User blog comment:Dragonjet/KanColle English DB/@comment-24835439-20140419151825/@comment-119.56.127.173-20140420213245

"I don't think your fleet composition affects drops. Only your battle rank and maybe for what people said about Hamakaze enemy pattern."

It still important because it affects compass rules, which even wikiwiki still hasn't fully put down squat. To answer the question of " why are we integrating this with the reporting?", it's because so that we can report everything in one go. For confirmation of the compass rules AND drop rules together. Submitting complete reports would also make for more reliable results, because we aren't just giving random fragments of results that we gave just because we noticed them because they were rare drops or something.

"I agree, having to report every drop in every node is kinda annoying and most people will just end up not doing it. And actually who really cares about drops of really common ships?"

Those who still don't have them, maybe? Other than that, if we have a % of each and every ship, we'll give the impression of having a more accurate database due to its completeness. Hopefully adding a reminder encouraging people to give accurate results (as well as the benefits of doing so) will make it seem not so annoying to them, and as a result the database will become as reliable as it seems.

Finally, another suggestion: separate perfect S from normal S in case there's a difference in drop rate.