Detonations

[destroika]

I just got out of a game that had 3 detonations. That's 3/24 = 12.5% chance to detonate. Is this really the rate, or the intended rate? Seems a bit high.

[Raptor_alcor]

I've always thought it was a <1% chance, those three got unlucky and using ONE MATCH as a statistical method to guess goes entirely against the logic of statistics. 

[HW_Plainview]

How many games have you played? Does it happen every time? I'm guessing the answer is no. Therefore it's an aberration. 

 

 

[destroika]

My very next game, I get detonated again right away. Can we put a cool down on this [edited]?

[HW_Plainview]

My anecdotal evidence with about 500 games played is one detonation in the match every two or three matches. I get detonated like, 1 out of 100. Detonation is fine. You should cool down.

[suleiman71]

Damn, the odds of that happening are rather rare, though everyone will see it at least once no matter how many games they play. Normally, and as usual, nobody is detonated.

 

"Crap happens."

 

My very next game, I get detonated again right away. Can we put a cool down on this [edited]?

 

It's rare, I suggest you stop jumping to conclusions before you get called an [edited].

[destroika]

This is my 4th time being detonated in 1 week. I've seen dozens in the same week. I've dealt 1 detonation. I'm at 172 total games played as of this post.

[Xannari]

You're under the assumption that the probabilities of ships detonating are dependent variables; they're not. The chance of 1 ship detonating does not in any way affect the probability of another ship detonating, and it's only by luck and coincidence that they happened 3 times in a single game.

[Legendary_Typo]

This is my 4th time being detonated in 1 week. I've seen dozens in the same week. I've dealt 1 detonation. I'm at 172 total games played as of this post.

 

You're not in English class, you don't need to give examples of hyperboles. 

[Billy_Sastard]

This is my 4th time being detonated in 1 week. I've seen dozens in the same week. I've dealt 1 detonation. I'm at 172 total games played as of this post.

 

Dozens of detonations? You've barely played dozens of games. I would just get used to it. As your skill improves, so will your positioning/angling technique, lessening the number of times this will happen. It will still happen though.

[palto1826]

This is my 4th time being detonated in 1 week. I've seen dozens in the same week. I've dealt 1 detonation. I'm at 172 total games played as of this post.

2 detonations in 172 matches seem par for the course...if you by chance mean being killed from half to almost full health, you may be getting hit citadel'd by a BB...ship angling gets important and it looks like you're trying to level the karl which is a floating citadel...try to limit how much of your broadside is exposed then it may help you out.

[BrushWolf]

This is my 4th time being detonated in 1 week. I've seen dozens in the same week. I've dealt 1 detonation. I'm at 172 total games played as of this post.

 

Detonations tend to go in streaks, learn to deal with them.

 

Two suggestions, one,start using your detonation flags particularly on your DD's.

 

Second, after that many detonations in such a short time go buy a lottery ticket.

[alexf24]

Enjoy the Detonation Flags. Use them in your most expensive-to-repair ships (i.e. your highest tier), then move on.

 

[BlazerSparta]

That's just randomness being random.

[flounder2760]

I just got out of a game that had 3 detonations. That's 3/24 = 12.5% chance to detonate. Is this really the rate, or the intended rate? Seems a bit high.

 

the simple thing to stop that is if you detonate use the dang flags you get to stop it.

[suleiman71]

Enjoy the Detonation Flags. Use them in your most expensive-to-repair ships (i.e. your highest tier), then move on.

 

 

I use detonation flags on cruisers and my battleships whose armor isn't all that stellar.

[Camo68]

My very next game, I get detonated again right away. Can we put a cool down on this [edited]?

 

Yes equip the detonation flag and you get the next 10 games as "cool down"

 

Myself 1000 games with 13 detonations (1%) so not so frequent, and I play pretty much exclusively DDs which are more susceptible.

[IceSerpen7]

This is my 4th time being detonated in 1 week. I've seen dozens in the same week. I've dealt 1 detonation. I'm at 172 total games played as of this post.

 

1881 battles played / 15 detonations total...working as intended iMHO.

[Fog_Heavy_Cruiser_Chokai]

My very next game, I get detonated again right away. Can we put a cool down on this [edited]?

You got a flag for detonating. Throw it on and you won't. Those were aberrations. I've been detonated TWICE- both times in a DD- in all my battles. It's not a high chance at all.

[DarthDon49]

I just got out of a game that had 3 detonations. That's 3/24 = 12.5% chance to detonate. Is this really the rate, or the intended rate? Seems a bit high.

 

The chance of a detonation is per hit. Your calculated chance must be based on number of hits, not number of ships in the match.

[destroika]

When I say detonation, I do mean "detonation" as in that's what comes up in the chat window next to the person who got detonated. If I counted how many times I've been gibbed by torps, this would be much greater, but I realize those are my mistakes. In WoT, there's a specific place on the tank to get ammo racked so you can at least try not to expose that area in battle as much as possible. Detonation in this game seems completely random. I am not favored by the RNG gods and thus avoid games that rely upon it. I really hope this game doesn't go that route, it seems really good otherwise.

 

Thank you all for pointing out the flags, I have a stockpile of them and are now in use. That's not a bad mechanic to put the RNG on cool down, I just really don't like it =/

[Crucis]

Something else to consider is that not all ships are equally difficult to detonate.  BBs are fairly difficult to detonate.  However, some DDs are quite easy to detonate.  And some of the softer cruisers aren't that difficult to detonate either.  So just because there are 3 detonations in a single battle isn't saying much.  It could just be 3 DDs getting nailed in the "right" spot, which is not that difficult.  OTOH, if 3 BBs were detonated in a single battle, there might be something to talk about.

[Raptor_alcor]

When I say detonation, I do mean "detonation" as in that's what comes up in the chat window next to the person who got detonated. If I counted how many times I've been gibbed by torps, this would be much greater, but I realize those are my mistakes. In WoT, there's a specific place on the tank to get ammo racked so you can at least try not to expose that area in battle as much as possible. Detonation in this game seems completely random. I am not favored by the RNG gods and thus avoid games that rely upon it. I really hope this game doesn't go that route, it seems really good otherwise.

 

Thank you all for pointing out the flags, I have a stockpile of them and are now in use. That's not a bad mechanic to put the RNG on cool down, I just really don't like it =/

 

If a hit lands somewhat near your magazine including hitting the turret on the deck, that's where detonations can happen, mostly with HE but it CAN happen with AP. 

[destroika]

 

If a hit lands somewhat near your magazine including hitting the turret on the deck, that's where detonations can happen, mostly with HE but it CAN happen with AP. 

 

Ok, that makes sense. Considering how often I have turrets damaged, that's disturbing... Can there be a perk similar to safe stowage from WoT? Or do I run out of flags, get detonated the next match to get another 10 flags?

[Raptor_alcor]

 

Ok, that makes sense. Considering how often I have turrets damaged, that's disturbing... Can there be a perk similar to safe stowage from WoT? Or do I run out of flags, get detonated the next match to get another 10 flags?

 

Pretty much flags only for now. I once got a lucky detonation on an admiral hipper with my nagato with the HE I loaded to deal with a destroyer, one hit, full to nothing, 40K damage.