Let's play Rule The Waves 3 - German Empire - part 6 - 1895

[@azirus]

Common, it's been 5 years and still no war. It's not about overall tonnage but quality and experience. Also fuckton of torpedoes can change the course of war, specially against GB as their capital ships like to just explode (flash fire for the win).

[@Alfapiomega]

"Not about overall tonnage" I beg to differ :D However your comment filled its purpose, I just finished a recording session and a war broke out in November 1898. Wanna venture a guess on the sides? :))

[@azirus]

@@Alfapiomega nice, finally some action. If it's only like 2x your number in tonnage, it's fine if you have superior tech/strategy. You only need to destroy more, hehe.

[@Alfapiomega]

Few days later: "Watch me as I do this magic trick. By signing this agreement we lose the following colonies...."

[@azirus]

@@Alfapiomega that's a bad magic. Go learn some more ;)

[@dereinepeterpan5637]

Germany bought the Pacific islands you were talking about from Spain in 1899.

[@Alfapiomega]

Unfortunately the game doesn't follow any historically accurate scenarios, or at least I don't think so. It has intentions/tendentions to work historically, but the longer it runs, the more it tends to deviate and we can't count on it doing anything as it happened in the real world 🙂

[@JuanBautistaDumasOvejero]

👍👍

[@entropino9928]

What’s with the creepypasta reading background music 😂

[@Alfapiomega]

What creepypasta music? 😄 The game has no music of it's own so I created playlist of some of my favorite piano songs under CC, so I can use them without KZbin deleting me faster than you say: "But-but I thought...". For me piano is the least intrusive. But if you have suggestions, I am all ears.

[@entropino9928]

@@Alfapiomega Nah I like it keep doing what you are doing

[@adjsmith]

11:05 suggestion for the budget screen: would it be possible to add a trend line connecting the tops of the budget bars? 42:51 re: the Donau: I assume at some point you realized that 7 of your 10 eight-inch guns ended up on the port side of the ship...? XD Also, I don't know if it was intended, but you only had two FC positions. Earlier you were adamant about wanting three...

[@Alfapiomega]

Hey mate! Added the linear trend line, it will be present from episode ten on the graph :) Though I am not entirely sure if that is what you mean? Did you want a trend line (used to predict the future development) or a line chart? Either way I also added a primary and secondary grid which could help with the redability :) Regarding the Donau somebody already pointed that out so I went back and rechecked it - secondaries are always considered to be split by half (so no matter what the game shows on the simulation picture, it is alway exact half: 12 = 6/6, 14 = 7/7 etc. Thank god though because I completely missed that :) The FC positions are important, yes, but only when we actually gain a FC capability. I wanted to put three positions there so I won't forget about it when I install a fire control, but you can see it changes nothing as there is no FC (local only). I tend to double check this because it is always benefitial to have 3 (primary + 2 backups) so your ship can take extensive damage before it's FC is taken out and I had forgotten a couple of times. This way if I set it 3 in advance, when the FC is installed, I can only check the number is correct :)

[@adjsmith]

@Alfapiomega I guess my thought was, a line chart for the income superimposed over the triple bar charts you've been doing. I really like the 3x bar charts, because it makes it really easy to compare the relevant values to each other for each year - but it sacrifices the ability to see how the values are changing over time. If that makes sense? I dunno, don't over think it :D you keep making content and we'll keep watching it!

[@Alfapiomega]

@@adjsmith got it, a line chart! :) Trend line is something different so I wanted to verify :)

[@taemer7435]

When you changed secondary gun amount on the Donau, the guns were assymetrically placed. I don't think its purely cosmetic (correct me if I'm wrong) so you have one side with only 2 (or is it 3?) secondaries firing 😮

[@Alfapiomega]

Your comment gave me a mini heart attack because I completely missed that. But I went to the manual and reconfirmed I remember it correctly: "Secondary guns: are only recorded as to the total number. Note that they have a quality value, just like main guns. Secondary guns are assumed to be placed half on each side of the ship. Note that the graphic representation of the secondary guns is generalized."

[@taemer7435]

@@Alfapiomega Okay I'm relieved to know that for the future and for the Donau's sake XD.

[@Alfapiomega]

Same, really same 😄