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There won't be any exceptions for RB.
Yes, there was a case with ships being re-researched getting rewards by default, with the ability to double reward per ship, but that was due to RB being only recently announced and short span of time being given.
This situation is different - people should be more familiar with RB, and there's enough time for active players to finish getting their research bureau bonuses and make an informed choice whether to start a new one or not.
And I may add that RB aims at players who need more challenge and more goals in the game, and have a lot of ships - it even doesn't appear until you have 5 T10 ships.

The new commander

In the 0.8.11 update, a unique German commander, Günther Lütjens, will be added to the game.

He will have the following 4 talents, each of which is activated upon receiving a certain number of different ribbons:

A one-time acceleration of secondary armament reload time - gained after receiving the ribbons for secondary armament hits.


A one-time acceleration of the main armament reload time - gained after receiving the ribbons for main armament hits.


Restoration of hit points - gained after receiving ribbons for spotting enemies. This talent works similarly to the "Repair party" consumable and can be activated repeatedly.


A one-time acceleration of aircraft restoration time - gained after receiving ribbons for scoring hits with torpedoes, bombs and rockets.

Günther Lütjens also has advanced "Preventive Maintenance", "Expert Marksman" and "Improv...

It's not like we're doing the same event every update, and honestly, would it be better if we skipped snowflakes?

My DM:

We removed the difference in rewards for premiums and tech tree ships, while somewhat increasing overall rewards for tech tree ships - "New Year's gift" containers should be intresting for a lot of you.
And yes, while we try not to focus on first tiers, we try to make T5-10 viable for different missions, if possible in the event rules.

Commanders!

New Year is a time of gifts. This time we have prepared a lot of rewards and activities for you, including a very special treat!

Snowflakes

In version 0.8.11, players will be able to receive holiday victory bonuses on all their ships starting from Tier V. Ships of Tiers V-VII will bring 400-750 units of coal, ships of Tiers VIII-IX - 75 units of steel, and victories on Tier X ships will earn "New Year's gift" containers, from which it's possible to receive one of many Premium ships and other rewards.

Dockyard

Each player's own dockyard will appear in the port, where the American Tier X cruiser Puerto Rico will be built. The construction of the ship is divided into several stages: players will have to go through all stages of construction - from laying the keel to the installation of weapons and deck equipment.

The construction will take place in real-time and will continue ...

One clarification - we mixed up thicknesses of side und upper armor in the text.
It should be:

upper armor plate from 20 to 35 32 mm;


side armor plates from 20 to 32 35 mm;

It won't make much difference, we still needed to make this right.

1) Beacuse they are okay right now.
2) Mainz, while is based on reality, and is less paper than some other ships in game, was still not built, so there is more freedom to play with her shells.
3) If needed, US dd can get buffs, or nerfs, for example, Sims go a topredo buff compared to her initinal state.

Lazo and Schors, for example, are real names planned for pr 68 cruisers (Chapaev/Sverdlov).
Also, why should we?

And Sevastopol was renamed several time, eventually returning to an original name. And Frunze was used again, for pr-68 cruiser, so using this names can create confusion.

Well, in ingame terms Pyotr is an 1911 ship. But yes, it is a fair point, some nobility did appear in soviet naming, like Nevskiy or Donskoy, but with role as a generals, not as sovereigns.

Lazo has less paperness than, for example, Montana, since her sisters were constructed, in an improved way, so.

Yup. You can play with October Revolution/Gangut - the experience would be similar. So she isn't bringing anything intresting to the table right now.
Wouldn't it be better to spend effort on more unique ships, from all nations.

I see your concern, but I specifically checked that, and Genova should get this buff.

It's difficult to say "buffed" of "nerfed", since it's a new system, but destroyers in general now have more powerful priority sector mechanic, for example.

This, indeed, can help, but I'll check what has happened with your coupons, @ESX

Well, I tend to thing of myself as a DD main, but when getting a new account here - I was still pink quite often on lower levels, since bots seem to not mind my toprs at all.
Just had to bear it, being pink isn't the end of the world.

Well, since that time a lot has changed about the AA.

It's a separate event, so new battles, and new returning players/recruits.

Diana is given for the first battle and she's an okay T2 ship for a new player.

We don't make announcements by requests on forum.

Those are different cases, since one seems OP to us and we're asessing it, and other - has bad rep. And even if Zeppelin would need further buffs - we have no problem doing so.

Because number of historical names in one nation is limited, and we can't call soviet BB "Three Holy Hierarchs", "Sissoi Veliky", "Tsesarevich", "Imperator" (or any other monarch) or "Twelve Apostles".

Yes, we did, as an experiment, and didn't like the result.

And Mariya can happen, but even in my opinion we already have introduced quite enough ships for Russia/USSR recently. Let's wait a bit.

Similar question - they can happen, or not. And even if all the names for a ship are used - it wouldn't bar us from introducing the ship (See Mainz, which is really original plan for Lutzow/Seidlitz).

They are always separated.
Sprints have one league, though, regular ranked - 3 leagues.

You should keep your eyes on devblog today ;)

Exactly that, we don't have a way to distinguish that, and making some exceptions or distinguishing (hard exit/soft exit) will welcome the possibility of abuse, which isn't great for an online game.
Also, you can enter Clan Battles when being pink, since it's your team's choice to take you into the game, which is different from random.