Once something has been done for the first time, the second time feels like second nature.
Building Ship Girls is the same.
These days, Wang Yu had been receiving a vast amount of information on the forums. After the initial information overload, he no longer received any crucial intelligence. Instead, he accumulated a great deal of useless experience.
He always scoffed at absurd behaviors like burning incense and kowtowing three times before a major construction, or stripping and dancing wildly to pray to ghosts and gods.
You can't build Ship Girls because your posture is wrong? No, it's clearly because your heart isn't sincere enough, and your bond with the Ship Girls isn't strong enough!
Trying to defy fate and turn from a pauper to a prince through some inexplicable crooked path!
It's simply wishful thinking!
Superstition doesn't change poverty;Krypton Gold can change fate.
Sir, times have changed.
Spending money is the way to go.
If it weren't for the lack of Wisdom Cubes, would you be unable to graduate from building?
Building is divided into Large Construction, Small Construction, and Normal Construction.
Large Construction means building without limiting the amount of resources, using as much as needed.
This way, the probability of getting Ship Girls is the highest, and the success rate of obtaining rare and powerful Ship Girls is also the highest.
Commanders usually choose Large Construction. Only those who are so poor they can't even afford to eat will reluctantly opt for Small Construction.
Normal Construction is generally used for building equipment or gambling for tech boxes.
All of Wang Yu's future constructions will definitely use Large Construction.
After all, his Ship Girls are all incredibly powerful and require astonishing amounts of resources. Other construction methods would probably only yield some Purin, and purple ones at that...
Arriving directly at the construction center and seeing the familiar construction device again, Wang Yu couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
The experiences of these 20 days might be more exciting than his entire life before!
He had arrived in this world with nothing, yet now he commanded such a vast port. Everything truly felt like a dream.
No matter which Ship girl is summoned this time, the burden on him will certainly be significant.
However, having had one experience already, and having continued his physical training withoutหยุด, he was now prepared.
Taking a deep breath, Wang Yu directly operated the construction device.
Resource supply was maximized, energy supply channels were opened, and the energy from the Wisdom Cube and resource coins immediately filled the entire device.
This time, perhaps not so many resources would be used, but keeping them for later use was the same.
Now he was not short on resources; he certainly didn't plan to use that exploitative developer mode, nor did he intend to expose it.
If any accident occurred during the construction process due to being stingy, he would regret it bitterly.
All preparations were complete, and the construction device restarted.
A familiar pulling sensation emanated from within the construction device, and Wang Yu followed this sensation directly forward.
His hand was placed on the construction device, and the familiar panel prompt sounded in his mind.
“Construction is beginning.”
As soon as construction began, Wang Yu felt his consciousness momentarily disoriented.
He had originally thought he would see remnants of past battleship images again, but unexpectedly, the familiar ocean did not appear. Instead, he saw numerous blueprints of warships.
First, he saw large-scale blueprints of various components, as well as various sketches.
Then the blueprints became increasingly detailed and numerous, finally showing various structural diagrams: main guns, bridges, keels...
He was not unfamiliar with blueprints in his previous life; his profession also involved creating blueprints.
However, since his profession wasn't directly related, and the complexity of the blueprints far exceeded his expectations, he quickly felt overwhelmed.
Blueprints flashed before his eyes, gradually forming a gigantic, phantom outline of a warship, seemingly composed of blueprints.
The warship floated in the air, ethereal and transparent throughout, made up of tiny nodes, allowing for a clear view of the structure of each part.
Due to the lack of reference points, Wang Yu could not determine the size of the warship. Nor did he have the ability to identify the ship based on its main guns.
However, based on the size of the main guns, it could be roughly judged that this should be a battleship!
He suddenly felt another special emotion.
It was a mix of anticipation, longing, and an indescribable sense of closeness. Even as he tried to fully experience this feeling, he could also sense a hint of fear and unease hidden beneath it.
Wang Yu realized that this must be the emotion imbued in this battleship during its formation. Or rather, it was an extension of the Ship girl's emotions. He just didn't know if this emotion belonged to historical sentiment or was the true emotional expression of the Ship girl he was currently building.
This construction experience was completely different from before, but the entirely new situation did not cause him to panic.
When he saw the first blueprint, he had a vague guess about the nature of this construction.
In a sense, the pinnacle of Azure Lane warships, the most special existence—Research Ships!
Research Ships, also known as Blueprint Ships, are the system in the entire Azure Lane game that has the longest development cycle, the highest final income, and where countless players invest the most effort.
Similarly, for players, a fully developed Research Ship is entirely worth all the effort.
Each season's Research Ships can basically represent the ceiling of ship strength for that year!
Friedrich der Grosse from Research Ship Season 2, even directly dominated the battleship era for two years before the appearance of the Garden, representing the upper limit of battleship strength!
At that time, Friedrich der Grosse was an invincible existence; her sortie meant absolute victory. She had only one requirement for her teammates:
Don't hold her back!
Commonly known as one Great Emperor and her five hangers-on...
However, the difficulty of obtaining these Research Ships is extremely high.
Obtaining Research Ships requires using specific Ship Girls to gain millions of experience during sorties, in a situation where there was no auto-battle in the Great World or oil-locking in high-difficulty maps.
If you want experience, you have no oil; if you want to save oil, you get no experience!
Commanders wanted to reduce the oil consumption used for sorties while also maximizing experience gains, which practically tortured a large number of Commanders who wanted to get Blueprint Ships.
When you finally manage to grind out a Blueprint Ship after countless hardships.
Did you think it was all over?
No, no, no!
The enhancement of Blueprint Ships requires an item called Research Blueprints, and Research Blueprints can almost only be obtained through the Research System.
So, even if you are a player who grinds and spends a lot, using Wisdom Cubes to save time, it still takes about half a year to 'graduate'.
For more casual ordinary players, without deliberately trying to obtain blueprints for a specific Ship girl, the development cycle can basically be calculated in terms of two to three years.
Moreover, through this system, one can also obtain various limited powerful equipment, which is simply agonizing.
Enough to make countless Commanders pour their hearts and souls into it, both loving and hating it.