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Yeah, but she'll only be having her first tasting stage on main server in the future. But she's approaching: https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/198193-st-poltava-puerto-rico/

Well, the algorithm from clan battles is there - it doesn't throw players out, but distributes players among leagues.
But it will properly work only for duels, and doubting do we need this mode or not.
What we want to say though is that Ranked just works - yes it's not pure "competitive" gamemode, it has some casual elements, very good players go through ranks faster, but reasonably good one can still achieve rank 1 with time, and it's popular, a lot of players like it. So implementing some competive mode for solo, or, maybe squad players, if done, should be done without abandoning Ranked.
Though, on PT, we have 1 vs 1 clan Brawl right now.

Exactly that. There is no rank of random battles. We're planning to show ranked star.

Did you at least save a star?

We plan to show player's rank in random in one of the coming versions. More details to follow.

Actually, her Engine Boost right now is stronger than Jaguar's and Vauqelin's. So you can say that she's inconsistent with the line, at least.

I haven't heard about that...
And if you're referencing guns - she has only 9. Puerto-Rico (CA-2D), on the other hand...

And some consider it an inferior Shimakaze. ButI prefer to think it's rougly in between those ships, mainly, some traits from shima - better speed, 3 torp racks, transferred to gearing (but you pay with worse guns).

If servers have problems - it's a big deal - we're notifying players, working to fix problems asap, and, most of the time are issuing compensations.

If we're talking only about WW2, simple search gives us:
Germany: G7e T4, T5, T10 and T11. Serious experiments on homing torpedoes began in 1936.

US: Marks 21, 22, 24, 27, 28
(some of the torps listed above aren't submarine launched).

Gameplay period, though, is not only WW2, and later everyone got hands on that technology.

At this stage of the development it's too early to talk about how much homing will exactly take place it may as well be some course corrections, but what certainly isn't likely is toprs turning around and chasing you across the map. And even after closed beta will begin everything will be subject to change, so let's be calm right now, and see for ourseleves.

Original or 2199?
I love both, though, even opening theme is unique nowadays.

Yes, they are. Though, USS Pringle may appear eventually (all unique ships have that chance) - but she had to pay with one gun and torpedo rack, so she woulnd't be as powerful as regular Fletcher. And increasing Fletcher's gun range, considering the arcs, is not the best way to buff a Fletcher, so she's Kinda in a weird spot, especially with all other Fletchers around.

That's true.

I'll ask about reward reset later today.

I sometimes got reported just for playing well in any ship, or threatened with cheating reports (I was not). Best of all is to not take it seriously.

Cross-team chat can be controversial:
Sometimes it can be full of people generally trying to help other players or just to chat. I honestly have seen that.
On different occasions it becomes just a place to went.
Or it can be just silent.

It's still being considered.

And while we allow cross-team chat - we have to keep the ability to do a quick report. Because support ticket takes much longer time than just two ckicks needed for the report, and not everyone would bother with it.

It's not a clone of main server for PT 0.8.8. Just everything you've earned on the previous PT (0.8.7) you are keeping for next iterations. We intend to keep that policy.

Clan battles on PT are literally a 1 vs 1 one mode right now. I can't talk for everyone, but for me, checking duel mode just for fun is stimultiong enough.

Indeed it is.

But i have to ask - what tier CL are you talking about, and what CL's. Because there are different ones with different gameplay styles. Though, most do get a lot of damage from BB if caught in unfavorable position - but that's really how it should be, and CL's job is aslo not to get into such situations.

That's one of the reasons CB and RB were made available simultaneously.
But not everyone is blessd with good clan mates, or can align their time to play enough clan battles, so it stays as the alternative. Also, there may be just tase diffences - maybe Tier 9 looks more appealing.

Most of the your questions (and a lot more were covered in recent QnA, but here are the answers:

It depends on how you define major. What happened at 8.7 changes the entire principle how AA works. But yes, some tweaks are likely to happen, that is why we need some time with emble requirements..

Odd tier carriers - they aren't in the works now, we prioritized other.

From current prototype, looks like they can provide very decent spotting because of their reach, and they also can do some damage (although it won't be easy). Next we're not at the stage to fully answer this question yet.

If that DD was on open water it could've been caused by some serious network issues.

We do admit mistakes. Here's an example:
Current description of AA Guns Modification 1 is wrong, and it can be installed on ships where it's useless. We missed it, sorry, and will fix description it in next major update and ability to check - later, but ASAP.
But with emblems and achievements we really need data on how do AA perform, and will adjust requirements after all the rebalancing has calmed down, and this answer hasn't changed since February.
Not everything went according to our plan and we had another significant AA rework just recently, but this time we hope it's a last major one. After some time have passed we'll look at the emblems.+ UPD. Some clarifications.