Afghanicus

Haven't played in a while and just wanted to see how is the player base at the moment... Again the same - I'm collecting 90% of the filth for the ones who are either lazy or straight noobs. It's not like I'm in a bad team. The rest is doing pretty much the same... Other players being destroyed by bots, some of them by ramming. OMFG. This distribution of filth SUCKS. Don't do it like this, ever again.

Yeah, I know some of the developers said that this might not be the 'final shape' and that some things might change based on our suggestions. That's why we're discussing this in the first place. Even though WG didn't necessarily show any appreciation for any suggestions/feedback so far. And also it's quite hard to give a proper feedback when we don't know most of the facts concerning the event.

It's one of those 2 things for sure. Either you have manual secondaries captain skill and you're not selecting the enemy or you completely disabled the secondaries and AA and pressing 'P' would enable it again.

Yes. I believe I got those doubloons in PTS 0.8.9 but it might have been even before that. Does that mean that we won't be receiving any additional doubloons on the PTS? I thought PTS is for testing and doubloons and premium time would be awarded for each PTS update. P.S. The above bug with "Autumn Season" seems to be present for everyone but most players don't bother writing here or reporting an issue. So we have an "Autumn Season #3" mission. Once completed it 'morphs' into "Autumn Season #1" mission which was probably active during PTS 0.8.9 or something like that. This makes all kind of confusions... - Is the 'Autumn' mission finished or not? - Should we complete the 'new' one as well or it's a bug? - Are we getting the prize on the main server or due to the bug, the prizes will be bugged as well? - After many people reported it, why it wasn't looked into and fixed? @YabbaCoe

If I'm not mistaken, there are 11 missions across the first 3 directives that require Gorizia. We don't have number and won't have them until 0.8.11 goes live but... If you buy her straight away you will be able to complete those missions much faster than the rest of the players who will obtain her after finishing the 3rd directive. That way all the shipbuilding tokens you receive thanks to Gorizia will speed up the construction of PR compared to other players who will be behind like 10-12 days or so. That will most likely make a difference, at least in how many doubloons you'll have to bleed at the end of the event. Of course all this depends on many factors which are currently unknown and WG won't say anything about it (even tho it would be perfectly normal for the players to know what they are facing in the next update) - How many tokens do you get per mission? - How many tokens do you get per completed directive? - What's the cost of one booster when paid with tokens? - How many boosters are there, in total, obtainable by tokens? - What's the cost of one booster when paid with doubloons? - How many boosters are there, in total, obtainable by doubloons? - How long will one directive last? - What is the total number of tokens available during the event? etc. etc. Some of these questions have answers in the PTS but that might differ from the live server so we shouldn't rely on that data. And from the experience with sneaky WG developers... we won't know anything until the event goes live.

WG's RNG is special. It seems like an everyday RNG but it's actually rigged just a lil bit, comrade. I got T8 and T9 in the first few bundles. When I saw that T10 will be at the end, I gave up. Whoever says it's simply RNG either doesn't have a proper sample to check the facts or wants to be on WG's side no matter what. From my experience, experience from clan mates, ppl I talked in chat and based on some threads here in the forum... all camos were obtained either at the very beginning or at the very end. T10 for example was found in the last (or last few) bundles most of the time. That can't be a coincidence but WG will never acknowledge that.

One more observation... Most of us got used finishing the directives quite fast. Didn't really matter what nation or class you pick, you would be completing most of the directives and then you could focus on the ones missing. With the 0.8.11 grind for each directive you will have to pick a specific nation, a specific class and sometimes even tier in order to complete it. It will take much more time, effort and discipline than all other directives we had so far. I'm glad I participated in the PTS and could see the shipbuilding process which was made quite nice. Wish some lower tier ships can be built this way, with obviously not so devastating grind.

Rank 1 might mean something in a regular season. In Ranked Sprint means absolutely nothing. Many good players don't even bother with that.

These are the missions I won't be able to complete for sure... I probably won't complete some additional ones but these below are simply impossible to even start due to lack of specific ships needed for completion of the missions/directive. I guess that's like most newer players who have no T10 ships. Probably some newer players can complete even less missions and some older ones might cross some of the missions listed above. No matter what, it's not even worth trying for anyone in a similar position. The grind is only for players who... - Have plenty of T10 ships to finish the whole 7th directive (a must) - Have Blyskawica, Friesland or Nueve de Julio (probably not a must if you're ready to bleed some doubloons in exchange) - Will buy Gorizia for cash as soon as she is available (that way they will have advantage over the ones that will get her after the 3rd directive and will be able to finish all prior missions from the first 3 directives) - Will spend A LOT of time during holidays to grind it ('a lot' is relative but a tough grind will be required) - Will buy the boosters for doubloons immediately (the sooner you buy them the faster you'll increase your points/minute and more chances you'll have to complete it in time) - Will be ready to pay even more doubloons by the end of the event when the ship is near-completion (depending on how and when you completed the directives and purchased to boosters)

Yeah, I've checked many account and it seems that on most of them the T10 camo appears in the last slot. What a coincidence. That's why I gave up almost at the beginning and I'm very glad I did.

