softether most reliable is the softbank type
usually will go with that and will experience smooth playing experience even with VPN connected.

I heard the api authentication thingy was temporarily removed because of heavy load on the server... not sure if it's true or not

right, i always wonder what else is there to exploit? why the security measures?
the error musume only appears if we use API.
so using softether is 'legal'?  

yes, it was temporary reverted back, due to high load at the login server (causing backfire)

new security measurement will be coming soon

I wouldn't be surprised....the frequent authentication for thousands of user would have put a lot of stress on the server 

I suppose they would find that it's not a feasible counter-measure. I hope the guy who suggested that lived the day 

Oh! And Happy Chinese New Year everyone! May this year brings you abundant bounty both in real world and Kancolle 

whats the B-001 error is for again? at least they willing to assist to restore the account.

If only you've been to C85...the amount of Kancolle stuffs over there...wow. Even the big companies didn't miss out the opportunity. Thanks to them, I've turned into a full Kancolle feg in matter of months 

Random Neo appears!

But really, 3-2-A is the one of the best grinding spot especially when you have a sub. I've been spamming that map all day long trying to level my cute DDs.

My life would (nearly) end if I ever see that screen
I loved military vehicles since I was a kid, especially aircrafts (I wanted to be a fighter pilot lol    so innocent back then). Then it led me to naval warfare, with aircraft carriers, F/A-18, submarines. I even have novels about them. So it was an easy transition for me to love Kancolle (and Arpeggio of the Blue Steel!  ). I'm still trying to warm up to tanks however *cough*WoT*cough*
Let's say I brought more than 100k yen worth of bills JUST for spending (air tickets and accommodation paid upfront), and that's still not enough. In the end I have to swipe my card for the last few purchases  Then again, I brought home 20+ CD albums and dozens of doujins and tanks...so yeah 
I've read about the map on wikia...what average level of the fleet you reckon I can safely venture there?

Yeah it's scary how fast Kancolle has grown onto me. But I suppose I have a bit of regret for not joining the fun earlier...look at all the events I missed 
Iona..a HNGGG-inducing little sub. Too bad I missed that event orz. My fleet is only in their late 30s/early 40s, so I suppose it'd still be a while before i can unlock 4-3    need to get them loli destroyers powderful first

Oh yeah, are you guys using KCV or just normal browser? The debate of using KCV/custom app vs normal browser after the recent API thing got my attention. Seems there's a lot of animosity towards KCV, and especially Commie patch. The way I see it though, KCV is just a harmless tiny app that just display the data sent from the server in a convenient fashion; it doesn't actively communicate with the server (no extra traffic/stress) and doesn't manipulate any data. But I suppose people got wary since that incident. What's your view on it?

aio015 I salute to you.

other the other hand, how's the situation? I haven't been keeping up with the current affairs during CNY. and all I know for now is that I was 7 points away from Jan's top500 list 

I used to use flash projector with sanaechan but the API expiring thing hit just b4 I was going back hometown for CNY so I'm not sure what I am I going to do yet. I was experimenting a few theories on how the API expiry works but now I heard its temporary removed

But as far as I know, apps like sanae and KCV only analysis and interpreting the data packet btw flash client and DMM servers without modifying any packets file. Compare to commie's translation that perform on the fly translation for certain words or images but the lack of transparency into the software makes it hard for us to truly understand what is going on in the background. Plus everything goes into and out of their servers also adds another layer of concern

>check ranking
>still 20k+
yeah..
i am still good here..

||Orz......

No, I didnt get into top500     
top500 is easy once you have most of the reliable girls you want and trying to farm some rare girls on those high level maps.
but top100 needs dedication

What worries me is what DMM might do in the future. cuz we know that just teitokus trying to login after any maintenances can already bring their servers to their kneels. Hence why, they added stage rollover when turning back on the servers

As far as I know KCV uses IE cache. What I did is just increase the cache size to 1024MB as recommended and so far it has been a smooth sailing with KCV. There isn't any noticeable lag, and at least as fast as my flash projector or browser. Not to mention the information window pretty much remove the need for me to switch between the in-game panels to check on the status of things since KCV keeps log of the info from your last visit to the individual panel. It's really a boon when you're managing 4 fleets and 2 expeditions and need to monitor the repairs and fatigue from continuous sorties   

Oh and with the latest update, they've implement notifications for w7 
20 hours is a boon as compared to 90 minutes. I don't mind logging once a day. 
Yeah I suppose commie did stir the beehive...though we can't be sure if the recent updates are directly related to them, or perhaps it's a long overdue countermeasure against the actual cheaters (you know, like those teitoku putting 46cm main guns on their loli destroyers  ). Only time would tell how things will proceed from here. I'd like to keep my hope up that we can play relatively calmly. I never heard of sanaechan so I couldn't comment that.

I also wonder: is stage rollover refer to how they gate the login after each maintenance i.e. letting people in batch by batch?

I'm using original jp version not sure abt the english translation http://kancolle.sanaechan.net/
Sorry, it should have been staged rollouts
Hopefully, its not a temporarily solution but it still doesnt mean that they completely backing down on the idea. Hence why

I might look into it a little bit more like useragent and their jscript

You need around 925px height to see the full details without the need of scrolling, if you screen height resolution is lesser than that then you need to scrolling to see them

and regarding the 20hr API link, I don think its true, because I'm using my API link for more than 20hr, to be exact is around 34hr and it's still valids

Wow...you play WoW! Hi fellow WoW veteran! 

