Completing Constitution's Family

[RMS Gigantic]

USS Constitution is a beautiful and powerful frigate, but she often overshadows her five less-successful sisters. I imagine Constitution might get lonely if Chesapeake, Constellation, President, United States, and Congress were all left out! I don't know of any other game out there to have all six ships together (or even any other ships of this class besides Constitution), but it can give the US a slightly larger variety of ships even though the US didn't use the British six-rate system for frigates!

 

I say this because even though they're all technically the same class and are all collectively referred to as the six original frigates, there were actually nuances and differences between them, even among ships with the same gun rating! For example, President and Constitution were both 44-gun frigates, but President had a raised gun deck (which, if the developers so wished, could have a gameplay effect of a somewhat faster reload time, since even though it's just a 2-inch difference, that's still less of a chance of some crew members hitting their head or needing to worry about hitting their head) and a relocation of the mainmast 2 feet to aft. These changes might sound trivial, but they were important enough changes to be specifically altered from the previous ships' design!

 

The more obvious changes involve the numbers of guns, with half of these ships ultimately being rated as 44-gun vessels while the other half were 38-gun (despite the original proposal being for two 36-gun frigates and four 44-gun frigates).

 

Completing the six-frigate family would give those players looking to play early American more ships to choose from (what with Britain's first- through sixth-rate frigates, most European nations would probably have a far greater variety of ships than the US from the get-go) and would, as mentioned before, bring a video game first in the form of having all six of these ships present. Implementing this accurately would require more effort than just changing the ship's name in most cases, but still less effort than making a brand new ship from scratch! On top of all of this, this would reduce the number of duplicate Constitutions that would be floating around on a multiplayer server while still satisfying the players who want a ship like her.

 

 

On a final, tangentially related note, I want to complement the developers on their extreme accuracy and attention to detail with the national flags they've shown so far! The stars on the Star Spangled Banner are even oriented correctly! It's a detail that can easily be messed up (and often is), but the stars are properly oriented on the American flag shown in-game, not to mention the stripe number!

[admin]

this might be a good idea for a separate Kickstarter

We would start it today but we don't have a company registered in USA or trusted person to help us with it.

 

We would love to do a Nelson Pack Kickstarter (all ships Nelson sailed) as a starting offer, with Constitution pack (ships your mentioned) and full Trafalgar pack (all ships participated in Trafalgar from Pickle to Victory) as stretch goals. 

[akd]

Lucky Jack Pack. All ships Jack Aubrey sailed.

http://www.ctbasses.com/misc/BruceTrinque/aubrey4.html

[RMS Gigantic]

this might be a good idea for a separate Kickstarter

We would start it today but we don't have a company registered in USA or trusted person to help us with it.

 

We would love to do a Nelson Pack Kickstarter (all ships Nelson sailed) as a starting offer, with Constitution pack (ships your mentioned) and full Trafalgar pack (all ships participated in Trafalgar from Pickle to Victory) as stretch goals. 

Thanks for the response! You got me all giddy!