user/pass error isn't really associated with that. Just a guess since I'm getting this and cannot log in either.

What's so special about that additional caps anyways? I probably missed something but it didn't seem like anything 'special' or 'exclusive' to me. But yeah, limiting most events to T10 only is a terrible decision WG pushes so hard nowadays.

Is this a common thing?

I see a bright future for this thread.

You can use the search option on the forum and on Google as well. The keywords are "Research Bureau sucks". P.S. But if you need a reference article, here's one... https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/game-updates/research-bureau/ And the thread with forumites' comments... You can see how much the players love the RB by the reactions on the post as over 90% of those are negative ones. But since when WG cares about players opinion and feedback? Again, no surprises there.

Do I need to confirm that the bot has been playing all night again? And obviously it's playing right now? Yeah, there's that. The WR usually stays the same or improves over time, right? Yeah, not for bots apparently. I wish there was a number of the time player spent in battle. But I guess only WG can see that. And they are silent about this thread. I wonder why. (it must be a weekend, right? since that's their most common excuse for not giving any comments even when they are tagged and/or quoted)

You keep the ones you have. If you have a mission, you have until the end of 2020 to complete it and get the LM (actually UU is the proper name) If you don't have the mission yet, you won't be able to get it. The only way to obtain the UU will be in the future, via the "beloved" RB. That's all you (and everyone else) need to know.

And selling freeXP (by selling doubloons) which is one of the most insanely priced features WG sells to the player.

Oh, when you write in caps lock, you're actually highlighting something which actually means sarcasm? And other people should know what you think and how you write certain things? WOW, you're so SMART.

WG is doing it because the new model has more potential of profit. Not because anyone asked for it. Not sure what's unclear about that.

So it's coming back on 0.9.3? I hear the rewards have been nerfed and the issues not fixed. Rumors?

P.S. Unrelated to this issue but well related to how WG handles things... did you notice that WG staff are like BBs? They are slow but quite effective. They peak when they have to but if they get too many fires on (negative reactions to a post), the use DCP and disappear. P.S. I just hope the BBs won't peak again and blap me, that would be unfortunate.

@Sunleader I won't quote the whole post because this is getting long and difficult to read. I'd ask you to do the same. Some Random battles will be 2 minutes? That can be an exception, something that happens once in few hundreds games or more. Basically a statistical error that has no influence on the average score. But if you think Random battles can last 2 minutes and the average of 8000 games is 5 minutes... then there is really no need to discuss time battle with you any further. I'll leave the rest of the forumites say who is being delusional and I'll accept if it's me. Playing the same game 12 hours a day, during 64 days straight is a reasonable assumption? Are you serious? Nah, I'm sure you're just trolling me. So you're basically saying that only WG can make proper bots? So... during a "top recruiter gets 1000 euros" event when the whole server was infected with bots (acknowledged by WG), they were created by WG? I'm confused by your theory and "facts". If they created those bots, what was the reason? That assumption could open a Pandora's box I don't wanna peak into right now. If they didn't, why those bots didn't trigger the "Automatic Detection" you talk about? But instead players were the ones to report the bots to WG staff members and through tickets? Did you forget about all that and need a reminder? Because I remember very well what happened, how long it lasted, how it was handled and how "good" that 'detection system' worked. I'm not sure you understood me. I said I can prove that he is in battle 24/7. (by streaming my port where the 'battle symbol' is next to his name all the time, every day) He is in battle as we speak. Already well over 6,000 random battles. And still going. And he will be in battle during the whole night. And continue through the morning and next day. I'm sorry but a human being would DIE. It wouldn't be the first time though but I'm pretty sure it's not the case here. So for the sake of a human life, I urge WG to investigate. If it's not a bot we should reach out to him and save his life while we still have time. P.S. So it's been exactly 24 hours since I opened this thread. Let's see what he did during the last 24 hours. He had 5,912 Random battles. Now he has 6,007 Random battles. That's 95 random battles in the last 24 hours. He had 2,174 Co-op battles. Now he has 2,233 Co-op battles. That's 59 Co-op battles in the last 24 hours. So he did above average in the last 24 hours playing a total of 154 games. And he is in battle now as we speak and as I close the game and the forum. Have a good night and don't try to justify something that is obviously wrong. And don't try to prove a point when it's impossible to do so. No human player can play 24/7 for over 2 months. Now it's WG's turn to say something and ultimately do something about it.

