Afghanicus

Doesn't seem to be premium account. No premium ships. The only non tech-tree ship appears to be JB. Most likely obtained by coal. So even the Soviet capitalism cannot be the reasoning here. But WG is the only one to see what's behind the curtain. Unless they are the ones putting the curtain there in the first place. If you know what I mean...

While my assumptions were an average battle time and thus a bit longer than what a BOT would have, the assumptions given that a battle lasts 2 minutes on average are invalid (to avoid using a rude word here). 8.5 hours a day? That gives the "magic" 4 minutes per battle. And I still argue that it's not possible. I'm not saying that you cannot die withing 4 minutes or sooner but I am saying that you cannot have an average battle time of 4 minutes in Random battles, consistently, for more than two months. Period. The ranked and other stats might mean that he actually played (or plays) some games here and there but definitely the majority (if not all) of his games are played by a BOT. You think his K/D or other stats are good for a bot? Why do you assume his bot is bad in the first place? Have you ever seen stats of the bots that WG uses in co-op battles or scenarios? If you doubt any of the facts I'm wiring here, feel free to message me and I'll send you a link to his account. It's not name/shame if it's private, is it? (those name/shame rules are still totally vague and stupid TBH) I don't know what you were going on with the last sentence... disconnections? What do they have to do with anything? I'm seeing him in battle, not in port. He has the crossed swords or whatever the symbol is when someone is in battle, all the time that I'm in port. Care to explain? Well, if that's the case then I don't expect WG to do anything about it... Oh wait! That's 100 battles in 35 hours. Or 2.86 battles per hour. He plays 126 battles in 24 hours. Or 5.25 battles per hour. That's not a small difference. It's almost twice as many game as you. So two questions for you... 1. Do you see yourself playing twice as many games as you played your last 35 hours? 2. Do you see yourself playing like that for over 2 months, constantly, without a single break? Thank you.

Being today a last day of the PTS, I decided to update it and give it a try but I'm unable to. Getting stuck at "Checking integrity..." (25%) and then giving an error... Thanks WG for letting me try the PTS, much appreciated.

You do realize that this thread is about something completely different. It's not so much about how he plays but how much he plays. I'm aware that the amount of potatoes is beyond comprehension and I see it every single battle. But let's focus on bots and the issue of them in WOWs. As well as how WG "handles" them.

Well, could be many reasons... from WG making the game appear more popular than it is to players who paid a lot of money for a functioning bot but making a business out of it (and anything in between).

Big brain, huh? Well, not really. Each bot has it's "owner". The owner monitors the situation, he checks the bot from time to time, buys the ships and does everything regarding the account. Except actually playing the battles. So if you ban the account and the owner really feels the WG system (and their "detection system") sucks, they will appeal the ban and try to make their bot work again.

Why? I don't see it violates any of the rules. No name/shame (name removed) or anything else. We're discussing a problem affecting WG and all players playing the game, aren't we? Besides, a WG staff replied so that's an approval of the thread and issue in my book. Nothing valid to back any of the impossible claims he made but still a reply.

I'd also like to see a shared account by players playing from different part of the world being in battle 24/7. I'd really like to see that. P.S. Yes, WG can easily check that but seems like they don't want to. I don't want to make assumptions as to why.

*keeps tinfoil hat on* Maybe those bots are created by WG to make it look like there are more players online than there actually are, especially during those 'low-activity' hours... That's why they do nothing about it and let "the system take care of them" while convincing us that those accounts are perfectly normal which is quite disappointing TBH.

I'd have to check the replays and see. From yesterday... the first game I didn't even notice him. But a team mate wrote in chat that he is a bot as he played with him last battle. Then I noticed his name and remembered playing with him and thinking the same (never cared to check at that time the stats or anything). That first game he rammed into me and kept his engine full ahead without turning. Or at least that's how it looked like because you know that when you're in those situation (or on a map border), you cannot really control the ship as you would in open waters. Then the next game (or the one after that) I played without caring for the names of the players. Once I got sunk, I checked what an idiot is doing (so I died before him) and noticed the SAME name again and I was like "you gotta be kidding me". Then I checked the stats and everything was clear. Especially when he kept jumping into the next battle. For the rest of the day. And night. And this morning. And till the end of times.

