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I do like the idea of the nation modifier though, the buff to smaller nations would seem to be a good thing.

Thanks for the link, thats really interesting info I agree about your points about hull design differences, but I would like to add that difference in sail area is probably not a factor. There is plenty of sail area that can be configured on frigates and ships of the line, so much so that with enough wind you will lose efficiency of newly added sail/power because it will increasingly go into making the ship heel and increase drag and thus loss of efficiency, increase in leeway, or risk of capsizing. If we are talking top speed we would have to assume "a lot of wind", and in that case these ships are probably more limited by their hull design than sail area, it is the hull that determines how efficient power can be turned into forward motion, how efficient it stays over the range of applied power via sail area increase and the optimum speed should be well below max sail area. One would expect Montañes to have a more efficient hull for speed than say Ingermanland (if both ships were scaled to the same size), there is almost a century of ship building progress between them, but it is still true to say that Montañes will definetly be faster because she is longer and has a higher hull speed.

Months of help from Swedes = fine, Russia starts helping a little = DED GAEM Sealclubbing the British when they were down = Fun, how DARE they ruin your game by getting organized?

Oh man 😛 Gibt's auch Bilder aus der Kindheit und die ersten 100 Exemplare der Biographie mit Autogramm?

If it's like this: planting the flag = "you have succeeded in a hostility mission" .. it could work. No more PvE, chance of PvP intercepts (if the flags are announced like they used to) and the PB is still only scheduled for the next day so the defender has time to organize.

For even fuller 'historicity' Trincomalee => UK, France (which had the ships the Leda class was based on) Victory => UK, Russia (they built a handful of them) Diana => Spain Surprise => France Santa Cecilia => UK Rattlesnake => US Leopard => UK Hercules => neutral 😛 Hermione => France Pandora => UK *Brig => US *Snow => UK *Lynx => US Endymion => UK, France (Pomone) Rattvisan => SE Redoutable => FR, UK (they built a few of them)

Are you sure limiting competitive first rates to France and Spain and restricting everyone else to the Redoutable is the way forward? 😛

Remove 'Random Fire'.

Make book slots sticky for fleet ships; Assigned books should reappear when ships are moved to/from fleets.

Make it an option for ship DLCs to yield a non tradeable crafting permit [on the same cooldown as the ship]. So instead of printing the actual boat with woods of my choosing, print a regular permit that needs all the resources like a normal ship to be built.

I agree on the leak problem and usability issues of the Victory, a fine ship that is useless in the current meta. Victory (and Pavel) need help. Nitpick: Victory and Santisima were in battles on opposing side lots of times but never in a duel. Victory never dueled an Ocean class ship. By being on the winning side a ton of 74 gun ships 'survived or even defeated' the large first rates too, does that automatically make them superior? - it's not a good argument I could ofc be wrong on this and would be happy to see if there actually ever was a duel Vic vs X

Can you give us details on the new woods (stats, how to obtain)?

Those changes are nice, thank you

Now that is quite a catch O_O .. gief cannons

Some indication on the map or symbology like the patrol zones to get some warning at least would be nice.