Cheating and Expert Players

I rarely lead the charge! At present all I have is an Erie gunboat, great for shooting at a distance but not in-close combat, plus a Nicholls destroyer that should be called Sink-Me! I only recently figured out how to tightly group my torpedos, and that one is on me. I've also noticed the purchase-noobs with premium ships and no idea how to use them. But I'm a long time de-bugger/tester of programs so I have noticed some rather unpleasant things too, particularly when I'm playing hard to hit/hard to get. Teleporting ships that you have full detection on that suddenly jump from far away then appear directly parallelt to you and torp you dead instantly...perhaps a server glitch but I report that. It has nothing to do with detection or clever tactics on the part of the player, particularly when they come from OFF of the map. Enemy ships directly beside you 10 seconds in the game! Shouldn't happen, but from time to time it does. More common is something that makes you think the opposing team is actually all A.i. but more likely a cooperative team slumming/bullying the noobs....suddenly every opposing ship is long-distance targeting you, detected or not, and since the entire sea turns to shelling no amount of twists and turns helps...you don't have the time anyway...INSTA-KILL I like to call it. One that I have caught a few players at are usually in Japanese or Russian destroyers...indestructable! While I'm sure they are good ships with good players, premiumed to the max as are my modest ships, they should take damage when hit. I have seen these ships take a half-dozen or more torpedo hits and dozens of shell hits but their damage bar does not move down at all, even though the attacking ship get points. Said indestructable ships then annihilate all opposing ships rapidly. At first I thought I was missing something, then when it happened again and again I paid more attention and realized these ships were totally unkillable. At best I have been able to report two players pulling this hack, and am trying to get some video for WoW to action. I played for a month then royally screwed up my game and somehow lost all my XP, so i created a new account and started over. That makes me a relative noob at this game with only 2 months experience. However, and I say this with all sincerity, I'm going to stay a noob if half the time I join a game and regardless of anything I do I'm dead in seconds because the game is crowded with elites who INSTA-KILL the opposing team. No way to practice and improve with that happening. I have also noticed that I am frequently on the team where several ships on my team run away and hide and refuse to fight, just zip off to a corner and wait the game out, so over-all you lose, slowly if the opposing team is "normal" and quickly if they are elites. I don't know if this is bad A.I., noob players, or cheater-elites playing for the opposing team (not sure how they arrange that to be honest). It was a common cheat in Navy Field to get your friends on the opposing team and turn traitor, but far more difficult to pull off in WoW. Regardless, I'm loving WoW and will persist on my way to better ships. I play exclusively in random battles to max my XP, besides which the co-op battles are far too easy and give no practical experience. WoW may be bringing something better than co-op to the game, so fingers crossed!
Finally, my pet peeve are elites who don't want noobs to learn. The good thing about Navy Field there were players who helped you learn so the game improved overall. Sadly the entire game was all-too frequently ruined by cheaters and the game monitors just couldn't seem to kick them out fast enough. Perhaps I will learn otherwise as I spend more time in the game, but so far in the forums all I have seen is lying and hurled insults at noobs just trying to learn and becoming baffled. My only advise there is yes, do slow down, maybe quit and come back later. I find there are fewer mysteries playing in the off-hours, when all the ships behave normally and there is far less "cheating" and bullying. At least that is the experience so far.