Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170916104500/@comment-26823646-20170918190609

Ar-cen-ciel wrote: しろ wrote: I wonder why in WOWS they used some never completed ships even though they could have avoided it (why not use Tone/ Oyodo?) Majority of the ships in World of Warships are real, though obviously the Tier X ships are largely paper ships since only a handful navies had ever actually built their top-tier ships. USN had built all three of them, while IJN had built two out of three. Shinano was not seaworthy and unlikely to ever be, while Taihou-Kai (named Hakuryu in-game) was never built because they needed more carriers so desperately.

Ooyodo was a light cruiser without torpedoes, in stark contrast to all other IJN cruisers, Nevermind that her playstyle is different from the rest of IJN cruisers, higher-tiers are currently reserved for heavy cruisers in IJN and USN cruiser lines. RN cruiser lines was made entirely from light cruisers as a testbed for the extra cruiser tech tree branches.

Takao was replaced by Myoukou and rebranded as Atago because she is somewhat overpowered. As for Tone, I'd imagine they're holding back some of the famous ships so they could sell them as premium ships sometime later, therefore giving way to the paper ships which WG thought would be more interesting to have. After all, having historical ships and paper ships fighting side-by-side adds more flavor into the battlefield, while pleasing both audiences who wants both kind of ships at the same time. Of course, the balancing was always an issue, and the developers are likely to be biased toward their own country or the state of significant influence thereof (which in WG case was biased towards Russia, because it was founded in the heavily Russian-influenced Belarus). I see. Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. Looking forward to when they add CLs. I prefer them a bit more compared to CAs