Spot sample, player distribution during the HMS Barham Event - EU, CIS, NA

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I looked into how people play the game after my work hours, when I personally play naval. Or, specifically, how people grind the 3rd task in Steel Baron event.

FYI, spot sampling is taking one sample at a single location and a specified time. It’s done because it’s easy, doesn’t take much time, and still provides value. However, it’s problematic because it is prone to variability over time, and sampling data from the queue doesn’t provide information about how many matches are currently being played or at which BRs—this kind of data is something only Gaijin has.

Oh, and remember that the matchmaker works based on BRs (±1.0 BR), not ranks. My understanding is that the matchmaker doesn’t consider ranks at all. Fun note: If you’re constantly getting pulled into uptiers, it likely means that players are mostly playing specific higher BR than the one you’re trying to play.

Snapshot sample time: 17:57 UTC / 19:57 CET

Conclusions:

Both Bluewater and Coastal are about equal when it comes to the grid preference (4% difference to the advantage of Coastal) and most players play either Bluewater Arcade battles or Coastal Realistic battles.

Fleet vs Mode

Arcade Realistic % diff
Bluewater 152 122 +25% (as in: Bluewater is 25% more popular in Arcade Battles)
Coastal 116 142 -18%
% diff +31% -14%

Bluewater Players by Nation

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
Arcade 26% 28% 22% 9% 12% 3% 0%
Realistic 34% 23% 14% 12% 15% 1% 1%

Coastal Players by Nation

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
Arcade 16% 35% 22% 6% 15% 4% 1%
Realistic 27% 22% 18% 21% 7% 4% 1%

Bluewater Players by rank

Arcade Realistic
I 17% I 8%
II 10% II 12%
III 23% III 11%
IV 21% IV 21%
V 19% V 23%
VI 10% VI 24%

Coastal Players by rank

Arcade Realistic
I 18% I 6%
II 9% II 11%
III 16% III 25%
IV 14% IV 15%
V 25% V 25%
VI 19% VI 20%

(both: rank 3 and 5 had the exact same number of players in the queue for RB coastal)

Standouts:

  • Bluewater
    • Overall: Rank III USA🇺🇸 (Moffett, For Knox, Somers, Raleigh, Trenton, Porter)
    • Arcade: Rank III USA🇺🇸
    • Realistic: Rank VI Germany🇩🇪 (Scharnhorst)
  • Coastal
    • Overall: Rank V USSR🇷🇺 (SKR-7)
    • Arcade:Rank V USSR🇷🇺
    • Realistic: Rank III Great Britain🇬🇧 (Dark Aggressor, Fairmiles)

Bluewater

show aggregate across all servers
AB 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 6 6 9 2 2 0 1 0
II 4 6 2 2 1 0 0 0
III 14 8 4 3 4 0 2 0
IV 6 11 10 4 0 0 1 0
V 8 2 8 3 7 0 1 0
VI 1 9 1 0 4 0 0 0
RB 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 2 2 4 1 1 0 0 0
II 6 0 3 3 3 0 0 0
III 10 1 2 1 0 0 0 0
IV 10 4 3 4 4 0 0 1
V 11 6 3 3 4 0 1 0
VI 3 15 2 3 6 0 0 0
Both 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 8 8 13 3 3 0 1 0
II 10 6 5 5 4 0 0 0
III 24 9 6 4 4 0 2 0
IV 16 15 13 8 4 0 1 1
V 19 8 11 6 11 0 2 0
VI 4 24 3 3 10 0 0 0

Coastal

show aggregate across all servers
AB 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 6 6 1 1 3 0 4 0
II 0 7 1 0 2 0 0 0
III 3 4 4 0 6 0 0 1
IV 2 8 3 2 1 0 0 0
V 4 5 14 1 4 0 1 0
VI 4 11 3 3 1 0 0 0
RB 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 3 1 2 2 0 0 0 0
II 4 2 2 7 0 0 0 0
III 10 5 3 14 2 0 0 1
IV 5 5 3 7 1 0 0 0
V 8 7 10 0 5 0 5 0
VI 9 11 6 0 2 0 0 0
Both 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 9 7 3 3 3 0 4 0
II 4 9 3 7 2 0 0 0
III 13 9 7 14 8 0 0 2
IV 7 13 6 9 2 0 0 0
V 12 12 24 1 9 0 6 0
VI 13 22 9 3 3 0 0 0

Bluewater

show sample for Arcade Battles

AB, EU

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 4 2 5 1 0 0 0 0
II 2 4 2 1 0 0 0 0
III 3 2 1 2 2 0 1 0
IV 3 5 0 1 0 0 0 0
V 1 0 3 1 1 0 0 0
VI 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 0
VII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VIII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

AB, CIS

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 0 4 4 0 2 0 1 0
II 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
III 5 5 2 0 0 0 1 0
IV 0 4 10 2 0 0 0 0
V 2 1 4 0 5 0 0 0
VI 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0
VII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VIII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

AB, NA

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
II 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
III 6 1 1 1 2 0 0 0
IV 3 2 0 1 0 0 1 0
V 5 1 1 2 1 0 1 0
VI 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
VII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VIII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
show sample for Realistic Battles

RB, EU

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
II 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
III 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
IV 4 0 1 2 2 0 0 0
V 5 2 1 1 1 0 0 0
VI 1 6 1 1 3 0 0 0
VII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VIII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

RB, CIS

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
II 3 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
III 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
IV 4 0 1 2 2 0 0 0
V 5 2 1 1 1 0 0 0
VI 1 6 1 1 3 0 0 0
VII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VIII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

RB, NA

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 - 🇮🇹 🇫🇷
I 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0
II 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
III 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0
IV 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 1
V 1 2 1 1 2 0 1 0
VI 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0
VII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VIII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Coastal

show sample for Arcade Battles
show sample for Realistic Battles
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Given that there is no coastal rank 6, I think you’d need to know more about how the numbers, which are by rank reflect actual queues, which are by BR, more than we do currently, to make much of this.

If you’re a player with two battleships and a PT boat, where are you counted? What if you have two PT boats and a rank 1 destroyer?

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Sad to see Japan not more popular. Nothing has made naval more fun than getting random Type93 torp kills 15-20minutes after you’ve launched and forgotten about them. Takes me back to Navyfield days. I’ve been grinding Japan coastal for the event. But I do like jumping into the BM-21 Pt boat now and then.

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In my purely anecdotal experience, I feel Japan bluewater has become rather popular in recent times, at least in RB. It’s nice to see.

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