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Quote from: Emperor_Jonathan on July 16, 2009, 11:09:04 pm

84 Sail tiles? On both pictures I didn't count that many, after a couple times counting. :| Also. I'm fairly sure that you cannot change your ship for the first battle, so you have to go with the first ship for the first battle.

Quote from: Commodore John S. "Dorgon" Dorgershon

"I have yet to know every wench in this port, and I'm not leaving until I do!"

Is it okay if I have surplus food?
Also, the Ship of the Line is going DOWN.
May I suggest a Galleon, a Cargo Barque, and general things like supply ships?

Also, really big cannon, for long range shore bombardment.

Also:

If you change the speed rules I want the ability to change my ship.

I would like to get in on this, but I won't be able to devote enough time to ship design until this weekend at best.  Just stating my desire to play prior to any player cutoff announcements.

Quote from: Asheron on July 08, 2009, 01:45:51 pm

"Pea" : CHECKED BY ME

What's the difference between "Checked" and "Checked by me"?

Spoiler: The Demon, checked version. (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Asheron on July 08, 2009, 07:57:25 pm

Ah yes, I'll try adding those in some time later. Also, Emperor_Jonathan, dammit. I might need to add some ships of the line to act as a counterbalance, because I don't see the AI winning against that. That ship has OVERPOWERED all over it.

Well... Clearly in order to support his large crew and pay for maintenance on his large ship, he'll need to bring in a proportionally-larger share of loot for his crew.

I'd also suggest basing speed primarily on square of frontal area, or something like that. As it is, making your ship circular (as the Chosen of Armok is, roughly) gives you lots of space for ammo, supplies, and masts without affecting your speed too much (imagine, if you will, a 20-tile diameter circle. It has (with some rounding) 300 interior squares. 32 of those are cannon, which means 16 squares of supplies. We'll say a nice 64 squares of ammo (for 640 shots), which leaves around 200 tiles for sails. 200/(20+20) * 20 = 100 squares per turn (unless I did the math wrong?). That's overpowered =). As it is, making a larger ship will (almost always) make your ship faster, but using the square makes larger ships slower (as it should be) and using the frontal area encourages longer, thinner ships (which are more "ship-like"). You'll likely want to tweak the exponent a bit, since the squared makes it really hard for ships like the galley with the "minimum" 5-tile width.

To counter infinitely long, 3-tile-wide ships, I'd make maneuverability based on ship length. So a really long ship might be fast, but it would have a turning radius best measured in miles.