USS Ranger CV-4 From World of Warships

[Kommander]

Wargaming is obviously very concerned with keeping the mid tiers populated so that people grinding their way to level 10 have someone to fight. To this end they make it difficult to impossible to make the money you need for upgrades and new ships at tiers 8-10 by making ships cost allot more to rearm and repair. At these tiers it's not unheard of to loose money in a battle, especially if a high level carrier decides to "delete" you with a torpedo bomber swarm early on. This forces you to have a mid tier ship to make money with, say an Omaha or Cleveland. Premium ships provide a big boost in here. They get cash and XP bonus over standard ship and any captain can be freely transferred to and from their original ship. If that captain is retraining (IE derpy) the XP that they earn on the premium ship will be applied to them learning their assigned regular ship.

The high repair costs at higher levels also has other effects on the game. First it causes VERY conservative play, with BBs sniping at each other from 20k and everyone afraid to push because they know the second they are the closest ship to the enemy they are going to be focus fired into oblivion. Second it basically forces anyone who wants to run a 8-10 tier ship to buy premium. I don't mind supporting them, but rather than an option they made it pretty much mandatory as without premium even if you good you wont make much money and if your not as good you will actually be loosing money.

Fun statistic here: I have a 72.90% survival rate with my North Carolina and a 54.43% survival rate with my Colorado. At higher levels I found it important to know when the battle was lost in order to not end up with a huge repair bill time after time.

A common tactic with a premium ship would be as such: Buy an Iowa while selling the North Carolina. Retrain the North Carolina Captain on the Iowa and pay 200K to get his training half way completed. Then transfer the Iowa captain to the Marblehead (premium Omaha). Play the Marblehead until Captain Derpy finishes retraining, making a bunch of cash and XP. Use free XP, converted XP (if you want to spend real money), and cash from the Marblehead to buy upgrades on the Iowa so your not playing a stock ship and transfer the captain back to the Iowa. Congratulations: By spending some real money, both on the premium ship (unless you won it like I did) and converting XP you just saved yourself from a horrible stock ship and derpy captain grind in the Iowa.

And yes I have an Iowa now, but totally burnt myself out getting it and have played all of one game in it. Hooray for me. I'll come back later and fully upgrade the thing with the above mentioned tactic, at which point I will consider myself to have won World of Warships.

[mekender]

You are spot on about wanting to keep the mid tiers full, it is actually not a bad plan IMO... The bulk of the player base will spend months or years there and no higher and the bulk of those that are willing to spend $5 here and $5 there will do the same... If they did not do this, the game would end up being much like some of the MMOs out there where you can play from level 1 to the level just below max and never once do anything with a group.

I am working on the Colorado and the New Orleans right now and when I get bored, the IJN CA and BB lines a bit too.

[Jericho941]

I can only carry so much.

Never selling my Clemson though.