Suggestions thread

[FooFaFie]

If in random a captain is still AFK after 5 minutes. He should be kicked out of the game ( get 1/2 pink as punishment)  and the captain should be replaced by a bot captain from COOP. Everything is better than a ship staying still for 20 minutes in a game.

[Excavatus]

1 hour ago, FooFaFie said:

If in random a captain is still AFK after 5 minutes. He should be kicked out of the game ( get 1/2 pink as punishment)  and the captain should be replaced by a bot captain from COOP. Everything is better than a ship staying still for 20 minutes in a game.

+1 to this

[blindhai]

6 hours ago, VooDooZG_Nervozni_Purger said:

So on test server I can test Kronshtadt or I have to spend very hard earning 750.000 freeXP just to know after 10-15 battles that I will never play with him again and I lost 5 month  of hard earning freeXp ...

 

To answer you in advance - NO you can not try any/none premium ship on test server  --- maybe you should try it before giving answer like this..

 

And I want my 750.000 free XP back because it's a pure theft buying something like this for so much just to see that it's not good and you hate it  :(

 

Would be nice if you could try a FreeXP ship on the PTS. But the "normal" premium ships can be sold back for a few days after you bought it. I think you need to contact support for that, there is no "easy" way to do that.

[MrConway]

On 8/9/2018 at 10:48 AM, Excavatus said:

nice advice :)

Is the test server up and running all the time? (I really don't know)

 

and on the other hand, you know in general we are lazy people... It is too much work sometimes to get out of the game, get into test server etc etc..

and I am more like talking about, getting a general grasp of a ship in training room with non moving bots.

 

 

Now you will tell me to go into test server and open a training room

WHY CAN'T YOU LET ME BE A LAZY [edited]!

 

It is up often and regularly - but remember to give feedback!

 

23 hours ago, VooDooZG_Nervozni_Purger said:

 

So on test server I can test Kronshtadt or I have to spend very hard earning 750.000 freeXP just to know after 10-15 battles that I will never play with him again and I lost 5 month  of hard earning freeXp ...

 

To answer you in advance - NO you can not try any/none premium ship on test server  --- maybe you should try it before giving answer like this..

 

And I want my 750.000 free XP back because it's a pure theft buying something like this for so much just to see that it's not good and you hate it  :(

 

He specifically asked for tech-tree ships. For premiums I would suggest you head to Youtube and check out many of the excellent reviews and gameplay videos out there to make your decision.

[Adm_Hoshiko]

21 minutes ago, MrConway said:

 

He specifically asked for tech-tree ships. For premiums I would suggest you head to Youtube and check out many of the excellent reviews and gameplay videos out there to make your decision.

 

In short - please give us Premiums to PTS, I don't see why not - you can try it and if you like it you will buy it, in the end it is more money for WG it's a win/win situation for all !???

 

but ofc include freeXP premiums and the one that will be on sale for that period - so if you put it on pts for 0.7.8. than put all premiums that you can buy and will be able to buy in 0.7.8. with freexp/coil/steal one..

 

In the state that you are selling it currently - it's a fraud, on YT you give ships in the hand of the super skilled unicoms like Flamu, Flambass and so on and they put only good big score videos all to get more players to buy an "OP ship" and than when they bought it they found that they could not get even 1/4 of the thing "you see on YouTube" ..  - Be fair !!

[Excavatus]

12 minutes ago, VooDooZG_Nervozni_Purger said:

 

In short - please give us Premiums to PTS, I don't see why not - you can try it and if you like it you will buy it, in the end it is more money for WG it's a win/win situation for all !???

 

but ofc include freeXP premiums and the one that will be on sale for that period - so if you put it on pts for 0.7.8. than put all premiums that you can buy and will be able to buy in 0.7.8. with freexp/coil/steal one..

 

In the state that you are selling it currently - it's a fraud, on YT you give ships in the hand of the super skilled unicoms like Flamu, Flambass and so on and they put only good big score videos all to get more players to buy an "OP ship" and than when they bought it they found that they could not get even 1/4 of the thing "you see on YouTube" ..  - Be fair !!

 

So the said ship, is performing amazingly in the hands of a skilled player, but people who likes to clean windows by licking it sucks in them when they buy it...

how it is WGs fault? or the CCs?

 

Do you know what advertising is? do you know what year it is now?

Have you ever seen an ugly person in the commercials of body products?

do you think people who are acting in the fat burning cream commercials, actually need that product?

really? are you that naive?