No premium ships in his port. So your theory is off, at least in this case. The bold part is a very important fact. Since "he" plays 24/7 he plays also during low-activity times like last night (30 games in the last 10 hours). Waiting in queues during those hours would last longer than the battle itself. Whoever played during those hours knows that. I did stay until 2-3am some days and I know the time in queue gets longer and longer. Besides, I already said that he does not die in the first 2 minutes. Firstly, because it's very unlikely, especially to have that odd situation happening 8,000 times in a row but also because I played with him and can confirm this is NOT the case. I have replays to back it up. I don't think that's how a account/server transfer works. I'm sure a WG staff can confirm this. Besides, that would explain the numbers if you check his account ONCE. It would not explain how the numbers keep rising every time you refresh his stats.

So according to you, the average battle time for all battles modes was 2 minutes? Based on what? On ONE video showing that a CV has been killed within 2:30min? Seriously? You cannot have over 8,000 battles (mostly Random) with an average of 2 min per battle. Let's not kid ourselves and look at the facts realistically, please. I'd like to see such account/player. I'm not saying it's impossible but highly unlikely. Even if your goal is to die asap, it's still not easy to achieve. And according to his WR of over 45% it doesn't seem he goes YOLO and dies first in the first 5 minutes of the game (let's forget the 2-minute mark as it's the most stupid thing I've heard lately). And as I said... I played a few games with him (2 of those only yesterday so I have replays) so he definitely did not die asap. But he did ram into me and then continue going full ahead without changing speed, turning the ship or doing anything until I was able to let him pass. During the "incident" he never even turned the guns, he didn't horn, didn't write anything in chat and didn't use the 'Shift+F12' command which is again highly unlikely. P.S. As I said, he is in battle non-stop. He played about 30 games since I posted last night and please note that I posted at 2am when most people went to bed or are going to bed soon. But not our guy. Our guy decided not to sleep but play instead and managed to play about 30 games since my post which was 10 hours ago. But hey Palubarac... you say... 30 games in 10 hours is possible. That's 3 games per hour or 20 minutes per game. That's actually longer than any average. Yeah, during "sane" hours. Not from 2AM to noon. Every single day. But as I said before... WG can check this very very easily. But I guess the goal is to convince us that bots don't exist even though it is a problem that should be acknowledged instead of covering it. We all remember what happened during that 1000 euros prize for the "best recruiter" or whatever it was. I think the server was so infected with bots that even WG couldn't deny it anymore. But let's pretend those things never happened and hope the new players have no idea about it...

Dear Sehales, Are you actually serious? Those lines (bold ones) can't pass through my skull TBH. First of all, before even writing anything you could have checked his games. If needed, I can provide reports. I have played with him on different occasions in the last few days (2 games only yesterday) and he did NOT die in the first few minutes of the game. Even if he did, could you please provide us with numbers to back up your theory? Of someone having no job or family and just playing your game? I'd like to see some numbers, please. I've put mine, I expect you to put yours. It's not like I suspect he is a bot, I know 100% he is one. I mean, a WG staff can easily see his average battle time and how many hours he spends a day playing, can't you? So do us a favor and check, then give us the numbers so we can understand your theory which sounds very very very unlikely (I'd dare saying impossible). P.S. The last line (the underlined one) basically says what the WG support always says - "We won't do anything about this, the system will take care of that. Sooner or later". If you don't see this then I believe there is a problem. Just keep in mind that this bot has been 'botting' for the last 2 months so your "detection methods" aren't very effective, are they? The same way they were not effective during the mentioned "1000 euros for the top recruiter" event and players had to report those all the time. Let's be at least a bit transparent here and leave those silly stories for the newbies.

