Ten_ichigo

More XP for capping and defending might lead to battles close to the capzones and hopefully less camping at the back.

I do understand your frustration and you're comments have the best intentions. The question is: what is the solution? Take for example the submarines: some like it, some don't want it, to which people are you going to listen? It doens't matter which side WG chooses, they will always disappoint people. The best option for WG is to go for the subs, because it creates new content and new revenues. Not every change is an improvement and i think there will be a complete other kind of event next Christmas, due to all the complaints about the PR (although it will be Always grinding and paying to get a premium ship). But what else could WG do? Quit the event halfway? then everyone who has spent doubloons or time in grinding the PR was upset. Choices are not always easy.

This is exactly what i was trying to say. Sure, there will always be sealclubbers at the lower tiers, but not as much as some suggest.

It would not be adviseable to make a TV Cruiser, a TVII BB and a TIX DD for instance, cause People might get unhappy with what they got: True. I was thinking of a BB or CA that was build around the WW1 (tier 5), updated in the interbellum (tier 7) and updated again in WW2. I like your idea. I only think if you make it doable for the average player, a tier 9 ship is now to easy to get if you compare it to similar events. The PEF (tier 6) was a tough grind, so a tier 9 grind must be really hard to keep it equal.

I don't know what you mean by clear info. When the event started, i took a look at the directives and knew i wasn't gonna make it in time to get the PR. So i didn't even bother to grind.

Another thing i was thinking of is replace the coalgathering and make it a dockyardidea. 1. You choose a ship you want to build beforehand. The same ships you can now buy for coal. If you pick a tier 4 or lower it has a relative short buildingtime, if you pick a tier 9 it will go very slowly. 2. Instead of getting coal, you can: simply wait for the ship to be build (could take a year), spend a resource to speed up the building (coal, steel) or spend doubloons to really speed up the process. Now players have a choice of which ship they get (a BB player probably doesn't want a dd) and at which pace. You may get the ship without doing anything but having patience, or you can get the ship much faster by spending resources. It is all up to the players and since most of the players do not have much patience, resources and money will be spent.

I like the idea of 3 versions of one ship. The only thing that could be a problem is that all ships are from the same tier. My idea is to make a tier 5 ship: not to hard to grind (a bit like the Exeter grind) and a good ship. If you want this ship, you have to do some grinding, but it is not necessary to give up your real life. You may spend doubloons on a booster, but it is not necessary. Then a modernized/upgraded version could be a tier 7 or 8 ship: to complete this you have to grind more and spend doubloons on one booster. You get the options to get the standard tier 7/8 ship. The grinding is doable, but the average player need to play some extra time to get it. Then a tier 10 version of the ship (another modernization). A setup for grinding like the PR. Now everyone has a choice and something to get. Add the option to get the tier 5 ship and after the event upgrade it for coal/doubloons/steel to the tier 7 or 10 version would also be nice.

15.000 doubloons? I have to pay 35.000 doubloons to get it. No way i'm gonna pay that: with 35k doubloons i can buy a Massachusetts, a Lenin and a Kaga --> much more fun. And if i use the coupon from the armory i still have a few thousands doubloons left.

As one of those captains playing the Hosho: a problem in this case is that there is no tier 5 CV. I want to go to the next carrier, but that takes 68000 XP, which is quite a lot. So now i am forced to play a lot of Hosho games to advance trough the techtree and i think a lot of players have this problem, making tier 4 an overpopulated cv-tier.