Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-25730832-20190625022209/@comment-32647310-20190628142613

12.38.3.234 wrote: Well, yes, reread what I said.

I am very much aware that upgrading early aircraft is significantly more efficient than upgrading final models, or in the case of the 601st Reppuu, absolutely necessary. This is why I maxed Iwamoto before starting any of his quest chains, and now have the best-in-game +10 Iwamoto M53.

My plan is, for every Skilled Zero I want, whether it is a Skilled M21 or a Skilled M52, it starts as a max (+10) normal M21, converts into a +10 Skilled M21, and then possibly converts into a +10 Skilled M52.

Training dupe dragons is a bad idea to me, it's an absurd amount of XP spent (and taken away from others who need it) to acquire Skilled M21s which are then more expensive to upgrade than normal M21s in both screws and M21 fodder. I have enough torp and dive bombers that basic Egusa and Tomonaga are not all that attractive to me. The only reason I maxed my existing dragons' Skilled M21s is because I wasn't NOT going to buff some amazing planes that I might make even more amazing as +10 Skilled M52s.

I appreciate the reiteration and verification of my existing plans, but I did a bunch of research into all this plane conversion before I started converting any of them. My point is you're kinda suggesting I do what I was already planning to do, lol. This is why I need more Skilled Crewmembers in the first place! Quarterlies are definitely getting knocked out for them now. I did, and it sounded to me like you were planning on taking the long route, thouh I may have missed something there...

With regard to upgrading dupes; there *IS* some merit in doing this, but it really only applies to Souryuu (in my opinion) and it's really only for late-game stuff when you don't have many CVs that you want to level:

-T99 Egusa Squadrons do some pretty good damage, and while there *are* planes that do more damage, the kicker with the T99 Egusa is their really high Accuracy. This makes them *VERY* useful for putting on your CV(L)s when running Support Expeditions. Their damage is on par with a Suisen 12A (which is the metric used on the wiki regarding damage output for CVs), but they have among the highest accuracy of all the red planes (only 1 of these has a higher accuracy). And, because of how Support Exped shelling works, having high accuracy (either from inherent gear bonuses or radar (as nothing else matters)), is *very* important.

- Type 2 Recon aircraft are pretty useful as a general thing when it comes to getting LOS or Contact (I prefer Saiun because I hate Red T), so it's good to have a few of these lying around just in case. While T2s are craftable, you can spend a stupid amount of resources to get them.

This being said, my advice to dupe some Souryuus is mostly for having a couple extra T99 Egusas for Support Expeditions and a couple extra T2s to have 'just in case' (lord knows Tanaka may make something else eat T2s as part of upgrading).

As a point of clarity, I haven't duped that many Souryuus (like 2 or 3) and I can't find myself really needing to do that any more in the immediate future.