Ships Sinking

[krasny]

In a real time game it is very odd that there isn't an option for a fleet to head to the nearest port when they reach 50% attrittion.

The number of ships I have lost in a busy war to me forgetting to check them every 2 minutes is greater than ships lost due to enemy action.

Please include an option (a check box in the unit window or something to retire at 50%).

 

[Azugal]

Actually, what would be cool is changing the colour of the text in the army roster for any troops or ships with less than, say, 50% strength.

Above 50% = white
50-30% = orange
below 30% = red

Or something similar anyway...

 

[unmerged(84406)]

I don't think it should be an option - I think it should be unconditional.
Additionally either the AIs' ships should suffer attrition, or the palyer's shouldn't.

 

[cwg9]

I like Azugal's idea.

Or it shouldn't be too hard to script a pop up, along the lines of "Ships in your fleet are below 30% strength, would you like to return them to the nearest port? Yes or No."

Or they could implement the new patrol feature from In Nomine, from what I gather you can use this to have ships go out to blockade, return to port to repair, and then back again.

 

[krasny]

New patrol feature?

That was in EU2.

But yeah the patrol is a nice idea, but a 'return to port when knackered' checkbox is probably easier to implement.

 

[Battlecry]

We'll have to wait for Paradox to script things like these. There's no applicable triggers for us to do it ourselves.

 

[Mustard]

Are you suggesting when any ship is below X% or when the average of all the ships in a fleet is below X%? The former would be a royal pain because you'd get it after almost every single naval battle, I could see where the latter might be useful (you might lose a couple ships while sailing back to port, but at least it wouldn't be the entire fleet).

 

[L'Afrique]

New patrol feature?

That was in EU2.

But yeah the patrol is a nice idea, but a 'return to port when knackered' checkbox is probably easier to implement.

No, it wasn't. The only thing equivalent to it are the complex naval missions from the HoI series.

 

[krasny]

EU2 had a check box that would cause the fleet to loop it's route.

 

[whosthebestcop]

Actually, what would be cool is changing the colour of the text in the army roster for any troops or ships with less than, say, 50% strength.

Above 50% = white
50-30% = orange
below 30% = red

Or something similar anyway...

That is an awesome idea.

 

[unmerged(85598)]

This would be ridiculously useful.

(And would let me blockade something NOT next to an occupied island ^_^ )

 

[Hajji]

What about a home port feature? that they could report back too..
But then again, without all the management what is there to do? I find that I lose most of my fleet when I set the speed to superfast while waiting on an army battle, and when the battle is done, (speed slowed down), I find the Navy in shambles....

 

[Azugal]

I can see issues with auto management. Like if you're sending your fleet halfway around the world. And they get 3/4 of the way there, and decide to run back home because they drop below 50%. I guess it would have to be programmed carefully to take a variety of situations into account.

I guess that's what I like the idea of just a visual warning. I don't think the game should be idiot proof, we should be allowed to accidentally destroy our fleets through our own incompetence. I just think that some kind of visual warning, like coloured text in the army roster, might be nice.