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I have to say this is too arrogant.Although I have always felt this way, I am still shocked when I heard this. I'm not talking about this example.But the overall development of recent versions. We know games can't completely simulate reality.But it's not a good idea to push all the problems to the players. Most players are military enthusiast.We have some consensus in what should the game be like. At least,the game settings should not go against our common sense,and ask us to learn yours instead. We have learned many things which against common sense since the begining: We set heavy armor on the funnels and towers to avoid huge structural damage. We place some useless smallest guns at the end of the ship to balance the weight offset. ...... We have also a lot of experience in campaign.On how to avoid: A strange economic collapse. Doom stack. Tension system dose not work. ...... But most importantly,It seems that hard-working players can not solve many problems. Before a problem is submitted, we usually have already tried to adapt.

agree.I can hardly design a normal looking ship after recent updates.

"- Increased slightly the exponential engine weight according to speed to disallow unrealistic speed abuse in old hulls." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is unreasonable.The truth is the engine weight depends on its horsepower,and the ship`s horsepower mainly depends on it`s displacement,hull form and speed.(increases exponentially with speed) I have done an experiment in early vision.A BC and a BB with the same displacement and engine/fuel/boiler,I was puzzled to see the 30 knot BC(110k+ horsepower) with a 1600+tons engine,while the 27knot BB`s (70k+ horsepower) engine is over 3500tons.I kwew it`s of course the "exponential engine weight".after I set a lower speed(25knot),its still has en 2000+tons engine with only 50k+horsepower. I want to say that old hulls still have their right to have higher speed after the modernization modification by repalce advanced engine.Many old warships did so during 1920~1940.My ships in campaign have such a requirement.