Talk:Fall 2017 Event/@comment-27466725-20171127223643/@comment-26715360-20171128005844

I think the Marriage wiki page mentions this "upper bound", but honestly I still don't really understand what it is. I might be wrong, so if anyone fully understands how it works, feel free correct me.

From what I understand, it seems to be a value individually defined for each ship that is used to limit the HP a Kanmusu is going to have after marriage and/or HP modernization with DE: a given Kanmusu will never have more HP than this limit, whether is is through Marriage or DE modernization. However, this doesn't mean that a Kanmusu's HP will even be able to reach this value, even through both Marriage and modernization.

So for instance, Suzutsuki Kai's upper bound is 58, but the highest HP value she can reach is 45 (38 + 5 from marriage + 2 from DE modernization). Her HP can never reach this 58 value.

A more interesting exemple would be Italia, who has a upper bound of 98 HP. She has 92 base HP, and through Marriage she can gain + 6 HP, which means that she will reach her upper bound. Because her HP can't be higher than this upper bound, when married, Italia can't receive more HP from DE modernization. However, if she isn't married, you can increase her HP through DE modernization, since you will only be able to add + 2 HP to her base 92 HP, which will put her to a total of 94 HP which is still under her 98 upper bound. This also means that if you marry Italia after modernizing her with DE, she would only gain +4 HP instead of +6 HP, since giving her anything more than 4 HP from 94 HP would go past her upper bound.

I have no idea how each upper bound is defined though. For some Kanmusu (like Italia), it's important because it essentially make HP modernization impossible after marriage, but for instance I don't see why Suzutsuki's upper bound is 58, since this value isn't even remotely close to the maximum number of HP she can get after marriage and HP modernization.