Here are some more charts of the various objectives and how popular they are. Easier to look at then what I had previous posted.

Source: 130,000 lists pulled from Warlords fleet builder from the end of 2015 through February 2018

I adjusted 2016 to exclude the new objectives so its make a cleaner comparison of 2016 without the new objectives and 2017 with the new objectives.

First is the Rebel compared to Empire for the 4 calendar years.

Interesting Observations

- Pretty even in that rebels and imperials generally like the same objectives with a few exceptions

- Imperials really like Contested Outpost and Minefields

- Rebels opt for Hyperspace assault and Superior positions with a sprinkling of Precision Strike

- Both factions seem to converge through the years with only Contested outpost continuing to be stick out.

Does this mesh with what you guys are seeing out in the wild?

Here's a look at Imperial only comparing the trend over the years.

Interesting to see the dip in Contested Outpost for a year then see it bounce back.

Clearly shows that the new objectives really aren't that popular except for Solar Corona, not only that but almost every new objective has declined in popularity comparing 2018 YTD to 2017. Again only Solar Corona and VIP seeing bumps YoY.

And then Rebels...

Pretty much the same as the Imperials. Save that Senor Net is growing in popularity in 2018 along with Solar Corona and VIP.

The only one that doesn’t jive with personal experience is Rebels slightly favoring Hyperspace Assault compared to Imperials.

These do a pretty solid job of summarizing though. Well set up

Objectives are weird.

I love me some Nav Hazards. Y'all are crazy.

1 hour ago, PartyPotato said:

PIC in 2015?

1 hour ago, Undeadguy said:

PIC in 2015?

Very rare but they do happen and I tried to weed most of them out. But occasionally someone will edit an old list instead of creating a new one. So in this case 1 list got past me where someone created a list back in 2015 then at a way later date edited it.

Bottom line there is some noise in the data. But most of that noise is drowned out by volume.

Just now, PartyPotato said:

Very rare but they do happen and I tried to weed most of them out. But occasionally someone will edit an old list instead of creating a new one. So in this case 1 list got past me where someone created a list back in 2015 then at a way later date edited it.

Bottom line there is some noise in the data. But most of that noise is drowned out by volume.

Ohhhh that's what happened. I figured it was an entry error when you did the data. I don't use Warlords so I don't know the ins n outs.

Still, I appreciate your time and effort put into this.