Talk:Summer 2014 Event/@comment-24816414-20140807101705

Since the event starts tomorrow, I am a bit bored and it's making a bit of a fuss (mainly because the ship lock thing, due that having to unlock MI after clearing AL it's just the normal system, clear world X to unlock EO) I decided to gather all the information I read out there about the event and put it here. Gathering this information together will help people like me who doesn't know japanese and have to act based on other people's translation of the tweets. I thought about puting this in this page, but I don't know where. If you want you can add this to the page, to prevent people from asking the same questions about the mechanics of the event again and again. I think this is all reliable information but I may be mistaken, please tell me if something is wrong or I am missing something. So, here I go:

First, this event consist of two maps, operation AL and operation MI, first you can only sortie in operation AL and when you clear it you will unlock operation MI and will be able to sortie on it. It was said from the devs that AL will be focused on small/medium ships (DD,CL,CA,CVL) while MI will be more focused on heavier units (mostly BBs and CVs), they also said that before the event started they would specify the requeriments of each of the maps (still no info about this).

Second, the devs also said that ships used in AL will be "locked" and won't be able to be used in MI. There is still not much information about how this will work. Some people think a ship will be locked the moment it is sortied (for example: if you sortie 6 ships and retreat in the first node they will be automatically be locked), other people think that only ships that get a boss kill in AL will be locked for MI. Some people proposed to have duplicates of ships to make them able to sortie on both maps but if they don't lock the unit itself but the name of the unit all your ships named X will be locked anyway, so maybe this won't work.

Third, this lock system only aplies to AL and MI, while you are clearing the event you can sortie in normal maps, and you can take there ships used in AL and/or MI, you can even mix them.

Fourth, devs also said that this lock system won't work on equips, so if you can take the equips from a ship that sortied in AL and put them on another one that will be sortied on MI, no problems here.

Fifth, still not enough info about if there will be support expeditions and in the case there are we don't know if the ships used in these expeditions will also be locked.