shingo3130

"A different fate": - Triple Expansion engines should be available, as well as Nickel-steel armor. The USS Maine used both of these technologies. - The ten inch turrets should be slightly smaller to fit properly on the ship. - The six inch turrets are WAY too big. How are they supposed to fit as secondaries on ANY American battleship of this era? They're almost as big as main guns! The only guns that will fit in their 'correct' place on the superstructure are 4 inchers.

A bit smaller than many of the criticisms here, but I feel like the Germans (in 1890) should start out with slightly larger shipyards to be able to build the Brandenburg class battleships (or something similar).

What could be done is make older choices get certain buffs as time/technology progresses (to a limited extent) to simulate a technology being perfected over time. Or, when we have the campaign, older technologies should be more reliable.

*sigh* another unnecessary barbette... this thing is ugly in general, but geeze.

Finally I have something that can REALLY compete here. The US Navy brings us the Ford Explorer of ships, with the 20 inch quad seemingly placed on that barbette for no reason other than to increase top-heaviness... Other features include: - Oxygen torpedoes and increased torpedo load... on a ship with no torpedo tubes. - 22 knot top speed in 1940 - Light shells (!)

Small guns in this patch imo start fires way too easily

When you have a stupid amount of 5 inch guns and almost nothing else

The AI seems to get worse every update. It was janky before. Now it's absolutely awful. On every patch it also seems to flip flop from being too aggressive to not aggressive enough.

Yes, the hull shapes in this game are way off. They're also all flat sided, even though German and Japanese capital ships tended to bulge out towards the center.

Was it necessary to raise the minimum speed for players? Couldn't that be done for AI only, to make them design faster, more effective ships while letting the player build stupidly slow ones for fun?

I like the idea, especially if we have to choose what kind of plane to prioritize (fighter, bomber, or scout plane) but I think it'd be simpler, at least at first, to do away with the idea of a hangar and crane, and just have the ability to place 1 or more catapults with preloaded single planes, that won't return to your ship during the battle but rather fly away to either an airbase or a seaplane tender.

Interesting idea but likely to never be implemented. Or at least, not very soon.

The bow badge is called the Chrysanthemum Seal, it's exclusive to Imperial Japan and is used on things representing the Emperor's authority. From 1898 to 1945 it was used on every ship heavy cruiser and above. (Possibly light cruisers as well?)

Instead of mentioning a specific mission, I'd say any mission with a short time limit is more difficult than it should be, as well as many missions where the enemy has torpedoes (destroyers or TBs, not underwater tubes on capital ships). On the other hand, the ironclad missions actually seem pretty balanced/not overly hard to me.

For the original post's idea - I definitely like the idea of multiple turrets, but it seems to me like there might be a lot of other stuff for the devs to focus on before they were to even think of it. Although, in the future it'd definitely be cool, and make replicas look better. I do think that some turret additions might be more necessary than others. Ex. nations without the right turrets at all for a certain era, or secondaries still having gunshields with 0 secondary armor (or destroyer and CL turrets having shields with 0 turret armor, for that matter) For DougToss' casemate idea- I think this would actually be very easy to do. They could have armor plates to cover unused casemate slots... and then when a gun is placed behind it, it disappears. They'd only have to use the same code as they do for lifeboats (that disappear when a component is placed near them). This solution would be visual only, but it'd still be really cool, and more realistic compared to what we have now when we decide not to use all the slots, which is empty holes in the side of the hull.