Hearts of Iron IV - 37th Development Diary - 11th of December 2015

[Swinds]

I assume that the Deck space will increase more by new ship design than by increaseing the deck space on the model you already have.

I assume that 30 a/c is for an early carrier and something like the Essex class will be near 90??

 

[angelosnau]

Great work guys.Can't wait to play the game.Paradox is unsurpassed for grand strategy games.

 

[Zoob]

Thanks for the answer.

1) I shall try to put together some suggestions for you - in collaboration with other forum users - in an effort to improve the existing tech tree you have in place. This will mean a minimal number of changes.

2) https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...as-not-british-prime-minister-in-1936.896292/

There are some other names listed here, not just Chamberlain. Please make the 1936 setup as accurate as possible.

With regards to historical leaders, they seem to require hand drawn (hand crafted anyway) art. No point putting baldwin to then put chamberlain to then put churchill. Baldwin was inconsequential in the war.

 

[smurphy99999999]

I agree but it looks like that's the starting amount for a tier 1 cv as both the Jap and US CVs have a 30 limit. I don't agree with this but the game isn't world of warships either so I understand. Thanks for the update Johan and podcat!

You're also assuming 1 plane in game = 1 plane IRL. That might get a little hard to model considering the US built something like 200k planes total. Abstracting 1 game plane to 3 or 4 IRL planes probably won't affect the detail of the combat much if at all but could save lots of memory and CPU usage.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

With regards to historical leaders, they seem to require hand drawn (hand crafted anyway) art. No point putting baldwin to then put chamberlain to then put churchill. Baldwin was inconsequential in the war.

Let's not go down that route, please...

 

[smurphy99999999]

Wait what have the beta testers been doing if we haven't been in beta this entire time?

Probably testing on builds that have not been accepted as Beta yet.

 

[Shade205]

I assume that the Deck space will increase more by new ship design than by increaseing the deck space on the model you already have.

I assume that 30 a/c is for an early carrier and something like the Essex class will be near 90??

Mind you thats the limit for either a 1922 or a 1936 carrier depending on what one hes looking at I dont think we can tell in the picture so it will probably be going up much higher with mid and late war carriers.

 

[loup99]

Simple and informative diary!

 

[GsusNSV]

I assume that the Deck space will increase more by new ship design than by increaseing the deck space on the model you already have.

I assume that 30 a/c is for an early carrier and something like the Essex class will be near 90??

It should be. They said an fully upgraded piece of equipment is only slightly better than the next level. A level I carrier with all 5 Deckspace upgrades should have only a few (5-10?) airplanes more then a level II one with 0 deckspace. If you upgrade the deckspace on the level II, you have already more as the full level I one.

 

[Shade205]

Worth pointing out that the actual Zuiho class aircraft carrier for Japan did only carry a compliment of 30 aircraft.

 

[ingwe]

Wow! That is great! I am really excited! Thanks for all of the extra answers too Podcat!

Also, does anyone know what the evolution of number of aircraft per carrier vs year was? I think 30 is a good place to start at, but didn't carriers get rather large by the end of the war?

 

[Holdy]

Also he says you can assign more aircrafts to a carrier, than it can take (thus reducing efficiency). If you don't take the numbers of aircrafts carriers had irl as 100% efficiency, it might fit later

 

[novapaddy]

Please answer:

When carrier aircraft attack whatever, do they then return to the aircraft carrier?
Or do they then have to land at a land airbase?

 

[Pyramid_Head]

How game will fight a hindsight of carrier superiority?

 

[Enewald]

If I understood those pictures correctly, some ships require oil inputs to be built/maintained, but not all of them?

 

[Shade205]

If I understood those pictures correctly, some ships require oil inputs to be built/maintained, but not all of them?

No. All those ships cost oil to build. What you are seeing is Japan is in a shortage of oil so it cannot afford the oil price to build all of those ships

 

[smurphy99999999]

Please answer:

When carrier aircraft attack whatever, do they then return to the aircraft carrier?
Or do they then have to land at a land airbase?

Why would they return to land? That's the whole point of having carriers.

 

[novapaddy]

Why would they return to land? That's the whole point of having carriers.

EXACTLY!

If I remember correctly, in Hoi3, they took off from the carrier, did the attack, and had to land at a land airbase.

I expect in hoi4 this will be fixed. ??

 

[Umbaretz]

How game will fight a hindsight of carrier superiority?

With mod-enabled heavy rocket cruisers, of course.

 

[Holdy]

EXACTLY!

If I remember correctly, in Hoi3, they took off from the carrier, did the attack, and had to land at a land airbase.

I expect in hoi4 this will be fixed. ??

This did not happen in HoI3. Never.