Ship Modernizing?

As the war progressed, ships were upgraded, old weapons were removed or increased, and new weapons were added. As Enigma progresses, many players will gain powerful ships. And, a few skillful players will keep their ships for a while. Those who manage to keep their vessels afloat, can do two things...aquire a new ship, or upgrade the existing one. They could decide which weapons should go, mabey redesign their superstructure and layout a little bit, and add new weapons and technologies (all within a reasonable range to keep things fair). Of course you can't put 15 inch guns on a destroyer...but you could upgrade or rearange the layout of smaller guns on your ships (AA guns in particular), and put them in places that are more exposed to aircraft. enigma!:

I'm having a thought here... When was sonar tracking added to torps and ships/subs equipped with counter measures. Granted acurate traking torps would take the fun out of dogging them but might be interesting when sub vs.sub. Cat and mouse game, whoever moves gets shot at. whoever shoots gives away their position. Find me before I find you

I must admit being able to track torps would make it easier on the one firing sometimes. When doing long range attacks I could see if I will miss so I can fire again or (if my torp was running straight) I could not fire and save my ammo. Perhaps this could be the benefit of gaining ranks. Giving people differant awards will encourage people to do missions or sink targets as well as giving them something to work for. Although I dread the idea of another game where a characters level determines if he/she wins a fight, certain "prizes" should be available to distinguished captains. (20,000 more tons for torpedo tracking sonar or even a new deck gun)

Of course you can't put 15 inch guns on a destroyer...

You could make the gunnery crew reach elite status, decreasing time between shots and improving accuracy.

Can i just point out that captains were not responsible for up grading their ships, it was up to the various powers in each nation, therefore there should be no choice of up grades you could get some assigned if A) a technology becomes obselete and you return to a naval dockyard for a refit, or be if you are assigned a more uptodate ship but this should be based upon how good you are and how many ships your navy has available.

However that said I am of the opinion that the march of technology will be very slow for the RNE as they will have very limited resources and therefore have to relay on older ships and upgrade where they can. Where as the main arms race will be between the US & Germany who both have the resources.

Of course you can't put 15 inch guns on a destroyer...

You could make the gunnery crew reach elite status, decreasing time between shots and improving accuracy.

Funnily enough, TAG have already thought of that - your crew will gain experience, improving accuracy.

/bux

Thats good,

very good i tire of seeing gunners missing when the ship your firing on is less then 100m away

Could be extended to the amount of time it takes submarines to prepare for dive as well as the interval surface ships drop depth charges. (Have to make it even )