I know this is PTS-related but I also know how most players don't give a F about the PTS and then when it goes live they are like "wait wut!?". Therefore, I'm opening this thread to discuss WG's latest full-RNG mode with the tokens, 'European Tokens' in this case. Seems like WG misses the RNG so much that on the PTS they've set '"European Containers" to give anywhere from 10 'European Tokens' up to 140 'European Tokens'. Isn't that way exaggerated difference and forced RNG? I know PTS values are not final but if nobody points out how bad this is... they will have no troubles implementing the same ones on the live server, once 0.9.2 kicks in. We are talking about 14:1 RNG ratio here which is insane. Also keep in mind that players will mostly get the ones with 10 tokens only. The 140 ones will be quite rare. As expected, most of the 'European containers' will give 10 tokens. The rest will be 20/30/40 and very rarely the 140 tokens one. Additionally, are we going to get some Historical Captain to go with the European DDs? If so, there is absolutely no word about it. On the PTS we can see what the tokens can be used for (standard flags, signals, camos, premium days etc.) but I'm pretty sure there will be some 'main reward', most likely costing the same 1000 tokens which is not mentioned at all. Shouldn't players be informed about these in due time so they can prepare accordingly, especially when the rewards on the PTS are tokens which we have no idea how worthy they are. Maybe WG could say something in advance instead of keeping everything so mysterious til the very end, going alongside 'soviet seKrets'. Interestingly enough, if the "1000 tokens for the main reward" is true... I can share that after completing all directives and collecting all possible rewards on the PTS, I obtained just over 900 'European tokens' which WG probably calculated well enough, planning that most players won't be able to get the 1000 tokens the the 'main reward' even if they grind everything. This BS reminds me of the previous 'Early access British CAs' where the majority of players finished all directives, collected all rewards and got no ship at all, myself included. So not only that WG is expecting players to grind (often mindlessly) for rewards but those rewards are now becoming RNG-based and WG's RNG is quite weak giving quite often absolutely nothing to the majority of players.

I believe I was over 52% but the ROFLSTOMPs in the past few weeks have been insane. All stats significantly dropped recently. But that's a story for another topic. I'm not sure how could you help. Do you have a reply of ANY class being bullied by a CV? I'd like to see how you counter that. I'm sure that would be helpful. P.S. I'm afraid I won't be reaching those 3k battles, the devs are just going in a direction that doesn't go alongside my goals and the definition of having fun.

Is there a number? I'm definitely playing more co-op as I find it less toxic and the more potatoes in my team the better. But that's not the topic here. Look, we're definitely looking at thing from different perspectives. The way I see it is... when I'm in battle I obviously have to think about positioning, especially against ships that can hurt me bad. Either to stay away from those or angled. That usually works fine for me. But if you add a CV into the mix, it ruins all that. If I'm angled against those targets, I can't be angled against CVs at the same time, can I? And there are so many planes (being so fast) that a CV can turn them the way he/she wants in seconds and get a perfect shot almost every single time without me being able to do anything. Sure there are way to counter CVs but they are far less effective than the ones countering other classes. No class and no ship has such an influence on the battle as a single CV (I don't even want to mentioned lower tiers when facing 2 CVs on the enemy team which can't be more frustrating).

According to you, how many Random battles I have to play in order to be entitled to have an opinion about CVs? (since no clan/ranked battles count towards that either I guess)

Well, (for me at least) CVs take much more DMG no matter what you do and are quite impossible to counter (we went over this I believe). Anyways... If I receive huge hits from BBs it's because I did something wrong and I'm pissed at myself. If a CV decides to kill me in an attack or two and I cannot do anything about it... I'm pissed at WG and the (un)balance.

I find it much easier to angle against BBs or even hide than escaping CVs plane or hide from those. Maybe it's just me, huh?

Just to drop it here... any further comment would be toxic so I'll restrain from it.

Waiting for week 3 as I'm noticing more and more ROFLSTOMPs (again?)... In the last few days I believe I'm having more ROFLSTOMPs than proper battles lasting longer than 10-12 minutes. I even had a double ROFLSTOMP (which results in a non-ROFLSTOMP?)... It was today so I can probably dig some post-battle stats and replays but in short... Each team lost 1 ship only but the enemy managed to get all 3 caps at the very beginning and their points were climbing fast. After just 7-8 minutes into the battle, they were over 950 points, getting to 1,000 and ending the battle with almost no ship losses on either side. Then my team finally started pushing and we turned a sure loss into a ROFLSTOMP because we crashed all enemies in the following minutes while we lost only a few ships in the process... Quite fun game for a change, something I don't encounter playing for days...

Like this one? Not sure if I missed some achievement. Maybe that was the reason for losing...

I'd understand if they mentioned the Pi day only but they mentioned the camo as well alongside the perks of that camo. Why advertising a camo players have no way of getting? I'm puzzled.

It's a terrible event forcing RNG into every possible aspect. But yeah, it's about a tech-tree line that will be available in the next update so totally fine ignoring it completely. P.S. Don't worry, they don't care about those surveys. They are doing it so that players think they care about the feedback when we all know they don't.

I have a couple of these from last year but I don't remember how I got them and I can't see in the FB article any information about it...