I still preferred the gameplay of 8CVs by far. There was less selfish BWing (partly because of CV exp issues, partly because with 6CVs there's now significantly less enemy planes to interfere with bombers) and previously more vision all around. It's easy to say "all cv players barely know what they're doing" because you only notice when a CV does a crappy job. It seems actually that the better a job a CV does, the less likely you are to notice... 

However, I do certainly appreciate the faster start times. I absolutely love the ECVs for what they offer low level CVs (like a PBB for CVs; weak enough to not single handedly win a match, but powerful and versatile enough to have a significant impact none the less). I think they added a great component to encourage CV play in general. I bet, with the help of the new ECVs, that once the CV exp levels are fixed we'll see enough CVs online to get 8 per room again no problem. 

However, I've gotta say, ever since there's been a 6cv limit, there has been way more threads about noob cvs, about bashing noob cvs, cv requirements, etc. It's not like CV players have somehow just suddenly gotten worse; the only thing that has changed is the amount of CVs that can play per room now.

I don't think anyone is going to argue that the EXP issue with CVs needs to be fixed so whenever they decide to get around to it....it will increase those willing to invest the effort in them.

When you consider what a CV must do and how many crew it really needs to have, it is a much deeper investment in time and effort than any other ship.  You really do need to be able to FW or BW for your fleet with a CV sometimes and that means additional crew over just what it takes for a single CV6/BB6.  You almost need 2 crews.   ***Idea - add pilot training only slots to CV support...they can't be used and don't affect the ship but get to level up as well.  This would help CVs get proper crews up to competitive levels faster and allow for versatility while doing it.***

I will argue that I preferred the ability to have 8CVs in a game, or go with fewer if we so chose and it was a slow CV day.

Finally....I wonder why we even have plane tiers tied to pilot level.  Tie it to the ship levels.  By the time you are in a CV4 you should be able to run T4 planes...and let pilot ability and number of planes decide it from there.  It would certainly level the playing field a bit and if you have level 100 FPs you should still be able to handle those at say level 75 in the same plane...if not...you got other problems.

Now I know this post isn't only about the 8 vs 6 CV issue as stated in the thread title...but it's a much more complex problem than 8 vs 6 if we really want to fix it.

ashokacarrot :
I guess next it will be limited on 4 cv, 2cv even no CV. and game will be run faster and faster. Oh cool man, just do it.


Great idea, it would be funny to see 20 BBs cruising around blind for 15 mins and get 1k-3k xp each game