[Adm_Hoshiko]

45 minutes ago, Excavatus said:

 

So the said ship, is performing amazingly in the hands of a skilled player, but people who likes to clean windows by licking it sucks in them when they buy it...

how it is WGs fault? or the CCs?

 

Do you know what advertising is? do you know what year it is now?

Have you ever seen an ugly person in the commercials of body products?

do you think people who are acting in the fat burning cream commercials, actually need that product?

really? are you that naive?

 

Nope but WG offical is giving me " you can see on YouTube how ship perform"  

- "I would suggest you head to Youtube and check out many of the excellent reviews and gameplay videos out there to make your decision"

 

Is he thinking that I'am that naive !????

[Excavatus]

39 minutes ago, VooDooZG_Nervozni_Purger said:

 

Nope but WG offical is giving me " you can see on YouTube how ship perform"  

- "I would suggest you head to Youtube and check out many of the excellent reviews and gameplay videos out there to make your decision"

 

Is he thinking that I'am that naive !????

No,

He is basically directing you towards to the showroom.. Like in a car gallery..

But on the positive side, the showroom is immense, unlike a regular car gallery, you can find any kind of costumer reps or car salesmen in this showroom..

 

He is basically saying "Google it before paying actual money!"... kindly!

[Adm_Hoshiko]

20 minutes ago, Excavatus said:

No,

He is basically directing you towards to the showroom.. Like in a car gallery..

But on the positive side, the showroom is immense, unlike a regular car gallery, you can find any kind of costumer reps or car salesmen in this showroom..

 

He is basically saying "Google it before paying actual money!"... kindly!

 

well you are right - it is like you get to car salon and ask to see and test drive a car you would like to buy, to see if it is good for you and than salesman put usb stick in TV and show you movie of how he is driving a car and you need to decide to buy it or not by that :))))

 

Do I need to tell you that I have work as a car salesman in Škoda for 6 years - and that key sales point is to give customer test drive on test rout that is basically some 5-10 kom on the road near your salon, we had to offer a test drive and it was directed from Škoda and if we wouldn't we were financially punished  ( we have mystery shopping ).

 

so...

[Excavatus]

2 minutes ago, VooDooZG_Nervozni_Purger said:

 

well you are right - it is like you get to car salon and ask to see and test drive a car you would like to buy, to see if it is good for you and than salesman put usb stick in TV and show you movie of how he is driving a car and you need to decide to buy it or not by that :))))

 

Do I need to tell you that I have work as a car salesman in Škoda for 6 years - and that key sales point is to give customer test drive on test rout that is basically some 5-10 kom on the road near your salon, we had to offer a test drive and it was directed from Škoda and if we wouldn't we were financially punished  ( we have mystery shopping ).

 

so...

ok,

Let me get this straight..

First.. I am totally on your side for having Premium Ships in the Test server..

 

now that we agree on here..

 

I am just suprised that you really expect too much from WG :)

they may do that in the future, or they don't.. I am suprised that you get the ship without testing or watching or reading about it..

You knew what you were getting into, you knew those flambass or flamu reviews show the ships %30 better than it was.. at least..

you knew those were only marketing, you knew only clear review of premium ships are generally LMW's..

 

 

[Adm_Hoshiko]

7 minutes ago, Excavatus said:

ok,

Let me get this straight..

First.. I am totally on your side for having Premium Ships in the Test server..

 

now that we agree on here..

 

I am just suprised that you really expect too much from WG :)

they may do that in the future, or they don't.. I am suprised that you get the ship without testing or watching or reading about it..

You knew what you were getting into, you knew those flambass or flamu reviews show the ships %30 better than it was.. at least..

you knew those were only marketing, you knew only clear review of premium ships are generally LMW's..

 

 

 

 

aaaa, you get me wrong - yes I did mistake with Kron but it was not because I saw on YT "how great he is" and so on - I had mistake to believe my clanmate and because I couldn't see on YT or anywhere until I tried it how limited it is in paning/scoring hits because of dispersion and even worse - even on slight angle cruiser like Ibuki you can not pen him ...

That I could see and know just by playing 5-7-10 games  with him,, if I had that chance I would never buy him ( spend 750.000 freeXP ) - I would rather freeXP from Furutaka to ZAO or wait for Alasca :(  

[Excavatus]

Just now, VooDooZG_Nervozni_Purger said:

 

 

aaaa, you get me wrong - yes I did mistake with Kron but it was not because I saw on YT "how great he is" and so on - I had mistake to believe my clanmate and because I couldn't see on YT or anywhere until I tried it how limited it is in paning/scoring hits because of dispersion and even worse - even on slight angle cruiser like Ibuki you can not pen him ...

