[2021] So 40% Max Bottom tier is it? Hapa, care to comment?

Still need A LOT more information.

Like what time of day was this? Is it during peak server times? Is it in the AM, evening? What class ship were you playing? When you dropping into queue if you were in a DD, where there 40 DDs in queue and only 4 BBs? Or 1 DD and 30 BBs? All these things play in to MM trying to build a match, because we have it set to try to make the class lay outs of the teams the same. Did you play ONLY tier VIs and then record that? Or did you do Tier IV then V, then VI then VII and only record the VIs?

Beyond knowing all those variables we have always said MM will try to keep uptiering to no more than 40% not it WILL do it, because there are A LOT of variables that go into MM and if you stay in queue for too long, MM will actually override its own rules.

When matching teams, the algorithm also takes your battle history into account, i.e. the number of battles you've played with ships of the same tier as yours and lower, with ships one or two tiers higher, and where all ships were of the same tier. We also collect separate statistics for each battle type and ship tier you play. After a short calibration period, the matchmaker will ensure that the percentage of battles with ships of the specified tier doesn't exceed the set limits, so as to prevent long series of battles fighting against ships of higher tiers. When a player joins the queue for their next battle, the algorithm takes the player's previous 20 battles into account when assembling their team, thus ensuring that the set limitations are met.

That being said, if you're in queue long enough to override the rules you could be uptiered quite often.

-Hapa

I mean I suppose if you played ONLY Izmail or whatever for 100 battles you'd know better, or the test would be better, but the problem is that there still are so many variables, its never going to be exact.

Like case in point, I've played on the weekend for 4 hours, not been uptiered ONCE, then 2 hours on a Monday evening and had EVERY battle be uptiered....

So maybe if you ONLY played a specific ship at a specific time of day every day... but still, it is NOT exact.

-Hapa

Yes it is by ship, not just tier. Specifically because of the limitations of how many X, Y and Zs you can have in each battle.

-Hapa

I mean, you DO get increased XP if you are a tier VI shooting at a tier VII or VIII though....

Oh it doesn't bug me, I know a lot of the times I will be the one answering questions, even if I didn't make the game or articles :) And I used the identifier of "you" because he tagged me :)

Mahalo,

-Hapa