Cutting the cost of exploration

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Isaac Brock


Not sure it's like this.
10 ships, lose the first at 10% attrition
now 9 ships, lose the first at 11.1% attrition
now 8 ships, lose the first at 12.5% attrition
Now 7 ships lose the first at 14.3% attrition
so at 40% total I will still come back with 7 ships. It takes 48% attrition to knock off 4 ships. This really matters when you try to decide whether to send 1 ship or 2 ships. With 10 it's not a huge effect.

But attrition does not get reset everytime you lose a ship, it is cumulative.

 

[unmerged(6159)]

That's not how it looks in the savegame file.

 

[Castellon]

Originally posted by Isaac Brock
That's not how it looks in the savegame file.

When you lose a ship does your fleet show zero attrition in the display? This figure is not stored in the save file only the figures need to calculate it such as the last time the fleet was in port.

 

[unmerged(8451)]

Originally posted by BiB
U can explore quite easily without losing even one ship. Just return to a harbour regularly. Explore with 2 ships or so, warships are just as fast as transports unless ur at a very high tech level.

But what if you want to explore in areas that are beyond the distance you can safely return to port easily? I follow this strategy of returning to port once attrition appears, but as you explore further out, you run into the problem of not being able to do much, if any, exploration before you have to return to port.

It's too late to fix this in EU2, but maybe EU3 could introduce explorer ships you can build? Explorer ships could fill in the role of explorers, and this way if you are a country that doesn't get alot of explorers, like Scotland for example, then you can simply purchase your own explorer ship and go exploring... It would make exploring a possibility for any nation.

 

[BiB]

Get new harbours.

 

[unmerged(9347)]

Originally posted by Captain Krunch



It's too late to fix this in EU2, but maybe EU3 could introduce explorer ships you can build? Explorer ships could fill in the role of explorers, and this way if you are a country that doesn't get alot of explorers, like Scotland for example, then you can simply purchase your own explorer ship and go exploring... It would make exploring a possibility for any nation.

totally unhistorical. there is no justification for this. the ships used were more often then not 2nd hand traders


as for new harbours

i always used to hug the coast to get to india go up past oman blah blah

but i decided to try to cut across drom transval and found the sychelles island maui i think its called natives with no aggression , makes a nice place for a stage port