That I could see and know just by playing 5-7-10 games  with him,, if I had that chance I would never buy him ( spend 750.000 freeXP ) - I would rather freeXP from Furutaka to ZAO or wait for Alasca :(  

I got it :)

stop being a perfect costumer for WG then :) but everyone has entitled for a mistake.. from time to time.. or a couple! :)

 

But what do you think If they put premium ships into the test server..

what happens to the ship sales.. will they go up? or go down?

 

I think, they will not do that precisely for letting the scenario you explained in the quote above :)

I more ship.. is 1 More ship..

 

I watched a lot of reviews.. read.. and bought.. But If WG would have let me try the Duca D'aosta..

I would never ever bought her..

[Paulus001]

THE GAMES LAST TOO LONG
First big gripe from a newb used to WoT.  For a game based on grinding XP and credits which relies on repetitively playing games. THE GAMES LAST TOO LONG!
being 4  tanks   ships down after 3 minutes but having to wait another 10 minutes to lose the game and get your ship back is demotralising.  I think the average tanks game is about 6-7 minutes out of a maximum 15 minutes.  This allows a relatively quick turn around to get the tank back out on the field to grind those XP/Creds.
OR.... Make the grind less painfull, and require less games

[MrConway]

5 hours ago, VooDooZG_Nervozni_Purger said:

 

In short - please give us Premiums to PTS, I don't see why not - you can try it and if you like it you will buy it, in the end it is more money for WG it's a win/win situation for all !???

 

but ofc include freeXP premiums and the one that will be on sale for that period - so if you put it on pts for 0.7.8. than put all premiums that you can buy and will be able to buy in 0.7.8. with freexp/coil/steal one..

 

In the state that you are selling it currently - it's a fraud, on YT you give ships in the hand of the super skilled unicoms like Flamu, Flambass and so on and they put only good big score videos all to get more players to buy an "OP ship" and than when they bought it they found that they could not get even 1/4 of the thing "you see on YouTube" ..  - Be fair !!

 

I'll forward the suggestion re: premiums.

 

Regarding the reviews - there are a wide variety of contributors out there, with very varying skills and competencies in the various ships. Find one that aligns with yours and you should be OK.

 

Otherwise I can always only heartily recommend Littlewhitemouse's reviews: http://shipcomrade.com/?author=6

[Silentraz]

Pls allow to set interface scale lower than 1.0

It is working, checked by editing preferences.xml (PT client). Looks better than normal on lower resolution.

 

Pls make shorter or remove container's animations.

[Paulus001]

The Ability to configure ship list interface.  I don't want a list of usernames, I want a list of ship names.

[Jessa_Doom]

Hi All.

 

For those that have been on about Premium ships in tester.

 

I'm sure that some ships we do have to use are premium as i have seen those ships in the premium section or shop.

 

Now and again when WG introduce new ships in the tester these tend to become premium or you have to buy them to use the the main game.

 

Has from late WG have not introduce new ship in tester but give them to youtuber game testers like the new tier IX French battle ship "JEAN BART" no doubt this will be a premium but we in test server will probably not get to test it.      

[SvR1983]

Please fix this bug that occurs from time to time:

 

when the reload booster is activated and it expires, the torpedos are not ready but they just start on regular cooldown.

[Paulus001]

some sort of audio queue regarding damage.  Crew telling you engine destroyed or steering destroyed would be useful as the damage icons are too similar to deduce whats broken at a glance

[Gnomus]

On 10.8.2018 at 3:24 PM, Paulus001 said:

THE GAMES LAST TOO LONG
First big gripe from a newb used to WoT.  For a game based on grinding XP and credits which relies on repetitively playing games. THE GAMES LAST TOO LONG!
being 4  tanks   ships down after 3 minutes but having to wait another 10 minutes to lose the game and get your ship back is demotralising.  I think the average tanks game is about 6-7 minutes out of a maximum 15 minutes.  This allows a relatively quick turn around to get the tank back out on the field to grind those XP/Creds.
OR.... Make the grind less painfull, and require less games

 

First: Advance speed in WoWS is much higher than in WoT. You get both exp and credits faster than in WoT, so you need less battles to advance in tech tree. Add flags and camoes and speed of advancement is pretty high. Grind in WoT is much longer and harder in comparison.

