2025 Fall Event Survey Evaluation

Hello Everynyan!

Welcome to the 2025 Fall Event Survey Evaluation! Thank you all for participating and sharing it around. A total of 267 responses have been submitted. The survey closed on Thu., 2025-12-25. The majority (56%) sourced the survey from Discord, with the second biggest group being those from reddit (37%). The remainders got it via other means.
You can view the data also on the Google Forms Summary or download the raw data as a .csv yourself here.
The Evaluation took a little bit longer this time around due to Christmas Break. You can now also define your own difficultyfilter and get the charts rendered with the corresponding data. You can give it a try by filling the following input and submitting it:
Do note that the difficulty selection is denoted like HMECXD, where H -> Hard, M -> Medium, E -> Easy, C -> Casual, D -> DNF and X being a wildcard, so any difficulty. If you do not input any filters, the site will obviously default to XXXXX as this would be the whole dataset. Don't worry about needing to scroll up after finishing your first read, the input for your own filter can be found at the bottom at the evaluation again. Once your personal filters are applied, my commentary may not be making any sense, so it will be hidden by .css in these cases.
Your current difficultyfilter includes 267 answers!

General Data

While 81% of survey participants cleared the Event, about 34% did not meet their own goals. The official clear rate was 76%, so keep a playerbase with higher than average engagement in mind for the evaluation of this survey.

Mirroring the official clear data, the difficulty choices were pretty similar in the survey.

The event accrued a rating of 6.31, putting it above average in the surveys I have conducted.
  • 8.1: Saury/Fall 2021
  • 7.0: Fall 2019
  • 6.8: Summer 2023
  • 6.8: Spring 2021
  • 6.4: Summer 2020
  • 6.3: Fall 2025
  • 6.3: Summer 2020
  • 6.3: Spring 2024
  • 5.8: Fall 2020
  • 5.6: Spring 2023
  • 5.0: Spring 2025
  • 5.0: Summer 2024
  • 4.7: Hishimochi 2020
  • 4.0: Summer 2021
A regular Progression between the ratings 4 to 7 is visiblem, with a dropoff at 8, with very few people giving it a rating of 9 or 10. The MO was more popular than the EO by about a point.

The rewards were perceived as mostly adequate for the MO, with the sentiment of the effort being too great for them overtaking in the EO. E2 would be the standout as the map with the most liked rewards.


The Girls

As usual, the reward girls have been acquired by the players in the same proportion as the maps clear status. For the girls that drop, Eidsvold, Dace, Nankai and Kashi: Their acquisition rate varies from 75% to only 40% for Kashi, who didnt seem to be all too desireable among survey participants looking at the following popularity charts in addition to having questionable drop locations.
Ship Acquired by Players: Relative Frequency  
Dace 195 73.03%
Eidsvold 164 61.42%
Glorious 242 90.63%
Kashi 107 40.07%
Nankai 202 75.65%
Norge 257 96.25%
Wasp 215 80.52%
Nankai was the most popular girl by this Event, with a total of 29% of votes going towards her. She is followed by the close grouping of Glorious, Wasp and Dace, with Norge, Eidsvold and Kashi being left behind.
When assessing the usefulness of the new girls, Nankai would be the clear winner, with Eidsvold being rated the lowest on the totem pole (no one even voted for her). Sidenote: It's kinda cute how she is standing on the bar-chart being all scared while towering the rest, as if she is afraid of heights.
As for the favourite Abyssal, the race is much closer: The Fjord Princesses are the most popular at 25% of the votes, the Battlecruiser Water Princess is second at 24% and the Wasp Princess third at 20%. The Mu-Class is a bit off-field at 15%. Contrary to the most popular Abyssal, the Solitary Fjord Princess really is solitary in how many people chose her, ranking her last place at a mere 3% of votes.

Map Details

Looking at the entire surveybase, E2P3 was considered the hardest phase of the event, while those who did E5 on hard usually would rate E5P3 and E5P4 to be the harder phase more often. Other obstacles in the event include E3P1, E3P3 and E4P3, but these arent as prevelant as the former 3 phases.
A small minority of players decided to put on the 100 slots only challenge. The most common one was to use no duplicate ships with 20% participating in it.
Challenge Taken by Relative Frequency  
100 slots only 5 1.872%
No duplicate ships 54 20.22%
No friend fleets 30 11.23%
Softcap resources only 9 3.370%
Waifu flagship on final Last Dance 11 4.119%
Kasumi > Shigure > Yahagi > Asashimo > Hatsushimo >> Rest.
If only people could read instructions and not include the remodel indicator...
Anyways, if you are reading this in game window size, the ticks on the legend aren't fully rendered, but you can still get the label of each column by simply hovering over them.

Resources

While the average and median lock data is around the 100-mark for all difficulties, HHHHH would see a 28+% uplift, making the average lock count 129.


As usual, the most popular item to be bought was the ship slot expansion, followed by REs and then rings. Only a few players bought additional resources (4%), none of which did HHHHH.
Item Bought by Players: Relative Frequency  
Damage Control Items 7 2.621%
Irako/Mamiya 12 4.494%
Reinforcement Expansion 60 22.47%
Resources/Buckets 12 4.494%
Ship Slot Expansion 127 47.56%
Wedding Documents 36 13.48%
The median of DMM point expenditure is 1000 as usual, representing one ship slot expansion or a combination of smaller items like rings and reinforcement expansions. Since there are outliers in the high expenditure range, the average is way higher than the median.

Misc

Most do not have a strong opinion whether they like to plan or play more.
Finally, I would like to extend a big thank you to Konato_K, who was kind enough to host this website for the time being, as well as helping me with a couple of small design decisions.

Your very own difficulty filter:

Now only the blackboards remain, click the button that says "Expand" to show them: