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7 hours ago, neph said:

Yall underestimate how cheap the AI builds ships. I'm always shocked--they're often around half of the cheapest design I'm comfortable with. The starting cash is even--it's just that the AI takes a very different approach from most players

The starting cash is NOT even.  Autogenerated fleets get at least 1.5 times more cash, and usually about double.  My observed range is 1.56-2.06, with most being about 1.9.  This requires that player ships be significantly better, and ensures short campaigns.

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I have amassed some data about starting funds.  The following are all ITA(myself) vs A-H, starting in 1910.

For context, several updates ago:

ITA start: $589,248,000, A-H start: $456,599,898

 

update before release version:

ITA start: 202,176,000

   BB: 2) 30,698,680

   BC: 2) 23,879,530

   CA: 4) 16,723,960

   CL: 2) 9,208,362

   DD: 1) 4,305,542

A-H start: 556,450,483

   BB: 11) 25,901,640

   BC: 1) 23,653,390

   CA: 27) 7,444,383

   CL: 5) 6,792,666

   DD: 7) 1,845,346

blockaded March, 1910

release (current version)

ITA start:  262,656,000

   BB: 3) 26,760,700

   BC: 1) 31,213,630

   CA: 😎 13,684,030

   CL:  2) 8,341,342

   DD: 9) 2,561,947

A-H start: 541,174,443 + 1 BC

   BB: 14) 16,571,830

   BC: 1) unknown

   CA: 32) 8,029,936

   CL: 7) 5,576,327

   DD: 8 ) 1,646,948

blockaded April, 1910

 

ITA start: $290,304,000

   BB: 4) 25,858,180

   BC: 1) 31,284,770

   CA: 6) 14,494,970

   CL: 3) 10,136,880

   DD: 23) 1,654,615

A-H start: $550,297,430

   BB: 13) 15,402,370

   BC: 1) 21,962,410

   CA: 32) 8,283,043

   CL: 6) 7,229,759

   DD: 8 ) 2,458,535

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1 hour ago, The PC Collector said:

Okay, some good feedback: I like the changes  on the interface. Having a parameter so important as the engine efficience displayed so at hand is a good move. Same for the war summary interface on the campaign. Good change.

Now, the not so good feedback. The problem of A-H not being able to build battleships at the start of the campaign hasn't been tackled. Also the poor CL hul choice of them. What is whose, the auto design fleet on campaign again gives them an unusable battleship.

About the new ships and model: I like what I see. But since I went to look at the new spanish hulls, I noticed two things: The flag on the hull is still the 1978 one (incorrect one) and the naming list for spanish ships is simply ATROCIOUS! Not only has religious sounding names, like Santa Elena or San Juan, when those kind of religious sound names where deprecated on the 1850s (with the sole exception of the Cardenal Cisneros armoured cruiser) but a lot of them are clearly Google Translate made! (like Real Felipe instead of Rey Felipe. But even if it was the right one, we won't name a ship like that either, so...) Why don't you let an actual spanish (wink wink) to take a look to the list and point out all the mistakes? I'd gladly volunteer for that, and I'm almost sure that there is at least another spanish on this part of the forum.

You CAN build Bbs for A-H currently.  What you need to do in ship design first select any other hull, then minimize beam and draught.  After a tick, Battleship one hull becomes selectable.  Then it can be designed normally at its tiny displacement.  The Cl hull is at least interesting, as it trades an extra broadside torp for all secondary guns.