Hello Captains
Patch has been deployed today to live servers. 29th August 2018
- Diana wil be given out for testing to all captains in the Caribbean.
- It will be a timed reward - you will have to login and claim it within 15 days.
- Spanish frigate Diana
- Spanish heavy frigate filling the gap between heavy and medium frigates
- Gundeck - 24lb guns 42lb carronades
- Upper deck - 9lb guns 32 lb carronades.
- Major BR rebalance
- We are gradually moving away from the static BR based on HP and DPS characteristics and will also consider several other factors including battle performance data.
- How it will work
- Ships with much lower performance statistics will have lower BR even if they are a higher class vessel. For example 2nd rate pavel having a much worse battle performance than 3rd rate Bellona will have a lower BR than Bellona.
- The changes will be applied gradually as full performance based BR is currently impossible as it will break old mission system. Once new mission system is added in September we will let battle performance influence the ship BR slightly more.
- This will mostly affect the port battles and will require captains to recalculate their battle plans for future conquests.
- Speed changes
- Wind curves slightly tweaked for
- Hercules
- Privateer
- Speeds slightly increased for
- Mercury
- Niagara
- Lynx
- Privateer
- Prince
- Elite and Spanish/Pirate rig refit bonuses lowered from 30/15 to 20/10
- Keep in mind that this speed change is a temporary fix to provide more options in the 6th rate category - all ships speeds, turning, and heel performance will be updated after port ui patch based on battle performance with the goal to increase gameplay depth. Current historical wind curves (fully based on sail plans) have been found to reduce gameplay depth instead of improving it, and will be adapted this autumn.
Diana Screenshot
- Wind curves slightly tweaked for