Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-28069733-20180331023654

Dandan550 wrote:

I do prefer to use ww2-era hull classifications than the latter one btw as we just only bicker to further confusion. As we currently have no idea how they will implement the new USN DEs, I'm laying out every possible connections and hints that elaborates the possibilities. Preferably, we would want to use ww2-era classifications, but we can't ignore the possibility that they're using post-ww2 references as a basis to implement this new ship. After all, the IJN during the ww2 era has no such thing as "Destroyer Escorts", yet the tweet clearly states 護衛駆逐艦.

With that said, the discussion has been going off the rails for a while now. We know for sure an USN DE is getting implemented, but we don't know how they will do it. But, we do know that there exists 3 possible scenarios as to how they could implement it and there's a clear cut plan in each scenario:
 * 1) The USN DE gets implemented as a slow DD. The designation of DE -> Kaiboukan would look silly in this case and as mentioned before, people will have to reconsider their stance of whether they really should keep using DE -> Kaiboukan.
 * 2) The USN DE gets implemented as a DE, completely with its own unique API value. Our current DE designation on Kaiboukan has to be replaced, this cannot be disputed.
 * 3) The USN DE gets implemented as a Kaiboukan. Nothing exciting happens in this case and the USN DEs and Kaiboukan coexists as DEs. Personally, I think this is the most likeliest outcome.

While I've given my thoughts about it, I was interested as to what the others think about it. In case we do end up having to replace the current DE designation for Kaiboukan, I did mention things like KB and EE along the line, but I'm also interested as to what other people's thoughts and alternatives are.