1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #1 Posted January 10, 2017 It wasn't that long ago that I had only 12 ships and really enjoyed it because I wanted each and every one of them in my fleet. Then over the holidays the fleet jumped to 45 and that's not including the silly ARP ships which I have hidden. (I have already sold a few.) 45 is just too many to manage or enjoy. Consider how much time is required to just manage captain's skills for 45 ships. I wish there was a way to hide some individual ships like we can hide the ARP ones. Please don't tell me about how I can hide ships by class, tier, or nation. I would only want to hide a few select individual ships so that I can basically forget them but still have them in the event I ever decide to play them. Hey WG how about a "Mothballs" options?.If the USN can have mothballs why not us? A ship in mothballs would disappear from view. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
112 anonym_QOibb7dMvRGh Members 557 posts Report post #2 Posted January 10, 2017 Isn't there a way to make ships as preferred? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
656 [GUYS] TabbyHopkins Alpha Tester 2,768 posts 4,462 battles Report post #3 Posted January 10, 2017 Isn't there a way to make ships as preferred? Yup. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #4 Posted January 10, 2017 Isn't there a way to make ships as preferred? That doesn't solve the problem of having to monitor so many ships. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
342 Coldt Alpha Tester 1,054 posts 5,381 battles Report post #5 Posted January 10, 2017 That doesn't solve the problem of having to monitor so many ships. Yeah it does. It moves your proffered ship to the beginning of your carousel, and sets your camera to it, so all you see at the start is the ships you want to play. Just because you see the ships to the right of them doesn't mean you have to actually pay attention to them. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
642 [-K--] iHaveNoIntelligence Members 1,817 posts 9,029 battles Report post #6 Posted January 10, 2017 Unless you are daily "unstaring" all the ships you have, you can just make some of your ships primary ships and make more rows for your carousel. Done Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5,661 Macabe Alpha Tester, Members, In AlfaTesters, Beta Testers 12,413 posts Report post #7 Posted January 10, 2017 That doesn't solve the problem of having to monitor so many ships. Why do you need to monitor them though? I have a lot of ships but i only pay attention to maybe 6 of them. So unless you're playing every ship in your port you just need to mark some as priority. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
20 El_Swamp_Rat Members 197 posts 8,926 battles Report post #8 Posted January 10, 2017 You can just sell the ones you want to Mothball and re-buy them later if needed. I've bought and sold quite a few ships more than a few times each.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
656 [GUYS] TabbyHopkins Alpha Tester 2,768 posts 4,462 battles Report post #9 Posted January 10, 2017 You can just sell the ones you want to Mothball and re-buy them later if needed. I've bought and sold quite a few ships more than a few times each.. Depending on the tier, maybe. I'm not a fan of selling ships above T7 if I know I'll come back to it in the future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #10 Posted January 10, 2017 Why do you need to monitor them though? I have a lot of ships but i only pay attention to maybe 6 of them. So unless you're playing every ship in your port you just need to mark some as priority. You monitor them because every now and then you earn another captain's point, for example. So you don't want to go into battle without using it. Anyhoohoo, a mothball option would be nice as I like to display my ships from L to R in this arrangement: : BBs, Cruisers, DDs. Setting certain ships as primaries doesn't work for me. I always end up with too many. I prefer asking myself which class of ship I want to play next and then picking one from the selection. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5,918 [WOLF1] paradat Beta Testers 16,276 posts 23,606 battles Report post #11 Posted January 10, 2017 That doesn't solve the problem of having to monitor so many ships. You do not need to monitor them. Nothing happens when you are not looking. The various sort options are really very well thought out. I currently have 145 ships in port and I do not have any issues. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #12 Posted January 10, 2017 You do not need to monitor them. Nothing happens when you are not looking. The various sort options are really very well thought out. I currently have 145 ships in port and I do not have any issues. Things do happen when you're not looking. At least once a week I will discover that a captain has new points to allocate. I won't even get into camo and signal flags decisions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
3,999 [V_KNG] Herr_Reitz Beta Testers 13,205 posts Report post #13 Posted January 10, 2017 He could be given what he wants - and perhaps many of us might like - if the Primary ship function showed ONLY ships marked as a primary ship. No other ships would display. Just the primary ships. Alternatively, all he/we/anyone would need is a "Port Mothball" where you could send a ship and her slot. It'd work just like the old ARP port. You didn't see them if you weren't in that port. I can see someone wanting/using it... although on the UI QoL scale I'd say that might be below a fifty. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
