Ahskance

This is pretty accurate. My job is to interact constantly with hundreds of people, have a working knowledge of their thoughts and concerns, and be able to provide their thoughts internally while being able to convey our thoughts back out to them. Part of my process is to engage with people and to try and find the nuances that occur in the back-and-forth discussion.

Much of this thread and the previous thread on the San Diego are similar. I begin by presenting the product that we are providing and our thoughts on it. There is a wealth of responses about the product. If there is a significant push for a different product, then I need to start interacting to learn the WHAT and WHY of those requests to be able to represent those viewpoints internally. I can't simply copy/paste the views of hundreds of posts, so it's on me to understand the common threads and concepts that run deep and be able to provide the core of the feedback. Yes, there is interpretation in doi...

I realize this is likely confusing. "Why is he not hearing us when we are saying we want a Tier 8 Atlanta?"

Let me try to present a short timeline of your feedback from a "Ahskance is hearing you and representing you internally" angle:

I have heard you, and I directly relayed this feedback. I also relayed that a very serious concern about the Tier 10 Austin is that she is a ship which requires an extreme amount of skill to be able to function in, so listing a lower tier version of her with a similar skill requirement would likely result in a very rough situation for newer players that acquired her more for history than game-function.

Specifically, I tried to translate your requests and concerns into a Tier 8 version which could mildly bridge the "tier lineage" of the Tier 7 Atlanta-style ships to the now existing Tier 10 Atlanta-style ship (the Austin).

My collation of the requests was:

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Season 6 is now a few weeks in, so you should be at your desired League by now. Please let us know what you think!

1) Are you enjoying the League you're in?

2) Are you enjoying the Tiers of ships available?

3) Are you enjoying the Team Sizes? (I'm looking at you 5v5 Gold!)

You can see these values in the port by hovering your mouse over the Torpedoes.

Note: The Battleship skill which allows further view of the torpedoes would allow for +25% more detection. So 2.2 + .55 = 2.75km detect if you're running the 2 point skill.

First off, thanks to everyone who is responding and adding in. I didn't @everyone, but I just wanted to make sure there was attention on the post to continue the discussion. The additional responses are welcome.

You mention AA and "Support"

Anti-Aircraft:
I have to call into question why the AA has bearing here. At least in terms of "Atlanta > Austin" as Austin is one of the nastiest AA ships in our game. If you wanted an AA suite to be modeled after something nasty, the Austin would be a great role model for that concept.

This is extremely relevant because I need information as to why the argument is "San Diego must resemble an Atlanta", and saying she needs good AA is not a persuasive argument that voids connection to an Austin. If you have more details or other descriptions that you can give me on this front, it would be very helpful to make the case.

HE Shells:
I have a specifi...

I'm sorry, but this doesn't help me. Why does her being a historical ship mandate that she uses the Tier 7 Atlanta's play pattern?

I need a solid understand of the reasoning if I'm going to be able to express this concern accurately.

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I have a very direct ask, and please remember that I'm a game guy not a history guy.

1) Why do you both have such a strong belief that the San Diego MUST be similar to the "Tier 7 Atlanta" ship concept? What is the reasoning that makes this a mandatory ask?

Please help me understand why this is such a specific thing of importance because the Atlanta's Radar/Floaty Shell/DPM setup is ultimately a game-construction moreso than it's an accurate representation of the ship in a simulator sense.

April already? My how the time flies~

April already? My how the time flies~

Why would you take offense at a large scale mailer/interaction that sends out coupons to people?

Your concern is that you feel upset because you can't use it?

I did a Replay Review to see what anti-sub things I could add.

Direct Link: https://youtu.be/bA-XRi-BiFI

Operations are still on pace for a return in 2022. While we're grinding away at 'em, we've got some questions!

1) Do you enjoy the Operation of the Week format? Is this too long? Maybe Daily Operations instead?

2) Would you be interested in an "Random Operation" queue that would pick from a variety of Tier-relevant Operations instead of queueing for a specific one?

In addition to those questions, let us know any other thoughts you might have regarding Operations in general <3

Thank you for reminding me to make the post about Operations feedback.

That's not a mod which interacts with the game. It takes information from 3rd party sites, so it's not something we can "ban".

Please drop me the replay so I can check it out and see if there was anything that could have been done.

That wasn't my point and I'm not attempting to sell a ship.

She can throw out a huge amount of DPM and can pen Tier 6 and 7 with 36mm pen off her SAP. That is absolutely something which has to be factored in to her balancing because of the fact she might see lower tier enemies.

We've heard a lot of requests for an indicator on Depth Charges. At the moment, the best suggestion I have is to use them early in the match to remind yourself of the drop pattern.

The best thing you can do is give me actual examples. It's really easy to get way involved in theory-crafting how hard something can be to deal with. Actual examples often include a variety of mistakes or moments that can be seized upon. Try to provide replays that show the issues and we can example them together.

As the sub in the video was located early on in B, the CV has the ability to use Patrol Planes and active play to linger over the areas where the sub is or is suspected to be.

Every time the Sub moves to Periscope Depth to try to get information, the planes will run down the Depth Timer at an accelerated rate. Depth Time does run out and eventually the Sub will be forced to surface where it can be bombed and shot by teammates.

I'll try to check this replay out and see if I can come up with anything that might help!

Maybe that's a long time for you between play sessions?

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I'm fairly sure that email went to most folks. I got something about it as well, so it was likely a large outreach. We don't do lots of emails to avoid players feeling spammed, but we do send some things here and there.