CV cap 1/team will be extended to tier 8

[22cm]

But it will be a soft cap. However, with how strong premium T8 CVs are, it may become a hard one. 

[El2aZeR]

Hopefully it becomes a hard cap.

I don't want to rely on my teammate being skilled after all. 

[thiextar]

Cap would be nice, but the only way to maintain a hard cap, would be to make t8 carriers less popular.

 

I dont think the soft cap is gonna change much, except make it so there are slightly less matches with 2x cv, and no matches without cv.

[BLUB__BLUB]

2 minutes ago, El2aZeR said:

Hopefully it becomes a hard cap.

I don't want to rely on my teammate being skilled after all. 

I'd be happy, finally my T6 CV gets to harvest some tasty T8 ships before the likes of YOU murder them all.       

[22cm]

2 minutes ago, El2aZeR said:

Hopefully it becomes a hard cap.

I don't want to rely on my teammate being skilled after all. 

Is not that.. Is because of Enterprise/ Kaga against some poor tier 6 seals... 

[GulvkluderGuld]

25 minutes ago, 22cm said:

Is not that.. Is because of Enterprise/ Kaga against some poor tier 6 seals... 

What, my 200k Lexington games don't count?

[beercrazy]

about time for 2 reasons

1 stops another cv stealing my damage

2 stops as much spotting to allow dds to move a bit more freely

[El2aZeR]

38 minutes ago, 22cm said:

Is not that.. Is because of Enterprise/ Kaga against some poor tier 6 seals... 

 

More kills for me. Where's the caveat?

[Bear__Necessities]

More damage for me to deal!! YAY!!!

[Yedwy]

A good change especially for T6 CVs since now if you draw a T6/T8 combo esp with an E you are usless those fighters just decimate everything you have

[Mad_Dog_Dante]

Me like

[Beastofwar]

The main effect will be more matches with CV in them.....right now when i don't play a CV 2 out of 3 matches has no CV while when i do play a CV it is 8 out of 10 matches with 4 CV.  So they will simply be spread out over nearly all matches. Not so good news for the CV haters. But it will relieve much pressure off DD as a single CV can only attack 1 DD at a time. But the DD in question will still feel frustrated.

 

A CV in nearly every match  has positive sides too i think.....i must have spend a million in credits on AA and fighter consumables in matches where no CV turned up......that will happen less often then.

 

But i will miss the ability to park next to another CV to make attack runs on CV by enemy CV even less productive as the AA is then not survivable and no aircraft ever return. Having finally making attempts to understand  how AA works for a change i was surprised many CV do not have as strong AA as the amount of AA guns they have seems to indicate. Out on their own  they are not that strong, many BB and cruisers have similar or better AA. Again medium range AA being the key factor....there are CV that don't have it either.....

[BLUB__BLUB]

4 hours ago, GulvkluderGuld said:

What, my 200k Lexington games don't count?

Duuude if I were any good I'd do that in Furious. 

[Asakka]

Love that, because i dont like 2 CV games as CV

[gustywinds]

5 hours ago, 22cm said:

However, with how strong premium T8 CVs are, it may become a hard one

Only really string when fully upgraded (or at least Kaga is and that’s the only one I have) and normal T8’s struggle when uptiered without upgrades 

[Mr_Tayto]

8 hours ago, Bear_Necessities said:

More damage for me to deal!! YAY!!!

I used to actually like you.

 

Arrogant CV main comments aside, this can only be a good thing. For the rest of us surface ship proles, the main impediment to actually having fun in this game is being double teamed by two CVs in a match. I had a game as a tier 6 recently which had 4 tier 8 CVs in it...

 

From being a sceptic of the rework initially, I now feel that they're in a place where they're strong without being individually OP; yes, even with a filthy unicum CV main at the helm it's possible to mitigate them and to play around them. Having potentially two unicum CV mains in a game is absolutely a buzz kill, however.

[anonym_WQDIB9XrzbSp]

Excellent news.

 

That's a huge difference for all classes.

 

More damage and control for CV, less needless panic and blobbing for BB's and I can use a DD more freely.

[That_Other_Nid]

1 hour ago, WynnZeroOne said:

less needless panic and blobbing for BB's and I can use a DD more freely.

I've been playing on the NA server of late and it is with some awe that I say that our BBs are far more capable than the NA ones. This is not to say they are all clueless potatoes, but that NA BBs are even worse. 

[Sunleader]

I doubt this will make any Difference.

Currently despite the Soft Cap.

You start getting T8 Matches with 3 CVs per Side already.

 

If a Class is as OP as CVs are right now. It will always cause alot of Players to go for that Class.

So I doubt we will really even notice that Change.

[Sub_Human]

This is so beyond retarded. Balancing by capping the number of CVs to one is just damage-controle. Drop the cap and lets see how balanced CVs are. Five CVs per side would be glorious, fun for everyone. 

[22cm]

2 hours ago, Systergummi said:

This is so beyond retarded. Balancing by capping the number of CVs to one is just damage-controle. Drop the cap and lets see how balanced CVs are. Five CVs per side would be glorious, fun for everyone. 

You ll see a lot of ramming CVs. 

[Procrastes]

I have been suggesting a hard cap of max one CV per side, on all tiers, for quite a while now. It would go a long way to mitigate the "those  planes are everywhere"-effect, which was one of the main aims of the rework to begin with.

 

So to my mind, this is good news - a big step in the right direction! Hopefully, this CV cap will be extended to all tiers and put the fun back in the game on lower and middle tiers, as well! 

[Hopeless_Guppy]

5 hours ago, Sunleader said:

I doubt this will make any Difference.

Currently despite the Soft Cap.

You start getting T8 Matches with 3 CVs per Side already.

 

If a Class is as OP as CVs are right now. It will always cause alot of Players to go for that Class.

So I doubt we will really even notice that Change.

3 CV's per side,  have only ever witnesses that at tier 4 and only once, was a bit of a giggle I do admit.

 

[Namuras]

Soft CAP on T10 games... and now on T8? Does that mean T8 CVs are more likely to be toptier? 

 

All for it... :)

[Saltface]

Prediction: Soon CVs will start asking for AA to be nerfed and their attack ability to be buffed.

 

Why: 1 CV per match means that AA will be more effective. The same amount of DefAA charges for half the number of sorties. Less damage to AA modules from half the amount of sorties. CVs will farm less. The forumites that are good at looking at stats could confirm or rebut my assumption by checking the average damage of the CVs in 1 CV matches vs the average damage of the CVs in 2 CV matches. 2 CVs per match deplete the AA resources far faster that 1 CV per match, rendering AA ability less effective.

 

Assuming I am right and CV players see a decline in their farming ability they will start complaining. OFC Mr. Grinch will not complain but the average player that constitutes the player base will. So nerfs to AA and Buffs to CVs will be the next "balans" hammer.

 

Maybe I am wrong. But, I see the change with reserved optimism. As a DD player it could be for sure beneficial. I can be more stealthy. But, I am not ready to be exulted and over-joyous.