78 Raigir ∞ Beta Testers 389 posts 7,230 battles Report post #14 Posted January 10, 2017 Would be nice if we had a system that a certain other game has (*cough*Armored Warfare*cough*) where there are 3 states instead of 2. Unmarked - nothing special about placement or visibility of vehicle Marked preferred - placement toward front of listing, always visible Marked unpreferred - completely removed from visibility unless filter for hiding unpreferred is turned off There are plenty of ships in my port I don't intend to sell but wish they weren't visibly taking up port space on my carousel 100% of the time. The current port filters don't let me achieve that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5,918 [WOLF1] paradat Beta Testers 16,276 posts 23,606 battles Report post #15 Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) Things do happen when you're not looking. At least once a week I will discover that a captain has new points to allocate. I won't even get into camo and signal flags decisions. LOL That did not happen when you were not looking. That happened in the last battle you fought. I would like to add a non elite sort option. I think that would finish it for me. Edited January 10, 2017 by paradat Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #16 Posted January 10, 2017 I sometimes will buy a ship simply because of a confluence of two factors: it's on sale and I have enough credits to buy it. However I have no interest in playing but since it's on the ladder I might as well get it. It would be nice if I could hide it until I want to play it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #17 Posted January 10, 2017 LOL That did not happen when you were not looking. That happened in the last battle you fought. I would like to add a non elite sort option. I think that would finish it for me. Really? I thought the magic Captain Points fairy brought them while I slept. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
661 [13TH] HMCS_Devilfish Members 4,899 posts 9,119 battles Report post #18 Posted January 10, 2017 It wasn't that long ago that I had only 12 ships and really enjoyed it because I wanted each and every one of them in my fleet. Then over the holidays the fleet jumped to 45 and that's not including the silly ARP ships which I have hidden. (I have already sold a few.) 45 is just too many to manage or enjoy. Consider how much time is required to just manage captain's skills for 45 ships. I wish there was a way to hide some individual ships like we can hide the ARP ones. Please don't tell me about how I can hide ships by class, tier, or nation. I would only want to hide a few select individual ships so that I can basically forget them but still have them in the event I ever decide to play them. Hey WG how about a "Mothballs" options?.If the USN can have mothballs why not us? A ship in mothballs would disappear from view. How did you sell an unsellable ARP ship ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5,918 [WOLF1] paradat Beta Testers 16,276 posts 23,606 battles Report post #19 Posted January 10, 2017 Really? I thought the magic Captain Points fairy brought them while I slept. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #20 Posted January 10, 2017 How did you sell an unsellable ARP ship ? I wish there was a way to hide some individual ships like we can hide the ARP ones. "I wish there was a way to hide some individual ships like we can hide the ARP ones." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
837 [WOLF9] Fletcher7_1944 Members 4,680 posts Report post #21 Posted January 11, 2017 I currently have 98 ships in port, and digging through them to find a particular ship is a royal pita. These are the ones I don't have favorited, and I don't play them enough to warrant doing so. Otoh, there are quite a few I won't ever play again, premiums and reward ships I haven't set up or even thought about playing yet; and a horde of elited ships I keep around for fun because I enjoyed them while I was grinding them. A place to send these to, just to get them out of the way would be nice. A mothball fleet, or an "inactive" list would be nice. You could even call it the reserve fleet. Perhaps any ship not played in the last 2 weeks or a month automatically gets sent there? Just a separate port, like Yakasuka. You can switch to that port to find a ship that's there, and take it out. Once played, it returns to your main port until you return it to the reserves, or it gets timed out. It could also function like the captain's reserve does- separate slots, etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
71 DwarfKingHack Alpha Tester 444 posts 2,983 battles Report post #22 Posted January 11, 2017 I can actually agree with this suggestion. One of WoT's competitors has a "reserve" flag that basically hides the tank in question so that it will not appear in the list at all unless you have reserves selected in the filter. I found this really, really helpful for reducing the clutter and making it easy to find the particular tank(s) I'm looking for without (mis-)using the favorites feature to mark every single vehicle I might want to play. (especially since that game offers a decent bit of encouragement to never sell a tank, leading to a very full garage and a lot of scrolling and fiddling with filters) It probably doesn't apply to everyone, but I've got a sufficiently diverse stable that being able to mark inactive ships as reserves could be a nice quality of life feature. I'll be honest, though. When I clicked on the thread what I was expecting was an option to free up a port slot without permanently losing a ship. (making the ship unavailable for play until it is "reactivated" from reserve at some reasonable credit cost and obviously requiring an open port slot to do so) I'd rather just see unlimited port slots, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #23 Posted January 11, 2017 Thanks guys. I can only try to imagine having 98 ships. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
679 [CVLOV] Francois424 Beta Testers 3,640 posts 2,638 battles Report post #24 Posted January 11, 2017 My dad and I never understood why ships not part of your current filter simply would not show up at all. Case and point: World of Tanks. We're still waiting for that to be changed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,138 [BROOK] TheGreatBlasto Banned 2,260 posts Report post #25 Posted January 11, 2017 The more I think about a mothball fleet the more I like it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
