Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-25730832-20170511175819/@comment-28069733-20170512001757

Hasemiru wrote: Tsubakura wrote: Hasemiru wrote: We should have gone with KB since it derives from the first letter that composes the reading of each kanji from the Kancolle abbreviation (Kai-海 /Bō-防 ) or CDS that stands for Coastal Defense Ship which is the official translation. Kaibōkan(Wikipedia article in English).

Edit: Well since CD or CDS can cause confusion, the poll will be the one to decide the naming system after all. No can do, because KB would make no fucking sense if a foreign escort gets implemented. Well technically it can be implemented, we would have to take all ships of Japan and foreign nations and put them under a main tag (Escort ships), then for how each country administrates their Hull designation system (E.g.: US Navy Destroyer escort; Imperial Japanese Navy Kaibōkan; Royal Navy and Commonwealth Force Frigates.

In general terms it'll be very hard to determine a unique tag for all ships in general since they obey to different demands when their nations designed, built and classified them.

"Destroyer escort (DE) was the United States Navy mid-20th century classification for a 20-knot (23 mph) warship designed with endurance to escort mid-ocean convoys of merchant marine ships. Kaibōkan were designed for a similar role in the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Royal Navy and Commonwealth forces identified such warships as frigates, and that classification was widely accepted when the United States redesignated destroyer escorts as frigates (FF) in 1975. Destroyer escorts, frigates and kaibōkan were mass-produced for World War II as a less expensive anti-submarine warfare alternative to fleet destroyers"

Destroyer escort. (2017, May 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved

00:00 UTC, May 12, 2017

, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Destroyer_escort&oldid=778586298

The idea is similar, because my plan is to put them all under the Escort ship tag, except your 2nd plan isnt realistically achievable, due to the limitations of the database infrastructure. If that was possible, I would've solved the issue of Suzuya and Taiyou still being CVL long ago now.

As I already said many times that PF, DE and Kaiboukan can be classified as Escort, I aint in no mood to restart the debate again. Fight it out to your hearts content, but I am going to push the change regardless when the time comes.