Great news, looking forward to trying it out.
A question about your philosophy in developing the game, are you attempting to increase realism with changes or playability/fun?
I ask because I have played plenty of naval games where fun and 'balance' seem to have been the focus of the development, but have been frustrated by lack of realism. However with ultimate admiral dreadnoughts, I feel you have aimed at more realism in many aspects, such as visual range, weapons effectiveness. I think this is a good thing as it differentiated dreadnoughts from many competitors. When choosing how to make changes I would prefer you to ere on the side of realism. For example if early torpedoes were fairly useless, then model them as they were, not 'balance' them to make the game more player friendly. Well, I guess there are limits, perhaps you have an arcade mode that turns off some of the more realistic aspects? And a sim mode for more realism?
As I have already written elsewhere, I think what you have already created is wonderful and I am very impressed generally with the game.
My son (age 10) has also been having a go with the game and he enjoys the build 2 fight aspect a lot. We talked about the design decisions that a naval ship designer needs to make, so it has an educational aspect. Another reason to prefer more a realistic approach as it ties into the historical aspects of ship design.
Edit. One thing I would like, but is not so urgent is a deck view. With the free camera in battle you can get a 'on the deck' or bridge view by moving the camera position, but it won't track with the ship. When the camera view is tracking the ship I can't zoom in enough to give me the same view as if I was standing on the deck. This is something Wows does do, and it seems like I can nearly do it in UAD but not quite.
Having said that, you can get a lovely tracking view of a ship from either Bow or stern which shows the side of the ship end on. This produces wonderful views of broadsides coming in and going out. So the deck view is a nice to have, and I wouldn't want to loose the other viewpoints I can get for the sake of a deck view.
Edit edit yay to saving and naming ships!