Ahskance

Can confirm, no short lists~

We'll use a Santa's Mega Gift as an example

You have a 12% Chance to strike the "Tier 5-7 Ship" category... a 3% Chance to strike the "Tier 8-9 Ship" category... and a 1% chance to strike the Tier X and Rare Ship" category.

Once you strike a Category, the chance is split across all the available items in the Category. If you have an item already, it will be considered Unavailable. So the chance of getting a specific ship in the Category would be "1/[number of available ships]"

Operations were a topic of discussion at the time. Resetting the rewards was a way to see what kind of interest there was in Operations if a reward returned.

No clue on the overall outcome, but I know my friend's Dad was excited for a reason to work at getting his 5 Star Ranks back again in all the Ops~

It is true, every finding of an issue helps us try and fix it all going forward~

Collision mesh/terrain can be a fickle beast!

Her skip bombers are remarkably accurate. I've been able to 4 bomb DDs consistantly with her when I'm given side to bite into.

I actually tested this in a training room awhile back and saved it for my records. Hope this helps~

Raw Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7Wxwfglrc

It's interesting stuff! I love to learn how the inner workings tick, so I love sharing the How It Works videos~

So, we've put out an official video describing how Matchmaker works. It describes this very situation~

Please check it out <3

Raw Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7PmOMVLgsE

I'd always heard it points the the center of the sector/map square that the ship inhabits.

If it's not actually the case, then it's more likely there's just some wiggle-room allowed to prevent RPF from being hyper-accurate. It's more an intelligence tool that helps you make more informed decisions as opposed to perfect choices.

So, the system is this!

If you want to spend Dubloons to buy a stage (or stages), you buy the stage and get the Rewards~

After you finish the Dockyard grind and recieve the final ship, you will get 250 Steel for each "Stage Unlock" thingy you get after.

Recap: If ya buy the stages, you get the rewards. If you grind stages after, and there are no more stages to unlock, you get 250 Steel per unlock instead.

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Hope this helped!

I actually played the Tiger '59 a few times since everyone couldn't stop saying how bad she was.

To date, I've never had a unpleasant game with her~ I once rode her into a Convoy match while singing Eye of the Tiger on stream~

Do me a favor and message me about this. Let's try to have a chat about the depth of this story to see if we can get somewhere.

I'm doing some backend forum chore stuff at the moment, but I'll try to have a conversation with you Tomorrow/Friday and see if there's anything I can help with.

It might be an accident. If you press "Control + Alt + Backspace"...

... it can make your camera float in the middle of a game.

Try restarting your game.

If the issue persists, feel free to send a ticket to Customer Support. They can check to see if you are missing Containers you should have been able to receive.

If you explain that you were hoping to use the flags during your day of Premium time, then perhaps they can credit it back to you~

The King of the Seas containers that container those pieces are given out during the event~ By having your account linked to Twitch and watching any of the Streamers that volunteer to cast the matches of the Tournament.

Typically you can only earn 1 Container per day or weekend, so it really takes 2 or 3 KotS events to finalize the collection.

King of the Seas will return for Season 14 some time in the future~

If you watch the video, it actually gives all that information directly. 3 minutes in queue causing a Softening of the ship restrictions by number. 5 minutes in queue allows for Queue Dumps which can have games with less than a full complement of ships.

I'll repost the link for you.

Raw Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7PmOMVLgsE

Greetings Captains!

On today's Community Stream with Boggzy and Ahskance, we've got two special segments prepared!

First, we'll get to show the new French Aircraft Carrier, Béarn! Ahskance will be piloting and talking about her capabilities while Boggzy will have 5 of her to Giveaway to the audience~ Expect some French Naval Trivia in celebration of our newest Premium CV!

Also, we've got a Special Guest joining us... the one and only SeaRaptor! He'll be teaching us all about German Cruisers, so tune in and make sure to bring your learning caps~

See you on our Twitch at 5pm CST

That might be something to try and get worked into the matchmaker. That the "2 CV" condition can't happen unless a certain number of players exist. I'll note that down, but I don't think there are any changes to Matchmaker planned in the near future.

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As for the CV players waiting, there's no actual way to know who was in queue for 5 minutes. I could have been one of the Battleships.

Once someone trips the 5 minute mark, the Matchmaker grabs what's available to provide what entertainment it can. I may not be Optimal, but it is more engaging than "Queue Simulator" for an unknown amount of time.

It's not only CVs. All classes get a "Soften Limit"

For instance you might normally see up to 4 Destroyers, but that could be expanded to 5 in the "Softened Matchmaker Selection". Maybe as high as 6? I can't remember the specifics off the top of my head.

Battleships can also go to a higher number, or Cruisers, or Submarines even.

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The purpose of "Softened Matchmaker" is to try to keep the queue times down, while still providing a Game Experience that is functional. It may not be Optimal, because the Matchmaker would prefer the more balanced values that are set for people waiting less then 3 minutes. I'm sure there is plenty of research that directly links Queue Times to Play Rate, and that it's considered more important for game health to keep Queues moving than to worry over an awkward game here or there.

And to my knowledge, I've never heard of anyone trying to queue outside of higher player po...

Two Things!

1) So, your being in Queue for 30 seconds doesn't effect the "Queue Drop"-style pull. In the video, this is described around the 9 minute mark.

Basically, someone was in Queue and waiting for 5 minutes. During that time available ships were pre-assigned spots for a game that could eventually happen. Once that 5 minutes happened, the Matchmaker no longer looked for a full 12v12 and instead took what was available (you happened to be Available, even though it was only briefly) to make the fullest game it could. CV limits are "softened" after 3 minutes, so up to 2 CVs per side were grabbed by the Matchmaker.

At this time there's no button to "Wait until full, non-softened matchmaking" :( However, as someone else was waiting 5 minutes to get 6 people, you may have waited 10 minutes or more to find a full 24 player game.

2) This may sound weird, but I've had some remarkably high Base XP scoring game...

I'm quite sure the Matchmaker won't start a Random Battle that isn't a 12v12 unless someone has tripped the 5 minute mark. Early morning and lower tier can definitely result in matches happening that seem kinda strange~

Raw Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7PmOMVLgsE