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Ships in the reserve get a bit of a penalty to crew quality IIRC, but it's not huge and tbh our crew training is not our strong point right now anyways. If a war comes out of nowhere it'll be awkward to have most of our fleet in the reserve and take a bit to bring them back up to full fighting shape, but wars really don't just come out of nowhere you can see tensions rising ahead of time and get them out before the shooting starts. With low tensions across the board, crap ships, and low money, we can totally get away with putting most of the fleet into the reserves.
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Splode posted:Game owners, is there any reason we can't/shouldn't reserve the entire fleet? There must be, right? Not unless you really expect a war to break out any second or need it for colonial duties (we don't as we have no colonies). Shop experience in reserve will degree over time to 'fair' as opposed to 'bad' for mothballed but unless they are experienced combat veterans most ships won't be better than "fair" anyway. Ships come instantly out of reserve or mothballs so there is no delay having them if tensions rise. In peacetime I put the older half of my fleet in mothballs and the rest in reserve. This frees up money to build newer (and much better) ships. The game budgeting design relies on you doing this so if we don't we will literally never be able to afford newer ships. Saros fucked around with this message at 18:41 on May 22, 2019 |
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Many of the DD names are russian names for inappropriate behaviour in the spirit of the cultures naming of their warships (delinquent, gangster-class etc.)
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Ikonoklast posted:Many of the DD names are russian names for inappropriate behaviour in the spirit of the cultures naming of their warships (delinquent, gangster-class etc.) Also a bunch of "tough(?) adjectives", like British Battle cruisers --- we got Brave and Unruly already..
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May 22, 2019 19:09
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Solzhenitsyn didn't get famous until like the 60s so I don't think he should be on a list of writers' names. I replaced him with Chernyshevsky who's more period-appropriate.
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vyelkin posted:Solzhenitsyn didn't get famous until like the 60s so I don't think he should be on a list of writers' names. I replaced him with Chernyshevsky who's more period-appropriate. Works for me! I was just proud of being able to spell his name right on the first try.
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I can only wonder what an actual Russian would think, reading this namelist.
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Grey Hunter posted:In the most hotly contested contest, Leperflesh will be running our Bureau of Ordinance. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. I will try not to let you down. Saros, I hereby unilaterally and without consulting you, appoint you my second in command. In any event in which Grey Hunter is waiting too long for a decision from me, you may step in and make the decision in the name of expedience, with the understanding that I may subsequently comprehensively contradict you. I will leave the definition of "too long" to Grey Hunter's judgement. quote:
What are the possible settings? Low/Medium/High? Is there an "off" or a "maximum"?
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May 22, 2019 19:20
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Boksi posted:I can only wonder what an actual Russian would think, reading this namelist. That it's awful except for the fleet carriers, and that those are clearly missing Lermontov?
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May 22, 2019 19:24
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OddObserver posted:That it's awful except for the fleet carriers, and that those are clearly missing Lermontov? Not anymore!
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May 22, 2019 19:28
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I added a few dumb names to the list. Not sure how accurate google translate is. 
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May 22, 2019 19:31
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Leperflesh posted:What are the possible settings? Low/Medium/High? Is there an "off" or a "maximum"? It's Low/Medium/High, yeah
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May 22, 2019 19:33
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Also you guys are naming a lot of ships after 20th century composers who nobody's heard of yet in 1900. Rasputin is still some country bumpkin mystic/monk in 1900 too, he doesn't travel to St. Petersburg until ~1903 or 4, and meets the Tsar in November 1905. I decided we needed a bunch of CVLs named after russian vodka brands, and corvettes named after russian dishes/recipes.
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May 22, 2019 19:34
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Leperflesh posted:Also you guys are naming a lot of ships after 20th century composers who nobody's heard of yet in 1900. tbf at least Rasputin is apparently a CV name, it'll be a couple decades before any of those exist.
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May 22, 2019 19:36
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OddObserver posted:That it's awful except for the fleet carriers Maybe once we've finished adding all our stupid ideas, you could go in and reorganize it a bit, so that there's some actual themes going on? I don't think most people would object to their names being moved around so long as they're still in there, and there's basically no theming at all to the cruisers or CVLs.
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vyelkin posted:tbf at least Rasputin is apparently a CV name, it'll be a couple decades before any of those exist. It's hard to imagine Rasputin and Maxim Gorkiy being used as CV names by the same people. (And while I would love to have a raider CL named Benya Krik, I can't imagine anyone actually naming a CL that).
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May 22, 2019 19:42
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Boksi posted:Maybe once we've finished adding all our stupid ideas, you could go in and reorganize it a bit, so that there's some actual themes going on? I don't think most people would object to their names being moved around so long as they're still in there, and there's basically no theming at all to the cruisers or CVLs. 
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May 22, 2019 19:45
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Rasputin gets a Soviet carrier named after him because scamming the hell out of royalty is praxis, obviously
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Poil posted:I put thought into what type I put the names under.
