Naval: Play the game? Naw, let’s just wait in queue.

[French Cat]

I’ve been grinding naval recently (almost researched Alaska) and the biggest issue I’ve seen is that there is no players. My average wait time is 7 minutes, usually getting up tiers to 7.0 meaning that 6.0 is BARREN. There is no players meaning you either get sent to 5.0 or 7.0 with no in between. Then since there are no players, you barely make any RP. I feel like they should make bots give the same amount of SL and RP due to the fact the matches are void of players.

[Blamite Delight]

People don't like naval, that's why theres so few players. Try and select more servers (in the drop down menu when queing up there's options to select which regional servers you're qued up in). If that doesn't work then try to play later on at night or very early morning.

[French Cat]

Originally posted by Blamite Delight:

People don't like naval, that's why theres so few players. Try and select more servers (in the drop down menu when queing up there's options to select which regional servers you're qued up in). If that doesn't work then try to play later on at night or very early morning.

I've tried everything lmao, highest amount of players I've ever seen is 20 lmao. Even with all the servers checked. Its so dead lol

[CptKerion]

It does tend to be the same group of actually civil people from day to day, which has contributed to me strongly preferring it.

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Blamite Delight:

People don't like naval, that's why theres so few players. Try and select more servers (in the drop down menu when queing up there's options to select which regional servers you're qued up in). If that doesn't work then try to play later on at night or very early morning.

well there would be a lot more players just due to the reasons OP described. the matchmaking is awful (not only in naval but that's the topic here), especially the br range above 5.7. and they insist on having these big battles (on mostly way to small maps) instead of allowing 5 vs 5 or sth like that. so the queue times are artificially inflated, which causes more players than necessary to stay away

[Pozieres]

Once they start putting in things like CIWS, ASM and otehr moderns stuff you will see a surge of players. I don't enjoy old naval but I have all the trees ready to go once cold war crap starts. Still waiting for my USS Oliver Hazard Perry, it will come.

[Hotschi48]

EU Server, from about 1700 to 2200 (local time) during the week, waiting time is less than 3 minutes at most. Weekends it's about 2 minutes the whole time, except Sunday noon.

[Eftwyrd]

Originally posted by French Cat:

Been playing a 5.0 destroyer/high end coastal lineup recently and had no problem with wait times

Pretty sure I even saw you in a couple of matches assuming your in game name is the same with a number tacked on the end

I would have been the guy running around in a pr206 and pr206m capping points

[kingjames488]

na, lets just censor you and pretend like everything is fine.

[French Cat]

Originally posted by kingjames488:

na, lets just censor you and pretend like everything is fine.

Honestly. Not a bad idea.

[kingjames488]

Originally posted by French Cat:

Originally posted by kingjames488:

na, lets just censor you and pretend like everything is fine.

Honestly. Not a bad idea.

60% of the time it works every time.

[Col. Cornbread]

It's an unbalanced mode that suffers from several problems. They either need to pull a WOWs and balance ships with made up fire rates/pen values or they need to split the BRs up more.

[def.]

you are bothering to grind naval?
o7

[Santa Claus]

Naval game play is terrible. WT tried to shoehorn in their same game mode idea to a type of warfare that completely doesn't fit. Ships IRL don't sail around random areas and just constantly shoot at each other until they die for good reason. The operation itself is the goal.

Sure it kind of works but it is amazingly boring. Point. Click. Kill. Die. Repeat. That's why no one plays it. The submarine event was fun and more game play along those lines would add life to this game mode but WT, for whatever reason, and it's probably some midwit with a strongly pushed bad opinion in the organization, won't implement game play like that event.