cotton weights more than planks now...

[kitsunelegend]

Yeah, run that through your head for a minute...

 

How in the world does that make any sense?

 

These weight changes were unneeded and provide nothing good to the game overall. They only succeed in making the game much more time intensive and grindy, which is very bad for player retention. There seriously needs to be a limit to how grindy you make this game. Too much, and you'll chase players away. What you have right now, is far too much.

 

Please...revert the change. Not everyone has hours and hours to spend sailing between ports trying to get all the mats they need.

 

Or at least increase the weight limits on the LGV and Indianman back to what they were before you nerfed them. 

 

Please...don't make this game a grindy mess where it takes literal days to get anything done...

[admin]

remember that weights are in abstract numbers

bales, loads, trains, hogsheads

 

 

standard resources weights are getting adjusted tomorrow.

[kitsunelegend]

Cotton bushel is 33lb.

Same volume of water: 40lb

Of dry Oak: 27lb.

So cotton is heavier than timber...

Unless you are limited by weight, in which case a ton of each is a ton.

 

Alright, but how do you explain a 1lbs fish creating 2.4lbs of fish meat? (or however much fishmeat weighs now)

 

Because yeah, processing and gutting a single fish creates even MORE weight. Right.

Edited October 21, 2016 by kitsunelegend

[Fuzzyhead12]

Yeah, run that through your head for a minute...

 

How in the world does that make any sense?

 

These weight changes were unneeded and provide nothing good to the game overall. They only succeed in making the game much more time intensive and grindy, which is very bad for player retention. There seriously needs to be a limit to how grindy you make this game. Too much, and you'll chase players away. What you have right now, is far too much.

 

Please...revert the change. Not everyone has hours and hours to spend sailing between ports trying to get all the mats they need.

 

Or at least increase the weight limits on the LGV and Indianman back to what they were before you nerfed them. 

 

Please...don't make this game a grindy mess where it takes literal days to get anything done...

 

cotton got pressed into block from 1m length and 50-60cm wide and height they were weighting about 300kg, they were transportet like that

[IndianaGeoff]

Cotton bushel is 33lb.

Same volume of water: 40lb

Of dry Oak: 27lb.

So cotton is heavier than timber...

Unless you are limited by weight, in which case a ton of each is a ton.

 

What the dev just said is that it is not just weight.  A ton of cotton is a huge bale.

 

Now in a perfect world you would have a weight and a volume.  Then it would make sense to load a ship with Iron Ore and throw cotton on top.  But for making the game simple they are just going with weight.  That is fine.

[IndianaGeoff]

cotton got pressed into block from 1m length and 50-60cm wide and height they were weighting about 300kg, they were transportet like that

 

I have seen lots of historical pictures of people shipping cotton in the 1800.  Most of it was in bales that a single person moved and were huge.  While what you said might have been possible, it was not common.  I do question how you could compact cotton to that size and weight.  That seems to be way out of what one could do in the 1700's and early 1800's.  Making a bale that dense without a large iron mold and press with an enormous weight would not seem possible and even then, very rare.  Then you have the issues of breaking it apart on the other end.

[Wesreidau]

What, throw cotton in a square cider press, squeeze all the air out, and tie it off? You'd easily ship three to ten times as much cotton in a given volume and tremendously improve your profit margin for a trans-Atlantic shipment. Pays for itself on the first bale.

[IndianaGeoff]

Only if labor is not considered. How long would it take to press a shipload of cotton? And for what gain. The guy fast loading normal bales has it piled everywhere on top of something heavy and is out the port before you have gotten started.