Nick Thomadis

v1,7 is released. Thank you everyone who participated. Especially some of the in-game reports were very helpful.

Beta RC - Enabled back all options for campaign Generation (Mixed, Fast, Slow). - Fixed a minor UI issue which caused a wrong calculation indication for cost of shipyard development. - Fixed a potential bug that could cause a ship of a design to be wrongly deleted, when its design was deleted. - Reduced aggression of minors to try to take their own home lands. - Fine tuning of Game's difficulty settings in Easy/Normal/Hard settings. - Further Auto-Design Optimizations. - Fixed problem of scale for new 16-inch Chinese guns. You must restart Steam to get this update fast. The full release is scheduled for 27/12. This is a release candidate.

At the time the campaign starts, Britain had a lot more advanced hulls than this ironclad. Spain and China were technologically backwards, buying ships from foreign shipyards, and that is reflected in the game.

Do you play on easy mode? It is important to know, to check if the less AI aggression affects the government of your nation too much and is more passive.

Beta Update 10 - Optimization and improvement in the Division Screen/Scout logic. This will positively affect the Opponent Battle AI and the player’s divisions set to “Screen” or “Scout”. You must restart Steam to get this update fast.

Beta Update 9 - Fixed single submerged torpedo tube on the side of new assault warship hulls. - Fixed issue of a barbette in the new ironclad cruiser. You must restart Steam to get this update fast.

Beta Update 8 - Various optimizations on ship auto-design and some of the new parts. You must restart Steam to get this update fast.

There has been this update before some hours: Beta Update 7 - New British “Experimental Large Cruiser” with a base displacement between 27,500 and 32,500 tons, available from 1923. - New Chinese/Spanish “Assault Battleship” with a base displacement between 45,000 and 59,500 tons, available from 1929. - New Austro-Hungarian “Small Assault Battleship” with a base displacement between 36,000 and 45,500 tons, available from 1929. - New Russian “Assault Battlecruiser” with a base displacement between 70,500 and 87,500 tons, available from 1929. - Various optimizations. You must restart Steam to get this update fast. The content has been finalized. The update is ready to release after some testing. It will need some time to finalize the pre-made ships which will allow you to play the fast campaign modes.

Hotfix uploaded Fixed issues reported for the new Ironclad hulls Restart Steam to get it

Beta Update 6 - Balances in the ship damage model, mainly affecting the durability of ship parts, armor endurance and how flooding is affected due to structural damage. The overall experience should be an even more realistic and expected feeling of how ships damage each other according to their displacement and protection schemes. - New Chinese/Spanish “Ironclad I” which can recreate the HMS Inflexible ironclad. It has a base displacement between 9,770 and 12,900 tons, available from 1890 to1899. - New Chinese/Spanish “Ironclad II” with a base displacement between 10,900 and 13,900 tons, available from 1891 to1899. - New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad I” with a base displacement between 9,600 and 11,200 tons, available from 1890 to1895. - New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad II” with a base displacement between 9,750 and 12,250 tons, available from 1890 to1895. - New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad III” with a base displacement between 9,850 and 12,550 tons, available from 1890 to1895. - New Chinese armored cruiser “Ironclad Cruiser” with a base displacement between 3,000 and 11,500 tons, available from 1890 to 1905. - New Chinese light cruiser “Small Ironclad” with a base displacement between 3,000 and 6,500 tons, available from 1890 to 1902. You must restart Steam to get this update fast.

Beta Update 5 - New Barbette parts and fixes on barbette logic which could result in inconsistent allowance of calibers. - Changes in German gun models for cruisers for Mark 4/5 4-inch and 5-inch calibers. - Gun ammo increased, especially for small and medium calibers (This change affected weight, so it had to be delayed for a next major patch). - Ship weights optimizations. - Further auto-design and part placement logic optimizations. You must restart Steam to get this update fast - The saves had to be reset due to the many changes that would affect all designs.

Beta Update 4 - New British “Compact N3 class” which can recreate the HMS Nelson. It has a base displacement between 32,000 and 39,500 tons and is available from 1919. - Various new ship parts. - USA 2-inch/3-inch quad guns of Mark 5 reverted to their previous model. - New Chinese 7 to 20-inch guns for Mark 3/4/5 techs. - Further auto-design optimizations. You must restart Steam to get this update fast - The 3d model and weight changes may cause errors to your beta designs, please note.

Ok thanks, we will see to fix/improve in both ways.

14-20 inches were intended to follow this line, as previous version, but we can try to change and follow the style of the smaller calibers.