Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26111194-20170721145359/@comment-32647310-20170723170248

@Tadano Hitoshi

When the game first came out (well after I got started), there were a LOT of assets that were ripped form the original game. As an artist/creator, I'm not even going to even try to defend their actions. If they were going to make a knock-off or otherwise jump on the bandwagon, they should have started from scratch

However, that does not change the fact that after the game got up and running, they started making their own artwork and character designs...heck they even added (mostly Chinese and American) ships that aren't even in this version. For example: USS Ohio (a modern/still in-use Nuclear Attack Submarine), HMS Hood, HMS Ark Royal, and USS Hornet (I assume it's the Hornet anyway, the name they had in-game was Bumblebee, and there is no US ship by that name, so I think it's a translation error).

They also went and made their own ships, or at the very least, went and used Chinese names for various ships; either way, they got their own/different artwork.

As to whether or not the assets and such that were put in use towards the end of things were theirs...I honestly don't know. BUt I have done image searches (because I did like the designs), and haven't been able to find them posted elsewhere.