[Ship request - 2nd rate]

Ship name : Christian den Syvende/Christian VII

 

Launch year : 1767

 

Out of year : 1801

 

Guns : 90

 

Gun Sizes : 28-36,28-18,26-12,8-6

 

Fate : Renamed Prøvesten(1799) 58 Guns  = as a blockship 1799. 28-36, 28-24, and 525 men. 40 men died, and 35 wounded in battle 1801. The ship was burnt.

 

Length (ft.) : 182

 

Beam (ft.) : 49

 

Draugth fore/aft (ft.) : 19-9/21

 

Laest (c.2 t.) : 1604 

 

Crew : 849

 

 

Ship plans in Spoiler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would vote for this as a second rate. It looks amazing and is actually a second rate unlike all the 80 gun third rates being suggested in the thread.

[Show an animation when a ship is pumping.]

I would love to see water being pumped out of the ship even if it only happened in survival mode. It would let you know that either they're taking on water or its another indicator that they are hurt and to go for the kill.

[Game Crashes]

Is anyone else's game crashing after this latest patch? Before I could play it non-stop without any problem, but today alone I've crashed twice within a couple hours. Also I had trouble logging in one time as it said (Authentication error) but I was able to log in after trying again. 

 

My specs are gtx 660, 8gb of ram, and an intel i5 3570k @ 3.40Ghz and i usually get a solid 60fps on high

[Merry Christmas!]

Happy Holidays to everyone!

[Masts and rigging damage]

 

Although I do not agree with the in-combat repairable masts (perhaps to have an option to disable it in options - as game difficulty mechanic), i can understand and appreciate why it's there from gameplay reasons.

 

I would however suggest the following:

1. Put some sort of a long timer it takes to repair a mast (or a few extra mechanics like):
   1. Clear debris (as someone suggested - this would require crew to cut off dragging part of the mast that still may be attached by rigging (use older movie Capt. Hornblower - with Gregory Peck as reference)
   2. After debris is clear a second timer for rebuilding the mast section (the further down damage has occured, the longer the timer - as it would 'simulate' the difficulty of replacing a mast, so i.e.:
      1. top 1/3 of a mast would take 2-3 minutes,
      2. middle third up to 10 mins, while
      3. the whole mast (or just lower section) would take up to say 20 minutes to repair

 

I disagree with this. The game only lasts one hour at the moment so you'd waste over half the game with trying to repair masts. I think the way it is implemented currently is fine. Either you have to waste a repair on sails which you could have used on the hull, or your mobility is hindered. I think that's enough. 

 

 

Also the masts should not be that easy to take down (i heard that got fixed in last patch though). It would take several very skilled shots from proximity to damage mast and riggint to the point where they would break (at least the lower section that is. This could be used to balance out the above from gameplay reasons)

 

 

They're still too easy to break in my opinion. They're based on health so once it reaches a certain point it just breaks. It's really annoying when you have to ships of the line just shooting at your masts to try to break them because they know eventually that they will. Hell I'm guilty of doing it myself. I don't know how they would change it but I don't like the current system.

[Possible for clans operation if we can have a blank sea]

well I dont think thats the point of the discussion. No one is talking about a practice instance that ONLY clans can use. Anyone would be able to use it so it doesn't benefit one over the other. Plus, I think the initial suggestion was for sea trials and not necessarily for the open world although there would probably need to be some parallel for groups to train.

 

Well i apologize if that's not the point of the discussion but that's what his request sounded like. He wanted a "blank sea" for clans to be able to practice on. I don't know how having your own private space during sea trials would work but for EA (which will hopefully have open world then) clan's should have to find their own little area where nothing is going on if they want to train.

[What kind of PC do you have?]

i5-3570k @ 3.40GHz

8 GB of ram

660 Nvidia GTX

 

I get a steady 60fps with this setup on High.

I'm looking to upgrade to a 770 soon after Christmas.

[Add dead in water feature]

Maybe not launch rafts but I do like the idea of a ship being dead in the water. Some of the larger line ships were almost impossible to sink because of their buoyancy .

[Enemies visible damage Yes or No (Health Bars)?]

I think have enemy ship info off but when you look through the spyglass it shows things like crew count, sails percentage, and maybe armor too. Would be a nice balance i think.

[Possible for clans operation if we can have a blank sea]

I'm all for clans practicing but since its going to be open world they shouldn't have their own blank space where no one can mess with them. I think it'd be much better if they had to practice maybe in a territory that they own. So that way other clans can attack while they're practicing as a tactic. Would make it much more fun i think. 

[Bow wave, spray and wake options]

I'm sure eventually we'll be able to test things like graphics settings before launch. I would love to be able to figure out the optimum settings for myself.

[Suppression and stun]

Admin, I was about to mention that this idea is most useful for raking fire and grapeshot.

Especially the latter. It will give us a tactical tool, and not just a pre-boarding procedure.

Effects from roundshot to the broadside could be minimized.

 

I like the idea of stunning during grapeshot as it is designed to kill crew. It would definitely take them a moment to recover from being hit with it. As for raking fire I think that having your cannons taken out by it is enough of a hinder in fight ability.