Add positive events to ships after refit, or lessen negative speed events.

[christian]

this suggestion is to increase the likelyhood of the +1 knot event, and most importantly.

add a +1 or even +2 knot event, for building ships with extra spare tonnage during refit
and make the -1 knot event during refit dependent on spare tonnage/topside weight.

the reasoning behind this
Currently as of 0,42 beta, there are several ways for ships to get negative speed events, these are the following


Unlucky with class being slower than designed (-1 knot)
 
Machinery aging (up to -2 knots)

Unlucky with refit being slower due to additions (-1 knot, per event, unknown if events can stack)

Speed getting even worse after being unlucky from speed enthusiast trait (which is hidden)


This means, that designing a 20 knot battleship, could reasonably see it drop to 16 knots, or even 15 knots. 
and if the refit stacks, and say you refitted the battleships 2 times, and got 2 negative speed events

your battleship could be doing 14 knots, with 3 events it could be doing 13


After refitting 12 pre dreadnoughts in my new game, in 1903 with new firecontrol, 2 out of the 12 ships lost a knot of speed, so the chance does not seem small
additionally a further two lost a knot of speed as i refitted 4 new ships of a new class of pre dreadnoughts that entered service, with a third loosing a knot of speed to a hidden speed enthusiast trait event.




Additionally the looses a knot of speed during refit event, can happen even with extremely simple refits, in this case i was refitting a ship from +6 extra tons spare, to +20 tons spare, by adding a firecontrol director, and removing 10 rounds of secondary ammo per gun.
this somehow led to me loosing a knot of speed, going from my 17 knots (designed 18 knots lost 1 knot due to slower than designed event on construction) + degraded machinery by 1 knot, and plus the refit knot loss event

means i now have 3 ships that were designed for 18 knots, doing 15 knots, two of these will soon degrade to 14 knots, and eventually down to 13 knots for the ship which got the speed enthusiast event.

attached are the ships as designed and as refitted.

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[christian]

here are my 4 ships of the class
it is 1907 as of this moment, which means 15 years have passed since they were commisioned.

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