Naval Action News

Captains, following changes were deployed today, March 21st, on the Test Server:

• Adjusted and improved mast colliders for all ships to improve demasting (was too hard before)
  
• Adjusted mast HP for all vessels
  
• Adjusted hull thickness for select ships
  
• Reduced thickness bonuses for shipbuilding woods and modules
  
• Slightly weakened RAIDERS (lowering their speed and some other stats)
  
• Reworked gun penetration
  
• Adjusted angling
  

Captains, the following changes were deployed on the Test Server today, March 18th:

• Fixed several issues with pumps being assigned to incorrect classes
  
• Fixed certain issues with mast thickness that made demasting by chain difficult
  
• The "Buy Price" column is back in the Trader Tool
  

Captains, following changes were deployed today, March 17th, on the Test Server:

[h3]Guns and Ship Thickness[/h3]

• Fixed damage and DPM for long guns and all long gun variants
  
• Penetration of guns is now based on class (step 1 of class-based tweaks)
  
• Ship thickness has adjusted as well based on calibers they can carry (step 1 of class-based tweaks)
  
• Penetration and thickness changes are work in progress and will be tweaked going forward
  

[h3]Water Intake Adjustments[/h3]

• Water intake from destroyed structure was slightly increased
  
• Water intake will now begin when the internal structure is significantly damaged
  
• At 15% of internal structure and below, water intake will start overcoming the ship’s pumping capacity
  

[h3]Hull Repair[/h3]

• Crew required for hull repairing was slightly increased
  
• There will be additional improvements to structural leaks and crew required to manage it will continue to improve.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed an issue where penalties for damaged internal structures (below 30%) were not applied correctly
  
• This issue was linked to fixes related to speed penalties after resolving the wind shadow mechanics
  

[h3]Flooding Penalty Parameters[/h3]

• Acceleration penalty for completely destroyed internal structure: 75%
  
• Acceleration penalty for a fully flooded ship: 85%
  
• Rudder turning and yard power penalties for a fully flooded ship: 85%
  

Spotlight image from meemee from the May 2021 screenshot competition

Captains, the following changes were deployed on the Test Server today, March 15th:

• Wind shadow additional issues found and fixed
  
• Ship mast height will now properly affect the shadow size
  
• Overall effect of wind shadow is slightly decreased
  
• The strongest distance wind shadow is at 1 hull length
  
• Smaller vessels will no longer be able to steal 50% of your wind if you are in a much bigger ship. Small ships will have very low "dirty air" effect
  

Captains, the following changes were deployed on the Test Server today, March 14th:

• Slightly increased gunpowder and ammunition loot for warship NPCs in Open World
  
• Maximum gunpowder amount in contracts increased to 50,000
  
• Maximum ball, chain, and grape ammunition in contracts increased to 20,000
  
• Fixed a bug where certain ships were not allowed to participate in Port Battles
  
• Applied an additional fix for the Santa Cecilia Blueprint availability
  
• Fixed a bug related to incorrect raider Port Battle date allocation