Developer Q&A - 20/01 16:00 CET

[MrConway]

Captains!

 

following up on Update 0.6.0 and the captain skill rework, we felt that you guys would appreciate the chance to ask the developers some questions about the update and some of the reasoning behind the changes! 

 

Please join us for our Facebook live stream tomorrow 20/01, from 16:00 CET, where we will be asking your questions!

 

In attendance will be:

• MrConway - EU Community Coordinator
• Tuccy - EU Community WoWs Specialist
• Sub_Octavian - Game Analytics Team Lead
• WelIdone - Economics & Metagameplay Team Lead

 

We have already collected questions from around the forums and will be dedicating a good portion of the stream to talking about the RPF skill.

 

Feel free to post additional questions that you would like us to ask in this thread, or simply swing by the live stream and ask your questions there.

 

Please be aware that due to time-constraints we will not be able to answer all of your questions.

 

I look forward to seeing you there!

[Egoleter]

Any chance to participate without farcepamphlet?

[Hateshinaku]

No Twitch?? >_>

[Kancolle_Kongou]

where we will be asking your questions!

 

isn't it meant to say "where we will be answearing your questions!"?

 

[Deamon93]

Strange choice for the medium but oh well.

 

Anyway here's my question: will we see a ship from a new nation this year? And with new nation tree I mean not already represented ingame

[MrConway]

Any chance to participate without farcepamphlet?

 

Step 1: Create fake FB account

Step 2: Profit

 

We might also record the session and upload it yo YouTube but that is not sure yet.

 

where we will be asking your questions!

 

isn't it meant to say "where we will be answearing your questions!"?

 

 

"We" as in Tuccy and me here in Europe will be asking the devs your questions. Although to be fair, we might also answer some of them.

 

Strange choice for the medium but oh well.

 

Anyway here's my question: will we see a ship from a new nation this year? And with new nation tree I mean not already represented ingame

 

We did quite a lot of streaming to Facebook over the holiday period and that worked quite well, but we simply have the largest audience on Facebook.

[Egoleter]

 

Step 1: Create fake FB account

Step 2: Profit

 

Step one already includes allowing FB scripts to work.

There is no profit in it for me. Only for FB.

[HaZarD_X]

Is there a reason to make questions to devs ??  I think not.....cause they ignore the player base. Wallets close till skills come back like 0.5.16

 

[Rawindra]

Well, whatever the devs say, there CANNOT be a good reason to implement a cheat into this game. In every other game you will be banned, if you use such crap!

[Aerroon]

 

Step 1: Create fake FB account

Step 2: Profit

Is a facebook account even necessary to watch it though?

 

Well, whatever the devs say, there CANNOT be a good reason to implement a cheat into this game. In every other game you will be banned, if you use such crap!

 

Considering what else is in the game I think RPF hardly qualifies as a "cheat". Having a nameplate over the head of an enemy that is spotted by an ally would already qualify as a "cheat" in many games.

[Mandyxx]

Anyway WG don't care about what players want. 

[Takru]

• Expert Rear Gunner: Now twice the cost for same lack of effect.... just why? I can't assume you were sitting in your office and thought "Hey, that's a rather effective skill, this clearly needs to be more expensive."

 

• Lack of skills for CVs: Even when I take all the skills that are specifically meant for CVs (example here) I still have points left over. Will you tweak / add more for CVs in the near-ish future or will that have to wait until you're done redesigning CVs?

 

• Smoke Screen Expert: Does this affect the speeds at which British cruisers get their second smoke puff? The way smoke is being calculated seems to rather unintuitive and in the case of these cruisers, the game should always render both puffs regardless of whether the ship actually stops or sails at full speed. Same question for Perth, will smoke screen expert allow her to sail at half speed instead of quarter speed while remaining undetected?

 

• Firey Landing: It is a very situational skill that even comes with a quite heavy penalty, still it does cost 3 skillpoints. Do you really think it's worth that many points? Looking at it from an investment / return point of view, I'd swapt it with Evasive Maneuvers.

 

• Demolition Expert: Keeping in mind the concerns Sub_Octavian voiced regarding battleship population, I wonder why this skill does affect secondaries as well. Granted, it should not be that much of an issue, but I still wonder what your reasoning was here.

 

• RPF: Do you have contingency plans for if you should find it as much or about as much detrimental for the game as an apparent majority on the Forums and Reddit (Yes, I know this represents only a small fraction of people who play the game) said it would be?

