Nicovante

Thanks ! Yes - i was also happy about the camo and signals.. it does speed up tremendously the tech tree grind. I also value time more than anything - having to endlessly battle through the tech tree for very little ship XP gets tedious real fast. I was not going to mind if santa threw in a couple of nice ships too!

No need to get snarky, like i said, i am aware of the gambling aspect of the boxes. I said, this is just putting out there my experience for others to see also, don't get why you are so negative on this . Regarding the probabilities, yes of course it is 16% per crate. Statistically, if you open infinite boxes, 16% of them should contain a ship. Scale it down to 56 boxes, 16% of 56 boxes is 8.96 ships. This is very inaccurate, as the sample size is quite small. This is why i said on *average* . Anyway , how would you calculate the average expected return of 16% over 56 boxes ?

So, new player here. Hi everyone!! After joining WOWS a couple of months back and playing about with tech tree ships, i decided to splash for some santa boxes , 16% for a premium ship in the mega containers seemed quite good. I realize this is gambling. I am not complaining. I am just adding my own experience here, so i can share with everyone and maybe serve as a cautionary tale . I bought only santa's mega gifts. 20+20+8+8 , for a total of 56 mega crates. Now , 16% out of 56 crates, WGs own statistics say i had a chance of 8.96 ships , so *on average* 8-9 ships. I know - this is not a guarantee etc.. you can easily smash into the pity mechanic every 14 crates. I get it. So, in 56 crates i got 4 ships total. This is equivalent of a 7% ship drop, so i was rather unlucky. It is actually less than half of the expected drop rate of 16%, on a rather large statistical sample (56 boxes). In fact, i can share that i ran into the pity mechanic 4 times... 4x14 = 56 . So , experience was not good , consider myself unlucky . Anyway , got the following ships : 1) T5 Mikoyan 2) T6 Arizona 3) T7 Hyga 4) T8 Cheshire ...and that's it. quite underwhelming tbh... on the other hand, the % chances for the other drops seemed to be pretty accurate. for the : 40% special signals : i got 23 drops , so 41% of the times. Coal 7% Coal drop : i got 5 drops , so 9% 5% doubloons : i got 5 drops, so 9% 16% ship : i got 4 ships, so 7% now, just look at the doubloons... 5% chance and i got 5 drops. Ships 16% chance and i got 4 drops. Crazy bad luck. anyway... my advice based on my experience ... STAY away.. this has left a bad taste, kinda put me off .. happy holidays all.