Author Topic: Kancolle Kai 3: Land Based Plane Groups are here! (Read 227133 times)

Sombres · « **Reply #240 on:** July 08, 2015, 11:16:36 PM »

Did I just read "Lottery Free Server?"

I might actually give it a try, maybe...

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #241 on:** July 09, 2015, 01:47:32 AM »

Quote from: Gpop on July 08, 2015, 12:44:07 PM

Help, only at 6k Bauxite because of all the LSC'ing I was doing for Bismarck before the event announcement ;_;

YOU FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!! Well to be honest... I should be looking at my bucket count...

Kasu · « **Reply #242 on:** July 09, 2015, 05:22:00 AM »

20k resources and counting. I think I'm already ahead of what I was at before the last event about this many weeks before, but I'm not sure...

Sixten · « **Reply #243 on:** July 09, 2015, 04:52:19 PM »

While we're on the subject of expedition planning...

I play a little before leaving for work in the morning, and a little before going to sleep in the evening.

So, twice a day, I send out fully sparkled fleets for:

Expedition 9 (Tanker Escort Mission) with great success: 525 Fuel, 0-1 Small Coin Boxes, 1-2 Buckets
Expediton 11 (Bauxite Shipment Mission) with great success: 375 Bauxite, 0-1 Small Coin Boxes, 1 Bucket
Expedition 37 (Tokyo Express 1) with great success: 570 Ammo, 405 Steel, 0-2 Small Coin Boxes

Even though 9 and 11 only require four ships each, I send out the full six to ensure great success.

Total per day: 1050 Fuel, 1140 Ammo, 810 Steel, 750 Bauxite, 0-4 Small Coin Boxes, 2-6 Buckets
Resupply Cost: ~350 Fuel, ~250 Ammo

This is actually less efficient resource wise than the 12-16-21 configuration used by RuneDevros, which gets 1305F / 1530A / 600S / 375B with great success and has less of a resupply cost for the expedition ships. I use my configuration because it gets buckets and allows the completion of the "7 Tokyo Expresses in 1 week" quest. When that quest is complete, I switch Expedition 37 to Expedition 13, which allows fuel to build up (720 more fuel per day at the expense of 810 steel) and gives an extra 0-4 buckets per day. 10 buckets in a day from the AFK expeditions has happened, and it feels great.

When I actually am at the keyboard, I run Expeditions 2, 5, and 6, which is pretty typical. I sparkle six ships for Expedition 5, but don't bother sparkling for 2 and 6.

My plan keeps my resources and buckets at reasonable levels even through all the SSH*, Extra Operations**, and doing the "5 bosses in the northern sea" quest every week. Avoiding LSC also helps.

*SSH stands for Small Ship Hunting. Burns fewer resources than Large Ship Construction, but burns many more buckets - which is why my expedition plan is bucket-focused. With the rabbit hunt over, the target is now "doujin artist" Akigumo - the Kagero-class destroyer who was reassigned to a Yugumo division.

**Just 1-5, 2-5, and 3-5. 4-5 is too hard, and 5-5 is even harder.

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #244 on:** July 09, 2015, 04:56:58 PM »

I think now I'll adopt the style of 1-1 sparkling for more resources to come... it should be helpful in the future although I'm running 2, 37, and 38 when I'm at the keyboard and when I'm not and it's nighttime or my friends and I decide to play multiplayer games elsewhere I run 15,16, and 24 for all around resources and since Expedition 24 gives Great success even without sparkles it gives me and extra 1 bucket or so.

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Oh yes I forgot the event hint:

Summer event 2015: limited area is in its production and will be starting in early august and it will be a large scale event. (The event is not based on the Marianas battlefront)

Sixten · « **Reply #245 on:** July 10, 2015, 04:00:37 PM »

Burned a bunch of buckets trying a few things:

1) Hunting for Akigumo in 3-5. She was found immediately, as part of clearing 3-5 for the month. Somewhat anticlimactic, but I'll take it.

2) Clearing Quest B22, where you have to beat 3-2 with Mutsuki, Kisaragi, Yayoi, and Mochizuki. My Mutsukis were around level 40, so no K2, and with their obsolete stats, they would turn red if the Elite Ru so much as looked at them. And when I did get past the Ru, the compass would take me to the furniture box node instead of the boss. 3-2 puts me on tilt so freaking hard. In the end, I put damage control fairies on all of the Mutsukis, had Yudachi and Shigure escort them, and fed them ice cream. I completed the quest with only one damage control fairy being expended - Kisaragi's, appropriately enough.

3) Hunting for I-401 in 6-1. My team was Jintsu / Fubuki / Kitakami / Ooi / Zuikaku / Kaga, with the two carriers each with three Reppus. My team can kill the CV demon, but the legendary swimming girl has yet to appear.

I have a feeling the I-401 hunt is going to be long and hard, but it's got to be better than LSC.

Gpop · « **Reply #246 on:** July 10, 2015, 06:26:35 PM »

Quote from: MewMewHeart on July 09, 2015, 04:56:58 PM

Summer event 2015: limited area is in its production and will be starting in early august and it will be a large scale event. (The event is not based on the Marianas battlefront)

Noooo this is the WORST time to suffer in bauxite ;_;

In other news, I managed to get one more Kai Ni before I started my resource grind.

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #247 on:** July 12, 2015, 02:37:19 AM »

THE SOLOMONS ARE COMING! THE SOLOMONS ARE COMING!!!! The event is... The Battle of the Solomon Sea! A what if they used carriers one.

Calling it now: Yuudachi, Hiei, Kirishima, Akatsuki, Ayanami, Samidare, Murasame, Asagumo, Amatsukaze, Yukikaze, Ikazuchi, Inazuma, Akatsuki, Harusame, Nagara, Shigure, Ryuujou, Shiratsuyu, Choukai, Kinugasa, Maya, Suzuya, Isuzu, Tenryuu, Sendai, Atago, and Takao. (Any of these ships might have a special route WHO knows though)

Possibly Prize: Yuugure (Hatsuharu-class destroyer) , Uranami (Fubuki-class destroyer), Teruzuki (Akizuki-Class), Ariake (Hatsuharu-class destroyer)

RuneDevros · « **Reply #248 on:** July 12, 2015, 03:24:10 AM »

Upgraded Hiei today to Kai 2.

Now all four Kongou sisters have been upgraded.

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #249 on:** July 12, 2015, 03:39:09 AM »

Quote from: RuneDevros on July 12, 2015, 03:24:10 AM

Upgraded Hiei today to Kai 2.

Now all four Kongou sisters have been upgraded.

LOL I'm close to getting Hiei and Haruna Kai Ni'd although... I'm kinda nervous about the event since I heard Summer events were the most brutal.

Grats on the Kongou sisters Kai Ni quest completion.~

Ruka · « **Reply #250 on:** July 13, 2015, 12:37:51 AM »

Friend was digging around in the game, and found ZUN's name attached to this track. Can anyone confirm if he really did make this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIe0rUTtf2I

Kasu · « **Reply #251 on:** July 13, 2015, 03:24:25 AM »

Quote from: Ruka on July 13, 2015, 12:37:51 AM

Friend was digging around in the game, and found ZUN's name attached to this track. Can anyone confirm if he really did make this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIe0rUTtf2I

~~Not enough trumpets~~

In all seriousness though, this is probably one of my favourites right next to this one.

The event maps usually have great music too.

Sixten · « **Reply #252 on:** July 13, 2015, 11:15:41 PM »

I tend to not like the home base music (and I've tried a few tracks using the jukebox), but I like a lot of the battle music. During my rabbit hunts I would get hyped for the 2-5 boss music, and then realize that I'd turned the music off and couldn't turn it on again until I got back to base.

By the way, 5-1 is not difficult, but some of the quests that require you to go there are.

Quest B33 had me thinking for quite a while. Five of the six slots in your fleet are locked to Fuso / Yamashiro / Shigure / Michishio / Mogami. You have the following options for the sixth member:

1) Some kind of carrier.
2) A heavy cruiser or aviation cruiser.

Choosing "1" means you have compass hell - only a 20% chance to reach the boss.
Choosing "2" means that either:

a) You carry lots of Zuiun variants on your CAVs and BBVs to keep from getting air-denied, but if an enemy sub shows up, suddenly you're wasting time shooting at the sub instead of the enemy flagship BBs.
b) You carry non-combatant seaplanes, and get air-denied. Every enemy BB or CA now has a huge chance to send you home with their artillery spotting. Every enemy CV is twice as dangerous.

In the end, I decided that it was better to just hope I got a boss fleet with no sub (66% chance). I beat the quest with Tone as my sixth ship, and lost a lot of bauxite restoring my Zuiuns. Would it have been better to take a carrier and run until the 20% chance happened?

B33 and B27 (which is easy) are the only 5-1 quests I've completed. Bm4 gives you the same dilemma as B33. B41 forces you to get air-denied. And is it just me or does B44 force you to endure BOTH the compass hell AND the air-denial?

You can get lots of screws by beating these 5-1 quests...

Calamity · « **Reply #253 on:** July 16, 2015, 11:58:36 PM »

Scrapped two abukumas way back sometime, RIP. I'm not getting this Kai Ni.

Leveling up CLs is garbage anyways

Abraham Lincoln · « **Reply #254 on:** July 17, 2015, 01:31:06 AM »

Quote from: Ruka on July 13, 2015, 12:37:51 AM

Friend was digging around in the game, and found ZUN's name attached to this track. Can anyone confirm if he really did make this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIe0rUTtf2I

No wonder it sounded so ZUN-like. I'll try asking this in Miscellaneous Questions.

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #255 on:** July 17, 2015, 01:51:09 AM »

I forgot to mention I think the other day I got Yuubari, and about Abukuma... I'm gonna be hella busy and plus Haruna and Imuya is close to their Kai Nis while I'm busy training Akatsuki.

Calamity · « **Reply #256 on:** July 17, 2015, 07:01:33 AM »

Summer CG Tenryuu just tweeted by the devs

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
NOTHING. ELSE. MATTERS. IN THIS UPDATE.

Red Frost · « **Reply #257 on:** July 17, 2015, 09:53:36 AM »

Quote from: Calamity on July 17, 2015, 07:01:33 AM

Summer CG Tenryuu just tweeted by the devs

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
NOTHING. ELSE. MATTERS. IN THIS UPDATE.

I literally don't give a shit about anything else right now.
I mean look at her.

Look.

But wait, it gets even better. (NSFW-ish)
_{_{_{_{They made her soft.}}}}

Totaku · « **Reply #258 on:** July 17, 2015, 10:19:16 AM »

Time for me to summarize the update for you guys, I've been massively busy but here we go...

Well, the update is live and all the information is out so here's the report form this update for July 17th, 2015 thanks to http://en.kancollewiki.net

http://en.kancollewiki.net/wiki/Game_Updates/2015/July_17th

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The Mid-Summer Update

1. 40 kanmusu have new summer voices
some of the early summer voices have been removed, but not all of them.

2.New furniture: (NEW) Summer Tea Cafe, (NEW) Shaved Ice Machine, (NEW) Shaved Ice Fleet Flag, (NEW) Summer Tea-Styled Floor, (NEW) Summer Tea-Styled Wallpaper, and (NEW) Tea-Styled Window. Firework Window and Resort Set have returned.

3. Abukuma has received her Kai Ni; she requires a blueprint.

4. The ship slot capacity has been raised to 260 and equipment slots have been raised to 1,140.

5. Akashi, Littorio (And Italia), Tenryuu, Shigure Kai NI, and Yuudachi Kai Ni have new summer CG.

6. Asashio, Michishio, and Ooshio now have new idle lines when you marry them.

7. Type 32 Surface RADARs can now be improved into Type 32 Surface RADAR Kai.

8. Fleet composition to reach the boss of World 3-2 has changed slightly.
1 CL can be added as the flagship (rest still being DDs).

9. New BGM: "Kanmusu on the Beach Side" and "Kaga Cape."
The limited-time summer BGM "Kaga Cape" is a song that Kaga actually sings, and can be listened with the juke-box or by going to world 4-4 at the boss node.

10. New Quests (These quests will appear by completing other quests)
[First Torpedo Squadron] prepare for deploy to the Northern Sea!
[First Torpedo Squadron] complete Plan-K!
[First Torpedo Squadron] prepare for deploy to the Northern Sea (2nd Time)!
[First Torpedo Squadron] complete Plan-K (2nd Time)!
[First Torpedo Squadron] train to prepare for the Northern Sea (3rd Time)!

11. Increased protection for bots/macro.

The following art updates are as follows:

Abukuma Kai Ni
Abukuma now comes with long extensive traing and a blue print: A 12.7 cm HA gun, a Type A Midget Sub, and a Daihatsu landing craft! That's kind of a sweet deal if you can't get Akitsumaru.... though it's a bit pricy.... But this makes her good for expeditions and pre-emptive torpedo combat!

