Complaint

[Albert_Poop_Decker]

I can't find a place to complain to WG.

 

I just got T-boned on my port side and I was reprimanded twice. Just after Ithat I opened fire on a red Prinz Eugen and got pinked for firing in allies.

 

You know it is very easy. Like traffic lights, Red you stop or give way, Green go ahead. Such a basic rule of the road.

 

Where they got the green on green from I don't know.

 

I hesitated to post this because I don't want to sound like I am having a winge. I just want to moan at them but cant find a place to do so.

 

I would also like to get paranoid with them with the odd things going on with the server. (as mentioned on the cowards thread)

 

I spend a lot of time on the bottom and that is when I notiice these things. Never to be noticed when playing.

 

So, please point me in the right direction so I can them.

 

 

 

[AwesomeChicken]

Activate colourblind-mode and start learning the game mechanics (I recommened IChase on YT).

Seriously, you have the worst stats I have ever seen.

[OldGrandad]

I can't find a place to complain to WG.

 

I just got T-boned on my port side and I was reprimanded twice. Just after Ithat I opened fire on a red Prinz Eugen and got pinked for firing in allies.

 

You know it is very easy. Like traffic lights, Red you stop or give way, Green go ahead. Such a basic rule of the road.

 

Where they got the green on green from I don't know.

 

I hesitated to post this because I don't want to sound like I am having a winge. I just want to moan at them but cant find a place to do so.

 

I would also like to get paranoid with them with the odd things going on with the server. (as mentioned on the cowards thread)

 

I spend a lot of time on the bottom and that is when I notiice these things. Never to be noticed when playing.

 

So, please point me in the right direction so I can them.

 

You have one problem, more money than sense (excuse the pun). This game relies upon an understanding of game mechanics, having a reasonable amount of skill to understand said mechanics, and experience to utilise them. You have invested an awful lot of money into the game before grasping the basics, so a good suggestion would be to invest time rather than money in getting your skills improved. Time not money is your best investment into improving.

[Live85]

I've got an advice for you as well. Looking at your profile, the grand total of matches you played at tier I-II-III-IV-V is... 7. It shouldn't come as a surprise that your performance at tier VI+ is really poor. Stop playing those ships and start from the basics ad low tiers, it's the only way you have to learn.

Can I also ask you a couple of questions? I would like to know how you feel about the game. Do you feel that it's fun and you are happy about your money investment on all those premium ships?

[Albert_Poop_Decker]

I do know my port from my starboard and my port nav light from my stbd. As an ex skipper, I'm retired for some time, I am not colour blind.

I know you are a troll but I'll fall for it this once.

My stats are bad because I don't run away and I've only been playing since October and I'm old. I still have the amazing low scores from when I started. I try to play as a team but people just disappear over the other side of the map.

 

I guess some have team speak maybe. I go to the assigned sector and see others doing the same. When I get there I fight to capture the objective and support th DD. I look around and all those people who were with me are over by a border on the other side of the map.

 

I do get target fixated and trying to overcome that. Also, I don't have to be colour blind when In a green sector I see it turning red and All the red ships are over the other side of the map. I can see them and I can see the little ships at the top

of the screen. I'm not absolutely sure but I've also seen torps appear headed for a green ship with the same symptoms as above, knowing where the red fleet is.

It is because I'm a poor player that I have seen these things. I would not have seen them If I had been playing.

[Live85]

I don't want to sound disrespectful, but I don't think that being old is the issue here. Your stats are bad because you decided to completely skip the first five tiers of the game and dived straight into high tier battles with premium ships without learning the basics of the game. You wrote that you are an ex skipper. I assume you've got a boat operator license (in my country you need to have one). What did you start practicing with, a transatlantic or a sail boat? because that's what you did on this game.

[Juanx]

So you thought money was going to get you sill as well?

Now you know you were wrong...

[Hanszeehock]

I don't want to sound disrespectful, but I don't think that being old is the issue here. Your stats are bad because you decided to completely skip the first five tiers of the game and dived straight into high tier battles with premium ships without learning the basics of the game. You wrote that you are an ex skipper. I assume you've got a boat operator license (in my country you need to have one). What did you start practicing with, a transatlantic or a sail boat? because that's what you did on this game.

