Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160122165904/@comment-26854287-20160124132516

Dreddz wrote: YamagumoKai420 wrote: To those worried about USN powercreep, let's look at how the German and Italian capitol ships have been handled: Are they usually statistically superior to their IJN counterparts? Yes. Are there a lot of them? Nope. It's been, what, 2 years since Bismarck was introduced? No sign of Tirpitz, years on. The devs know she and her equips are powerful as fuck, yet they're not easily attainable in normal circumstances. It's a similar story with the VV class and Prinz, too.

Up until this point, foreigners have been implemented as  guest appearances. I highly doubt that'll change with the USN. We likely won't have a big flotilla of 'em, just Iowa-class and 3-4 more of her friends to join her. Her gun won't become the new standard issue BB gun to replace all of our 41s. And we'll probably only get 1-2 copies of Enterprise's planes, ever. ...Yes, it hurts, I know. The devs aren't desperate enough to go the Warship Girls (aka China Kancolle) route just yet. After the Murricans, we've still got the Brits to go...  Yes, there is the fact that the Japanese tech were inferior to the Americans and several other nations, but to impress an international crowd that's itching to see 200+ Allied girls in the game, it would be easier for the devs to adapt a spinoff KC with the US Navy as the main focus and the- essentially, a role reversal KanColle.

The power creep is inevitable, and there can be no doubt that eventually, the "go-to" stat call will have risen. If the devs decide to implement all Allied ships, might as well just turn the entire IJN fleet into abyssals, give them insane stats and put them as bosses for events, it goes well with the theory that abyssals are sunken ships that hold a lot of grudges and hatred, now they can also have their revenge by going up against their former enemies.