"Loving the Unloved" Recurring Event

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Hello, I would like to share my probably a bit unusual idea to show some attention for vehicles which you could call “unloved”.
No, this doesn’t have anything to do with some vehicles which can be considered too powerful by the community, but vehicles which have relatively low popularity and usage in battles.

These activities would use mechanics similar to “Pages of History” events, each week there would be a small list consisting of vehicles with a low amount of battles. Earning certain amount of scores would give you some small, but nice rewards: titles (“*name of the vehicle” enjoyer), camos, loading screens, profile icons and etc.
As a bonus, during the period when the vehicle is on that list it could get increased RP/SL multipliers or reduced fines for researching higher rank.
In my opinion such “Loving the Unloved” activity would:

  • increase variety of vehicles in the battle;
  • would bring a bit more attention from players to less known/“non-meta” vehicles;
  • would be an alternative to “Pages of History” event with more possibilities in rewards for “non-Allied” nations.

Some answers to possible questions:

How would it look?

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Sign can be different of course, the heart is just to show the main idea.
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How to choose vehicles?

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Vehicles would be chosen by devs from the ones with a low amount of battles per month. They could be chosen from any rank and type, but should be regular and not hidden. From week to week vehicles should be changed and not appear twice a month at least.
Depending on reward vehicles selection would vary from a few vehicles of the same type to multiple different not related to each other vehicles from different nations.
For example:
Week 1: reward title “G.50 enjoyer” and profile picture “G.50 technician”

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Vehicles participating:

  • G.50 serie 2;
  • G.50 serie 7AS.

Week 2:

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Would be a way to shake up some matches

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Yeah, id be intrested to see how often the J20(Swedish Re2000) is selected 🤣
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+1
a valentine’s day event 🙀

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Let’s assume this is focused on tech tree vehicles to reduce outliers, such as old event vehicles or unobtainable legacy premiums.

One possible approach would be to make the “unloved” vehicle selection personal to each player, but based on the wider community’s play data. The game could look at the vehicles a player owns and select around five each week that have low overall play rates across the entire playerbase. It should not matter whether that specific player plays those vehicles often or not; the important factor would be that the vehicles are generally underused by the community.

Gaijin could then give a limited bonus for those vehicles, such as five matches that week where the selected vehicle receives a premium-style or talisman-style reward boost. Players could use those matches to work toward the title or other event rewards.

This would help avoid a sudden influx of one specific vehicle appearing in every match, which could negatively affect gameplay. For example, if the selected vehicle were a low-BR anti-tank vehicle, lobbies could end up filled with players all using that same vehicle, creating poor match balance or awkward gameplay.

A personalised system would also ensure more players actually have a usable vehicle available, since the selection would scale based on the vehicles each player has already unlocked.

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