Relax requirements for naval hegemony

[Uskayaw]

Currently claiming naval hegemony requires having 250 heavy ships. Unlike the requirements for other two hegemonies, this is impractical: you rarely need more than 2 combat widths worth of heavy ships for combat (20-60, depending on tech), and the only mission they can do outside war is pirate hunting. It's usually more practical to build light ships for trade and piracy.

AI understands this, so if you watch some timelapses, you will see that naval hegemony never gets claimed by AI.

Suggestion: replace 250 heavy ships requirement with just 500 ships. And give 1 year grace period before starting to lose this hegemony power, because unlike troops and economy, ships take long time to build.

 

[heroes133]

I like the idea of making it plain number of ships, not just heavy ships, 500 sound good.

 

[Bandua_of_Gallaecia]

I mean, it's the easiest hegemony to achieve.

 

[heroes133]

I mean, it's the easiest hegemony to achieve.

In my games Economic hegemony is always the one i'm getting first, propably bcs it comes naturally.
Just like OP said, you don't need 250 heavies in a single player game.

I think it would be much better if the total ammount of ships was considered.

Example u got 100 heavys, 100 gallys, 200 light and 300 transports.

700 ships in total, no AI nation can compete, why would't you be able to claim Naval Hegemon..