Afghanicus

Another thread about April's fools? Just what we needed.

Yes, to bleed real money by buying random bundles for 1000 doubloons each. Then you'll be WG'ed.

Don't trust me on that. It was just a guess based on something I've read before. But I guess you could try with the cheapest one and let us know since I don't plan to buy any, at least until I get all information I need which is somehow always missing when WG releases something and then players have to spend hours and days figuring out what is going on. Seems like WG will never learn.

Has this also been confirmed by WG? Source? Also Flumbass' discord? P.S. And another question... since I'm a noob when it comes to captains (already said that above), do these captains extend the reserve? I'm asking because I usually have no space there and I have to 'fire' captains which have the 6 points (more or less, irrelevant) so getting new ones to replace existing ones with the same/similar amount of points doesn't make much sense to me. At least in my case.

I think you keep them. They stay in your inventory and they you can either sell them for half the price (I believe it's half as most other things) or keep them until you eventually buy that ship (if it's available). P.S. I don't know anyone that spent credits on any upgrades when it comes to rental ships. Even when it's a 7-day or 10-day rental, let alone a 1-day rental. But nothing can surprise me anymore.

I agree 100%. This is NOT the first time they "forget" to put a date on a mission. I have brought this to the attention of a WG staff few months ago and it was acknowledged but I guess they didn't care enough to actually pay more attention to those details which confuse most players.

I have 3-4 times more co-op battles than randoms despite WG doing everything they can to cripple and ultimately kill PvE.

How long will this collection last??? (how much time we have to complete it?)

Yeah, works for me to. I guess it was some server issue, at least for some players.

Well, I don't know how to tell you this but.... that's the exact reason why you can rent those ships. You don't want to give the possibility to rent many ships that you can try and not like, do you? So if you want to try out some of the others ships from the premium store, you have to buy them. If you don't like then... tough luck sunshine.

Seriously now... To me the simplest and the most effective solution would be to make the whole map as a ring and the border as fire. Same like we had during some events or the type of thing you see in most 'battle royal' games, except it would be fixed, not shrink over time. That way only when your ships "crosses the border" (what most players do when they abuse this 'feature') they constantly lose HP for as long as they are peaking out of the map. Once they get back into battle, no more HP is lost but the HP lost cannot be recovered, no matter what heal you have. Simplest because WG has that feature already from some of the previous events/game mods/whatever. Most effective because no fire/flooding occur which could have a lot of consequence even if you just touch the border and then get out as fast as you can. Just my 2c.

I was calculating with eliteXP because it's much easier to demonstrate my point and it's precise math. Instead of calculating how much time/effort it would take as it depends on how good you are, how many battles you play and what signal flags you use. But from the beginning I said that you need a couple of games to get him to those 6 points meaning that you should play those couple of games and get a fresh captain to 6 points, not waste 30k eliteXP on that. But I guess I failed at explaining what I meant and therefore I give up. We talk about similar things but seems like we talk from different parallel universes as we both keep repeating the same things but don't coincide on anything. You find a random 6-point captain (random bundles, let's not forget that "wonderful" feature WG pushes down our throats all the time) to be worth 250k/250 doubloons? Great, go for it. Just make sure you do keep the captain after the 24-hour period because I haven't seen that being confirmed yet. But I'm guess we'll know tomorrow for sure.

Nah, I don't have many good captains and I don't have much Elite Captain XP but that's not the point here. Also, I'm sure you know how easy it is to get a captain to the first 3 points, not so difficult to get him to 6 points, some effort and time to get him to 10 points and a lot of time and effort to get him to 19 points. The time/effort/eliteXP grows EXPONENTIALLY. That's important to remember. You need 30k eliteXP to get him to 6 points. You need 180k eliteXP to get him to 10 points. And you need 1.7mil eliteXP to get him to 19 points. That's all. Just a clarification and looking at the bigger picture and how 30k for 6 points captain compares to 1.7mil for 19 points captain. (1.76% for your information) But I feel I'm getting negative here even though I just wanted to explain my perspective. So I'll just show myself out of this thread.

