Controlling Fleets

[dernwine]

Lets face it.... controlling divisions in this game really needs work.
Even simple manuevers like having a division reverse direction causes instant chaos, and heaven forbid your cruisers are on the wrong side of your battleships! This wouldn't be so bad if you could place your ships before a battle starts but you can't! To make things worse, because the games mechanics make accuracy based on keeping a relatively steady course, if you want to do a about turn (again a relatively simple manuever, lead ship turns, second ship waits until lead ship has gone by and turns etc etc) which should only briefly affect your accuracy, the entire division starts doing some sort of complicated chaotic dance in the middle of your formation. You might as well just switch their guns off for all the good they do at that point! Even trying to sail in a straight line can, if you want to reduce speed, be a nightmare!

At the moment the only way to solve this is simply to restart the battle over and over again until you randomly get every ship where you need it, or start the battle at a ludicrous distance so that you have time to sit in place and move everything around.
So for all the "New Models of ships" that people want to see, and I get it, I want to see them too, this fundamentally broken aspect of the game needs a fix.

[Durham Dave]

Updates to this are in the next patch, due Monday.