Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-1820055-20150913021552/@comment-26574811-20150913125553

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: Not really. The Aircraft Proficiency system merely buffs the aircrafts so the big slots can be freed up for bombers instead of being occupied by fighters, statwise the crane sister's base FP is still lagging behind compared to the first four carriers. Not quite.

Total aircraft power ,as in sum of the slots' square roots:

Kaga 19.19> Shoukaku&Zuikaku 18.16> Taihou 18.10> Akagi 17.76> Soryuu 17.08 > Hirryu 16.67 (From wikiwiki, all in final remodel)

And by the way, very high difficulty/ Event maps allow 20-plane slots to be wiped out, which makes Shoukaku-class and Taihou the few carriers that can survive such circumstances.