Ch.155Return to Daily Life(?) (2)

Unable to tolerate the whining of newbies any longer, the veteran players finally drew their swords and began to enjoy dissecting and analyzing…

As they started their analysis, it became increasingly evident that the fleets of some veteran players(?), including Icarus, were truly extraordinary.

Rather than analyzing these veteran players’ fleets, the gallery’s discussion threads were filled mostly with exclamations of amazement.

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Title: Wait a fucking minute, why are large aircraft carriers appearing already?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Screenshot of a newbie verifying their fleet was destroyed]

According to what was mentioned in that post,

You can see “giant ships firing cannons and using carrier-based aircraft,” so these aren’t just regular aircraft carriers

Don’t you need a level 9+ base and hundreds of thousands of minerals invested to build these?

Comments:

-[Oh shit]

-[It’s true?]

-[This is ridiculous]

-[It even mentions that they’re not just focusing on those, but also have cruiser battleships and other cruisers]

-[lol]

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Title: Hey, I found out what that rank 3 ship does

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Screenshot of the Kraken-class wiki tab]

Kraken-class

It’s an assault combat aircraft carrier, something you’d only see in late-game clan battles

Go check the wiki tab for detailed info yourself

The important thing is that while it might not matter in large-scale battles, it’s basically the most annoying thing in 1v1 PvP between users

That newbie was whining earlier about aircraft teleportation being a bug

That’s actually this ship’s unique feature – it can teleport aircraft or missiles right in front of enemy fleets for surprise attacks

Anyway, I’m so jealous. To get one of these, you need to hit that 0.0001% probability from the space cocoons that monsters occasionally drop

Comments:

-[LOLOLOLOL one in a million chance wtf]

-˪[Holy shit it’s true]

-[If it grows well, it becomes a huge hexagon that newbies can’t beat]

-[How do you even defeat that? Isn’t it just overpowered?]

-˪[You can beat it if you try. Its weakness is that its armor and durability are extremely weak for its class](Author)

-˪[If you ignore the damage and ram it with heavy torpedoes or bombard it with medium cruiser main guns or better, it becomes like a sponge](Author)

-˪[But according to the posts, before you can get close, their capital ships bombard you, and they have 10 mercenary corps providing escort. How do you break through that?]

-˪[That’s just because the player has grown extremely well, who knows?](Author)

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Title: Some people get two cruisers from cocoons, others get assault carriers?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of cruisers that come together from cocoons]

Goddamn it

Comments:

-[Congratulations, they’re healthy twins]

-[You must be happy to have two children]

-[LOLOLOL]

-[Wow, twin birth, congratulations]

-[Everyone, we have a patriot here who gave birth to twins!]

-[You bastards](Author)

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Of course, if such bait were left unattended…

Those blinded by jealousy but lacking luck, skill, and minerals would have launched a massive invasion against Icarus…

Fortunately for Icarus himself, a veteran player who had mentioned in a comment on a newbie’s whining post that they were “writing an analysis” eventually posted their thoughts.

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Title: Why newbies shouldn’t mess with anyone who has carriers or better at this point.txt

Author: Perseus

Content: [Image of a sad toad]

I’m writing this because there are so many whining newbies. Veterans, do whatever you want.

First, if someone has an “aircraft carrier” rather than a “light carrier” at this stage, they’re one of three things:

Either they rushed to level 7 base, upgraded only the air command center and just built an aircraft carrier,

Or they raided an NPC force with a fleet including a carrier and captured it through boarding action,

Or they got lucky like that gallery user with good fortune.

In the first case, the carrier’s level would be low so it doesn’t mean much, and frankly, it’s just a “regular” carrier that spews out aircraft,

So if you have an anti-air formation, the rest of their fleet will be weak due to time constraints, so it’s not a big deal.

But

In the other two cases, if they stole from an NPC fleet or are growing something special through luck rather than a regular carrier?

Since we now have a perfect example, let me be direct:

If you face something like Old Man Shipbuilder’s Anomalocaris-class that can deploy 7-8 thousand aircraft at once, or up to 10,000 with additional hangars, which is practically a super carrier,

Their armor is so tough that ordinary torpedoes or ship guns won’t damage them,

You’d need to either use armor-piercing heavy torpedoes (which are so slow they’re easily intercepted) from torpedo cruisers, dozens at a time,

Or you’d need firepower equivalent to at least a “battleship,” like the firepower-type medium cruisers represented by the Overseer.

And conversely, what Icarus uses is the opposite of Old Man Shipbuilder’s – an assault carrier.

That Kraken-class has weak durability and armor, so it gets wrecked if it takes even a moderate number of regular heavy torpedoes.

The problem is its special ability to teleport aircraft and missiles, allowing it to devastate your main ships with air strikes from beyond your fleet’s range.

Anti-air formation or not, the players getting attacked have probably given tons of experience to the player, helping them grow well,

So they’ve probably overcome the “aircraft weakness” people were talking about last week.

If newbies rush in trying to take it down, as mentioned, their cruiser battleships will get wrecked from the start, and the rest of their ships will be destroyed by additional air strikes and other fleets.

And while I’m at it, there are other unusual ship classes you might see these days:

[Image of a ship with a huge cannon attached to the lower hull]

[Image of a ship covered in VLS and various missile launchers]

[Image of a ship dangling an unidentified elongated structure]

These are, respectively, a siege battleship that can destroy not only battleships but also level 7 base barriers in one shot,

An arsenal ship that can fire close to 10,000 anti-ship missiles at once,

And a special tanking ship that can apply base-level barriers to an entire fleet.

Please, newbies, when you see things like this, don’t just rush in because you want something special.

You’ll seriously die.

Comments:

-[This is a murder post]

-[It’s kind of an analysis, but isn’t it just praise?]

-[I’ve seen that last one before, isn’t it that Arto person’s?]

-[The arsenal ship must be from that screenshot Betelgeuse from the Loki clan posted and deleted, how did you save it?]

-[Aren’t siege battleships only useful in clan settings? In PVP their accuracy is too low to matter]

-˪[If an individual is operating something that would typically be used by a ‘clan,’ they’re definitely either clan-affiliated or a mercenary under clan protection](Author)

-˪[Oh]

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Though it wasn’t particularly intentional.

Thanks to the veteran player’s pure analysis post, the aggro that had been focused solely on Icarus was suddenly distributed among other users.

This helped Icarus avoid being swarmed by jealousy-fueled invasions.

Of course, the users near Icarus were either all fairly similar in capability,

Or they were people who, despite being skilled enough to survive in this hellish place, didn’t participate in the community.

So even if aggro had been properly drawn, any direct threat to Icarus would have been a very distant future concern.

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And regarding the state of this gallery.

For me, who had opened the gallery thinking I should do my moderator duties and happened to see this,

I truly felt an indescribable, strange feeling.

‘What on earth is all this fuss about?’

Not only were there posts that seemed like murder posts disguised as analysis,

But there were also people writing what appeared to be praise posts in response.

In this sudden situation, I could only feel bewilderment.