Captains
Final part of the sailing model and ship stats tuning have been deployed.
- Battle ratings for vessels have been updated based on their strength and close range sustained damage
- Sailing model and wind polars
- After testing and monitoring the usage of ships we have decided against exaggerated curves for vessels and have moved to fully historical sail composition.
- previously we buffed downwind or upwind performance to create differences, which caused some ships to become useless or less useful.
- All sails area have been recalculated based on their optimal and potential sail area, that could be achieved by the captain by trimming or adapting his sail plan, within constraints of ship mast lengths and yard lengths.
- As a result majority of underperforming vessels will now perform better and in general will have a much better sailing profile.
- After testing and monitoring the usage of ships we have decided against exaggerated curves for vessels and have moved to fully historical sail composition.
- Speeds have been updated for lighter vessels and majority of light vessels have received a speed buff.
- Ship with more spirit sails received more buff to frontal yard power.
- HMS Victory performance against the wind have been slightly increased.
- Wasa (Kronprins Gustav Adolf) hp increased and displacement recalculated
- Turn rates have been updated based on improved turning calculations model
- Buffs
- USS Constitution turn rate have been increased
- Nerf
- Trincomalee, Belle Poule, Renommee, Cerberus, Mercury, Snow turn rates have been slightly decreased.
- Buffs
Other tunings
- Epic events ships chests contents have been improved (gold, silver and epic)
- Explosion damage have been updated based on the ship size and powder room contents (magazine size)
- Cannon loss (damage to cannons) increased in the following cases
- raking damage
- broadside damage (if broadside is heavily damaged)
- Cartagena Planking now gives 5cm thickness bonus and 2% mast thickness bonus.
Bugs fixed: Rigging specialist inconsistent bonus to % of repairs fixed.
UI work continues.
We currently are working on the OW improvements (missions, battles and other entry windows).