rasnell wrote:To speed up game processing, I would like to see everything removed West of Missouri. It's not very pertinent to the heart of the game.
Absolutely disagree. Although the Far West (treated as an entire theater itself in VG's old Civil War title) is secondary, your successes and failures there can have profound consequences to your war effort. For example, there are adjacent states that are vital for manpower and supplies you cannot afford to lose to a small army staging an incursion from the west.
The Navy is nothing more than an aggravation. Way too much micromanagement for so little result.
Why not turn blockade and supply shipping to an abstract form like you do the railroads. I'd much rather have to decide to commit dollars to keep blockades and transport at high levels than the annoying fleet creation, movement, back to port for repair, etc.
Again, my view is different. I really enjoy the naval "sub-game." There's a lot to learn before you get it right, but then, the naval portion of your turn doesn't take much time at all. The ledger unit type filters help a lot in streamlining the process.
I must be doing something wrong. It doesn't matter how many ships I create, including blockade runners, frigates and transports, my blockade box has never moved off 0 percent.
I see little gain for such much work related to the Navy. Again, abstracting this could improve turn processing speeds, which are just terrible as you get late in the campaign. It's now taking more than 5 minutes per turn in March 1864. And I was complaining when it was 2 minutes per turn.
I'm now reading three pages of a Civil War book while I wait on my turns.
My friend, we are all going to be doing a lot of things wrong for a long time learning to become competent at this monster.
Hope you're enjoying the read. I suspect that Pocus and company will address the turn processing time to the extent possible in coming days, but I see it as a small price to pay for the satisfying result.
As my first high school girlfriend said to me one night, "What's your hurry? Just slow down and enjoy it, why don't ya?"