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 ***PRIORITETY ISSLEDOVANIYE 1 JAN 1900 ST PETERSBURG*** BY ORDER VASHE IMPERATORSKOYE VELICHESTVO NICHOLAS II pre:Research Area Last research Priority Levels Machinery development Basic Low 0 Armour development Basic Medium 0 Fire control Basic Low 0 Subdivision and damage control Basic Medium 0 Turrets and gun mountings Basic Medium 0 Ship design Basic Low 0 AP Projectiles Basic High 0 Light forces and torpedo warfare Basic High 0 Torpedo technology Basic High 0 Submarines Basic High 0 Explosive shells Basic Medium 0 Naval guns 12 inch guns Low ALSO TO DEFEAT THE ARMOUR OF RUSSIA'S FOES STOP Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 19:59 on May 22, 2019 |
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May 22, 2019 19:57
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OddObserver posted:It's hard to imagine Rasputin and Maxim Gorkiy being used as CV names by the same people. (And while I would love to have a raider CL named Benya Krik, I can't imagine anyone actually naming a CL that). Absolutely, but on the other hand I can't imagine anyone naming a destroyer P'ianii Nemetskii Shpion, so I feel like a little inconsistency is the least of our worries.
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I put the names for the post-romantic composers figuring that we'll be using the names list for a while. Now I need to come up with a submarine name theme.
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May 22, 2019 20:07
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We also don't have any battlecruiser names.
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May 22, 2019 20:13
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Maybe we could make a themed fleet or two instead of shuffling around the names.vyelkin posted:Absolutely, but on the other hand I can't imagine anyone naming a destroyer P'ianii Nemetskii Shpion, so I feel like a little inconsistency is the least of our worries.
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May 22, 2019 20:21
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Leperflesh posted:Thank you to everyone who voted for me. I will try not to let you down. It's High/Low/Medium But it's priority based, and all drawing from the same pool, so if everything is at high nothing is on high. In order to have high be meaningful you need things on low
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May 22, 2019 21:23
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Leperflesh posted:
It should be YEGO IMPYERATORSKOGO VYELICHYESTVA (NIKOLAYA II [VTOROGO]). Also I have no clue what you've done with the letters in the banner, they don't make much sense. Also whoever put Krepost Tokiiskogo Zaliva in the ship names list is my personal hero
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May 22, 2019 22:32
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Nice to see some reorganization going on in the name list. Shouldn't Gangut be put in with the battle-class? Also we'll probably have a lot of submarines, so rather than naming them individually, we might want to use them as class names. So instead of laying down Krasniy Oktyabr, we lay down Krasniy Oktyabr-1 through 8 or something like that.
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Leperflesh posted:THE TSAR DESIRES TORPEDOES AND SUBMARINES STOP Yaay!
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habeasdorkus posted:I'm plumping for different types of ship to have naming themes. Two things Russia has a lot of in their history are great writers and great composers. So the BB list now has names like Tchiakovsky and Mussorgsky and the CV list has names like Tolstoi and Chekov. I'm considering also making all the DDs the nicknames of characters from War and Peace, so stop me before all our destroyers are named Kolya, Kolenka, Nikolenka... (and that's just for Nikolai Rostov!) I vote for Pussy Riot
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Leperflesh posted:
Oh man. This is an auspicious start. You've set everything that "should" be high at low
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Infidelicious posted:Oh man. Re: Spoilers - Clearly this is propaganda from the borgoius in France! If they were meant to be high, then BUORD Leperfish would have set them high.
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May 23, 2019 02:10
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Silence! The nobles demand submarines, and subs we shall have!
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That is... Some remarkable choices in tech that are going to solidly ruin any ability to build decent ships, this could be quite funny.
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We don’t even have the tech for subs yet
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I'm looking forward to building our first dreadnought after the pity timer expires and you get the 'you know you can put more guns on these things, look at what the British are doing' tech.
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I propose the 'antidreadnought'. No primary battery, just a /huge/ pile of mixed-caliber secondary and tertiary batteries. It drives straight for the enemy, closing to short range and chewing away the superstructure with rapid-fire guns, leaving them afloat but drifting hulks.
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The Lone Badger posted:I propose the 'antidreadnought'. No primary battery, just a /huge/ pile of mixed-caliber secondary and tertiary batteries. It drives straight for the enemy, closing to short range and chewing away the superstructure with rapid-fire guns, leaving them afloat but drifting hulks. You need primary battery, it can be like 1" bigger than secondary though.  This is buildable with current tech, though has a 12x7" 9x6" 12x4" broadside. Infidelicious fucked around with this message at 04:04 on May 23, 2019 |
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uPen posted:I'm looking forward to building our first dreadnought after the pity timer expires and you get the 'you know you can put more guns on these things, look at what the British are doing' tech. Brilliant! We let the British do all the hard work of designing dreadnoughts, and then just copy them! Meanwhile, our own engineers and scientists focus on other areas, like submarines! This is a flawless strategy
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Leperflesh posted:
Jeune Écoleor bust, huh? I mean, going all on on a super-powerful force of destroyers with literal tons of torpedoes is totally a valid strategy ... but we'd better hope we don't get into any wars until 1910 or so, since tin fish are pretty mediocre until that point.
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Tevery Best posted:It should be YEGO IMPYERATORSKOGO VYELICHYESTVA (NIKOLAYA II [VTOROGO]). The banner is the anglicized spelling "BYURO BOYEPRIPASOV" rendered in the free online font "Kremlin Starets" The rest is whatever I managed to get out of google translate as for my priorities, if you guys wanted a BuORD chief who actually owned the game, you picked the wrong guy. You are gonna get priorities based on how I roleplay this position.
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