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Over various campaigns i started to wonder regarding the technology bonus for "Ship construction time" reduction techs, as i had a feeling they have no effect. I did some testing and found out I was right, in a way: As for now "Ship construction Tme" modifier only applies to new designs created after you researched a tech that changes it. Considering you cannot build a Refit design this means builing older ones will never benefit from that modifier. Could you finally allow building Refit desgns directly (please please please)... or At least apply the modifier to existing designs ?

Need to say I really, really like playing UAD in current beta, so cudos there. Could i request a function to save campaign designs to shared ship repository and also load from there ? Unless i miss it i personally would love it, as i tend to play around with starting effectively in a campaign and end up creating the same ship over and over again (although i always find something to make them even better).

Possibly not known, but you can user your keyboard and actually Shift + curser keys to zoom rather quickly on the map.Not precisly what you suggest, but maybe helpful if not already known. In case they implement that i'd like to see these keyboard shortcuts: Pos1 / home: Center on your homelands Page up: Left border of map Page down: right border of map.

On the Army topic Lima mentioned above: Army Logistics seems to play a big role, especially in the early years starting 1890. There seems to be something off with the Army logistic which may play a role with land invasions that seemingly have no chance of success. From my observations It happens that Army Logistics seems to jump, occasionally vastly i.e.: One turn in my AH campaign my Army logistic is 57%, next turn it is 23%, next turn 56% again, then 20 something. (i need to collect some screeshots of that). Regardless such jump could likely play a role that an invastion is started when you logistics is high and then makes no progress because of these jumps. The fact that it is not that clear how much army logistic is influenced by your navy tonnage (or #ships) in relation to your provinces and also by your GPD (it seems on a 1890 start around 1910 to 1920 i end up with 100% logistics) does not make tracking potential issues any easier. likewise you cannot track AI TR percentage (which is supposed to also play a role, but then sinking enemy TRs left and right seems to have no impact at all)..

Started testing 1.4, currently on Update 4. So far not bad, however there still is something off with the tooltips: * I cannot get the land army invasion tooltip, soo really a hard time to plan strategically if you cannot tell progress of invasions. also (which might be fixed by now): * i was unable to get tooltips during battle so had to guess the cruisingspeed of my ships. Update: battle-tooltips work in update 4

Did that happen once or is it reproducible ? If only once it also could have been a dud-torpedo that prematurely exploded right after launch. If its reproducible you could try a Bugreport.

On this I always assumed its a general storage of / the sum of that ammunition.. torpedos in this case. So Its more a simplification in the game. Actually this is an advantage as well: you can fire the entire storage of a single tube over time. This is from my observation though..

Hmm guess work would possibly be some driver issue. Maybe you can use a HW monitor and check if you run into a bottleneck somehow (ram, cpu,..). Also could check your windows logs for system application, maybe you find some relevant errors there that point you to the right direction. I am trying to help, but currently we need more data to point to the right direction i fear.

i recently started a few campaigns from 1890 to 1920 and no laggy. i think i did reduce some AA thought (laptopscreen so no point at 17" imo :P)

In the most current version i can say Loading an existing campaign is quite fast on my laptop (like 5 seconds), starting a new campaign is a different story as by design it seems the game autoruns some game aspects in the background up untill your set startdate. Anyways for loading, i could test loading your save if you want and can upload it somewhere. Also if i am not mistaken, some performance improvements for new games annd loadinng in general are planned in 1.4.

