Talk:Construction/@comment-123.21.158.234-20141018180126/@comment-25289497-20141021122103

@Dechidechi

The name is Kuropo btw. ;) But someone already registered using that name. :/

I consider myself to be a fairly dedicated player. I really love how you can play this game while doing other things, like watching anime, playing other games or learning for school (lol). This way, I am able to spend a lot of time in the game. I really love anime/manga art (I used to draw quite often). Actually, I think most of the players do, as it is the main selling point of the game. However, I also like diving deeper into the game, the game mechanics/formulas. I do not have much time testing some of the things out though, as I always want to maintain my position on the ranking ladder. I was quite active at the KanColle forums. I once started a discussion about Hiryuu Kai Ni there, as I thought she was somewhat overrated. Much criticism was received, but oh well, it was to be expected. Not too long after that, I rarely even visit the site anymore. It has become too much a forum for off-topic discussions, rather than (somewhat) intellectual.

I found out about this game through Pixiv. After months of seeing the same characters in my feed, KanColle characters (I did not know back then), I grew curious and looked up more about it. Around the beginning of March, I discovered KanColleTool (which I luckily did not use) and KanColleViewer. As someone who is not Japanese and cannot read the language, I was discouraged to play the game before. I do know some Chinese though, so getting into it was ultimately not very hard, especially combined with KCV. (Also, I disliked the idea of playing through a vpn connection. It inhibits me from doing other things.)

I got through the lottery the day after Iwakawa's launch, I believe. At the beginning, I used to play a lot, almost always whenever I had free time.. I used to grind 1-5 a lot, since I did not have any submarines and did not get anything good from construction. (I "quit" normal construction after a couple of weeks, lost hope.. Since then, I only spammed default recipe for dailies.) My first submarine, Imuya, would not appear very early, so I spent much of my time in 1-5 early on.. The second month, I mostly ground in 4-3 and 1-5 (still). I believe I got into top 500 at the end of April, only by grinding points in 1-5. I did the same thing the month after, May. That month, I dropped out of top 100 in the last week.. So I started clearing maps again, all the way to 5-4. (Map 3-2 and 5-3 took me days to clear... Those are worse than event maps!) From June onwards, I can be found in the top 100, with last month, September, being in top 20. Currently, I am not in the top 100, but I have yet to clear 2-5 and 3-5, after which I would be rank ~55.

I am not here to brag about my "achievements". Since admirals points/ladder rankings are inevitably related to admiral exp/level, it is to portray how I am able to reach the HQ level I currently am. Basically, you can say that I am driven to stay among the top.

I have not been playing as much recently though.. After all the grinds, pretty much all my BBs, CVs, CA(V)s are 99, and I do not really feel like deploying a full level 99 fleet. Neither am I willing to spend too much money on rings. =P

I know there are people on my server who are even more hardcore than I am. They were already level 120 a couple of months ago. I think there are only a handful of level 120s on my server max. But yeah, not many are 110 or above either.