Let me post my own opinions
1. Blockade
sure, it's stupid to have 1 frigate blockading 4 ports...so, how about,
% of blockade = (no. of warships)/(no. of ports to blockade)
2. World Markets, Local Markets
I would like the idea being able to set-up a local market with your bordering countries to trade stuffs without worrying being blockaded, well, I heard that in HttT there are some trade league or something like that...
3. Convoy maintaining/Convoy efficiency
I think that convoys should cost more to maintain rather than one-off cost buying ships. There should be additional costs to maintain a merchant fleet, the larger your fleet is, the higher the drain on your economy (if you don't count that you need seaman!)
Moreover, I would like more advanced convoy efficiency to be implemented, currently you need only 1 ship to ship goods from either hamburg to london or singapore to london. It also take only 1 ship to ship 200 tonnes of grain or just 20 gram of diamonds. This certainly don't makes any sense at all.
I think the number of convoy needed should be more details, maybe something like this,
Convoy needed: Mean[(distance from homeland ports)*(product weight)]*Mean[1/(individual convoy efficiency)]
The factor [1/(individual convoy efficiency)] would be corresponding to the efficiency of shipping which is related to type of ship(steamer/clipper) and naval technology, it would be reasonable that steamers would operate good at handling more goods and being more efficient.
the factor distance from homeland ports would maybe not good to simply assign it as a linear relationship to the absolute distance, I would suggest a exponential factor.
and the convoy efficiency should only be simply,
(no. of convoy)*(convoy maintenence %)/(convoy needed)
which is in percentage scale of 1-100%
1. Blockade
sure, it's stupid to have 1 frigate blockading 4 ports...so, how about,
% of blockade = (no. of warships)/(no. of ports to blockade)
2. World Markets, Local Markets
I would like the idea being able to set-up a local market with your bordering countries to trade stuffs without worrying being blockaded, well, I heard that in HttT there are some trade league or something like that...
3. Convoy maintaining/Convoy efficiency
I think that convoys should cost more to maintain rather than one-off cost buying ships. There should be additional costs to maintain a merchant fleet, the larger your fleet is, the higher the drain on your economy (if you don't count that you need seaman!)
Moreover, I would like more advanced convoy efficiency to be implemented, currently you need only 1 ship to ship goods from either hamburg to london or singapore to london. It also take only 1 ship to ship 200 tonnes of grain or just 20 gram of diamonds. This certainly don't makes any sense at all.
I think the number of convoy needed should be more details, maybe something like this,
Convoy needed: Mean[(distance from homeland ports)*(product weight)]*Mean[1/(individual convoy efficiency)]
The factor [1/(individual convoy efficiency)] would be corresponding to the efficiency of shipping which is related to type of ship(steamer/clipper) and naval technology, it would be reasonable that steamers would operate good at handling more goods and being more efficient.
the factor distance from homeland ports would maybe not good to simply assign it as a linear relationship to the absolute distance, I would suggest a exponential factor.
and the convoy efficiency should only be simply,
(no. of convoy)*(convoy maintenence %)/(convoy needed)
which is in percentage scale of 1-100%