Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-104.51.53.50-20150415225527/@comment-73.181.42.62-20150429212411

Oh, curses. Once more I'm late to the party. I hope this is okay. Ameno Miragu wrote: Case 4 (prolly best case): U.S. ships get added as temporary allies in an Event a la Arpeggio style. Crazy stats OK (iirc the Arpeggio ships had GREAT stats). No Equipment (Arpeggio units had empty slots iirc), you fit them with your own. Least you get to see U.S. ships an' all. Everyone is happy and the "ooh American ships never showed up" issue dies down.

The only issue then is art and character. I feel like U.S. ships will inevitably be clones of Atago/Kongo -> blonde + big busoms + gratuitous English. What else is new then? Well, if I'm not out of line here, I did come up with a USS Colorado a while ago who doesn't match that stereotype. I mean, yes, she's a battleship, so has mountainous diddies. But her hair is ruddy, and her personality is "moody attention whore who rephrases events to make herself look better than anyone, hates Maryland for it technically being her class, and is always telling everyone else to be jealous of her enormous guns". Hyperbitch? Yes. But does she sound like an Atago/Kongou clone? It's not that hard, and that's just going off one potential dimension (copy personality from namesake state). The question is really whether or not they'll want to bother.

I see a lot of good points on both sides, but my own feelings have stayed the same. The rest of the Big 7 would be an appropriate amount of Allied ships. But if the devs don't want to include Allied ships, even if there's no more reason than "don't feel like it" or even if it is bad blood, then it's not our place as not even Japanese ourselves to complain about it in a Japanese game where the inclusion or not of any non-Japanese ships is entirely at their discretion. Debate and speculate, yes fine, that's the nature of consumer reaction to product. But the phrasing of the thread question is at best not well-thought out and at worst an unreasonable demand. If it's about the boats for us, there's already a team making all sorts of historically-accurate Amerikanmusu. What more could we possibly ask for?