About 'Skill Book' (I'm Newbie)

[Edward Edwards]

Hi I'm Newbie.

I have big question. Plz, Old user ! answer me.

 

First,

I english bad. Sorry. I just 18c ship lover.

 

About 'Skill Book'

1. Reinforced Rudder

Bonuses

Rudder

Module Base HP: 75% (I think, this option Advantage. right?)

Rudder Halfturn Time: 20% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???)

 

2. Optimized Rudder

Bonuses

Ship Turning Speed: 4%  (I think, this option Advantage. right?)

Rudder Harfturn Time: -15% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???)

 

3. Light Blocks and Ropes

Bonuses

Sail Rising Speed: 20% (I think, this option Advantage. right?)

Yard Turn Speed: 10% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???)

Sail

Sailing Crew Required: -15% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???)

 

4. Light Canvas

Sail

Sailing Crew Required: -15% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???)

Sail

Module Base HP: -10% (I think, this option Penalty. right?)

Sail Rising Speed: 15% (I think, this option Advantage. right?)

 

5. Light Carriages

Bonuses

Ship Max Speed: 1% (I think, this option Advantage. right?)

Deck All

Cannon Crew Required: -12.5 (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???)

Ship Cannon Destroy Probability: 0.2 (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???)

 

Please, Old user ! answer me T.T

 

[Pada]

58 minutes ago, Edward Edwards said:

Hi I'm Newbie.

I have big question. Plz, Old user ! answer me.

 

First,

I english bad. Sorry. I just 18c ship lover.

 

About 'Skill Book'

1. Reinforced Rudder

Bonuses

Rudder

Module Base HP: 75% (I think, this option Advantage. right?) Yes you are right.

Rudder Halfturn Time: 20% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???) Penalty, rudder takes longer to turn.

 

2. Optimized Rudder

Bonuses

Ship Turning Speed: 4%  (I think, this option Advantage. right?) Yes correct.

Rudder Harfturn Time: -15% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???) Advantage, rudder takes less time to turn.

 

3. Light Blocks and Ropes

Bonuses

Sail Rising Speed: 20% (I think, this option Advantage. right?) Advantage yes.

Yard Turn Speed: 10% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???)  Advantage, Yards turn faster.

Sail

Sailing Crew Required: -15% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???) Advantage, less crew required is always better

 

4. Light Canvas

Sail

Sailing Crew Required: -15% (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???) Advantage

Sail

Module Base HP: -10% (I think, this option Penalty. right?) It is a penalty yes.

Sail Rising Speed: 15% (I think, this option Advantage. right?) Advantage yes, sail raising speed is increased. 

 

5. Light Carriages

Bonuses

Ship Max Speed: 1% (I think, this option Advantage. right?) Correct, ship goes faster.

Deck All

Cannon Crew Required: -12.5 (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???) Remember, less crew required = advantage

Ship Cannon Destroy Probability: 0.2 (This option be confused. Advantage or Penalty ???) Penalty, this means your cannons have less hp and can be destroyed more easily.

 

Please, Old user ! answer me T.T

 

I answered your questions with red text. 

Edited May 29, 2018 by Pada

[Wind]

Hopefully new Ui patch will clear this out.

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Module Base HP: +75% 

Rudder Halfturn Time: +20% 

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Ship Turning Speed: +4%  

Rudder Harfturn Time: -15% 

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Sail Rising Speed: +20% 

Yard Turn Speed: +10% 

Sailing Crew Required: -15%

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Sailing Crew Required: -15% 

Module Base HP: -10% 

Sail Rising Speed: +15% 

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Ship Max Speed: +1%

Cannon Crew Required: -12.5%

Ship Cannon Destroy Probability: +0.20%

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Time = Longer is bad.

Speed = Faster is good. 

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Edited May 29, 2018 by Wind

[Angus MacDuff]

This brings up the question, why are newbies coming onto the forum to ask these questions.  I am always asking someone about these, myself.  If only there was a way for a computer game to put out some form of document that explained this stuff!

[Guest]

i would love them to implement some kind of Wiki page ingame like they have in Total War games

[z4ys]

When you need more time to turn the rudder it's a penalty because it takes more time for the ship to start turning. If something reduce turn time of rudder then the ship starts to turn faster.

Same goes for cannon. Less crew -percentage means more crew for other tasks. But the probability to lose cannons is increased by 20%.

Overall read the tooltips carefully. And think about it. Like sailing crew required. Is it better to have more sailing crew or less? Less would mean the free guys could run the cannons. Then look at the percentage + mean values increase. - mean values decrease. In your example you require less crew so it's a benefit.

Edited May 29, 2018 by z4ys

[Wind]

@Pada

Sail Rising Speed: +20%  vs Sail Rising Time +20% 

Speed = Bonus to speed means good. Faster raising speed.

Time = Bonus to Time means bad. Longer time is take to raise sails. 

Am I wrong here?

Speed +20% means I am raising sails +20% faster. 

Edited May 29, 2018 by Wind

[z4ys]

2 minutes ago, Wind said:

@Pada

Sail Rising Speed: +20%  vs Sail Rising Time +20% 

Bonus to speed means good. Faster raising speed.

Bonus to Time means bad. Longer time is take to raise sails. 

Am I wrong here?

Correct increase of speed good. Increase of time bad.

Edited May 29, 2018 by z4ys

[Wind]

4 minutes ago, z4ys said:

Correct increase of speed good. Increase of time bad.

@Pada needs to correct his text. Bro got confused here. 

>>Sail Rising Speed: 15% (I think, this option Advantage. right?) No it's a penalty, sail raising speed is increased. <<

Edited May 29, 2018 by Wind

[Wind]

1 hour ago, Banished Privateer said:

"penalties" should be marked with red colour, "positives" with green and neutral stay normal.

Obviously.

Also, answered  new player's question here:

 

Edited May 29, 2018 by Wind

[Hethwill]

The UI changes are coming and the color codes are nice suggestion when they include color blind mode as well.

Also, as we have now, there's a lot of confusion due to misreading.

Example is yards. Some items say speed, others say time. Pay attention.

Speed +20% is not the same as Time -20%. Both are benefic though.

Do not look only to the numbers, look to the decribed effect - in the example - TIME. If it is positive it increases time by X amount. If it is Speed, it increases speed by X amount.