Sinking Ships?

[feelix]

Hello Good People (I hope =o).

 

After stumbling across this game, and even though I'm not a age of sail fanboy, this game kind of appeals to me.  Even having to put in all the hours having to learn the basics of sailing and naval warfare.  I do have many questions but one springs to mind after watching some YouTube videos on the game.  

 

My question is; are the ships supposed to sink so quickly and easily?  I ask because the little I know about the age sail battles, very few ships actually sunk.  Just looking at some famous (that even I know =o) battles and comparing the number of ships in action and then how many sunk, it is very small indeed.  So are ships sinking in Naval Action because its a game-dev decision or am I wrong about the numbers of ships sunk during naval combat?

 

Kind regards,

 

Feelix

[maturin]

Game-dev decision.

 

You either have a game with ships made out of lead that unrealistically sink all the time, or you have to develop intuitive and complex crew morale mechanics so people surrender instead. The latter is really hard to do in a multiplayer game and the devs never showed much interest in it. When pure leak-based and debuff-based systems made battles too endless, they went with the sinking instead.