Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170330044846/@comment-28069733-20170511183650

I actually have thought this through before making this decision.
 * Basically, DE, PF and the Kaiboukan are all used as Escorts. But that does not mean that Kaiboukans are accurately the same as DE or PF.
 * What if foreign escorts are introduced later on? I have checked the API codes and the Kaiboukan are given the API value of 1, while there are no other ship types that remotely even hint PF or DE. Tanaka himself already has hinted heavily in his interview that there will be more escort ships coming in the future. If the american DEs gets introduced, are we still going to insist on calling them PFs as well? Just assigning them Escorts instead would just solve the current and all the future potential problems.
 * Everyone agrees that simply calling them Escort is the best solution, because you can never be wrong. The original suggestion given by the NHHC is to designate them as E, but lets face it, I can give you one simple example out of the many that its just going to become a gateway for more confusion. Hence the decision to now make up our own designation, which is EV, ES or EE.
 * Why are CL called CL here? Simple, because they are named Light Cruisers in their card. For the same reason, we decide to name the Kaiboukan Escorts, because their cards neither say Frigate nor Destroyer. I wouldn't had cared if that was the only thing, but with the current circumstances taken into account, Escort is the most correct option. And since there are no specific classifications for Escorts in general, who is stopping us from inventing our own one to suit our needs? We already had done so with classifications like BBV, CAV, CLT and even FBB anyway.