Why Am I In Ocean Port ?

[tm63au]

Its been 2 days ago since I played the game, basically 24 hours since I was in port.

My home port is generally Hamburg, I log in tonight and find myself out in the middle of the ocean, what the hell is going on here ?

Have I been hacked or is this some idea of a joke by WG ? 

 

   

 

Looks like all my ships are here,Captains that is another story, hard to keep track of who's who and how many.

[Vader_Sama]

Whenever a new port or a refurbished port is made/done, the game will automatically switch to that port.

 

It was supposed to be the refurbished Zipangu, but was later temporarily removed so that someone could put whiteout on something that was written in there 

 

Thus the default port seems to be Ocean  when Zipangu got removed

[Alice__Margatroid]

Zipangu port was removed due to the offensive slogans saying "IJN BANZAI!". Some guys from east Asia especially Chinese (the slogans were in Chinese characters) recommended WG to remove the flags.

However, WG simply removed the whole Zipangu port because of "technical reason", which also caused 3 hours down of NA server yesterday.

[tm63au]

5 hours ago, Alice__Margatroid said:

Zipangu port was removed due to the offensive slogans saying "IJN BANZAI!". Some guys from east Asia especially Chinese (the slogans were in Chinese characters) recommended WG to remove the flags.

However, WG simply removed the whole Zipangu port because of "technical reason", which also caused 3 hours down of NA server yesterday.

 

The whole port WOW

[Asym_KS]

I never even saw those banners and I am an IJN main in this game....!  Good grief, remove the banners and return the port.  

[GrayPanther2018]

Not in particular but in general. The Chinese seem to have an issue with Japan, not without reason. But Russia doesn't have an exactly Stirling history either.

[DrHolmes52]

2 hours ago, tm63au said:

Its been 2 days ago since I played the game, basically 24 hours since I was in port.

My home port is generally Hamburg, I log in tonight and find myself out in the middle of the ocean, what the hell is going on here ?

Have I been hacked or is this some idea of a joke by WG ? 

 

   

 

Looks like all my ships are here,Captains that is another story, hard to keep track of who's who and how many.

Patch day shifts you to port of the month.

And the port of the month was....................... a little tooooo historical?

[Counter_Gambit]

5 hours ago, Alice__Margatroid said:

Zipangu port was removed due to the offensive slogans saying "IJN BANZAI!". Some guys from east Asia especially Chinese (the slogans were in Chinese characters) recommended WG to remove the flags.

However, WG simply removed the whole Zipangu port because of "technical reason", which also caused 3 hours down of NA server yesterday.

 

Those Banners were there since the Port's introduction. Those banners were there during Public Testing. If there were going to be complaints, it would've occurred long before now, don't you think?

 

Also, Chinese characters in a Japanese themed Port? are you sure about that?

[Gasboy]

1 hour ago, Counter_Gambit said:

Also, Chinese characters in a Japanese themed Port? are you sure about that?

There are a lot of traditional characters that overlap, and they can mean the same thing, or something completely different.

[SolitudeFreak]

5 hours ago, Alice__Margatroid said:

Zipangu port was removed due to the offensive slogans saying "IJN BANZAI!". Some guys from east Asia especially Chinese (the slogans were in Chinese characters) recommended WG to remove the flags.

However, WG simply removed the whole Zipangu port because of "technical reason", which also caused 3 hours down of NA server yesterday.

I certainly would be confused if that were the case, because it would be interesting that one thread on this board represented the silent majority.

I've often read that we do not represent a typical cross section of this community.

Such an interesting week.

 

[Wolfswetpaws]

3 hours ago, Asym_KS said:

I never even saw those banners and I am an IJN main in this game....!  Good grief, remove the banners and return the port.  

Had to be opening a container in order to see them.  

[_cthulhu_]

9 hours ago, GrayPanther2018 said:

Not in particular but in general. The Chinese seem to have an issue with Japan, not without reason. But Russia doesn't have an exactly Stirling history either.

Seem? You have a flair for understatement...

[TalladegaNight]

I want Zipangu back please, it looked fantastic for the event and it's the port I always use.

[mashed68]

11 hours ago, Counter_Gambit said:

Also, Chinese characters in a Japanese themed Port? are you sure about that?

It was Chinese characters, in a Chinese port, but saying long live the Japanese navy or something to that extent. 

[Counter_Gambit]

14 minutes ago, mashed68 said:

It was Chinese characters, in a Chinese port, but saying long live the Japanese navy or something to that extent. 

