Starting Nation economic strength

[Tanthalas]

Don't see any problem with that personaly, Personaly I dont go to the effort of figuring it out but then again I usualy try not to have very many late laydown ships.  Generaly I just come up with a few ship types and build my fleet around them with laydown dates from 1895-1898 (although I do like to build 1 realy capable capital ship in 1899)

Tan would be correct in handling startup ships anything layed down pre-start can be considered finished on Turn1. However, if this gets excessively abused with very large ships action will be taken and plans and rules will need to be changed.

My plan for them, such as it was, was to pay for them up-front, out of the pre-start money, but complete them on schedule, so if I built them or something similar they would NOT be available right away, they'd still be under construction.

[snip]

Tan would be correct in handling startup ships anything layed down pre-start can be considered finished on Turn1. However, if this gets excessively abused with very large ships action will be taken and plans and rules will need to be changed.

My plan for them, such as it was, was to pay for them up-front, out of the pre-start money, but complete them on schedule, so if I built them or something similar they would NOT be available right away, they'd still be under construction.

If you want to do the bookkeeping on that then go right ahead

[KWorld]

Tan would be correct in handling startup ships anything layed down pre-start can be considered finished on Turn1. However, if this gets excessively abused with very large ships action will be taken and plans and rules will need to be changed.

My plan for them, such as it was, was to pay for them up-front, out of the pre-start money, but complete them on schedule, so if I built them or something similar they would NOT be available right away, they'd still be under construction.

If you want to do the bookkeeping on that then go right ahead

Roger that.

[Delta Force]

Would it be possible for Russia to get a BP boost of no more than 3 BP? The need for naval facilities in the Baltic, Black Sea, and Pacific means I'll need a lot more naval facilities than nations with similar industrial bases. Here is what it is looking like right now:

Caspian Bases:
Astrakhan (type 0)

Black Sea Bases:
Novorossiysk (type 0)
Odessa (type 1)
Nikolayev (type 1)
Sevastopol (type 3)

Northern Fleet Bases:
Severodvinsk (type 1)

Baltic Bases:
Hanko (type 0)
Krepost Sveaborg (type 0)
Turku (shipyard, type 0)
Riga (type 0)
Liepāja (type 3)
Kronstadt (type 5)

Pacific Bases:
Port Arthur (type 2)
Vladivostok (type 3)

Ports
Type 0 ($05, 0.5BP): 6
Type 1 ($15, 2.0BP): 3
Type 2 ($30, 3.0BP): 1
Type 3 ($45, 4.0BP): 3
Type 4 ($60, 5.0BP): 0
Type 5 ($80, 6.0BP): 1

[snip]

No, these values have been fixed for some time. You can always build less warships in the starup period to allow for more infrastructure.

[Tanthalas]

as Snip points out you can always build fewer ships for more ports/docks/slips... the truth is honestly we would all like a few more BP (well atleast all of us outside the big 4) thats just the nature of the sim.  No matter how much you had you would always just need 1 or 2 more to be perfect.  I was stuck siming a minor portion of the Italian fleet of OTL, and the ports honestly I barley scrached the ones I should have had.  Noone accept the super powers is going to be perfect at startup, like I said thats just the nature of things.

[Darman]

Honestly i think if we made any adjustments it would be to subtract some cash income from the exporting powers.