Soo I took a few months break from UAD and 2 weeks ago i returned to version 1.3.9.9 live Rx2. I have to say overall i am realy really impressed in a posive way, its great fun to play my usual campaign setting (2 times: AH 1890 start, hard, own ships, historic in this case i think, 1 similar as Japan): + no crashes and no more super long turn calculation times + we are finally able to block enemy fleets from passing gibraltar unless they are going to fight me for passage. + naval invasions, woo, I can more effectivly start to paint the map in a more effective way + limited diplomacy (actually it is necessary to check diplomatics to control who and how many allies / enemies / wars you are going into, even if not everything is avoidable i like the options). + i spent over 80 hours last to weeks and having a good deal of fun Of course there is room for improvement and i'll limit myself to minimal suggestions on existing mechanics (without requesting new features): - formation changes during battle. example: If for formations's lead ship gets to certain amount of damage it automatically tries to change it formation position to last in that formation. AT least so far I see no advantage of this behavior, but i see the annoying / adverse effects of that behavior: This ship will be close to your other ships, most likely AI will still target it and then there is the "magnetic hit" logic that makes misses on main target hit ships near the target. In short the damaged ship changes position close to your other ships and due AI fire chances are your entire formation gets hit a lot (with TBs and DDs this can even be fatal for the entire formation). - on blocking taskforces i mentioned as plus above: The taskforce radius seems to also act as a force shield: i cannot plot a TF into the enemy TF's radius to actually force a fight. i.e.: Soviet TF is parket at Instanbul and i am at war with them and want to reach the Black sea for some naval invaion action: Now i cannot force the engangement with enemy TF (might be a single ship even) nor will a mission be forced be them (can it ? i am not sure on logic there). - missions generated where enemy ships retreat right at start: i think this one has been mentioned a lot already. in my example i am waging was as AH vs Italy which is lossing badly. each turn I get around 3 convoy missions where i have to sink their TR plus a TB (30 knots) usually with my destroyers that can do 31 knots. so each turn i manually play thes emission sinking all TR and the TB retreats ( not going to chase that forever). So the TB of italy is alive so it can "protect" the next convoy next turn. rinse and repeat. In that case i'd be nice if they try at least or some other solution. for non convoy missions i could imagine something like: all enemy ships are retreating --> promt do you want to chase Yes / no (plus hint of enemy ship speed ideally) - time compression: also mentioned many many times by others: please let the player choose the timecopression they want as you sped a lot of time "chasing" enemy ships doing nothing. IF you fear the engine might destabilize my suggestion is adding an option to turn it off in options with a warning on own risk (i remember some ppl using cheatengine to speed up the game and it seemed to work). - campaign - GPD growth: in general it is not bad, playing for a longer time 2 decades, GPD of various countries is hugely different (iirc normal is intended for balance, but please downturn diffuculty or make more settings: enemy gets 5, 10, 15, 20% GPD bonus). in example: i guess a boring way to get head of other countries woul dbe starting as USA, and avoiding all wars. eventually your GPD with be so huge that your budges enable you to outtech and outnumber the world by far. likewise: in ym current campaign vs Italy i conquered compe provicnes of italy (central italy, western silicy,..) and sink TRs of their left and right, still they have a GPD growth of 4% while i have between 0.8 and 1%. speaking fo that, would be a neat info to know others TR % value which could help with testing. - spotting range in combat: aside fromt he fact the AI always knows all positions ( i take advantage of that pre radar to acually find the enemy ships) they always seem to be able to spot me first. I.e. AH before dreadnaught you can only build a BB up to a bit below 14ktonnes. I tend to go for good towers early on as well. still an enemy BB of 15 or 16 ktonnes with worse towers in a 1 on one always seems to spot me first and get the first shots. -> this one is tricky, I might be wrong on my observation or it might be buggy. i cannot check as i cannot see all details of other ships also I am not sure if i can take the values "detectability" vs "spotting range" by word. regardless for testing or in general teh ability to open ships of other nations in shipviewer showing full stats would be neat (down the road knowledge is power if you intend to make a feature / DLC for intelligence effects) - personal gripe for playing Austria: you get a single and small pre-dreadnaught hull. Also your first DD hull is limited to 750 tonnes untill you research Destroyer 2 meanting all DD research that increases max tonnes for destroyers is a waste as you hull is the limit not your tech untill Destroyer 2 onwards. -balance on maintenance: ship maintenance seems to be a % of design cost. this seems logical to a degree, but then a huge cost factor of a ship its her armor (fun fact, overweight / underweight flaws also affect maintence, where underweight makes ships cheaper to maintein ). So if you use better armor they is generally way more expensive the ships maintence increases exponentionally. - refitting and naming of them: a personal one but i am not a fan of the automated refit design names. it would be nice to change it to a more logic way i.e. DesignName_YYYYMM where YYYYMM represents the year and month the disgn was created (in my opinion this seems more logical and its unlikely you make more then 1 design of a specifi ship per turn). in my current game my DDs are named: "Pandur" initially, "Pandur(1899) - 2" and "Pandur(1904) -3". This looks funny and we are almost there to my suggestion. also: Please let me build the refit design directly, please please please. - naval invasion time needed: minus the mentioned points of tonnage needed vs sucess chance (and enemy TF force field making engagement impossible) i "feel" they take too long. Plainly speaking 7 turns to invade / conquer Marroko looks okay, but then consider thats 7 months which seems quite a long time. - army logsitcs: is percentage indicates how good your army is, so far so good. Then we have the tooltip that is not that clear to me, assumtions in ( ) : it is affected by number of provinces (negative) population (negative or positive ?), Tr capacity (positive) and navy size (tonnage / number of ships / posive and to what expend). From a game perspective i'd like to know what i can do the improve that value which is very unclear and also from my assumptions above, limits my options i have incluence on (i want to conquer more provinces, but do i need more or heavier ships, also the GPD growth topic from above plays a role here). Additionally from playing it also seems to relate to GPD in some way, or down the road to army budget %. I hope this feedback helps you and i am looking forward to try 1.4 eventually ! Ps.: sry for typos

