Talk:Zuikaku/@comment-26332239-20150609114149/@comment-140.112.5.4-20150615012551

A way to predict whether blueprints are required is to check the game balance, see if it changed drasticly after the K2.

For example, Tone-class were much easier to drop than other CAVs (with exception of Mogami), but is stronger than other CAVs once K2-ed, this DO disrupts balance between them, so they require a blueprint.

Also, stock equipments are important factors as well, the Unryu-class will eventually be available for mass-production, and the low level requirement (50) will make those 601-related aircrafts farmable. So they are designed to require blueprints to prevent 601-farming.

In the case of 5th CarDiv, they are likely to come with SCAMPs to express the "out-range tactics" stuff, given that their K2 will be based upon the assumption that they won at the Battle of the Phillippines Sea. But on the other hand, 5th CarDiv are still relatively rare in both drops and builds, and they are currently out-classed due to their lack of firepower, so the K2 should be considered a rebalance. For a "rare, yet not really strong" to recieve K2, I would personally consider it more reasonable NOT to require a blueprint.

Still, it's hard to say, although 5th CarDiv don't have significant air groups on board historically, they sure can give her some insane stock equipments besides the SCAMP (like Reppu (skilled), Ryuusei (skilled),etc.), making blueprints necessary to prevent farming. Yet I think these stuffs will more likely be implented by the same system as Tenzan (Tomonaga), which uses the quest system to make sure the player can only acquire one of it.

Conclusion: most likely without blueprints IMO, but may come with Zero 52 (skilled), Tenzan/Suisei (skilled) and SCAMP. And probably with one-off quests that can transform the aircrafts into Reppu/Ryuusei/Suisei 12A (skilled)