Did you miss the fact that I played with him on multiple occasions and that he didn't die 'quickly enough' but rather survived one game longer than I did and I'm definitely not the first one to go? So we have a term 'average potato' now? Interesting. Seems like a nice term to avoid calling someone average (since he is below that) but also not calling him potato (because he would be above that). Even though 'average potato' would apply for 90% of players I believe. Not very specific, is it? 5 minutes per battle? I'll repeat myself - I'd like to see a player managing to die within the first 5 minutes of the game. Every single day. For over 8,000 games. Consistently. Do you see that as something possible? Because one of us definitely has a problem grasping reality based on facts. And besides that, you're ignoring all the facts already stated like choosing a different ship, waiting in queue (especially during 'low-activity' hours), waiting for the battle to start etc. Those times might not seem much but please don't ignore them because they make your calculations fail quite easily. I'm sorry but since when bots need to be bad? Why do you assume a bot is bad? You do realize that a bot can play better than a human player, right? You do realize that potato bots from co-op are potatoes because WG wants them to be potato. They could make a bot that is better than the best human players in the game. So this argument is totally void and there is no need to go into details here at all. So does WG allow shared accounts? It would be nice to know. Or they keep silent and act as they feel at the specific moment, depending on the player in question and how much money he "supported" WG with? You're comparing a time decades ago when a whole family shared a single computer with a time nowadays when every kid has a PC a laptop and a phone. I don't want to go into your personal descriptions but I don't find them relevant at all TBH. But to make your story short - you believe the account is being shared with players who live in different time zones and manage to have the account playing 24/7. Bottom line: WG can check this easily and see what is going on. Apparently they either don't care or they know very well what is going on but choose not to do anything. It wouldn't be the first time they act like that. As for my side... I can open the game and stay in port for 24 hours while recording the screen. Then make a 24-hour video (x100 the speeed, obviously) showing the account in battle during all that time. But even then there would be someone like you who would find it completely normal and would say that it's just 3 guys playing 8 hours each and living on different parts of the world while being on the EU server for some reason (LAG is a made-up thing, right?). Yeah, very believable.

P.S. Another 34 Random and 59 co-op battles since last night. You know, when actual human beings sleep in the EU region. That's 93 battles in the last 19 hours. Or nearly 5 battles per hour, on average. During the whole (last) night and (today's) day. So our guy is pretty consistent. I guess he doesn't check the forums. Yeah, totally normal and approved by WG standards.

I can tell you one thing... this bot has been botting for over 2 months and WG did nothing about it. What do you have? Should we revisit him in another month or two? When he gets to over 10,000 battles? What will be an excuse then? If you don't play attention doesn't mean you haven't play with or against them. Try to see the bigger picture instead of acting like a regular WG support guy sending templates as responses such as "If it's against the rules, WG will punish him". If I got a penny every time I heard that. Then you see the same guy playing without any issues long time after WG was supposed to do something about it. I never said they have to get back at me. I can see by myself if they did something or not. As this is NOT the first account I found and certainly not the last I'll find. But you seem to speak in WG's name, while saying completely different things. They repeat that the system will take care of them and you say that they will look into it themselves. So what is it? Are you the one that will look into it? Because if not, I don't see how you can claim something different that WG claims and be so sure about it.

WG, tell us again why are you forcing something that doesn't even work properly despite nobody ever asking for it??? Most recent situation.. I installed the PTS update today but I cannot finish the installation. Or at least that's what the wonderful WGC tells me reporting errors all over the place. Then I tried starting the game from the application itself by double clicking on the .exe file and guess what... I entered the game with no issue. That's something you plan to remove for all players. For reasons only know to you. What is it? WGC can show ads and promotions for ships being sold for doubloons? Can show news on ship discounts and loot box bundles? Is that the reason why you're pushing something up our throats??? Seems like you're intentionally shooting yourself in the knee. Constantly. The issues that players complain about are left aside while you focus on things nobody ever asked for. That's how you come up with the NTC/RB, that's how the PR fiasco happened and that's how the future of WOWs looks like. I wished I was wrong but you're confirming this every single time.

So you know better than the WG staff members and WG support? Really not trying to be rude here but they consistently repeat the the system ("detection methods" as they call it) will take care of such issues, that they don't and won't do anything about it. But you're saying that they will look into it and take care of it? Based on what? Your optimistic opinion?

And tell me again what makes you think it's a human player and not a bot like the one I reported, the one @Hanse77SWE mentioned, the ones that infected WOWs during the recruiting fiasco or many others?

Oh, some of them couldn't wait for that then. Thanks for the heads up. Well, you know how to obtain the info then. Not through PM.

So in the last 35 hours, how many hours did you spend on activities other than playing WOWs? I don't want to get into details or anything personal, just wondering how many hours in those 35 hours you played WOWs. You know, as a reference.

I'd give you an advice based on personal experience but I'm afraid mods would find it inappropriate. And I just got out of the forum ban so I'm terribly sorry for not being able to help you.