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crisp iris Apr 27, 2024, 9:36 AM

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Well, by clicking/holding the message you sent

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You have an option to create threads

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@deep dust

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:36 AM

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Oh neat, thanks for telling me. I'll get some screenshots

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Also, do guns matter on what unit they go on?

crisp iris Apr 27, 2024, 9:37 AM

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yes

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:38 AM

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Danke schon, Ender

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:41 AM

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This is the current team I'm using

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:42 AM

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Alright, we have something to work with...

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I'd definitely switch Indianapolis --> Portland, Algerie --> Laffey, both because they are each cheaper to use and limit break and because you will want to level and eventually retrofit them in order to complete the rookie missions for rewards

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:44 AM

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Issue is, laffy dies so fast in the event stages

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:44 AM

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I haven't yet even read Boise Muse's kit but I'm guessing I'm not going to complain about a USS gun cruiser at this stage of the game, so since she has levels on her you might as well use her

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Well, your current issue is a very drastic lack of levels... you can probably only do the SP1 stage comfortably

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Second issue is that you are missing Unicorn, so go and grab her from the guild shop ASAP
You will definitely want to use her, as she is probably the most generically useful permanently available ship in the entire game

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:46 AM

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True, if it's levels then I can spend some time grinding. So if there's other units that are better to use even they're currently lvl 1, I'll just grind out some stages

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:46 AM

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deep dust Second issue is that you are missing Unicorn, so go and grab her from the guild ...

I'm in a guild, where's the guild shop

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This thing?

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:47 AM

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Yep, that's the one

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:47 AM

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Anyone else to grab from the other two?

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I have the guild coins for it

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:49 AM

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Trying to think right now...

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Maybe grab Pennsylvania from rares

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Don't buy the limited ones, the 2000 coin cost is nuts and the only actually good one there is a poverty option you should only worry about when Air Raid Assistance becomes something you can use (and you might get a better option by other means by that time)

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:50 AM

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Is noshiro muse a good ship?

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:52 AM

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I feel like I might get in trouble if I say "yes" PortDoll
But uh... she is
Might be hard for you to use right now because she's gonna eat SR Bulins that you might want to spend on other ships, but if you can get her (without your resources being utterly depleted), you can definitely make her useful in future

crisp iris Apr 27, 2024, 9:52 AM

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i'd say there are better things ye

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esp considering gold bulin are usually higher prio for backliners

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:53 AM

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Yep, precisely that

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:53 AM

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Fair enough, I'm not in a rush to max out a ship as much as collecting them for future use

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:53 AM

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It's always the opportunity cost and the absolutely horrible resource shortage when you're starting out PortDoll

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:54 AM

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I only started to get ulrich but I missed her by like 2 months so I have to wait till she gets added to permanent pool drinkmyfeels

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Which reminds me, is the prinz eugen from login a decent ship?

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I'd like to use her if possible

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:55 AM

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Unfortunately, no... for pretty much the same reason as the warning against Noshiro Muse
She eats SR Bulins, and doesn't really justify that cost when you can just use Portland on the cheap

crisp iris Apr 27, 2024, 9:55 AM

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not even remotely

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well you will definitely want to use agir later

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:56 AM

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vegetacry

crisp iris Apr 27, 2024, 9:56 AM

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who is essentially eugen but actually great

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~~and actually looks like eugen~~

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:56 AM

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And even shares VAs with Eugen

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 9:57 AM

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~~What happened to superior German engineering~~ Allright I got Portland and unicorn, what's a good team that I can start grinding out?

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 9:57 AM

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A prime example of "x, the cooler x" meme tbh

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Pennsylvania/Unicorn/Enterprise/Portland/Laffey/Boise Muse (although that last slot can be argued against)
My suggestion, incidentally, is to ignore the event and try and push campaign first and get some levels, because at present you are probably just stuck on SP1 and since you aren't using oil cap, I have my doubts that the exp rate/oil is worth it if you are stuck there

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Get some levels, then you can try and push the event in the second week

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:00 AM

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I did get past sp1 but it was a bit of a struggle. I'm really hoping to get to sp4 or 5 before the event ends to grab eugen muse from the event shop

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:02 AM

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Yep, you are progressively going to hit the level disadvantage wall from SP2 onwards
SP5 is Level 80, and I would be very surprised if you could clear that without ships at least close to that, since you can't compensate with good equipment or broken ships so early on

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:02 AM

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Also, this META ship, should I be doing anything with her?

