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Given it took a while to deploy this update, do we get 1 days premium reimbursed?

I can't even bring myself to do them in co-op. Now that I've had my recent FreeXP blowout, I could skip to Ryūjō and spam scenarios in it.

Current tier in (parens) French, Dutch, Pan Asian cruisers (T8) Pan Asian destroyers (T8) Pan Euro destroyers (T6) British destroyers (T6) British battleships (T9) neglected USN slow battleships (T8) neglected Italian battleships (T7) neglected Italian destroyers (T7) freebie early access German original destroyers (T7) German heavy AP gun destroyers (T6) Still have yet to grind Delny (T9 Tashkent) & Grozzy (T7 Minsk) All CVs are fairly neglected and at T4 except British T6 (which was a freebie) and not started on the Russian ones. Kinda had the PA DDs on hold until they got the TRB buff Dutch cruisers are heading for the neglected category too.

Should I feel smug** that I'm a co-op main? As according to this logic, PvP is kindergarten mode compared to PvE. ** No, not really - I'd be slaughtered in PvP.

Why are surface ships, such as destroyers, cruisers & battleships classified as "gambler" ships?

And because no one else is worthy/qualified to counter his almighty wisdom.

Alt account, maybe?

I think you might have a date. Opposites do attract, apparently.

Epic comprehension failure. Ie he plays surface ships at high tiers, therefore he doesn't mind what happens at T6 or below because he'll never see it. Didn't know you turned to the Dark Side? Then again did you know either?

Their AA is too strong My AA is ineffective Conclusion: Carrier AA is

11 what?

I'm beginning to think that all those [CLAWS] bots have started to evolve a very rudimentary, collective, self-awareness like a primitive Geth Consensus and have somehow figured out how to post cr@p on the forum.

I think I did see that on PurpleSmurf's SC thread. Nice drop. Honest I'm not jealous, well OK maybe a little bit. Thanks! I was in a similar situation after I got Groningen in the middle of December - do I aim for Azuma or stretch out for Hayate? Those are the only two FreeXP ships left that I didn't have. However, I don't have Azuma's big sister Yoshino yet and as I'm sitting on 299k coal I'll be getting that when the next coupon turns up. Depending on how well I like Yoshi will determine if I get Azuma or start using FreeXP for skipping the more tedious tech tree grinds - HMS Lion, Kansas etc.

... and harmful to ones own neurons.

There's been a couple of instances in the past few months where the automated penalty was issued to carrier players. Carrier player only used his planes to farm spotting damage (for a mission) and never dropped any ordnance from them. Graf Zepplin player only relied on his formidable secondary guns to do damage and didn't launch any aircraft, IIRC

Finally finished the grind for Hayate, which for a co-op main does take a while**. However, it was helped by the 100k FreeXP reward for phase 14 of the dockyard. ** where a "while" seems like it is on glacial or tectonic timescales.

2nd resource crate of the day

In high tiers it's harsh, even though co-op has a 25% less service costs. You have to do really quite well to break even in a T9 or 10 ship without credit bonuses (service cost reducing camos, credit flags etc). It's one of the reasons many of my tech tree T10s rarely get used. The T10s I do like I have perma camos on, and they are generally quite profitable. Mid tiers is not so harsh though and you can make some money there - not a lot, but usually something positive. Oddly I rarely intentionally farm credits, only when there's a mission that requires it. What I do though, is run down my premium/freemium & ships with perma camos on to make use of the +50% first win bonus to farm commander XP, the credits gained are a side effect. Loading up your favourite T6 or 7 ship with economic signals and farming credits (and elite commander XP & FreeXP) in Scenarios can be viable tactic though. Agreed about T9 tech tree economy, I generally saved up economic camos & flags for high tier research. Both to reduce the credit cost and to maximize the XP earned, and thus minimize the matches required. Probably be a while though before I'll be doing that as my premium time has run out. Interesting comparison with random matches though.

Are you talking about getting reported by players, ie losing karma/static in chat or getting warnings from the game about inactivity or unsporting behaviour. There's not a lot you can do about the former, as carriers are not popular with the vast majority of the player base. Attempting to mitigate what the enemy carrier can do by dropping fighter squadrons to intercept hostile aircraft may help a little with that - at least you made an effort do stop the enemy carrier strike, even if it's not that effective. The warning about inactivity or unsporting conduct could well be automated though, and nothing to do with what the other players in the match think of you. Carrier players can get an automatic penalty if they fail to do any damage with their aircraft.

You are kidding, right? Yes & no. Yes: they played a significant role but as a class they tended to operate independently of regular naval ships. Typically concentrating on raiding supply/merchant convoys or picking off naval ships in opportunistic ambushes. No: They rarely (if ever) had backup from surface ships. Name a fleet engagement where subs were included in a battle plan and played a significant role. WoWs matches are roughly based on the latter type of naval combat, so fitting subs in there is going to be a challenge. WG still have far to go on that, it would seem.

I see you've seen those players who bot in co-op with Pommern then.

Could make a good April fools gag. Select Mecklenburg, but you never know if you'll end up in the match with that or GK or Preussen.

! Daily limit : 9

There's one major flaw in that design though: