Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-25730832-20170511175819/@comment-26574811-20170514000123

IMide wrote: Zel-melon wrote: Now, before everyone went shitfest on me please hear me out. A long time ago we had this problem with the classification of BB as there's this another class called Battlecruiser (let's call it BC) that never comes into fruition because the classification of fBB, BB, and BBV are already engraved into the community. First off, Battlecruiser is CC, not BC or whatever bull you guys made up on the spot. And save for Kongou-class, none of the other ships classified as CCs in-game were ever historically CCs. This means that the game itself takes liberties with how it classifies its ships, and none of you have kept this in mind. Second, Destroyer Escorts are not destroyers, with one of the main differences (at least at the time) being having a much slower speed. You're thinking of Escort Destroyer, which is DDE.



And finally to everyone, if after this discussion you still can't agree on what classification to use, then I propose to add a feature in the viewers to allow people to change the abbreviation to whatever they fancy, among the possible choices you have. Better still would be to drop the idea of using abbreviations altogether, but I know you guys won't agree to that.

I swear if corvettes ever get added into the game you're going to get its classification totally wrong. 1. Yes, battlecruiser is CC according to USN, but no one is using that symbol (not even the USN as they don't have one of their own), BC is way more oftenly used. Another reason to object CC is that CC means that battlecruiser is a varient of cruisers, which is incorrect. Either by treaty or by common sense, it's a varient of battleships instead.

2. Destroyer Escorts are not Destroyers? are you sure about what you are saying? Before they were reclassified into frigates (that's in 1975, btw), they are, by definition. Unless they are at or slower than 20 knot as designed, it would just be a slower varient of DD and not some game-changing differences.

The British River-class Frigates are exempt from London treaty (speed just 20 knots, exactly the limit, and they were laid down in 1942 so this is actually kind of a concern), while all the DEs of the USN are not (either designed with a faster speed or with torpedoes), you know...

3. The only corvette currently possibly on the horizon is the British Flower-class, which would most probably become a Kaiboukan or its equivalent in-game.