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:02 AM

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Who, Vampire?

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:02 AM

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Yeah

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Her and the npc ship I have

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:03 AM

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Just ignore her for now
Definitely not worth using
Shinano... honestly is good for your current situation, actually
But Idk if I'd use her over Enterprise, except to overcome gold bulin shortage

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Plus, you can't put her in dorm until Wednesday, at earliest, so her morale is gonna deplete fast

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:04 AM

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Morale?

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:08 AM

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See that number on the top left corner? Most of my ships are 150, but some are 137

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Whenever you sortie ships, they lose 2 morale per battle, or 10 if they sink in battle
If they are above 120 morale, you gain 20% more experience from the battle
And if you sortie then on 0 morale, they lose affinity

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So you always want to only use ships with nonzero morale, and ideally want to stop using them when they fall under 40 (the green happy face becomes a yellow face iirc)

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:10 AM

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What's with all the different borders

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:14 AM

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Uh
Couple are for PR, but most bc of oaths

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:15 AM

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PR?

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:15 AM

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Research ships
Iirc you need to be... Commander Level 30 I think? To unlock the research lab

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In the lab you can develop "research" ships, categorised into PR (gold) and DR (rainbow)
They are some of the strongest permanently available ships in the game, so you will at some point want to build, develop, and use them... but that's for the future

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:16 AM

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And this kind of border?

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:16 AM

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That's the one

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:16 AM

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Oh ok

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So Friedrich and Odin are research?

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:17 AM

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Mhm

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:17 AM

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So I'm grinding out the team you suggested, and back to my original question of making laffy not squishy?

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Is it her retrofit

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:18 AM

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It's probably partly an equipment issue
Since you were using Algerie, I am guessing she seemed less squishy because she has much more HP than Laffey, so she just tanked hits while Laffey quickly got her HP depleted

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:19 AM

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More or less

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:19 AM

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To that end, you can make Laffey less squishy by giving her equipment that increases her HP

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:19 AM

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1500 versus laffy at like 580

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:19 AM

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Yep, that's a pretty sizable difference early-game, and since she's low-level, her evasion isn't high enough to compensate for that tiny HP pool

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Trying to remember what auxiliaries you can use early-game for HP lol

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I'm thinking blue toolkits? I guess you don't have purple ones yet

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:20 AM

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I can show the equipment I have for some units, see if you can notice anything

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Also, why does the event start at level 20 if you can't really do it at that level

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:21 AM

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It's a weird quirk of SP events

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Call it... hmmm... shortsighted game design, or something

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The level curves are a bit more gradual in "large" events, iirc A1-B3 is like Level 20, and ending at Level 60-ish
But SP events go from Level 20 to Level 80 usually

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And 20 levels when you are new is a really large leap PortDoll

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:24 AM

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I can't finish my rookie missions cause I got too much oil

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Sadge

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Btw, I keep seeing posts about exp books but I have yet to see any

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:26 AM

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Ye you don't get many experience books early

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Uh... you might get some from the cruise missions I think?

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I can't remember how far until you get them, though

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 10:26 AM

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daring pewter I can show the equipment I have for some units, see if you can notice anything

Also, yes, I missed this, but that would be helpful for me to get a sense of it
(Gonna be away for a little bit, but you can just post it and I'll respond when I'm back)

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 10:33 AM

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deep dust Also, yes, I missed this, but that would be helpful for me to get a sense of it ...

