In the test server, suggestions are being made to adjust the ships that have been in use for years. Things that I have seen include making it so that all nations except the UK can't carry as much armor, shortening ranges, speeds, damages and so on. I strongly disagree. I think that if people have been playing for years to level their crew and they do so based on the data at trainworld or in the shipyard section of this website to suddenly change the ships and their L120 crews would be wrong. People have spent money, time, and effort into planning and building their crews. To suddenly change it all wouldn't be right, especially because the game mechanics does not allow sailors to change nations.
So, for example, if you have a USN crew and you level up a bunch of reps to L120 to go AW on a Nebraska, then suddenly you find that the armor is nerfed to the point where a BB3/4 in another nation with reps is better, you would be angry. Well that is where I am at right now. The point isn't if you agree that you can AW a USN BB6. It could just as easily be any ship or any other type of crew.
My suggestion is that once SDE puts a ship into play, its done. The ship is the ship and you play the game with it. The test server should have been used to test MN and SN ships before they ever saw the first day in the game. The USN, IJN, UK, and KM ships have been around for a long time and its not fair to the people that worked to get them to suddenly change them. "Balancing" as I'm quite sick of hearing, shouldn't meant that something exisiting is changed. It should mean that something new is made to work in an existing system. Fooling around with ships will make more people angry and leave then convincing new ones to join.
I recc for this thread means that you like your ships the way they are (USN, IJN, UK, KM) and you don't want them nerfed. Once ships are in play they are done.
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