[>>> Beta 1.09 Feedback (Released)<<<]

2 hours ago, mikekervin said:

I think there is an error in ship travel speed in the strategic map.

My ships have only made it halfway from San Francisco to Hawaii in 6 months - I think this works out to about 0.5 mph cruising speed.

This is 1900 tech so designs may not be perfect, but there should be some information available on the task force overlay to see if the ships are functioning as intended.

Not only do ships travel way too slow but it seems that Ships cannot travel across the Pacific. Tried to send a fleet from California to the Philippines and the route showed that the ships would travel east to Europe first. When I manually put them on the edge of the map and set the route they still moved east even when I moved to the next turn. This plus the bugged movement makes it virtually impossible to get into a fight as the USA because you have to travel either across the Atlantic or all the way across the world the long way round to the West Pacific to get into an Engagement.

[How do you even generate battles in the New Campaign?]

I'm playing Italy and I just cannot get any battles to start. I've tried Task Forces. Sea Control in port, Nothing I do generates any battles. I'm currently at august 1910 in a 1900 campaign and I've only had one battle. wtf do I have to do to get battles to happen. 

[Why Carriers will probably never be added]

As much as it pains me to say it carriers will never be added for one simple reason, range. even earlier carriers will be able to launch planes carrying the equivalent of battleship shells from a range of more than 100 miles and proceed to drop them relatively accurately. This makes battleships, and battlecruisers functionally obsolete. Adding carriers will completely change the game possibly even more than real life as players will have the benefit of hindsight and build more carriers earlier.

[Spotter Planes?]

When I talk about spotter planes I'm talking about planes that help improve accuracy and find enemy ships. I don't think that these planes should have any armament as that could create a slippery slope slope and people would start making battleship seaplane carriers. (I do admit that the idea sounds fun)  We already have superstructures with Seaplane launchers so I think that Spotter planes would be a fun thing to add to the game.

[The fictional HMS Thunderchild]

In Drachinifels Video the HMS Thunderchild was laid down in 1895 so we might be able to build her in the future

 

EDIT: I tested it and there is currently no way to create HMS Thunderchild accurately the armament Layout works very well.