And? I grinded Benham for free, so what? The grind was no big deal and I had free time. It was not during holidays or anything like that. If I recall correctly it was about finishing daily missions which was not that hard, as long as you were playing daily. The grind did NOT require you to have T10 ships, to buy a certain premium ship, to pay something with doubloons etc. otherwise I wouldn't have it. Puerto Rico is a completely different story. I don't see the point of your personal approach to my f2p but there's that. If you need some further clarification, you can drop me a private message. Let's not clog the topic with personal crap which is irrelevant anyways.

I'll ask you again when you see the price of Gorizia + price needed per booster + price for completion of Puerto Rico by the end of the shipbuilding process. 4-6k doubloons is nothing and you probably collected that amount for a year or so. Let's be real.

So there are 3 ways they are selling the ticket to Puerto Rico... 1. Buying boosters which will increase the rate of points per minute (this will most likely be like 10,000 doubloons per booster or something similar) 2. Selling Gorizia which is needed for many directives 3. Completing the Puerto Rico with doubloons at the end pressing the magic button (the price will depend on the completion % done) If you ignore all 3 ways, you probably won't be able to complete Puerto Rico in time and if you pay any of those ways then it's not free anymore, is it? Just stating the obvious... I don't even have to try with a total of 30 ships in my port and only Zao of T10. P.S. @wot_2016_gunner, where are your T10 ships? None? With no T10 ships, no intention of paying for Gorizia and only 2500 doubloons.. I believe you can forget about Puerto Rico even if you spend 24/7 over the holidays playing WOWs.

Yeah, another CV thread is just what we needed. Thanks, I almost forgot about them.

The sounds in WOWs are inconsistent anyways but even the Jingles soundpack is inconsistent within itself. Not Jingles fault definitely as WG should have checked the files and normalized them properly. Now some of them are too loud, others you barely hear.

Oh, it's still Halloween update? I forgot about it already as I found it very repetitive and boring.

This seems like it will be the most extensive grind ever and in the middle of the holidays. Seems perfect. My condolences to the ones grinding their lives over the holidays on this. I guess they listened to the players about the repetitive directives and made them 100x more difficult, requiring most of the available ships (especially T10 ships) + Gorizia which is probably a must if you want to stand a chance in this grind. As far as I'm concerned, it will be ignored completely.

Paying with doubloons at the end makes sense, especially from the WG's business perspective as that's how they generate most of the income.

That sounds nice. But that's something WG would never adopt. I'm sure you're aware of that but dream on... dreams are free :)

I can assure you that the outcome of 'near-completion' will be very real and the most common one, mark my words. Then a small % of those players will throw additional doubloons for the completion which works most of the time but in this time-sensitive event, I'm not sure that even that will help building the 'Puerto Rico' in time. Later finishing of the build? Forget about it. They will just say "you didn't make it but you did earn some rewards along the way" (containers and credits/flags/whatever) Remember how hard was it to get Benham? Well, now it will be harder, it will be more unpredictable due to the time factor and less playable due to holidays. So the best option, the non-frustrating one will be to ignore it. Otherwise there will be a lot of mentioned blacklash promoting something "for free" when in fact you have to pay for it but in this case it's more like you have to pay as soon as possible, otherwise it might be too late...

^ What I find the most frustrating is the fact that WG knows exactly how many tokens you need to obtain a certain prize and in this case, WHEN you need to use them in order to get it. But they never say anything about it. They want the players to invest their time and doubloons and later realize that they are missing just a little bit to obtain the reward and the only way is the put even more doubloons into it. I know it's business but honestly it's quite miserable way of doing it, if you're asking me.

We can't work with any numbers from the PTS as they will differ from the ones on the live server. Once it goes live, someone can make an estimate... But it will probably be expensive and hard to get. Also the sooner you use the boosters, the more chances you have on completing Puerto Rico in time. There hasn't been any word from WG as to if it's possible to finish it without doubloons or not, how many doubloons will be per booster etc. And more likely they won't even say anything.

Or.... or.... just remove the mercy rule for co-op battles. It's not like bots require mercy.

Working exactly as intended. I advise to use his voice in co-op battles as it can be fun but also confusing and frustrating at time if used in important ones like Random/Ranked/Clan battles.

Those 3000 doubloons would be perfect for the boosters on Puerto Rico and the premium time would be great for a non-premium player. I wouldn't complain getting some free flags either. Not fair...