Aceituna

All these new features and hulls are amazing but this excited me the most:

Well actually torpedo boats didn't get any new hulls so far.

Yes, everybody will receive their Steam keys when alpha testing is done.

I share your interest in new information about development and I would sure be thankful for info about Alpha 6 like you. But I own this game since alpha 2 and I learned something since that time: The devs will let us know when they want no when we want. As admin posted yesterday: Hold on.

Well, friend of mine does it every five minutes and I think its totally...ok.

It looks like there's not gonna be ending time because on their official website (link is posted earlier in this discussion) there is written:You fully manage the fleets and naval construction programmes of the following nations that are available with their historical borders from the Imperialism Era to the Interwar Period (1890-1930 +)

According to official website (https://www.dreadnoughts.ultimateadmiral.com/the-playing-modes) All historical nations will ve present in the campaing (while only those 10 will be playable) so this issue about straits has to be solved anyway. (Even if Ottoman Empire is not playable)

Of course there were a lot of crewman on the deck during battle (in the roles Galis mentioned) but altrough this I wouldn't like the crew to be physically present on the ship. Because if they would be physically present they would probably act the same in all situations (like in sh5 for example). And it would be really weird to see crewman calmly standing on the deck that is partially submerged and on fire.

(https://www.dreadnoughts.ultimateadmiral.com/the-playing-modes) As I understand explanation on the official website: Game will start historically (historicall accurate territories etc.) in the year that you choose (1890, 1900, 1910, 1920 or 1930) and than it depends on you. You can continue historically but you don't have to. Anyway it's not stated if AI will try to act historically.

In fact Ottomans built quite a lot of ships on their own after age of sails (even predreadnought)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_battleship_Abdül_Kadir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_surface_ships_of_the_Ottoman_steam_navy Yes they ordered most of their capital ships from foreing shipyards but they werent the only country that did this. For example most of the japanese capital ships at the end of 19th century were constructed abroad too. Campaing will not aim to be historical. And in that case I don't see reason why these nations shouldn't construct theis ships themselves.

I agree it would be great to have as much nations as possible but I also think that It's better to rather have those 10 promised nations while each other is different to play than have bunch of countries while they would be all generic. Austria-Hungary is among these 10 promised nations (and im very thankful to devs for that). But it wouldn't make sense to switch to Austria in 1918 because Austria didn't have access to sea and their navy was transfered to Yugoslavia.

Here are informations from the official website. https://www.dreadnoughts.ultimateadmiral.com/the-playing-modes

I agree that it would be nice to control subs In actual battles but I have to disagree with your statement that it would be easy to implement. Yes submarines themselves might be easy to implement but devs would also have to implement depth charges and also somehow solve sub visibility under water because of sonar. And most importantly devs already stated that subs will be only at the strategic map so I think that we can't expect that we will ever have them in battles.

I read the paragraph about submarines on the blog but this wasn't mentioned there so id like to ask here: How will the submarine design look like in the campaing? Is it going to be same like with the surface vessels (placing torpedo tubes tower etc.) or will we just unlock certain historical subs in the technology tree? And one more question: From which technology will be subs implemented? I mean Spain already had a electric sub in the year when campaing starts. So will be those archaic subs there? Or will they be available since karosene-electric or even diesel-electric subs? I'm sorry if this was already mentioned on the forum and also for my English.

It would be nice to see special political events for each nation. For example: While playing as Japan you would have to compete for influence with army or as Russia you would have to face mutinies because of bolsheviks. It would make playing as different nations totally unique.