Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27.32.61.130-20150324062848/@comment-25260032-20150324101441

I have to agree with OP that the game is both repetitive, tedious and boring from time to time since have been playing for more than a year already. I started from October 2013 up to now and plays on a daily basis (1-2hrs doing dailies on weekdays because of work while more 8-10hrs on weekends due to days-off).

I'll just mention some of the reasons why I'm still playing the game.

1. Goals, achievements and admiral's pride

From being a green horn as I started, to being a veteran, gaining experience as time goes, there's a lot of things you have accomplished (achievements: maxing a level of a ship girl, clearing events, getting rare drops, being in the monthly rankings, etc.) and wanted to achieve (goals: complete the kancolledex - both ship girls and equipments, max the level of all your ship girls, max equipment upgrade, etc.). Both your goals and achievements result to your admiral's pride which you can be proud of and brag (from time to time) to other teitokus.

2. Investment 

I've already spent some money in the game to expand ship slots (expanded about 4 times already). It'll be a waste if I don't utilize and see where I had use my money until the end.

3. Peers

Meeting other admirals through the wikia, twitter, facebook groups and fan pages and other forms of media can lead to a whole lot of experience. You'll get friends where you can get help from and in return help them while they're in their time of need. Enemies and/or rivals where you can disagree based on your own opinion on a topic, brag when you're on top and envy them while you're down.

4. Upcoming updates and events

New updates and events means new mechanics, new quest and maps to clear, new enemies to beat, new equipments and new ship girls to get,  new experience to be trolled by RNG, etc. These things contributes to the thrills and balance in the game which you can look forward to.

5. I'm not banned, yet.

Since I'm not a Japanese and uses proxy connection to play the game, there's still chance that I'll get banned at some point in time. And no, I'm not doing (and wont' be doing) anything illegal or breaking the rules of the game such as using bots or playing on mobile devices)

Lastly, quoting Dragonjet, once you get past the boring repetitive and tedious state, you'll be here forever. :'D

P.S. If you're feeling bored while playing the game, you can just hoard resources and sent expeds while doing other things.