I managed to do so, the trick is changing the position by scrolling a bit, still the UI has some issues aside from that: i.e. Ship list, when you try to set the port a ship you are building should spawn it is hard to select the first ship in the list (also if you shift select from number 4 in list and want to end that selecting at the first this is impossible). In reagrds of the weather system: Its nice andinteresting it changes over time. As already mentioned in a storm you canot see your UI (set course) which should be adressed. Unfortunatly the general gameplay issues (1890 AH start on normal) still exist in the campaign: - Enter manual combat and enemy runs right at the beginning of the battle so you chase for nothing (maybe realistic but even worse on bad weather since you visibility is 1km at best). --> maybe block the AI from retreating untill visual contact was made, or even better --> start combat when some form of contact is made (early game visual, later on radar). - enemy taskforces can stil pass yours without any mission generating (prime example is gibraltar, park a taskforce there and enemies still have free sailing). - need to search your ships after battle in various ports - missions generate battle with no regards of your actual taskforces. example a): i have a taskforce of 6 to 8 CLs, i get a convoy raid with a single of my CL from that taskforce vs 3 Cl of enemy (plus some TR). --> iirc there is some tonnage calculation so that could have a play here but,... example b) another taskforce of mine with 4 CL gets into a mission vs the mayority of the french navy (1 BB, 2or3 CA, 12 CL and 14 TB), their total tonnage was way higher then mine. --> I really would appreciate some tuning on the mission generation and improved meaning of taskforces. currently the campaign is more a random encounter generator, where the player / admiral has no influence at all strategically (see enemy taskforces passing each other) or in the missions itself (the ships you get is just a random selection), with finally t good cahnce that the enemy AI will just run without any contact (because they know exactly where you are even without radar)

Took a break and went for it again today (most recent version 1.2.4). I am sure much effent went into finally fixing shell balistics and targeting, but the issues that annoyed me in the grand campain (1890 start) are still present, namely: * You get mission when enemy with superious amount of ships just flees (an example was a TR defense of mine: me 1 CL and 1 (unarmed TR) vs 3 enemy CL and a TB, fight started, we never made contact.. wasted time) * after a fight you still must go search for your ships of your involved taskforce in various ports * still unable to block enemies from passing your taskforce for example at gibraltar besides that land invasion are not that clear to me: in my campain AH tried to invade serbia twice with superious army strenght, but each time failed (can i assist as its landlocked ? is there some tech ?)

as austrian +1 from me, although i think the hulls are more designs put into the framework and right now getting the framework work to allow a good campain seems to be more important to me. Could be different guys however i dunno.

Thanks for the recent hotfix3, i gave it a shot (my typical Austria, 1890 start, normal, build own ships): Regardng battles there are still various issues that make them quite tendious, here a short list: a) Ships are stil not able to keep a course that make sense (wobbly, drunk sailors) b) Targetting seems better in general, however ships keep shooting at already sinking ships: I did an ingame report, but i think the shots should be visible here as well c) manual rudder settings as a workaround currently also show different issues: sometimes you set it to port and ships still keep sailing straight, sometimes you need to set the rudder to left to turn right, sometimes it works. (i usually keep avoid and avoid torpedo off, but briefly turning it on and then off again seems to change the behavior, so maybe something is overriding from there). d) the old classic of missiongeneration beeing disconnected from the battles itself: i.e. had a mission where sovients port strike Pula with a single BB, i have 2 CL to intercept, you load in and obviously the soviet BB did retreat from the start. At least in this case the draw did not result in port damage, but imagine if my ships where damaged (i am pretty sure then i'd be a loss and i gethome port damage without ever seeing the enemy BB) As in general campaign currently it seems as AH you are destined to fail any war because your land army is too small, so any neighbor will take your provinces by invading. in my current test i am loosing hungary to the soviets, which are invading with about 2.6 million troops, vs my 130k defending... Yes, this is an extreme example but checking around any neighbor state's army is at least 70% bigger then mine. On a positive side: so far turn times seem to be a lot better in Hotfix 3

One serious issue that already exists for a while and was also reported by others already is that taskforce movement is delayed by a turn should that taskforce be caught in a mission. Example in my current game in most recent hotfix: I put that taskforce here in the hopes i could blockade Britain, did not work so i wanted to get them back to Pula (upgrades etc). So for over a year in game this taskforces gets pulled into a mission vs 1 to 3 TBs of england every turn and they never moved. By now i also ended up with a war vs France (possibly because that taskforce beeing there so long) and finally a mission was generated vs my Taskforce here vs a french one (BBs etc, so less likely you load into battle just to have them run away). Issue is, since my TF was locked there for a year its entirely out of ammo and since you cannot move them you end up beeing stuck. Something else: I think autoresolve does not regard if your fleet even has ammo --> actually i just tested by autoresolving next turn and indeed you can sink enemy ships without any ammo ^^ I am aware you are pretty busy with fixing other stuff but possibly you can sneak in some improvement there ?

