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  1. maturin
    IIRC Constitution briefly had a few carronades on the gundeck, but they were removed because the muzzle blast inside the hull deafened and shocked the crew. Still, it was certainly physically possible, and moreso than mounting 12-pounders on Surprise. Perhaps gundeck carronades on larger vessels could suffer from a reload penalty to simulate their drawbacks.
  2. maturin
    I just stumbled across this Kickstarter campaign for a fantastic-looking educational/humorous comic book about seafaring on the Lady Washington. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lucybellwood/baggywrinkes-a-lubbers-guide-to-life-at-sea It looks like the project stands a good chance of getting funded, but backers are still too few.
  3. maturin
    Santissima Trinidad was built in Havana, FYI.
  4. maturin
    For the same reason WWII strategy games don't let you build Japanese rape camps as morale-building infrastructure. Because all gameworlds are either rectangular or elliptical.
  5. maturin
    That doesn't work IRL.
  6. maturin
    It kinda is. It's ergonomically frustrating and rather glitchy. I have to click ten times to pick up a single contact sometimes. Or worse, I find myself unable to select because my own vessel is vaguely in the way, and have to rotate the camera by trial and error until it works.
  7. maturin
    That won't likely be a problem if the distance requirement is only 800m or so.
  8. maturin
    There are certainly floodgates to be opened there, but as I recall PotBS basically had a full-time dev who handled the community's ship donations. And they all have to be finished and retrofitted, of course. Plus all the internal QA, because there will be no time for that when intensive development is going on.At some point the devs might consider releasing tweaked models of existing ships to suit different tastes and tactical niches. For example, Constitution could easily be converted into President or United States, which had very different sailing qualities. And giving Trinc a different stern, beakhead and a few rails would turn her into the French-built Hebe.
  9. maturin
    It's amazing how often one feels the need to point out that game development... costs money.
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  11. maturin
    This isn't a strategy game, so there's no point pissing players off in pursuit of diverse factions. Especially if it sextuples the number of ships the game needs to be viable. Not to mention, Trincomalee was largely a French design, so it would be strange to limit it to the English. There's nothing special about Bellona, and the there were other heavy frigates that carried 24-pdrs or 30 guns in the main battery like Constitution. Nations were always capturing each other's ships, refitting them in their own navies and copying the designs. Frankly, the idea has no merit.
  12. maturin
    No pirate worried about attracting attention when putting into Nassau, so I really don't see the historical parallels here. And national players should absolutely be able to smuggle. Smuggling was widespread and practically respectable. Pirates don't smuggle because they don't trade. Neutral ports are necessary in a free-for-all war, so that small nations and the US won't be trapped in one tiny area.
  13. maturin
    There can't be pirates without ports for them to use. Of course a more historically-accurate way of doing things would be to cut down on the number of neutral and pirates ports. Corrupt and lawless ports, whether neutral or national, could be open to pirates.
  14. maturin
    They should be automated force multipliers prior to and during boarding combat. Five men on the quarterdeck taken down by swivels will have more of an effect on the outcome of boarding than twenty splinter casualties on the gundeck.
  15. maturin
    I hope to see you seeking out PvP in your trader's brig someday soon. You know, for the health of the game.
  16. maturin
    There's no correlation between a broadside's lethality and how simultaneous it is, so you both can be right.
  17. maturin
    The range-to-target needs to go away fast now that we have the new gunnery settings.
  18. maturin
    Naw, it's bugged six ways to Sunday. Sometimes it works, but failing the to turn off is only one of the bugs that currently exist. I've seen T take effect without actually furling sails, or it can furl sails without affecting speed.
  19. maturin
    Ooh, that's exciting.
  20. maturin
    Gamey in that it would be an extreme and unusual maneuver in real life, which could put your rudder at risk. But still, very much possible. In the mid-19th century there was a ship that lost its rudder and sailed 800 miles backwards to the Azores so the captain could get his compound fracture taken care of. There are plenty of replica ships that use pretty much the same manila cordage and hemp standing rigging as they did back then. And I know that Lady Washington has been boxhauled, for instance.
  21. maturin
    Depower is currently bugged, so there's no guarantee it actually worked. But I agree that the heel can be excessive on Battle sails for some ships.
  22. maturin
    So long as they keep the current sunsets as well, and make them rather common. When games code breathtakingly gorgeous life-changing sunsets 7 days a week, it quickly defeats the whole purpose. Sometimes dusk is drab. If that's not the case, then you probably live too close to an active steel mill.
  23. maturin
    Trader's Lynxes, Pickles, cutters, and Cerberus should all be plentiful in the Caribbean. The former three might carry a few carronades or popguns apiece.
  24. maturin
    Negative opinions have no merit if they are incoherent. If you don't explain your views, your criticism cannot possibly be constructive. The OP is just whining, and contributes nothing more to the forums than a random spam post about cheeseburgers or Justin Bieber.
  25. maturin
    Silly me, I thought Gettysburg was in Pennsylvania.
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