How we verify
The rule is simple: two independent sources, or we do not print it.
The rule
A number is publishable when two independent sources agree. Not before.
A reading is one source's claim
Who said it, which page, the text verbatim, when we fetched it, and the SHA-256 of the page it came from. Any number here can be traced back and re-checked by hand.
Sources are grouped by independence
One site repeating a number across twelve of its own pages is one source. Two creators reading the same game screen are two independent observers. We count sources, not sightings.
Disagreement is never averaged
When sources conflict we show both and assert neither. Quietly picking one is how wrong numbers spread — it is exactly what happened to the site most people use.
Nothing is "verified" on web consensus alone
Confidence caps at 92% without a reading from the game itself. That ceiling is deliberate and we would rather show it than pretend.
Where our facts come from
| Source | Tier | Independence group | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-game observation | primary | ingame | Screenshot or direct reading. Records who observed and on what server/season. |
| Century Games / official channels | primary | publisher | Patch notes, official Discord announcements, store listings. |
| Sea of Conquest Handbook | incumbent | handbook | 100 guides, all stamped 2026-08-18 in bulk. Prose, no tables. Evidence only — never copied. |
| Mobi.gg | structured | mobigg | Publishes level-by-level resource + build-time tables. Highest-value numeric source found. |
| Talk Android | editorial | talkandroid | Ship guide, ultimate game guide, walkthrough wiki. |
| AllClash | editorial | allclash | Per-ship hero/formation setups, one page per ship role. |
| AppGamer | editorial | appgamer | Heroes guide. |
| BlueStacks blog | editorial | bluestacks | Formation guide. Emulator vendor — promotional slant, numbers still checkable. |
| Pocket Gamer | editorial | pocketgamer | Ships and sailing. |
| Level Winner | editorial | levelwinner | Beginner guide. |
| seaofconquest.net | editorial | socnet | Live, 200. Depth not yet assessed. |
| r/SeaOfConquest | community | 403s to bare curl; needs browser fetch. | |
| Official Sea of Conquest Discord | community | publisher | ~215k members (ESTIMATE, from a search result — NOT read from the guild API). Shares an independence group with publisher: announcements there are publisher speech. |
| YouTube creator guides | community | youtube | Per-creator. A creator id is appended (youtube:<channel>) so two videos by one creator do not count twice. |
| Creator video frame (in-game UI) | primary | ingame | 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 |
| Creator video transcript | editorial | youtube | 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 trink |
| App store listing (Google Play / App Store) | primary | publisher | The publisher's own in-app-purchase list. The only non-account source of real-money pack prices. |
| Internet Archive snapshot | structured | wayback | 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 |
| Bahamut 巴哈姆特 player notebook (xace2012) | editorial | bahamut | 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 |
| Bahamut board 79304 community threads | community | bahamut_forum | 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 w |
What this costs you
Nothing. No accounts, no tiers, no gated numbers.
A wiki that puts the true numbers behind a paywall is just a better-dressed version of the site it replaces.