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Post by brygun on Nov 8, 2019 10:09:00 GMT -6
Request to add the look up table info button for the secondary battery that we have for the main guns. Code exists and there seems to be space in UI in the secondary battery area. Matter of convience for quickly bringing up gun data on two different sizes as well.
Really cool if we could have both main and secondary "gun data" pop ups on the screen at the same time.
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Post by dizzy on Nov 9, 2019 4:43:31 GMT -6
Really cool if we could have both main and secondary "gun data" pop ups on the screen at the same time. This. No second button. |
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Post by brygun on Nov 9, 2019 8:37:24 GMT -6
Really cool if we could have both main and secondary "gun data" pop ups on the screen at the same time. This. No second button. Hmm Well that would work to. The existing "gun data" button could open up three (not just two) columns with the stats for current main, secondary and tertiary battery selection. That would work too. Even better. We could cue up say 16", 15", 14" at the same time to debate on what to put in the main battery then change the 2nd and 3rd batteries to their normal ~6" and ~4". |
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Post by rdfox on Nov 11, 2019 9:50:28 GMT -6
If we're looking at that, how about we just change the "gun data" button to allow us to select any gun our nation has without altering the one actually put on the ship? This would make it much easier to design realistic cruisers (and battlecruisers!), since most of them, historically, were armored against guns smaller than those they carried, unlike battleships.
For example, building a cruiser in 1927 under Washington Treaty requirements, I might know that it's not feasible to give it 8" guns and armor it against the same; I might, though, want to check whether it would be feasible to give it 8" guns and armor it against 6" fire, or vice-versa, and see which one I can get a better balance out of within the treaty limits. Alternatively, building a battlecruiser, I might want to design it to be impervious to 8" gunfire but carry 16" guns (as one proposal for the Iowas had), and might want to examine the penetration data for the 8" gun without temporarily changing to actually equipping them (and then possibly forgetting to change it back before hitting "save"). Another alternative might be a case where I have 14" +1 guns and 16" -1 guns, and want to see which one would have better armor penetration so that I can protect against the bigger threat.
I admit, this isn't really a vital issue, but if you're looking at reworking the Gun Data button, it might be simpler to just let us select which caliber you're looking at rather than using multiple columns.
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