Not a chinese port. Zipangu was an independent island country, which was located 1,500 miles across the sea to the east of Catai (an alternative name for the Chinese continent). Zipangu, is literally the Chinese name, for Japan...

[kgh52]

12 hours ago, GrayPanther2018 said:

Not in particular but in general. The Chinese seem to have an issue with Japan, not without reason. But Russia doesn't have an exactly Stirling history either.

 

2 hours ago, _cthulhu_ said:

Seem? You have a flair for understatement...

I would say so since they have not ended WW2 officially. The issue is the Kuril Islands. Japan took control of the Kuril Islands after defeating Russia in 1906. Russia's pride was hurt.

Russian & US relations also play a role in this dispute over the years.

While it is better, the Chinese haven't forgotten the Japanese war crimes committed during WW2.

 

[_cthulhu_]

7 minutes ago, kgh52 said:

I would say so since they have not ended WW2 officially. The issue is the Kuril Islands. Japan took control of the Kuril Islands after defeating Russia in 1906. Russia's pride was hurt.

Russian & US relations also play a role in this dispute over the years.

While it is better, the Chinese haven't forgotten the Japanese war crimes committed during WW2.

Hoooooookay... Thanks I guess

[Snargfargle]

 

22 minutes ago, Counter_Gambit said:

Not a chinese port. Zipangu was an independent island country, which was located 1,500 miles across the sea to the east of Catai (an alternative name for the Chinese continent). Zipangu, is literally the Chinese name, for Japan...

It's interesting how closely related Chinese, Korean, and Japanese writing is. I've met many students from these countries and was always curious if they could understand each other's written language. Though spoken dialects can be quite divergent, even within a country, most Eastern Asians seem to be able to discern what writing that's come from one of the other countries is saying, at least if they are well versed in the Chinese character set. It's sort of the way a lot of English-speakers are with French. I  may not be able to pronounce a word in French but there has been so much French influence on the English language that I can usually decipher enough of the words in a passage written in French to get the gist of what's being said.

[Counter_Gambit]

12 minutes ago, Snargfargle said:

 

It's interesting how closely related Chinese, Korean, and Japanese writing is. I've met many students from these countries and was always curious if they could understand each other's written language. Though spoken dialects can be quite divergent, even within a country, most Eastern Asians seem to be able to discern what writing that's come from one of the other countries is saying, at least if they are well versed in the Chinese character set. It's sort of the way a lot of English-speakers are with French. I  may not be able to pronounce a word in French but there has been so much French influence on the English language that I can usually decipher enough of the words in a passage written in French to get the gist of what's being said.

how does that relate to Zipangu being a chinese name for Japan, and therefore Zipangu is a Japanese port, not a chinese one...

[Wolfswetpaws]

Quote

"... In Japan, the fact that Marco Polo introduced Japan as Zipangu to Europe is well known, so that Zipangu is thought to be another name of Japan.  ..."

https://www.japanese-wiki-corpus.org/history/Zipangu.html
 

[Snargfargle]

12 minutes ago, Counter_Gambit said:

how does that relate to Zipangu being a chinese name for Japan, and therefore Zipangu is a Japanese port, not a chinese one...

Instead of my trying to explain something that I'm not extremely well-versed in, let me suggest this article on the subject. I just read it and it's quite interesting.

https://japanyugen.com/why-is-japan-called-japan/

 

 

[TalladegaNight]

16 hours ago, GrayPanther2018 said:

Not in particular but in general. The Chinese seem to have an issue with Japan, not without reason. But Russia doesn't have an exactly Stirling history either.

China is not innocent with some of the things they have done either. none of the nations featured in game are innocent of atrocities 

[HyperFish]

5 hours ago, TalladegaNight said:

China is not innocent with some of the things they have done either. none of the nations featured in game are innocent of atrocities 

Yeah, take that burn you atrocious Canadians!

[Wolfswetpaws]

https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/260961-psa-zipangu-port-disabled/#comment-5855479

https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/ykwgb3/what_happened_to_zipangu_port/

 

[crazyeightyfive]

2 hours ago, HyperFish said:

Yeah, take that burn you atrocious Canadians!

We are not guilt-free in Canada.  Ask David Suzuki.

All should be careful.  Political discussions are discouraged.  Discussions about political discussions are discouraged.

The conversations here have chilled in the past year.

Feels bad man.