User blog comment:Tsubakura/Mythbusting the metas of KanColle/@comment-30709677-20180305141528

(facepalms at the last one) OK, I've been a proponent of not dismissing the Catalina as an option whenever that quest is discussed on Reddit (as I'm in favor of players actually understanding what both options are before making their choice and that even if you do pick the SPF, you need more than one ASAP - it helps that my first event was Fall 2016, and I have a feeling this quest was introduced in response to certain player needs in that event, as I know that event and a lack of Akitsushima until just now and having just gotten Akashi back then influenced my choices), but please tell me that no one ever argued that a Catalina is more useful than a SPF. If anyone said that, they have issues, since it is a niche item that isn't best at what it does but can help in certain cases (and even in this event, the devs are making it so you have to have a Taitei in some cases instead). You pick it if you're like me and have crap farming luck and take six events to get 1 Akitsushima and want it just in case you need more range than a Saiun can give, and freely accept that you're going to be spending more screws instead for SPFs and accept the consequences when it comes to other improvements you could have made instead with those screws. You don't pick the Catalina because it's more useful than a SPF, which is used far more often. (shakes head)