 

Live, you are being so nice. He has some of the worse stats I have ever seen. I mean, I'm an old git as well, but 8k average damage in the Fiji ? It's just embarrassing. 

[OldGrandad]

I do know my port from my starboard and my port nav light from my stbd. As s ex skipper, I'm retired for some time, I am not colour blind.

I know you are a troll but I'll fall for it this once.

 

I am a landlubber born in the 50's so age is not the barrier here. Please accept the replies here as aides to help rather than outright criticism, we do try to help but you have to accept your shortfalls first and work on them.

[Albert_Poop_Decker]

I've got an advice for you as well. Looking at your profile, the grand total of matches you played at tier I-II-III-IV-V is... 7. It shouldn't come as a surprise that your performance at tier VI+ is really poor. Stop playing those ships and start from the basics ad low tiers, it's the only way you have to learn.

Can I also ask you a couple of questions? I would like to know how you feel about the game. Do you feel that it's fun and you are happy about your money investment on all those premium ships?

 

Thanks for that good advice. It is true. But I know I can improve if I can avoid getting target fixated, ignore the chat window and hang with the fleet. Not so much fun though.

 

I tried the lower tiers but kept winning so I went higher. I will try again on your advice after I get the dragon ship.

 

 I really like the game though and it reminds me of being back at sea.

I have bought 3 German premiums 3 British 1 Australian and 1 russian. There are also a couple, Lo Yang and Sims that were offered to me at a one off price. I also bought 3 American. This is off the top of my head. Oh! 1 Polish.

Usually bought at a discount.

 

I like them and they don't appear on the tree. Taking, for example, the Warspite is a great Iconic warship inthe UK as was the Campbeltown who was rammed again the lock gates to keep the Tirpitz. Inside. Then Benson who was sold to the tiawanese and name changed to Lo Yang. Yes Iconic ships all and I can afford the so I bought them. I have grinded for others which is a slog but rewarding. So no regrets on buying premium ships

 

As regards the game. I would have preferred a single player game really as I don't mix very well with the online community. That is just me. If I have any gripes it is the spotting mechanics. They are just plain wrong and I can't bring myself to apply them. I know it is not a simulation but I prefer a horizon and scaling.

 

I do have fun. I know people do stupid things and I'm one of them. If I have hit my own side it in the gun-sight mode and the label is out of sight and I've just been shooting at a red one near him. But that has happened about 3 times since I've been playing. That is a down side for me.

 

The idea of online games is to have fun and people are allowed to play the game as they like. I think some people should bear that in mind as trolls in the chat box must be kiddies who should be in bed. It worries me a bit that there are young girls and women playing and the expleteves are not really on. Just crass kids I suppose.

[steviln]

Thanks for that good advice. It is true. But I know I can improve if I can avoid getting target fixated, ignore the chat window and hang with the fleet. Not so much fun though.

 

You should try to do that first, and when you feel more secure about how the game works, you can try to be a bit braver about where you move. However, if you are sailing a battleship you are doomed if you sail alone. You will be an easy target for both torpedo boats and HE spammers. If you struggle with the game, I would recommend maybe trying another line than the german BB? The german battleships are strong in many ways, but they have large superstructures that make them easy to HE spam and attack with a british cruiser. Another thing is that you are not alone. A LOT of players have bought a Tirpitz to get to tier 8 without grinding the other tiers. This cause many players to expect Tirpitz players to be poor players, and you propably will be targeted much more. Especially if you sail around in a Tirpitz alone!

[Albert_Poop_Decker]

Gosh a lot of questions

 

Yes I have a commercial 300ft Ocean yacht master licence from the UK Ministry of Tranport and Administered by thr RYA. Although the commercial bit has expired now as I haven't been for a medical for some time.

 

@juanx  I thought I could buy what? troll.

 

I'm 69 yrs this year. All my fingers have been broken at some time and some tendon and ligament things won't go back. Very difficult to play my guitar now and lots of arthritic pain. So I'm not very dexterous. My body has been wet for long cold periods of time over the years and I have difficulty multitasking in what is left of my brain. Yes age does make a difference, I don't cate what fifty year old landlubbers or big ship sailors say.

