Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171217042051/@comment-27999059-20171224220109

Mystia Lore. wrote: AllTrianglesMakeASquare wrote: Any word on if this one requires a blueprint or not? Probably right? I mean, no way that people like me are actually going to be able to catch up in terms of blueprint-ships, right Tanaka? I mean, other than Fumizuki and Michishio, every ship kai-ni'd this year required a blueprint. Might as well make those medals purchasable. At this point I still need to Kai-ni: Kumano, Kinu, Tama, Amagi, Katsuragi, Taigei. That's going to take at least 6x4 = 24 medals. I currently have 9. still need about 15. Which is about three months away, assuming that I get 5 medals per month. But they release about one blueprint Ship per month on average, and that is not including the fact that there are ships that require 2 blueprints (like Bismarck, Kumano/Suzuya kou-kai ni, Saratoga). I ask again, how am I supposed to catch up if I only get about 15-18 (including the quarterlies) medals per quarter? I need about 12 medals each quarter to kai-ni the new ships they'll bring out, leaving me with about 6 medals left to cover the 6 I have on the backburner currently. It's very frustrating, is all :( How to catch up ? By playing the game of course (Doing all EOs, mainly). But what it will does anyways ? What is your objective ? It's not like you will DIE in atrocious suffer if you can't BP all ships who requires it on day one and in less than a year. By following the guide for BP Priorities on the Wiki, you will find the ships who are mostly useful to help you in the game.

This game is not intended to be play in a flash, it's designed to be played on (very) long term, and what's the point of getting everything right away ? It's a DMM game, not a shitty EA Game that you can finish in 1 hour if you P2W to get the best stuff right from the start.

It all depend on the objective you want to achieve in this game, but it's not an absolute requirement. I'm certainly not the best example to follow but I started the game like 1 week before Abukuma K2 was implemented. It's almost 2 years and a half by now, and I still haven't K2 Abukuma yet (Because personnal preferences, ABKM is cute but not enough in my own opinion). That's doesn't prevent me to doing good in Events. Sometimes it can be challenging because RNG screw you yes, but isn't that the point of playing this game ? Playing Kancolle and not expect to rant/rage ? It's impossible. You don't want to rage ? Then don't play the game.

By now, I have used 9 BP so far, and some of them are "shitty" choices in term of priority (2 Taigei, Amagi, Unryuu). There was only 1 that I needed absolutely (Yura) for Summer 17. I only do 1-5 and 2-5 each month, sometimes 3-5 (Let's say 4 times in a year) and 4-5 (2 times in a year) and I've done 5-5 only once. That + the medals you can get in Events raised my total medals to 50+, which means that I can make 12 BP if I want (Or need).

And it's not like RNG can be funny sometimes in Events. If she decides to One-shot your precious Bismarck Drei/CVB/Anything-BPed, you can't do anything against that. I wasted severals hours to sparkle evey ship in my fleet and supports in order to try to kill the Night Strait Himes in Fall 17's E4, only to fail to do so, and I finally killed her without any sparkle. Yeah yeah, it's was Medium, and Medium is pure shit blablabla (You know the story) Point is, I want to be done with the BPs, just so I can save them up for screws and for upcoming Kai Ni's. I have been playing for two years as well, and the fact of the matter is that I have been doing all the EOs (except 6-5) every month for over a year. Every month edging closer to my goal, and for the devs to move those goalposts so suddenly is frustrating. It's like a never-ending race. I also don't see why this counts as raging. If she get's ap BP, that is fine. But it'll mean that I have to do 5-5 for another month. Talk about rage, right there :P. Added to this the ever growing list of BP ships that will make it even more difficult for new players to catch up as well. It seems that devs only really keep the longest playing players in mind. And with the Medals being as rare as they are, it is really a rather unneccesarily prolonged progression.

And with those 12 BPs? You can Kai Ni 12 ships. Or 9 depending on the ones you want to upgrade. Thing is, there are 29 blueprints needed to upgrade every ship to kai ni (including ship that require more than 1 and the newly release Tama Kai Ni) With the amount of medals you have, you are not even half way. A new player now, assuming has he/she gets 4 medals a month (on average) needs 2 years and 5 months to upgrade everything. If that isn't a serious time commitment then I don't know what is. The quarterlies give you an extra 3 medals, but you can only do those quarterlies if you have completed the long-ass quest chains to unlock them.

Lastly I also asked: "how am I supposed to catch up?" I mean in a collector game, all you want to do is complete the collection right? Unless you are arguing that people aren't supposed to catch up, in which case I will call bollocks on that! Telling me to "not play the game, then" is not a valid way to circumvent that criticism. Since I started playing, they added Abukuma, Tama, Yura, Kinu, Arashio, Ooshio, Zuikaku, Shoukaku, Nagato, Suzuya, Kumano, Zara Due, Saratoga. That is 13 ships, that require 15 blueprints. That is more than half the total amount since we started playing.

Lastly, Lastly, using your medals just for blueprints is very frustrating because they are also used to get Skilled Pilots, Shimakazes' Sextuple Torps, Screws. Do you know how many Souryuus and Hiryuus I had to level up so I could get my type 21s/52s skilled? 16 in total. And I need at least a months worth of medals to get those two Type 2 Seaplane fighter (skilled). If medals where easier to get, I would be fine with everything needing BPs. But they are not. The best players only get at most 21 medals per quarter. That is 84 a year (not including events). That is only 21 blueprints max a year! not enough to even cover the amount total. And you know how few people actually complete 5-5, let alone 6-5. Events have been quite stingy as well in terms of medals because the Fall 2017 gave you 1 or 2 extra.

Long term commitment is well and good. However, the length of the commitment is very much debatable.