 

Last: I hope WG will not make battles any faster. I like slow battles where anticipating enemy movements and making long term tactical decisions are much more important than fast reflexes and good hand eye coordination. I liked WoT much more when it was not so fast paced and lethal as it is today.

 

I understand that different people like different things, and I do not expect you to share my preferences. I just wanted to point out that some of us do like and enjoy longer and slower battles and prefer WoWS to WoT because of that.

[Mortisss]

Co-op suggestion - stop making the bot CV focus one ship through the entire game.

 

I did want to teach my son how to play a bit against bot...was the sole focus of enemy CV in 12 coop games in a row (from the start of the game to the end).

Makes co-op unplayable.

[FixCVs_Nautical_Metaphor]

Introduce a blanket maximum of 2-tier spread in matchmaking.

Flamu is right, whenever you're bottom tier in the high and upper middle tiers these days in a 3-tier spread, it feels like you're dragging your team down.

[DanSilverwing]

Okay, I've given some thought to what little things I would like to see in this great game. If some of these have already been suggested, apologies, but I'm not going to wade through all 39 pages to check. Therefore:

 

Clean up this thread a bit.

Remove the responses and discussions and only leave relevant ideas.

 

Mini-Map

As a RN Cruiser fan I would really like to visually see a radius on the mini-map for my "detection in smoke when firing guns". Or, more generically, a user-definable radius, like a slider?

 

Audio

Torpedo warning sounds should only become louder and shorter (currently gets louder based on proximity) if they're actually going to hit you based on current speed and direction, otherwise this can be pointlessly distracting, especially for friendlies launched from behind. If they're not a threat to you then let's have silence. This would aid players in evasive manoeuvring.

 

Maps

The smaller maps are really enjoyable. How about scaling them up for use in higher tier play for nostalgia sake? I.e. Just magnify map dimensions and islands by the same multiplier. Full disclosure: I loathe playing on some of the later maps.

 

Ships

RN Heavy Cruiser line split, like the USN. Or even:

New premium RN cruisers, please; now that RN has 3 premium BBs and 2 premium DDs, but only 1 permanently discontinued CL.
 

Matchmaking

Because new players leave the sandbox matchmaking after unlocking a Tier 5 ship, and because Tier 5 ships are so often matched with but overpowered by Tier 7 ships, +1/-1 matchmaking for Tier 5 ships please. Even better would be a universal +1/-1 matchmaker. Also, as I never have a problem getting a match I'm happy to wait for more than 60 seconds for a good quality roster to improve the gameplay experience. No-one enjoys being bottom tier and getting focused down, even more so if you're just starting out and a have a comparatively weak T5 ship with low captain skill points against a T7 ship with full upgrades and good captain skills.
 

Chat

More F keys for better team communication (planning and direction) with international teams. Is this just a problem on the poly-lingual EU server? Lshift + F12 is already a thing, so Lshift + F1 to Lshift +F11 are available
 

Karma

Please, just scrap Karma, because in its current incarnation it is just too negative. Seriously, someone was having a bad game and reported me (I wasn't active in chat so I guess for poor play? But I was top player in that game and the person reporting me was at the bottom). Players who never gain Karma would never notice that they have been reported, so why keep it? As it stands this system is just open to abuse; reports are made anonymously; you can't challenge it, and you wouldn't want to waste effort implementing a system where a negative report against you could be challenged. Even adding safeguards, like the one where you can't be reported for misbehaving in chat if you didn't actually use chat, is wasted effort because they are no material benefits to having positive Karma, but positive Karma can so easily be eroded by illegitimate reports. If you care about positive Karma in this game you are only going to be emotionally hurt . If you don't care about Karma and toxic gameplay then there are no real consequences .

 

Happy sailing! 

[FixCVs_Nautical_Metaphor]

Make Epicenter mode optional.

 

You made Encounter mode optional in World of Tanks, same thing. Why should that not be possible in WoWs as well.

[ThePopesHolyFinger]

22 hours ago, DanSilverwing said:

Audio

Torpedo warning sounds should only become louder and shorter (currently gets louder based on proximity) if they're actually going to hit you based on current speed and direction, otherwise this can be pointlessly distracting, especially for friendlies launched from behind. If they're not a threat to you then let's have silence. This would aid players in evasive manoeuvring.

 

 

Isn't the point of the audio warning to warn maneovering ships that there are torps nearby? If you're sailing in a straight line there's all the more need for torp warnings!