 

I can assure you that this game is nothing like sailing the Atlantic. Even in a big ship.

 

I really don't care about my stats and I don't see why you should.

I'm really too thick skinned to worry about them. They are what they are.

 

I hope that answers your questions.

If not just post again and I'll answer them If I feel like it

[Tuuletar]

You do just fine only one thing matters that you are having fun.

Pink will leave in few matches.

 

[Albert_Poop_Decker]

Forgot one @ Euan  I have played just about every day since I joined last October. Sometimes well into the night.

 

I like the ships and their detail. That is why I bought the premiums. I also grind for the others I have.

 

I do invest the time. I'm just a fool for those great ship modules.

[Tuuletar]

I do invest the time. I'm just a fool for those great ship modules.

 

One way to learn more tricks that might help you is to watch ship videos from youtube. (Users like: Notser, Ichasegaming,Flamu)

You find many things that can improve your game experience.

 

Many good players watch tactics and tricks from others so they can become even better.

[HotshotJimmy]

I shall be respectful and suggest a couple of things;

 

Try some co-op battles, this can help with early game tactics aswell as learning what everything on the screen means. With respect your stats can always be improved and it will do a number of things like making the battles a little more enjoyable for you and your fellow team-mates.

 

Secondly (and has already been said) check out Youtube for videos on World of Warships. There are a large number on there that cover everything from basics to advanced gameplay. 

 

Players can be very critical and blunt on here and to be honest I see both sides of the coin here. One I can understand why they are because they may find you on their team one day and they'd want everyone to do the best they can, at the same time we all learn things differently. 

 

Last bit of friendly advice is leave the Premiums for now. Spend some credits on a low tier ship and work your way up to something close to a Premium you have then hop back back in it. With respect again the slower gameplay of the low tiers can really help with learning the game much better than jumping in a match in tiers above VII. 

 

After all its about you having fun, enjoying it AND helping your team the best you can. As for complaints to WG, you can probably get them in the support section BUT leave it for now and maybe try some of my ideas. If you want some help just PM me and we can do some division matches together or some training.

[Tungstonid]

As regards the game. I would have preferred a single player game really as I don't mix very well with the online community. That is just me. If I have any gripes it is the spotting mechanics. They are just plain wrong and I can't bring myself to apply them. I know it is not a simulation but I prefer a horizon and scaling.

 

Co-op mode is the closest you get to a single player version of this game. Maybe try that if you reluctantly play against other people?

 

Apart from that, Live85 had some got points. You don't your first practicing lessong for your shipping licence with a giant supertanker in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Yet you did it in this game. Sure, you should play what you feel comfortable with but I just can't imagine how it can be fun in any way, if you press the battle button, get deleted within the first 3 minutes (might be a bit exaggerated but you get the idea), go back to the port and repeat this approximately 14 times a day. So like others already said, better play a bit more low tier battles when your New Year's mission is finished.

 

I really don't care about my stats and I don't see why you should.

I'm really too thick skinned to worry about them. They are what they are.

 

If players join this forum and provide a topic with a problem, other players look for possibilities to judge your abilities and try to figure out things like your playstyle etc. Stats are the easiest way to do so, especially because most OPs are not really willing to post them themselves because they might too easily lead to an unpleasant answer. And on the basis of your stats the people in this thread are able to tell you that you are underperforming because you didn't took your time to learn the basics of the game.

And one should know that as soon as he posts something on the internet, somewhen somewhere will someone judge him for it by all means. So if you don't want others to care about your stats, the only way is to stay silent. Not an advice, just what my experience tells me.

 

Regarding the "I am too thick skinned"... well, I'd beg to differ and say "you have seen nothing yet". It might be your luck that it is friday night/saturday morning and more polite people are online. Also, improving your perfomance is not a bad thing and might increase your fun.

[iJoby]

Your Average XP for the Black Swan is nearly the same as your Kutuzov average.

