{"name":"Sea of Conquest Pro","url":"https://seaofconquestpro.com","licence":"CC-BY-4.0","attribution":"Sea of Conquest Pro — https://seaofconquestpro.com","built":"2026-09-09","about":"Where every value came from, and which sources count as independent of each other.","method":"https://seaofconquestpro.com/method","evidence_rule":"A value is publishable when two INDEPENDENT sources agree, or when the publisher is itself the authority on it (store prices). Everything else is a lead, a conflict, or a named gap. Statuses: text-verified, likely, tentative, estimated, conflicted, unresolved-shape.","unaffiliated":"Unofficial fan resource. Not affiliated with FunPlus International AG. Contains no game artwork, screenshots or logos.","tiers":{"primary":"The game itself, or its publisher. Outranks everything. A primary reading closes a conflict.","structured":"A site publishing numeric tables (levels, costs, times). Machine-checkable, high value.","editorial":"A guide site writing prose with numbers embedded. Usable, weaker.","community":"Reddit / Discord / YouTube. Good for existence and direction, weak for exact values.","incumbent":"seaofconquesthandbook.com. Treated as ONE editorial source, never as ground truth."},"sources":[{"id":"ingame","name":"In-game observation","tier":"primary","independence":"ingame","url":null,"notes":"Screenshot or direct reading. Records who observed and on what server/season."},{"id":"publisher","name":"Century Games / official channels","tier":"primary","independence":"publisher","url":null,"notes":"Patch notes, official Discord announcements, store listings."},{"id":"handbook","name":"Sea of Conquest Handbook","tier":"incumbent","independence":"handbook","url":"https://seaofconquesthandbook.com","notes":"100 guides, all stamped 2026-08-18 in bulk. Prose, no tables. Evidence only — never copied."},{"id":"mobigg","name":"Mobi.gg","tier":"structured","independence":"mobigg","url":"https://mobi.gg/en/tips/","notes":"Publishes level-by-level resource + build-time tables. Highest-value numeric source found."},{"id":"talkandroid","name":"Talk Android","tier":"editorial","independence":"talkandroid","url":"https://www.talkandroid.com","notes":"Ship guide, ultimate game guide, walkthrough wiki."},{"id":"allclash","name":"AllClash","tier":"editorial","independence":"allclash","url":"https://www.allclash.com","notes":"Per-ship hero/formation setups, one page per ship role."},{"id":"appgamer","name":"AppGamer","tier":"editorial","independence":"appgamer","url":"https://www.appgamer.com/sea-of-conquest","notes":"Heroes guide."},{"id":"bluestacks","name":"BlueStacks blog","tier":"editorial","independence":"bluestacks","url":"https://www.bluestacks.com/blog/game-guides/sea-of-conquest/","notes":"Formation guide. Emulator vendor — promotional slant, numbers still checkable."},{"id":"pocketgamer","name":"Pocket Gamer","tier":"editorial","independence":"pocketgamer","url":"https://www.pocketgamer.com/sea-of-conquest/","notes":"Ships and sailing."},{"id":"levelwinner","name":"Level Winner","tier":"editorial","independence":"levelwinner","url":"https://www.levelwinner.com","notes":"Beginner guide."},{"id":"socnet","name":"seaofconquest.net","tier":"editorial","independence":"socnet","url":"https://seaofconquest.net","notes":"Live, 200. Depth not yet assessed."},{"id":"reddit","name":"r/SeaOfConquest","tier":"community","independence":"reddit","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SeaOfConquest/","notes":"403s to bare curl; needs browser fetch."},{"id":"discord_off","name":"Official Sea of Conquest Discord","tier":"community","independence":"publisher","url":null,"notes":"~215k members (ESTIMATE, from a search result — NOT read from the guild API). Shares an independence group with publisher: announcements there are publisher speech."},{"id":"youtube","name":"YouTube creator guides","tier":"community","independence":"youtube","url":null,"notes":"Per-creator. A creator id is appended (youtube:<channel>) so two videos by one creator do not count twice."},{"id":"yt_frame","name":"Creator video frame (in-game UI)","tier":"primary","independence":"ingame","url":null,"notes":"A frame of the game's own interface, read off a public creator video. This IS in-game observation - it just did not require our own account. Every reading MUST carry the video id, the exact timestamp, and the item's level/star state visible on screen, because a stat shown at Lv.40 6-star is not the base value. Independence group is 'ingame': two frames from two different creators are two readings, but a frame and our own screenshot of the same screen are not."},{"id":"yt_transcript","name":"Creator video transcript","tier":"editorial","independence":"youtube","url":null,"notes":"What a creator SAYS, from YouTube's auto-captions. Editorial, not primary - opinion and recall, often mid-sentence corrections. Good for which hero pairs with which trinket and for pointing the frame extractor at a timestamp; never cited alone for a number. Independence is per channel."},{"id":"store","name":"App store listing (Google Play / App Store)","tier":"primary","independence":"publisher","url":null,"notes":"The publisher's own in-app-purchase list. The only non-account source of real-money pack prices."},{"id":"wayback","name":"Internet Archive snapshot","tier":"structured","independence":"wayback","url":"https://web.archive.org","notes":"A dated snapshot of a source we already use. Its value is TEMPORAL, not independent: an older snapshot of the Handbook is still the Handbook, so it can never corroborate the Handbook. It CAN date when a number changed, which is how season drift gets proven."},{"id":"bahamut","name":"Bahamut 巴哈姆特 player notebook (xace2012)","tier":"editorial","independence":"bahamut","url":"https://home.gamer.com.tw/artwork.php?sn=5934251","notes":"One Traditional Chinese player's notes, board 79304. Editorial tier - it is one person's notes, not a game screen. Its value is INDEPENDENCE: a different language, player and community from every English source here, so it can break the Handbook's internal tie on flagship gold, which more English scraping never could. Page states its own edit time 2024-07-27 UTC+08:00, i.e. Season 5-6 era."},{"id":"bahamut_forum","name":"Bahamut board 79304 community threads","tier":"community","independence":"bahamut_forum","url":"https://forum.gamer.com.tw/B.php?bsn=79304","notes":"Live zh-TW community, 13 pages of threads. The recipe thread (snA=52) has 71 replies over 80k views and carries INLINE PROVENANCE of its own: entries are annotated with who supplied or verified them ('(廣陵散補充)' = supplemented by, '(廣陵散驗證)' = verified by). A list that survived 71 replies is peer-reviewed in a way a blog post is not. Independence group is separate from the bahamut notebook: a forum thread with many contributors is not the same observer as one player's notes."}]}