Battleship reloads should top at a maximum of 30 seconds

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As top tier bluewater has battleships with very high performance guns with 26s reload or less, looking at you Japan and Germany, any ship with a reload longer than 30s should be dropped to said number. I dont care what cherry picked document someome brings up to justify long reloads, it doesn’t make logical sense that a player can repair their turret faster than their opponent reload their guns.

30s vs 26 or 21s is painful but doable. 40s or 50s vs 21s is absolutely impossible to fight.

This mostly impacts US standards and Italian Littorio class battleships. Both are ships with remarkable firepower, but completely unfun to play because of their RoF. Documents have been provoded for these pair of ships that show a faster RoF was possible, so a lack of documentation is not an excuse.

Besides, we have already seen a BB where Gaijin boosted its RoF for gameplay reasons. Mariya had her RoF boosted from 1.9rpm to a whopping 3 rpm without even changing her battle rating!

Since Gaijin can do that, surely then can cap max RoF to something more reasonable?

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Unfortunately Gaijin doesn’t care it seems, balance in naval mode is an unknown word.
People tried to report RoF for Littorio class explaining everything, but unsuccessful. While it’s basically impossible to attract their attention to this issue asking for balancing due to a low naval playerbase.
PS naval reloading times across all cannons/mountings should be reworked with a balancing parameter in mind, so we don’t have at least vessels with theoretical against practical RoF in the same battle, identical weapon systems with different RoF depending on the nation and just complete outsiders.

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I agree. In lieu of that, maybe we could get points for tanking damage like in ground or air. The American standard battleships are boring to play, but they can soak a lot of damage that other nations can’t (with the exception of Soviet fantasy ships.) Give players points for taking the focus away from other players. It won’t make them more fun to play, but at least grinding would be less of a slog.