Talk:Ship/@comment-24409121-20140203204809/@comment-220.255.1.127-20140413135334

I wouldn't have bothered given how old this discussion is, but surprisingly no one pointed out the fact that there are two shades of blue. Compare Hatsuyuki with Miyuki, for example. I'd say Miyuki's blue is not as common as Hatsuyuki's because it's closer to teal (which is the next rank), but I have no proof regarding this. Regardless, most players consider these 2 blues + teal as "common". Equipment's equivalent would be, say, 7.7mm Machine Gun, 12.7mm Machine Gun and 25mm Twin Autocannon Mount, all of which are listed as common (コモン) in-game (the last one has 2 stars instead of 1, though; I'd treat that as teal being considered differently from the 2 blues).

Well, Hatsukaze is rare enough that many players consider the difficulty of getting her (3-4 boss) to be on par with trying to get the likes of Yamato and Taihou from LSC, outside of events at least. That's how difficult she is to get.

As to why use Holo instead of Epic Rare or something, it's not just the rarity given to equipment in-game ( ホロ). We have  ホロ, S ホロ and SS ホロ for equipment, which corresponds with the rarities for, say, Shimakaze, Nagato and Yamato respectively.

After a certain point, rarity becomes irrelevant; only the ship obtained matters. Few say "I got a gold background ship", but not many say "I got a rare ship" either. Probably because at later stages, any ship you don't have is a rare ship to you.

Finally, to quote an anon: "Just put a bar saying common on the right and rare on the left."