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There is what devs can promise at one point and what they dream, consider, foresee, would love developing... Both are interesting to know 🙂 If the game is a success (it will) : National campaigns (Spain, FR, Russia...) during the AWI - Napoleonic wars period would be nice. UA : Age of Sail during the 17-18th centuries would too.

An interesting link I haven't seen on these Forums yet 😉 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069650/Ultimate_Admiral_Age_of_Sail/

@ sterner :To OP's question about adding Spanish and French campaigns/battles, you answered : Does it mean that France has no chance of being added ?

Un saludo, Compañero, mi Amigo ! Unfortunately, I can't speak Spanish. And google translate is often a poor helper. Your text seems to deal with NA realism and historicity. Un amplio debate... Have fun 🙂

C'est pas l'homme qui prend la mer... C'est la mer qui prend l'homme, Tatatin

NA timeframe for ships is 1680-1820. Atm in game : Ingermanland : 1715 Wapen von Hamburg : 1722 La Renommée : 1744 Le Requin : 1750 Cerberus : 1757 ... Le Bucentaure : 1803 ...

Indeed, ships of the early period and their nice sculpture decoration are great !!! 🙂

Le noeud est une unité de mesure de la vitesse. Et 15000 noeuds, c'est très rapide, même pour l'OW de NA (1 nd = 1,852 km/h). 🙂

not very environmentally friendly... 🙂

how adding nations can turn an Age of sail game into a sham "Cold War or WW3 in the Caribbean"...

it generally means that the person you were to carry is still waiting at the departure port... 😁 You took the mission and left the port without checking whether or not the person was on your board. He wasn't. It happens when you take a mission and then change ships before sailing. You have to go back to the departure port, find the person who is whether in your warehouse or on another ship, make him embark on your active ship and sail again... I know...

I understand your point of view. I for one am always bothered by all forms of History revisionisms in movies, games, internet, etc. as it may lead to misconceptions and have serious effects on current mentalities around the world. As for implementing Portugal, Italy or even China in this very game, up to the devs...

I like it how everybody on this forum is able to both accept, reject and twist History (= use History) to get a feature implemented in this very game whose historicity has always been indeed very flexible. 😁 @AngusMacDuff : don't take it personally. I (certainly) did it too. 🙂 We call it "flou artistique".

J'ai découvert le MMO à travers NA. Tout y est affreusement artificiel : "En cas de victoire, les attaquants reçoivent par exemple 10% des investissements du port", à moins qu'ils ne dansent que un pied, dans ce cas c'est 11%. Après le bois rare et les navires rares, j'imagine qu'on va avoir l'eau rare et le vent rare. Il faudra "grinder dans un clan" pour acheter de l'eau autour de son navire et du vent dans les voiles... Tout un univers que j'ai du mal à comprendre...

Nice but the original decoration shown in the RL drawing by Jean Bérain is even nicer : btw the 3D modeler gave the quarter galley only 5 windows instead of 6. He might have use the model made in 1839 as a template. Those 17th century ships are really nice indeed. Another one (well documented) is Le Saint Philippe (1693) : Waiting for a game with more of them. 🙂

A nice source : http://www.musee-marine.fr/programmes_multimedia/vieabord/

It is a promising mod in development of a well-known game...

Le Chant du départ, 1794 (The song of departure) French Revolutionary Song, said to be the "brother of La Marseillaise"

While I could understand that the England of the 18-19th century would teach his children that French revolutionaries were evil ogres who ate their own children at breakfasts :-), I am quite surprised to learn that the British schools of the 21st century still reduce the French Revolution to the 2 years of the Terror while denying or ignoring its benefits, as you seem to imply. Maybe a matter of an old persistent cliché or because of the Terror being more 'thrilling'. The House of Bourbon (Louis XVI...) was also a absolute monarchy by divine right. not knowing that after 40 years in the European Union... That's the EU's real main failure...

The French Revolutionaries fought for basic freedom and human rights they got and we all still benefit : the end of the king's absolute power and the separation of powers of the executive, legislative and judiciary ; the abolition of slavery (4 feb. 1794) ; the right to vote, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the principles of equal rights ; the freedom of opinion, expression, association and press ; the respect for property, the introduction of divorce ; the same unique law applied to the whole territory of the entire country, the equality before taxes : everybody pay tax according to his means (the nobility and the clergy are not exempted anymore from paying the heavier taxes and stop collecting taxes), the adoption of the presumption of innocence, the elimination of the Lettre de cachet... = basic rights that the citizens of 'some' countries around the world still don't enjoy nowadays...

@Mr. Doran in parenthesis : Please allow me to add in your description of what players expected, during the passage from Sea trials to OW, two kinds of pro-OW : the MMO fans (who got NA OW with clans, trading, RvR, crafting...) and others dreaming of a more simulation/historical/realistic experience in navigating, sailing and fighting with weather conditions, shallow waters... (often less interested in crafting, trading, economy...). btw GL I am sure there's still a market for the latter. 🙂

without wanting to minimize current inequalities around the world nor the victims of the Revolution, if you really think that and are interested in truth and History, you really need to learn more about the French Revolution and the Ancien régime ! 🙂 Even facts about the very short episode of the terror, focus of many's attention and quite a delusion maker, would surprise you

At the Revolution, the French Navy was disorganized by the aristocratic naval officers fleeing abroad : these exiles represented 80% of the naval officers. Very few among the naval officers had trouble with the terror (3%). Some others fought against the revolution (10%). What's left fought for the Revolution (M. Vergé-Franceschi). The Revolution is about the end of the privileges of the Aristocrats and the Clergy.