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Here's what I have on them

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And here's what I got

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I already took equipment off all my other ships

deep dust Apr 27, 2024, 11:05 AM

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Oof, classic early game equipment woes

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That +6 purple gun on Laffey for a start, the blue quadruple torps as well

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Yep, without any HP auxes, Laffey is in for a hard time... your best chance is probably to just pray with the fire extinguishers, until you can open more boxes and accrue more equipment

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Blue Twin 381mm gun on Penny, blue Twin 203mm gun on Portland
Boise is lucky to have an excellent main gun already

daring pewter Apr 27, 2024, 8:41 PM

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deep dust Blue Twin 381mm gun on Penny, blue Twin 203mm gun on Portland Boise is lucky to ...

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I still have some equipment left and quite a few empty slots. Any more recommendations?

crisp iris Apr 28, 2024, 12:05 AM

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daring pewter

The purple quad torps for laffey

deep dust Apr 28, 2024, 12:06 AM

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Nice, a little bit more to work with...
The purple 533s for Laffey

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Eh, while we're here, Autoloader on Penny I guess

crisp iris Apr 28, 2024, 12:06 AM

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Agreed

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Toolbox for laffey and steering gear for port?

deep dust Apr 28, 2024, 12:06 AM

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That blue Tenzan on Unicorn
And repair kit on Laffey also

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:07 AM

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I get a tool kit from 6-4

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For the missions

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I'm at 3-3 rn

deep dust Apr 28, 2024, 12:08 AM

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Bad take: Corsairs and toolkits from 3-4 are still worth it PortDoll

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Oh and AA is kinda irrelevant so early on, but those Twin 113mm guns, just put them on Laffey and Boise as well
Oh the blue steam catapult on Uni

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:23 AM

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what does effcienct % do

crisp iris Apr 28, 2024, 12:24 AM

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It's essentially a damage multiplier

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:24 AM

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oh, how do i increase it?

crisp iris Apr 28, 2024, 12:24 AM

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Outside of limit breaks, and maybe retrofits

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You can't

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:26 AM

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Allright, here's what I got

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And here's what I have left

crisp iris Apr 28, 2024, 12:27 AM

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That purple triple 406 for Pennsylvania

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:29 AM

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done

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at this point, its just leveling them, their skills and limit breaking?

deep dust Apr 28, 2024, 12:32 AM

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Mhm

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Well, obviously you'll get even better equipment over time

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So it'll be a continual process of using ever better equipment up until the point you get the best equipment available in the game

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:36 AM

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For skills, should I be leveling the red ones? I heard that Portland best sister skill is a waste

deep dust Apr 28, 2024, 12:37 AM

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Probably top priority is Unicorn's "Support Carrier"
Thereafter... "Sister Penn" I'm guessing?
"Best Sister" is indeed a waste
Oh raise "Lucky E" of course

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Oh huh, Boise's skills are actually... pretty neat
Both her skills are also worth-levelling
Her yellow skill especially... it's extra healing for the vanguard, which is pretty nice at a time when you don't have (purple) toolkits to go around

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:42 AM

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ok, i got all those skills up to lvl 6

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:44 AM

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deep dust Well, obviously you'll get even better equipment over time

These go anywhere?

deep dust Apr 28, 2024, 12:45 AM

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Those are only blueprints, not equipment
So you won't have them just yet

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:45 AM

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Oh I see

deep dust Apr 28, 2024, 12:47 AM

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The A6M5 Zero is useless except for pure memes
But the Aichi B7A Ryuusei is a "converging" torpedo bomber, which is very useful, but also quite specialised, in that you won't typically try to use it while clearing campaign stages
It's more something that you will use in the late game when fighting the most difficult bosses

daring pewter Apr 28, 2024, 12:48 AM

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I will keep that in mind. Does morale reset to full for daily reset?

deep dust Apr 28, 2024, 12:50 AM

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No, it only regenerates over time
Iirc it's uh +2 every six minutes out of dorm/normally, and you can only recover to a maximum of 119
+4 every six minutes in the (first floor of the) dorm, and you can there recover to up to 150

crisp iris Apr 28, 2024, 12:53 AM

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~~You could just say 20/h if you forgot the number~~

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