Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-25730832-20170511175819/@comment-32000657-20170513201042

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, Battlecrusier 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.

Ar-cen-ciel wrote:

Mystia Lore. wrote:

For me, it's DE and that's enough (KCV already had the DE name in it way before the Escorts ships were introduced) No, they're not. They are not destroyers to begin with. Their inability to replace actual destroyers for in-game expeditions is solid enough an evidence to back that up. Actual escort destroyers should be able to replace fleet destroyers in expeditions just fine, and the Kaibokans are too lightly armed to do that.

FirstDagr wrote: The most stupid thing I read today, just call them DE. Patrol Frigates is literally something non existent in the IJN during WW2. Problem with that classification for Kaibokans is that they don't have torpedoes. A surface ship must have torpedo tubes to count as a destroyer in IJN, escort or no. Kaibokans don't have any, Combined with their slow speed, they are not eligible to count as DDs or DEs that could participate in Destroyer Squadrons, as evidenced by expeditions.

As far as DEs goes, closest thing IJN had to that are Type-D destroyers (Matsu and Tachibana class), which actually had torpedoes like 4/5 of American DE classes. 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.