![]() You'd also have to choose how much sail you want in use. The other aspect is where the wind is and the wind gage. In a game, you might be able to allot crew to one or the other task. There simply wasn't enough crew, and coordination of both operations would be hard to manage in all that smoke and noise. To do that, you'd need to consider the aspects of sailing, crew size and capability, as well as-of course-the Captain's skills.įew sailing warships could manage to man their guns and man the rigging to maneuver under sail at the same time. The only way I can think of being able to balance unrated vs rated ships is by A: giving unrated ships more accurate, longer ranged armament, B: making them almost stupidly fast and maneuverable, C: introduce depth mechanics to allow lighter ships with lower draft to be able to get closer to islands or use routes unreachable by heavier vessels.įor age of sail it could be done, but to make the game interesting it would have to involve more than just blasting away at an opposing ship. I think the system is often more of an aproximation than set in stone. Ships that underwent razee (shaving off a deck) could turn from being ships of the line into frigates or great frigates technically. Though in general I think it can get more complicated. Maybe no unrated ships since they can't really do well in the line of battle - the main way of fighting during the Age of Sail with the bigger ships?įrigates afaik were hovering on 6th to 5th rate, depending on amount of cannons. I wonder how a dev could balance unrated vs rated ships? I think frigates, according to the Napoleonic War settings, were on the tail end of the rated system. Those two bottom ships have lots of guns. The same company also made a Pirates of the Carribean licensed game that I used to play as a kid, so I was kinda amazed when I found out they got more of these out. Single player only, as I said rife with bugs and very unforgiving, but I logged something like 172 hours in it and didn't even realize it. Got it for like 3 bucks on Steam's Christmas sale. If you still got some Golden Age of Sail itch and are willing to overlook a giant number of issues and bugs, then some Russian developers out of all people made a hardcore Carribean/Pirate themed open world RPG, Sea Dogs. Yeah I can understand, I was considering getting the game but various reviews on the PvP aspect dissuaded me. It takes a long time to do anything in Naval Action, in my opinion, and isn't really a quick in-and-out sort of affair. While I do love Naval Action, it is more sim than arcade - the latter being more akin to World of Warships. What ship would you personally like to sail - type and / or name, whether they are premium or tech tree? What premium ships do you think would be appropriate for players to buy and / or earn for the game? What nations do you think would make viable tech trees for this game? For the captains, what skills do you think would be appropriate to help a ship be enhanced in battle? Any ideas for premium captains - noteworthy officers who might be attractive to players? ![]() What kind of ships would you like in the tech trees? How would you balance these ships against each other? What period of the Age of Sail will be the main focus of the game? For example, World of Warships is mainly focused on the Second World War with First World War vessels and Cold War vessels making up the beginning and end of the tier trees, respectively. Do you even find the idea of an Age of Sail arena to even be a good idea? Why or why not? What would you propose, if you find the idea viable? Here are some questions to help stimulate discussion: Let us say that a company, WG or otherwise, wanted you to have some input on a potential World of Warships-like Age of Sail game - an arena where captains can use tall ships to bash each other on the high seas and gain objectives to help their team win. The Age of Sail is a romantic period of naval history for Europe - the "wooden ships and iron men" era of history as 17th to 19th-century warriors fought on the high seas in gargantuan vessels. This is probably me being hopped up on the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Master and Commander as well as the Hornblower novels I've been binging, but I thought this would be a fun topic for this part of the forum. ![]()
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