Do you play at high tiers nowadays? Because I have a completely different feeling than you do. And "weekend warriors" is not really relevant nowadays because most people are stuck at home anyways, no matter what day of the week it is. But we're getting off-topic here. I just know for a fact that I'm not afraid of anyone being able to play a premium ship for 24 hours. I'm encountering potatoes all the time which have premium ships for years, not 24 hours and I have to accept it so this wouldn't change anything in that regard.

Yeah, because such things never happen now. [/s]

These bundles are to "test the water" and see how players react. One one side you have a good offer (if you already own a ship or if you keep the captain anyways, which is still unclear apparently) but on the other side WG is pushing the 'random bundles' nobody likes. So if they get a positive response because players want 6-point captain for 250k (which is a good deal, I never said it wasn't... IF you keep the captain) they will automatically think that 'random bundles' are well accepted by the player-base as well. These are rookie mistakes made by WG or they just to convince themselves that certain features are good when in fact they aren't. Or maybe it's to show someone tomorrow that the players asked for random bundles so they delivered. P.S. I don't have enough captains at all. I don't own many premium ships and I didn't even know how all that work TBH. So I have ONE 19-point captain. But every other captain I have is definitely over 6 points. As I said - I need a couple of games to get him to those 6 points. As soon as I buy him I get him at 3 points which is enough for PT and EM/AR/LS (depending on the class) and then just a few games and I'm at 6 points already. Getting him to 10 points does take a bit more time or using a bit more Elite Commander pts than I'd like to.

I'm not saying they won't come in handy for many players. I'm not saying it's a bad deal. Just don't calculate the worth of something based on WG's insane prices, especially for converting doubloons into Elite Commander or freeXP. That's just silly. And I don't really understand the bold part. I said already that you need like 30k Elite Commander pts to get the 1-skill commander to the 6-points one. It's completely irrelevant if you'll keep him at 6 points, develop him into a 10-pointer or get it all the way to 19-point captain. The difference is still 30k Elite Commander pts. Just to make it clear.

Are we really calculating the worth based on WG's insanely over-priced converting? Come on, you can do better than that. I said it's achievable in a couple of games. I hope nobody is that stupid to convert doubloons to Commander Elite points.

Yeap, still works. Just got mine. Tnx.

Don't tell me WG didn't give all details about the event and kept it a vague mystery? Nah, that would never happen.

I'm just tired of so many potatoes every single battle. If you're pink and do your best to remain pink... how can you still play freakin' Randoms? Potatoes are only on low tiers, they say. Players on high tiers know how to play, they say.

If I understood correctly... If you keep the captain only if you have the ship. And if you have a ship you don't really need to test it, do you? So if you don't have the ship you pay 250k credits (or 250 doubloons) for 24-hour rental. Maybe interesting for some, definitely not for me. As for the captain... if you own those ships already 6-point captain for 250k (or 250 doubloons) is alright but nothing to brag about. Getting a captain to 6 points requires like 30k elite commander points which is achievable in a couple of games. And if you don't own those ships (like me) then you get nothing after those 24 hours and then it's definitely not worth the buy. Well, just my stand on it. Doesn't mean you'll share the same opinion.

I vote for explosion. 10 seconds on the border of the map and your ship explodes in pieces. No "detonation flags" received because it was not bad luck, it was your bot-like behavior.

Did you really expect that anything German would be any good in WOWs? They are the most crippled ships that exist in the game and it seems that will stay that way.

Potatoes will potato. In T2 or T10. Doesn't matter anymore. Maybe once upon a time it mattered but it definitely doesn't matter right now. And it's not like WG is trying to do anything about it. Shall I remind you how a 'just registered' player could have bought 'Puerto Rico' for 200 euros or so? Yeah, way to go.