 

• Testing phases: How much time has to pass, in general, until you feel you can say if something you implemented or changed was a success? May be you could pick German destroyers as an example here?

 

• There is a naval museum nearby and they have a German Type XXI sub there. Any chance for me to get it ingame?

 

• Did Welldone choose his nickname with his current position (Economics & Metagameplay Team Lead) in mind? If yes, is he sarcastic or ironic?

 

• Mead. Honey or cherry?

[Humorpalanta]

 

 

Hey MrConway!

I have a message and a question. A message from The Doctor and a question from me. Where is my wife?

So the question is: What happened to the compensation of Amagi and Nagato hulls? You guys said that we would get them back in FreeXP but in the update we were given as shipXP. I'm not saying it isn't compensation but I really expected to get them to grind the Missouri. Was it on purpose not to make it so easy or was it forgotten or what really happened?

Because it would be nice to know.

I member what you  guys promised.

[MrConway]

 

Hey MrConway!

I have a message and a question. A message from The Doctor and a question from me. Where is my wife?

So the question is: What happened to the compensation of Amagi and Nagato hulls? You guys said that we would get them back in FreeXP but in the update we were given as shipXP. I'm not saying it isn't compensation but I really expected to get them to grind the Missouri. Was it on purpose not to make it so easy or was it forgotten or what really happened?

Because it would be nice to know.

I member what you  guys promised.

 

Can you link me to where we said that the compensation would be given as free XP, I cannot recall that, sorry.

[Jellicoe1916]

Hey MrConway 

I'm just wondering if there's anything on the development of Armoured Cruisers and other mixed gun calibre ships, as I know that's Mikasa's main issue and many ACS also suffer from this, which is a shame as there's loads of great armoured cruisers to choose from

[RambunctiousRat]

I'd love to get an answer on when we are going to see the smoke issue with Royal Navy cruisers fixed.

This has been highlight in multiple forum threads and by at least one Community contributor in a video (Flamu).

At best the way smoke is deployed is inconsistent and at worst completely bugged.

When decelerating there is a definite window of ship speed (something like 17 knots - 13 knots) that sees only one puff of smoke deployed, which your ship then glides gracefully out of leaving you virtually stationary in a ship made out of paper and citadels.

Would really appreciate an answer on this.

 

If the answer is "working as intended" please explain why this is considered to be acceptable and the logic behind it.

[WestyII]

Another for Smoke issue on RN cruisers.

Smoke is inconsistent. Even when running at the magical 12.5 kts. 

Just would like to add, if the answer is "working as intended", how are you supposed to reliably generate 2 smoke puffs? Everything suggested does not work reliably. 

 

[damo74]

My question,

 

Do developers think that German BBs overall are somewhat OP? Many people consider that power-creep ruined World of Tanks, and now it's happening with German BBs in this game.

[afirheiden]

get Vlegris to this stream

 

[t3h3th32]

Can we submit our questions here or ... ? I'm particularly wondering, why planes are only named by the tier. I'm missing the whole plane name so much, because it gave a more experienced player a better knowledge from which ship are those planes coming from.

 

Cheers,

~t3h'Pâr4d0x

[Egoleter]

Interestingly enough the US server promotes this Q&A as available on FB and twitch. Apparently it is possible.

[Takru]

Can we submit our questions here or ... ? I'm particularly wondering, why planes are only named by the tier. I'm missing the whole plane name so much, because it gave a more experienced player a better knowledge from which ship are those planes coming from.

 

Now everybody can know that without having to learn all those names. What's bad about it?

[Humorpalanta]

 

Can you link me to where we said that the compensation would be given as free XP, I cannot recall that, sorry.

 

Sadly not. But from now on I will try to save up everything.

Though not saying anything about the way i asked makes me sad

RIP Doctor Who reference

RIP South Park reference

[Philipp_ab_exterminatore]

 

Sadly not. But from now on I will try to save up everything.

Though not saying anything about the way i asked makes me sad

RIP Doctor Who reference

RIP South Park reference

 

It stated ship XP  not free but nice try 

[Akame_no_ZaZa]

Hello i have a question. Has a triple rank 1 player that has 141 ship in the port ( 37 premiums) do you plan to remove Radio Location anytime soon and why the developers dont listen and ignore player feedback again and again ???????