Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-1637496-20180329091553

Tsubakura wrote: With that said, one of the 2 can happen with the new Taffy III Destroyer Escort release:
 * 1) The new ship released is an "Escort", thus placing it in the same category as the Kaiboukans. In this case, all we have to do is rename the category "Coastal Defense Ship" to "Escort". No big deal.
 * 2) The new ship released is a "Destroyer Escort", which is a complete new category and API value. We obviously can't have 2 categories that are both DE, so you guys will have to admit that I was right all along a year ago and we will decide on a new proper classification. Also, I'm not going with PF for obvious reasons.

My advice: just wait patiently for the update to arrive and decide from that point on what to do. Any debates that occurs now is pointless and it's just a waste of your energy that could've been used more productively lol. It's also perfectly possible that they implement them as (slow speed?) destroyers, it's been mentioned above by  天津の風 how escort carriers are simply classified as light carriers in the game. The relation between escort destroyers and destroyers is even closer than the one between light carriers and escort carriers, because destroyer escorts were built to the same naval standards of their fleet brethern, they just used cheaper and less powerful powerplants, while escort carriers were built to civilian standards and they were based on or were directly converted from civilian ships.

Also, debating the possible options and courses of action before the actual implementation might be preferable given what happened last time when everyone went its own way after they had already implemented kaibokan.