 

Your stats tells us about your capabilities and experience, nobody will judge you if you played T4 T5 with your stats, but if you take that Tirpitz out into a game with other T8 - T10 players they will expect you to play that ship to its capabilities, and looking at your stats for that ship, you clearly are not.

 

As many replies before mine have said, start from T4, gain experience, gain skills, learn to master your ship, the maps, where to be, and what to do.

In 6 months you will or at least should be ready for high tier games.

 

"I too was born in the 50's (The late 50's) so the game is full of wise and wonderful people that love to help other players, old and young" 

 

[Prospect_b]

Your stats tells us about your capabilities and experience, nobody will judge you if you played T4 T5 with your stats, but if you take that Tirpitz out into a game with other T8 - T10 players they will expect you to play that ship to its capabilities, and looking at your stats for that ship, you clearly are not.

 

To be honest, I don't know if people expect that much from Tirpitz players.

 

Anyhow, I must agree on what is said above. (addendum: Nothing that follows in ment as disrespect.) You have gone to the higher tiers too soon (by skipping tiers 1 through 5) by bying premium ships. Someone said to play lower tiers, upon which you responded you kept winning and therefore went higher. However, we can see your games on sites like warships today (https://eu.warships.today/player/541535592/Albert_Poop_Decker) and those numbers do say something (doesn't automatically mean the same as (negative) critique)

 

Your tier 1 to (and including) tier 5 games are 7 (!) in total. (two black swans, 1 campbeltown, 3 nicholas, 1 arp haruna).

 

Really, please take a ship line (whatever nation, whatever class) and start from tier 1 and just grind tier by tier. They can actually be quite fun. I started with German cruisers myself, stopped at tier 6 because I sucked to much with it , started the japanese cruiser line till tier 5, started german battleships till tier 9, and have continued grinding the cruisers again. I am not a great player but if I would have jumped in high tier games as early as you did, I would be utterly devastated by my average results...

 

By the way, you said you grinded for the other lines you have. I only see british cruisers as a continued line, so I guess you must have won the Leander with the Santa Claus convoys and continued from there. For that line I guess you maybe shouldn't start from tier 1, but for others I'd really recommend it (or tier 2..) You must have free-Xp'd some of the ships in that line though...? You have played 30 games with Leander, 32 with Fiji and 27 with Edinburgh to arrive at Neptune now with, I must say this as well, horrendous numbers. Low 30s - mid 40s winrate, average damage less than I did in my first tier 2 ship Dresden (and boy did I not know what the game was about at that time) and corresponding experience. No way you can make enough experience to go up on the "regular way". 

 

Most of all, you are going to make a lot of people very very angry, including me if I were on your team if you are in your Neptune or soon in your Minotaur... (You have 21 matches in your Neptune with an average 4200 damage... That's about one or two salvo's that hit and then you are dead?) Contrast to tirpitz, I think a lot of players expect a high tier British cruiser to be played decently (and they have great value for the team). You said something alike "it's for fun", but games are ment to be won, that's a simple fact. That doesn't mean a lost game can not be fun if two teams are having a decent fight, but playing with people who don't really have an idea what it is all about, really isn't that amusing. (If it's any consolation (well, euh...) you're not the only one)

 

Another tip would be to work on your aiming. You have quite low average main battery hit ratio's. Above people have mentioned youtube. You can just search  there for "world of warships aiming" and some nice video's will turn up.

 

Question: how did you get to the Cleveland (tier 6 US cruiser) and Nicholas (tier 5 US destroyer) without playing any of the previous tiers. I didn't know about missions where you could win those... (unless warships.today is messed up)?

 

Concerning the colour things I can not help since I really have no clue what you are talking about... ("Just after Ithat I opened fire on a red Prinz Eugen and got pinked for firing in allies." + "Also, I don't have to be colour blind when In a green sector I see it turning red and All the red ships are over the other side of the map. I can see them and I can see the little ships at the top"??? ) Really, if there is a problem there can you try to explain it again?

 

 

 

 

Edit: of course now I see you also have "grinded" American cruisers and German battleships. But once again with such low average scores you must have free-experienced them. Please, just start at the lower tiers. You said you love ships, well, a lot more of the lower tier ships are real than the higher tiers. Still don't understand how you got the Cleveland though.

