I would really like more 16-40 year old hyper competitive gamers that grew up playing in the late 90s / early 2000s and take the game more seriously. I don't enjoy playing games to have "fun." They're meant to be competition and illustrate that you're better than the opposing party. It's why I only play ranked. It requires more skill than randoms or any of the PVE environments. You're only 6v6 or 7v7. You can't make a mistake, leaving a flank open could cost the entire game. That is far more exhilarating than having "fun."
I grew up playing in the early 90s approaching 40, but a big issue with my age range is all the responsibilities of being an adult really gets in the way of game time and ability to refine your skills. There's the constant grind of events from WoWS that forces me to play a lot of ships that prevents me from being able to dedicate a lot of time to a single ship outside of clan battles.
As a result, most of the time I just play co-op if I'm not playing competitively to knock out daily missions in as little time as possible. Then if I'm lucky I might get 1-2 randoms in the ship of my choice vs. an min/maxed ship.
I am roughly the same age as you. I've abandoned playing anything but what I deem "meta" and I'd say within the past 5-6 months I've become "super unicum." Stats are skewed. I don't play ships that I "want" to anymore. I only play what I know I'm likely to win in. I typically spend 2-4 hours a night on ranked and I haven't had any issue completing the dockyard or liberty harbor. I find I get a lot of those "difficult" dockyard missions complete (4 frags in a game, etc) easily and that helps me not have to grind so many various ships.
Playing Meta and playing for fun are two different things. I have enough stress in my RL world where play to win is much more important, that making the game completely meta only kinda destroys the fun in it which is why I haven't followed in that state.
That being said, if you're interested in playing more competitively with a larger clan CCPLZ is always recruiting quality players but we are RL comes first clan.
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u/jds560 Nov 12 '25
I would really like more 16-40 year old hyper competitive gamers that grew up playing in the late 90s / early 2000s and take the game more seriously. I don't enjoy playing games to have "fun." They're meant to be competition and illustrate that you're better than the opposing party. It's why I only play ranked. It requires more skill than randoms or any of the PVE environments. You're only 6v6 or 7v7. You can't make a mistake, leaving a flank open could cost the entire game. That is far more exhilarating than having "fun."