Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171217042051/@comment-27330118-20171224152204

AllTrianglesMakeASquare wrote: Any word on if this one requires a blueprint or not? Probably right? I mean, no way that people like me are actually going to be able to catch up in terms of blueprint-ships, right Tanaka? I mean, other than Fumizuki and Michishio, every ship kai-ni'd this year required a blueprint. Might as well make those medals purchasable. At this point I still need to Kai-ni: Kumano, Kinu, Tama, Amagi, Katsuragi, Taigei. That's going to take at least 6x4 = 24 medals. I currently have 9. still need about 15. Which is about three months away, assuming that I get 5 medals per month. But they release about one blueprint Ship per month on average, and that is not including the fact that there are ships that require 2 blueprints (like Bismarck, Kumano/Suzuya kou-kai ni, Saratoga). I ask again, how am I supposed to catch up if I only get about 15-18 (including the quarterlies) medals per quarter? I need about 12 medals each quarter to kai-ni the new ships they'll bring out, leaving me with about 6 medals left to cover the 6 I have on the backburner currently. It's very frustrating, is all :(

How to catch up ? By playing the game of course (Doing all EOs, mainly). But what it will does anyways ? What is your objective ? It's not like you will DIE in atrocious suffer if you can't BP all ships who requires it on day one and in less than a year. By following the guide for BP Priorities on the Wiki, you will find the ships who are mostly useful to help you in the game.

This game is not intended to be play in a flash, it's designed to be played on (very) long term, and what's the point of getting everything right away ? It's a DMM game, not a shitty EA Game that you can finish in 1 hour if you P2W to get the best stuff right from the start.

It all depend on the objective you want to achieve in this game, but it's not an absolute requirement. I'm certainly not the best example to follow but I started the game like 1 week before Abukuma K2 was implemented. It's almost 2 years and a half by now, and I still haven't K2 Abukuma yet (Because personnal preferences, ABKM is cute but not enough in my own opinion). That's doesn't prevent me to doing good in Events. Sometimes it can be challenging because RNG screw you yes, but isn't that the point of playing this game ? Playing Kancolle and not expect to rant/rage ? It's impossible. You don't want to rage ? Then don't play the game.

By now, I have used 9 BP so far, and some of them are "shitty" choices in term of priority (2 Taigei, Amagi, Unryuu). There was only 1 that I needed absolutely (Yura) for Summer 17. I only do 1-5 and 2-5 each month, sometimes 3-5 (Let's say 4 times in a year) and 4-5 (2 times in a year) and I've done 5-5 only once. That + the medals you can get in Events raised my total medals to 50+, which means that I can make 12 BP if I want (Or need).

And it's not like RNG can be funny sometimes in Events. If she decides to One-shot your precious Bismarck Drei/CVB/Anything-BPed, you can't do anything against that. I wasted severals hours to sparkle evey ship in my fleet and supports in order to try to kill the Night Strait Himes in Fall 17's E4, only to fail to do so, and I finally killed her without any sparkle. Yeah yeah, it's was Medium, and Medium is pure shit blablabla (You know the story)