Jakob

After opening the game for first few times, I didn't understand the concept of the fleet (escorts). So I plowed the seas alone in my Cutter and basic missions were tough as hell, as there was often more than 1 enemy. The only chance was to damage their sails, one more than the other, to separate them and using tiring and ineffective tactic and shoot at the bow of the closest ship - I couldn't afford to stay for a fair fight because the other ship reached us quite quickly, even when having sails lower than 50%. After discovering how the fleets work and earning some money to hire a lynx or a cutter, missions became quite easy to complete and I had even some time to learn how to control sails manually.

Hi all, sorry to revive this thread. After downloading and trying out the game recently I had the same problem with the horizontal red line which sets the guns elevation. It's immersion-breaking and too easy to lose the "last used elevation". IMO it would be great if quoin was added in a form of a minigame: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UE5YNdS6KcE/VGZ5tevAFVI/AAAAAAAABvc/_KDkEdIRo7E/s1600/donal_0003.jpg So you'd know precisely what elevation you've used on your last shot and wouldn't have to guess, after you've just moved your mouse to take a look around. The elevation would stay fixed by the quoin position from the last shot. With such a minigame you could: 1) toggle quoin with specific key (more immersive than some artificial red line, which is always there when you want to fire) and click on it to set new elevation. Would be great if you could also use keyboard for this to increase/decrease the elevation by a notch (so you wouldn't actually even need to see the marker, if you'd feel your range is "almost there", just tap on +/- elevation). 2) take a look around with your mouse without screwing up the set elevation. If that would be only keyboard controlled, it could even take a few seconds to go from min. to max. elevation. Not immediately, as it is now... Remember Silent Hunter and moving the periscope up/down? With a key? This could work in a similar way. Honestly - after a few battles, which were rather long, my wrist was quite in pain from all that shots to get the range correct and trying not to move the red line 1mm lower/higher until I CLICK the mouse to fire a broadside.