Mid Summer CG

Littorio (and Italia Version) Summer Art

Yuudachi Kai Ni and Shigure Kai Ni Summer Art

Akashi Kai Summer Art

Tenryuu Summer Art

Kasu · « **Reply #259 on:** July 17, 2015, 03:25:11 PM »

Oh God, these blueprints.

Why.

On the upside though, at least I'll have another expeditionary ship soon to load up with landing craft.

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #260 on:** July 17, 2015, 10:15:26 PM »

GAWD DAMN IT WHY BLUEPRINT!!!!! -explodes- Oh well I'll get her to Kai Ni in the future when I have time to train her.... (although level 75 is a bit pricey also yay Tenryuu getting attention NOW PAY ATTENTION TO JUNYOU PLS)

RuneDevros · « **Reply #261 on:** July 19, 2015, 04:13:46 AM »

The upgrade train continues. Fubuki is now Kai 2.

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #262 on:** July 22, 2015, 01:18:46 AM »

Name of the event has been revealed...

"Counterattack! Second Operation SN"

Round 2 at the Solomons anyone?

(Aka 5-5... if I'm correct and if so... LET'S PRAY THAT THE DEVS DON'T THROW A RE-CLASS IN OUR EVENTS!)

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Kancolle Anime Season 2 date has been confirmed???: http://kancolle-anime.jp/kankanshiki/?page=gaiyou

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Prize number one has been revealed for those who loved Akizuki and wanted another Akizuki-class:

Teruzuki will be one of the prizes for the Summer event so whoever never gotten Akizuki (like me) can make up for it by getting Teruzuki during the summer event or so that's what Himeuta has translated.

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Event start date and hint at what to prepare:

August 10th get your BBs and CVs ready because the Solomon Invasion is a-go!

Totaku · « **Reply #263 on:** July 27, 2015, 01:21:15 AM »

Man you're quick, but yes. We have a date now! The Second Operation SN is going to be starting soon! So get your ships and Carriers ready as we're going to be expecting a rather intense battle that is expect to be large scale in the process. I'll probably sit down and give a review over the things that have been discussed but in the mean time I might as well ask... how are you all fairing out with stocking up for the event?

I myself think I need to prioritize my focus on bauxite, so I might do that this week or so... as long as I hit 60k bauxite I should be good as gold.

Kasu · « **Reply #264 on:** July 27, 2015, 01:53:36 AM »

Alrighty... I've got upwards of 48k in all my resources and counting and I've got just over 300 buckets (I started stocking up around the beginning of the month). In addition to this, all of my CVs, CVLs, and BBs (barring Musashi and Littorio) are completely modernized and Kai Ni'd when applicable.

Let's do this.

EDIT: Oh, and before I forget. I'M COMIN' FOR YA, UNRYUUUUUU.

Gpop · « **Reply #265 on:** July 27, 2015, 01:10:38 PM »

Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhh I need to work on my ammo gain, it's very lacking compared to my steel and fuel (which is a first actually)

MewMewHeart · « **Reply #266 on:** July 27, 2015, 03:45:59 PM »

@Totaku Yes, I lurk Himeuta much to get some information out in the open and of course talk, I'll be streaming the event on Easy mode and I think you'll be streaming Hard mode yes?

My Progress so far.... I'm currently training Kiso and Akatsuki:

Sixten · « **Reply #267 on:** July 27, 2015, 03:48:59 PM »

And that's when I realized how expensive Rabbit Hunting was.

My resources should be enough for Normal Mode.

PS. Does the German techno band Mikuma use Mogami cables?

Kasu · « **Reply #268 on:** July 27, 2015, 05:35:07 PM »

Quote from: Sixten on July 27, 2015, 03:48:59 PM

My resources should be enough for Normal Mode.

I wish I had your resources. ;>;

I'll probably end up doing what I did last time and choose the difficulty based on the rewards.

Gpop · « **Reply #269 on:** July 27, 2015, 06:41:10 PM »

Well last event I had 40k fuel/steel/ammo and 30k bauxite and 300 buckets and managed to (somewhat barely) beat it all in hard mode, but that event was easier than usual.

I just mostly ran out of fuel and forced myself to restock on it when I got to the last kill of E-6 :V