KanColle: Kantai Collection (Anime browsergame)

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Aka Fleetgirls Collection

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If you're into anime and the like, you might've seen this game floating around (or watched the recent anime).

I'd describe it as a mixture of Pokemon and a management game.
You play as Teitoku (Admiral) who's in charge of a fleet of shipgirls, anthropomorphized axis power ships.

You manage up to 4 fleets of 6 ships. You can send them out on a variety of missions:
- Sortie (A sort of Campaign mode)
- Excersize (PvP, with random opponents)
- Expeditions (Resource collecting)

There's a 100+ ships to be collected, which can in turn be remodeled once or twice (Think of it as an evolution). Gear is also constructed and can be swapped. Though the game is heavily centered around RNG, I'd say it has some pretty deep mechanics.

There's some quests like fighting with specific historic-inspised fleet compositions and other stuff to help you get resources for construction and resupplying.

A minor warning:
Signing up is kind of a pain, since the game is Japanese you have to jump a few hoops to get in (including a lottery...).

I was a bit reluctant to try as well because of it, but now that I'm in I'd say it was pretty worth it. It's strangely fun and addictive.

In the beginning you will probably be very dependent on the Wikia to find your way around the menus and figure out the game, but you'll get the hang of it soon enough.
There's also a highly active reddit for the game: http://www.reddit.com/r/kancolle/

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A tutorial for signing up can be found HERE, or you can use my short (hopefully clearer) version:

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Registration

Future Admirals must create an account on DMM. https://www.dmm.com/en/my/-/register/
An English DMM account is fine, as players only need a VPN/ Proxy to connect to the game as well as to enter the lottery.

If all goes well you should receive your verification email soon.

Go to DMM.com's homepage and Log in.
Switch the language of the site from English to Japanese (日本語) at the top of the site.
Open the Developer Bar (F12), put these lines into the Console and execute (by pressing the [Enter] key or [Ctrl + Enter] for IE).

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document.cookie = "ckcy=1;expires=Sun, 09 Feb 2019 09:00:09 GMT;domain=osapi.dmm.com;path=/";
document.cookie = "ckcy=1;expires=Sun, 09 Feb 2019 09:00:09 GMT;domain=203.104.209.7;path=/";
document.cookie = "ckcy=1;expires=Sun, 09 Feb 2019 09:00:09 GMT;domain=www.dmm.com;path=/netgame/";
document.cookie = "ckcy=1;expires=Sun, 09 Feb 2019 09:00:09 GMT;domain=log-netgame.dmm.com;path=/";

This will take care of the VPN/proxy issue.

Once that's done click on the games bar (The one with a monitor and smartphone icon).

Select KanColle. It will have the following image:


You'll go to Kancolle's main page. There you'll see a big red button that looks like this:


Press it.

It will not direct you to the lottery right away, it will first ask you desired username, gender, birthday and blood type (lol). Move along and confirm with the information process.

Lottery
The lottery for entering the game happens a few times a week.
First off head over to KanColle's official twitter. https://twitter.com/KanColle_STAFF

Look for the most recent twitter which shows a date and likely a time. If a time isn't mentioned, it'll be announced later on the day of the lottery. Keep in mind the time is Japanese timezone!

set your clock to Japanese time. (UTC+10 if I'm not mistaken?)

On the day and time (5 minutes early is ok) of the lottery you have to head over and to DMM and log in as mentioned previously.
Then try and get into the game as before.

If you're not in, you'll see a cat pawing.
You can try and refresh every few 3~5 minutes or so, BUT DO NOT ABUSE. Refreshing too often genuinely lowers your chance of getting in.

If you win you'll be greeted with a server screen. Select a server and join in on the fun.

Sources (advanced instructions):
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial ... o_Register
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Tutorial ... Connection
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/User_blo ... ttery_2015

I also highly recommend getting the KCV client
A sort of fanmade KanColle client which features translated menu's, quests and other useful information you'd otherwise have to search up all the time.
http://www.himeuta.net/f39-kancolle-mod ... le-Viewer=

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WOOP

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I GOT SHIMAKAZE!! She's super rare ;D

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I know I'm mostly just talking to myself here, but I'm too damned happy to care ;D

After endless attempts I finally got this:

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Katsuragi, a beautiful SPRING EVENT Aircraft Carrier.

The map where you receive her involved using a combined fleet of 12 ships with specific compositions.
There's 2 types of combined fleets: airship fleets and battleship fleets. The whole event was heavily Aircraft Carrier focused, but I didn't have a lot of them, so I could only use a battleship fleet.

Not only did I have the wrong fleet type, but most of my ships were underleveled for the map. (like lvl 1 D: underleveled)

The boss on the map has to be 'defeated' at least 6 or so times and then finally be killed when it's HP is completely drained.

Over the course of the past 3-4 days I've been desperately playing to secure victory.
I've essentially leveled up a bunch of ships from lvl 1 to 20+, where I could upgrade them to their second forms.
The battleship combined fleet is a ridiculous resource hog. Every resupply totals at around 600 fuel and 500 ammo. The repair time can also range in the 8 hours for big ships and costs additional fuel and steel, so my hard-earned instant repair buckets were disappearing like the wind.
I've been completing quests and performing expeditions like a madman.
Since I haven't unlocked my 4th fleet slot yet, I could only do 1 expedition at a time while I was actively playing.
I was constantly running at a loss. I was even waking myself in the middle of the night to send fleets on more expeditions for maximum income.
This way I managed to prevent my supplies from dropping daily by more than about 1200. I started at around 8k fuel and finished with less than a very claustrophobic 2000 left.

I probably repeated the map over 40 times D:
I was cutting corners absolutely everywhere to squeeze out maximum damage while retaining air superiority.

I had one particular Battleship that was for some reason amassing aggro like a madman. Literally dying every single round because everybody was targetting it down... and that in a game where the aggro stat doesn't even exist D: It only went away after I remodelled her...
So after an insane amount of effort I finally beat the boss enough times to claim my prize... with 7 hours left on the event.... on easy mode

I don't think I've ever put this amount of effort into a game before. It was honestly refreshing.

Now I'm playing the next map and it's laughably much easier than the previous one D;
I'll probably clear it before the end of the event...

[The Invisible]

Bookmarked it, will give it a try after a month when i finish exams ^^'

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Bookmarked it, will give it a try after a month when i finish exams ^^'

If you can, try and get some of your friends involved.
It's one of those games where it's fun to bitch about how you never drop x, or always get y. And since there's a lot of wiki scavenging, it helps to have a few buddies to keep each other informed.

[The Invisible]

Thanks for the tip, but i usually play solo.
I feel like i have to play when i join a guild instead of logging in every once in a while when i want to play or when i am bored.

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The game doesn't really have guild or party features or anything like that.
It's largely a passive game, so you probably wouldn't run into these issues.

It's not like I don't get it though, I usually solo my games too.
I don't enjoy the team experience much from a gameplay perspective, but I like to have people to chat with while I do things. It's just fun to talk about your games when interesting things happen.

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This is kind of glorious...

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The summer artworks of Tatsuta and Tenryuu

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Also summer event coming up including 5 new ships:
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:277523
http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Summer_2015_Event