[EmilyFara]

As a sailor to an ex sailor, forget about the colregs, red sector, green sector, give way and stand on vessels in this game. 90% of the people don't know what it means so nobody will stick to it. But I have to go get my 300m ship into port now.

 

Good luck killing them. And most people here don't seem to be trolling but trying to give honest advice on how to improve and get more satisfaction out of the game.

[Rexdaman]

well. i got a few tip's for you. play 300-400 games at T 4 and below. forget you premium ships, leave them at your port for now. 

watch Notser and Flamu. at youtube.

You need to learn the basics of this game. like aming, angling. when to engage and disengage.. 

looking at your stats, you pretty much have no clue how to play this game. so back to start. 

Good luck. and fair seeas ahead 

 

 

[Talladega_Night]

watch Notser and Flamu. at youtube.

 

As much as Ilike Noster and Flamu, Ichase would be the better choice to learn the game. He is more toturial based in alot of his videos.

 

[triumphgt6]

I am not going to look at your stats - mine are nothing to write home about. However I too am not in the first flush of youth, but I love this game. I can also afford whatever I like in this game and also have a good number of premium ships. However, when I started, I had a hard time surviving and scored poorly. I too watched all the videos and so decided to improve my game style. I had originally really wanted to have the Cleveland and was rubbish in it. I therefore decided to get better - this involved sailing the St Louis. I have had 1000+ battles in her. Very forgiving of mistakes and let me build up some idea of tactics. I also try to support my team rather than going off by myself. Definitely got better, WR went over 50% and damage done and XP earned just keeps going up. I now play mainly Fiji and destroyers. Have to be far more careful and I still don't think I am very good but I have a healthy Karma score, top the XP list reasonably regularly and have over 60% WR in both Fiji and Edinburgh. I do have a Neptune and completely stink in her - too big and squishy! I play her mainly in Co-Op so I get used to her before inflicting myself on my team. I could afford a Minotaur - easily enough XP but will not buy it till I am good in the Neptune. I also don't play any premium until I have played the relevant tier in a silver ship.

One other bit of standard advice is to division up with someone - I confess I never do as I don't want to let anyone down - but there are some divisions who play Co-op who could well be a place to start. The other bit of advice I must take more is to try to survive! The battle lasts 20 minutes, don't die in the first five. If things start looking bad, run away for a while and get back to the fleet.

Keep enjoying the game but you will find it even more fun when you get better results.

[Juanx]

Gosh a lot of questions

 

Yes I have a commercial 300ft Ocean yacht master licence from the UK Ministry of Tranport and Administered by thr RYA. Although the commercial bit has expired now as I haven't been for a medical for some time.

 

@juanx  I thought I could buy what? troll.

 

I'm 69 yrs this year. All my fingers have been broken at some time and some tendon and ligament things won't go back. Very difficult to play my guitar now and lots of arthritic pain. So I'm not very dexterous. My body has been wet for long cold periods of time over the years and I have difficulty multitasking in what is left of my brain. Yes age does make a difference, I don't cate what fifty year old landlubbers or big ship sailors say.

 

I can assure you that this game is nothing like sailing the Atlantic. Even in a big ship.

 

I really don't care about my stats and I don't see why you should.

I'm really too thick skinned to worry about them. They are what they are.

 

I hope that answers your questions.

If not just post again and I'll answer them If I feel like it

 

 

See there is the issue, no one cares about your problems, we all have our own. Try toning it down with the name calling, you are the posterboy of a wallet warrior...

[Klestrol]

Hi Albert... Speaking as a wrinkly myself (my stats aren't special either Try taking out a few low tiers for a while. Whenever I get on an all too often losing streak I take out my St Louis or Phoenix - great fun and can be rewarding. Did pretty good in my Umikaze too 'till the nerf's came in. Yes, I do have a few premiums in my port but I find you can learn a lot from playing the low to mid tiers - and the action's better too. As loads of people say on these forums unless you're very good, 'pay to win' usually doesn't work.

Best of luck.