Uh, I just drag the window size down so that it fills up vertically while keeping the flash window size fixed.

Like this:



Then again I'm using 23inch monitor with 1920x1080 res 

Oh. /deflated

O-Okay. I feels ronery now. 

So far I've spend 2k yen on Kancolle. I'm limiting myself to only 1 expansion slots per month now, or else 10k yen will be gone out of the window within a few clicks.

sanaechan requires you to set a proxy so that kancolle's data flows thru sanaechan.
For Firefox, http://kancolle.sanaechan.net/proxyie.html
For IE/Chrome, http://kancolle.sanaechan.net/proxyfx.html

Basically, you need to initially setup a proxy to let all the data flow thru sanaechan so it can detect your server settings.
After than, you use its internal tool to create a .pac proxy configuration script so only data to kancolle server goes thru sanaechan
If you understand that, good. Else, you can see why more ppl prefer KCV over Sanaechan
I like it cuz its allows me log my progress into a file  for references. But KCV is starting to catch up in terms of features and looks better overall and easier to setup

Actually, now that I take a closer look at your desktop, you may have enough room for the Horizontal ver. Have you tried it yet?

edit: oops, meant to combine the post with the above. sorry for the double posting 

i saw one of the forked developer merged a logging feature on his version, maybe u can give it a try, because each developer added their own feature or english translation

Us playing from this land is illegal by itself 

But from what I can gather, KCV/sanae-chan doesn't really tamper with the data whatsoever, only collecting them and displaying them to us. It's like an addon to the interfance if I were to refer from my old WoW days.

Also, I believe you can actually come up with all the extra information just by computing all the variables i.e. keep separate timers for each expeditions/repair/build time/fatigue recovery etc. KCV just do all those in one clean interface. So it's not really doing something we shouldn't be doing, because all those information are based on what we can readily gather from the stock interface.

I believe commie's patch, in principal, is actually pretty harmless, but the execution does raise a lot of flags i.e. tunnelling all traffic to their server for them to do the translation and may introduce some security issues. While KCV does everything on the client side.

Well to be honest, we all are playing the game at DMM and Kadokawa's mercy now 

Let's hope they continue play nice...

I'm not sure what feature is available in which KCV.
But basically, its detail logging data. (like what construction/craft recipe used with who as your secretary or how much resource did the expedition get or what score/ship did you get in what map and what node with which fleetgirls and what enemy fleet
Also, spreadsheet worth of information about what ships/equipment you have with filtering option(I remembering seeing someone trying to implement it into KCV)

Again, I think KCV is better but sanaechan logging is too god for me. plus sanaechan is written in Java so it works everywhere but requires more technical know how

You may be right, but playing with API has been in practice for a while already, even before the patch...so I can't directly relate the current API issue with commie releasing the patch. It may be what trigger DMM and KDKW, but it may also be the case of bad timing. Bottom line is, I don't want to start blaming without any hard evidence against them. The main reason given for the tighter security is "to reduce cheating".

Back to KCV and sanaechan, even if these programs help display more data/info from the stock player, we are still bounded by the game rules e.g. we can see what ship we are building but we still cannot choose the ship we want or we know the fatigues level of individual ships but we cannot remove the fatigue without using the provided means (mamiya food supply).

If I were the dev, these things are very low in my priority because they don't impact the game the way cheaters do. It might not be considered as an issue even, because the harmless nature of the program. I have other more issues to handle, like those actual cheaters, increasing server capacity, new contents, and maintenance.

I even feel that the devs know that we foreigners are playing the game, but they may have decided to turn a blind eye over us. Why? For the company, any new player is a source of income, regardless of the origin. Plus, they also know that these foreigners are not just leechers i.e. they do purchase stuffs of the in-game store, which create revenue. My theory is that if they limit the pool to only Japanese, sooner or later they will have no more new entries, but on the other hand, they don't want to open the floodgate and freely let everyone around the world join them when they have enough issues at hand trying to handle the server load. So they play silence for now. Another plus side also, the more exposure the game gets, the more people will buy the merchandise when they come out later. So in actual, it's a win-win situation for them.

I'm also lazy hence why I have a software that does it for me 

An example of the data logged https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key...V1E&usp=sharing

the main reason main ppl are pointing at commie is that anon's of 4ch already huge disliked for commie even before the API expiring incident and even earlier than their english patch becuz RHE from commie actually hacked the game (like getting Yamato on a server that started after her event and before LSC [I think it done by accessing old event maps]). I also know other ppl manage to put like AP shell on Kongou class or 46cm on CA

In theory, KCV and sanaechan only reads the data stream becuz of that, it is "in theory" not possible for DMM to detect it unless they are specifically looking for it

Kadokawa has come out and say that they don't care about foreigners playing the game but dont expect any support from them or making any business decision involving us thou

Also, I think it was a horrible design on the dev's part to begin with that would even allowed us to play it thru the API

Something they won't set aside limited resource to do so, so we could let out a breath of relief for now.
Fine by me. I'm happy enough being allowed to play in the first place 
I believe flash game is easier to develop and more widely supported? I could be wrong though. Maybe back then they only wanted to make simple game, but really, who would have thought Kancolle to be such a big hit?

remember that the devs discourage users playing on phone/tablets