KiyoSenkan

So it's smart people who commit intentional teamkills. I didn't realize that.

It's as much of an exploit as Overmatch.

Surprise, the rework nerfed Graf Zeppelin from highly desirable to a wasted team slot. Another casualty of BB whining. Can't have something that actually threatens them. Even if it's a premium, threats to battleships must be nerfed until you cringe when you see it on your team. It's a cycle as old as the game and it's as predictable as ever.

So basically the OP boils down to "Someone else is playing the game, make them stop!" If it wasn't a carrier (the current hot take of the forum for easy support), it'd be a destroyer, or a battleship, or a cruiser, whoever has the gall to stick it out and fight to the bitter end to try and turn a loss into a win. THEY TRIED. SHAME ON THEM.

The biggest griefing mechanic in this game is the one that is most rabidly defended by the minority who abuse it. And that's Team damage.

You seem to ignore that it's not useful vs battleships nor is it useful vs overlapping AA and very difficult to use vs moving targets. So you used it on an island-camping stationary Minotaur, which is pretty much the one situation this tactic is useful for, and are using it to claim that the above-mentioned shortcomings don't matter. So what's the exploit here? You make the decision to sacrifice some potential damage in order to deal some damage and preserve aircraft against especially difficult targets who make themselves easy targets via island camping. Nobody's taking crazy pills, but someone is ignoring facts.

So you used it in the only exact situation that it is good for, and are using that to debunk that it's not very useful in anything but that exact situation?

Man people blame everything for causing that, then when it gets nerfed and the behavior continues, they just find another scapegoat that happens to also be the unpopular thing at the time.

Funny, back in alpha it was the battleships complaining the loudest about overpen flooding. Because fighting at long ranges, they're the ones who most often had shells exiting below the waterline.

It's already a better performer than literally every other tier 10 destroyer. It doesn't need to be improved even more.

You don't seem to understand how committing to this childish spite undermines your position.

At this point you've expended more energy explaining why you shouldn't have to share a replay than it would have taken to just find the file and post it. What's the harm? Your bad regular CV play and successful use of the Slingshot should prove your point, wouldn't it?

Stop thinking in terms of "reality" and start thinking in terms of "game balance". You do not get to be an invincible steel fortress that smites all who oppose you. That's not balanced. It's a game. Not reality. So stop expecting it to mirror reality. It is meant to be entertainment, not act as a substitute for the real world in any capacity. The sooner you accept some facets of reality do not make for entertaining gameplay nor do they result in a balanced PVP game environment, the sooner you'll turn those downvotes into upvotes. You're not being votebombed by trolls. You're being votebombed because you're ignorantly expecting a game to adhere to reality. And, I should point out, only adhere to reality in ways that benefit your precious battleships. I don't see you lobbying for it to take 30-45 minutes to reach top speed in your battleship. I don't see you asking to pay tens of millions of credits to represent the costs of fielding a battleship. EDIT: Speaking of votebombing by trolls: It's nice how you couldn't construct a response and instead just went into my post history and downvoted everything you saw. Really shows how mature you are and isn't at all a display of raging hypocrisy.

People will call anything they dislike an exploit. Words matter. It's a form of manipulation to get people on your side just because the average joe automatically knows Exploitation=Bad. They don't question it, they just take the claimant's words at face value because they used the right vocabulary. You can say anything is an exploit and immediately make it sound undesirable. Overmatch is an exploit battleships use that allows them to ignore armor. Torpedoes are an exploit that destroyers use that damages ships bigger than they are. Defensive Fire is an exploit cruisers use that can remove enemy aircraft from the game. Slingshotting is an exploit carriers use that can get through some of the AA bubble on otherwise untouchable ships. Change that to "tactic" or "weapon" or "mechanic" and suddenly... Overmatch is a mechanic battleships use that allows them to ignore armor. Torpedoes are a weapon that destroyers use that damages ships bigger than they are. Defensive Fire is a weapon cruisers use that can remove enemy aircraft from the game. Slingshotting is a tactic carriers use that can get through some of the AA bubble on otherwise untouchable ships. Doesn't sound nearly as bad even though it is the exact same thing.

This was tested in alpha. Everyone hated it and it was removed.