Rouxi

I think Sims (and a lot of other mid tier DD) could use a concealment buff but 6km is way too low, 6.3km is the lowest I'd go for Sims.

An example of stat padding would be farming an afk ship when there are still active enemies you could be shooting at. It doesn't really help you win it just makes your stats look better.

WOT uses a system like that so I don't think it will be so big of a problem. The game already has ships appearing and disappearing for not always obvious reasons so I think average players wouldn't even notice the change TBH.

What went wrong was they were too busy thinking about what they wanted (selling premium CV) that they didn't stop to think about what the community wanted. Who knows maybe there is a away to balance CV such that everyone is happy, but rushing an OP class out the door to make a quick buck is not how you get there. WG has been making the mistake of putting profits ahead of customers for a while now, they need to learn this lesson soon before things get really bad.

Balancing opportunity is not the same thing as balancing outcome. Chess is a balanced game but would you say everyone is equal in the end?

Mean while in the real world we have a few game modes that don't allow CV and not only are they considered balanced but people also think they're fun due to lack of sky cancer.

It's not AP or HE cause low tiers have both, it's long range accuracy and RPM. At t10 when a cruiser goes broadside a BB on the other side of the map can citadel them, that never happens in low tiers. In low tiers everyone spams HE but they don't have the barrel count or reload that high tier ships do. The problem is ships are too deadly at long range which forces people back.

It's not luck it's perseverance. Ranking out is as much a test of endurance as it is a test of skill.

When people say can't be balanced they mean both ways as in you can't make both sides happy. 8.5 made things better for ships but horrible for CV. Making things better for CV will make them worse for ships.

They've been trying for years to balance the game with CV with nothing to show for it, mean while the game works just fine without CV. Maybe you and WG should take the hint. Remove CV hulls but keep the aircraft and what you do have? The exact same game play but no warship. This game isn't world of warships, it's world of warships with a world of warplanes class bolted on. Here's my solution to the CV balance problem. Delete CV and migrate CV main's accounts to world of warplanes.

Majority of the replies to this thread are trolls that are muddying the waters for their own amusement. Be careful who and what you believe.

If I want to hunt dd who are you to tell me other wise?

Haida out spots the majority of t8 and t9 dd. Anyway back to the main point I contend that haida should be a specialized dd hunter and nothing more. Maybe get a small buff to the torps but no buffs to the guns.

Why does haida need to do good damage against bb? Haida is arguably p2w in terms of its dd hunting and cap contesting abilities. So why does it also need to be a good bb farmer? Disclaimer: I own haida.

It makes life much harder tho since you have to play more passively so you don't run into red DD.