Talk:Abukuma/@comment-114.125.73.9-20150719235610/@comment-114.125.79.159-20150720165346

I'm the original poster. I have 3 blueprints and 0 ships needing blueprint now that Abukuma is k2. Personally, I've always found it weird that people seem to talk of medals like they're unbelievably rare. They regenerate monthly, ppl, and events reward them like peanuts! Right now there is only one potential ship needing a blueprint in the game for me and she's the still-elusive Bismarck (bad luck with LSC). Technically there's Taigei too, but I hit 2-5 7 times a week and still haven't seen her, so I kinda gave up. Basically, ever since medals and blueprints were introduced I've always had more blueprints than ships to use them on. Devs simply don't make that many hypothetical k2s, but they do provide lots of medals.

The other strange part is how ppl seem to think training girls can cost more than LSC. It's actually cost me far less to raise Abukuma to 77 than to get my second Akitsumaru (less than 10%, in fact), so of course farming Abukuma for her Daihatsu is a hell lot more cost-effective for me than actually trying to hunt Akitsumaru through LSC. I just send out Abukuma for expeds and have her sink subs in PvP when she comes back. She actually earns more resources than she spends on balance. It takes a while, but there's no real need to rush for a resource boat, and anyway with my luck I'm guaranteed a second Abukuma k2 long before I find a third Akitsumaru.

Abukuma's not that rare either. I've had about 10 of her since she was introduced in the game. I've kept one as main and one as spare, the rest became mod fodder.