Hello All,
I would like to improve the reporting of ship damage when passing forts/fortified position and in the Blocade boxes/Shipping Lanes.
When ships pass a fortified position or fort and the ships draw fire and incur hits, we should be able to have a report better detailing the number of ships and if any ships were sunk. Currently, you get a report indicating hits given and incurred, but no info on the number and type of ships and if there were any sinkings due to hit damage. You also dont receive any intel to help in your strategic decisions regarding enemy dispostions or movement. If the enemy fleet sails from FOW position to another FOW position, you wont even see or know where the fleet is or where they come from.
My suggestion would be a battle report screen that details the ships involved and whether ships were sunk. Another suggestion is that the intel report regarding the number of ships can be range bound (to simulate faulty battle report intelligence estimates).
Eg. 3 ironclads and 4 gunboats attempt to sail past Cairo (from Memphis)and are headed towards Nashville and get attacked by the Cairo guns.
Log report could be:
1-3 ironclads, 4-8 gunboats are spotted sailing East past Cairo defences;
40 hits damage done to enemy, 2 hits incurred. 1 CSA gunboat sunk.
I think this would be historical, and would improve War dept decision making from the intel this would provide.
In the blocade/shipping lanes boxes, an improvement in detailing if the hits taken and received are leading to sinkings would be an improvement. Same issue here, hits taken/received dont provide enough info to what result it has on enemy (or our own) naval forces.
What does everybody think about this??
John
Its a question of time... Making windows in DirectX are a PITA. We are working to improve all the windows and report slowly though, and more will be added for VGN (we want to give you stats!). A good news though: the Recruitment window in all games will be improved, with the possibility to jump to the region of the recruited unit, among others things.
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Pocus wrote:A good news though: the Recruitment window in all games will be improved, with the possibility to jump to the region of the recruited unit, among others things.
This is indeed good news, Pocus!!! I've wanting that since I began playing! Thanks ...
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Big Muddy
Pocus wrote:Its a question of time... Making windows in DirectX are a PITA. We are working to improve all the windows and report slowly though, and more will be added for VGN (we want to give you stats!). A good news though: the Recruitment window in all games will be improved, with the possibility to jump to the region of the recruited unit, among others things.
Would "among other things", include how many POW the AI has. I would also like to see a troop count in the army/corp insignia, if at all possible, and a total fead count for both sides, excluding ships of course, ah what the heck, total ship count too.
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