By going by this wiki article, one could assume that Flag communication should be available to all nations at earliest start 1890. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_flag_signalling Signaling lights, as suggested by Suribachi would likely more appopiate, but that is just the naming. one could argue that a new technology should offer an improvement in one area (even if might have a disadvantage in another, tower weight on rangefinders an example). and as suggested by RenegadeLeader Signaling Light should be a slight bonus instead of a malus.

Woo had my first war and my first battle and encountered the battle encounters other reported. To the glaring issues on Nick's initial post i'd strongly suggest to add: * drunk sailors unable to sail a straight line (i figured it works if you go by setting the rudder if it helps) * Ending Turns getting stuck at steps "End Trun" and "Updating Missions" i am aware this is a beta, but for now I wait for the next Hotfix / update.

Yes, I am aware of that, but besides this is unlikely to how the game should play, i think there is a good chance corrupting the save in one way or another they way (causing further issues down the line). As for testing 1.10 getting "stuck" like that seems quite frequent on the steps "End Turn" and "Update missions"

one issue i in game reported in 1.09 still exists: double reporting of fights, see attached screenshot: also sorry for the screenshot beeing dark, i figured i report it while beeing kinde stuck on "update missions"

Did a short test before nap time (Austria, 1890 normal difficulty start): Lost the campain about 1 to 1.5 years in due low prestige. Thing is, i noticed i lost prestige each turn, but i could not figure out why and how (no war or anything). Maybe a bug, maybe i need to check tomorrow when more awake, but leaving that here for now. Oh and something else: CPu usage on worldmap seems to be rather high.

To be fair, Nik posted Tomorrow 20.12.2022, that is today. At GMT+1 its 15:11 now and I assume they are around this timezone (a bit more and a bit less).

For a makro issue concerning the campaign i'd like to add something here. Playing 2 campaigns from 1890 till 1907 so far (one AH and one as Japan) the GPD usually seems to stall (you start with around 14billion and 15 years later i still ended up with roughly the same GPD). From my observation it seems to be related that GPD does only really grow in peace times (possibly with the amount of provinces you control, in both capaigns i had over 20 in 1906 around). Maybe specifici to the empire I did chose, but so far I ended up in a mostly permanent war status (AH you tend to have fun with Fance, British, Spain, Russia and also Italy - Japan you are locked in with RUssia, CHina and possibly USA and SPain). If that was to be improved i suggest either make GPD growth better during war (i guess easier to do) OR give better tools to handle diplomacy (the events to pay other off to avoid war are okayish, but on one hand they can add unrest and on the other hand you end up in the same "war incomming" status just a few turns after that again).

Oh and some logical inconsistency regarding starting and especially ending wars: on one hand the game does not give you a direct say when war or peace happens, but on the other hand you are free to park your fleets around the globe to generate tensions... that is if your nation is not too loved by your prferred target, in that case you are doomed to peace

Working on my typical AU campaign (start 1890, hard, selfbuild ships). We now have the year 1906, but the whole game i was somewhat stuck due my GPD never rising and i am not sure how to influence it except the occationa event. In this capaign i started out with a GPD at around 11.000.000.000 in 1890, by 1906 i control 16 provinces vs the initial 5, spain and china dissolved and my transports are always either max or close to it, yet my GPD is at about14.000.000.000. This on one had severly limits on how many ships you cna have (12BB,12CA and 11CL here atm) and Tech budget etc also is a percentage of your naval budget, which in turn is a percentage of your GPD. AI in this capanain coperatively is doing quite well: Germany GPD: 40.000.000.000 USA: 38.000.000.000 Italy: 23.600.000.000 British Empire: slightly above 66.000.000.000 (!) So yeah from my point of view i am doomed to fall behind. On the other hand i am aware i play on hard, but there we run into a different issue that happened once in my game (and might also have a slim influence on my GPD issue): AI runs about with its hugh blob of a fleet, in this game it was italy i was at war with. So the Italian blob cruises between Western and Eastern mediterranian and sicne to blob is so bigh they of course blokade. Issue is, i gather my own (smaller, but possibly better blob) in the hopes to catch their blob. It took about 8 turns praying to the mission gods (all while getting blokaded off and on) to finally get the mission you can fight them. --> If you get blokaded the player should have the possibility to break it by fighting. Small sidenot on these AI blobs: They never / hardly ever seem to return to port. So in this case the Italian ships where not woefully outdated, even worse: most of them had no ammo ?! I really like the game aspect of designing ships and then leading them in battles (and tbh i did the grafics), however from a gameplay point of the the capaign really needs some more work. Also i am really curious about the upcomming stuff in the next version (in the hopes that the gameplay aspect gets improved).