OOC This crisis is more modpost than crisis. We are responding to the fact that ships are currently too cheap. Despite painstaking effort by moderators to find out the most realistic pricing per ship, the issue right now is that the fleets that players can afford to raise are too big, leading to naval battles that are comically large and make naval combat feel less impactful.
There are a number of solutions to this other than changing the price that we will explore for next season. However, until then we only have a band-aid of sorts to apply. From Tuesday February 1st (Jan/Feb 1512), we are doubling all costs related to shipbuilding: construction, maintenance, deployment and repairs. You have until then to disband portions of your fleet if you would not be able to afford that change.
The following are ingame reasons you can use to explain this change, if you wish to incorporate it into your roleplay.
###The Shipbuilding Bust
The past decades had been bloody on the Mediterranean. Many large confrontations between the rapidly developing ambitious states led to growing and growing numbers of galleys being taken by Poseidon to the bottom of the sea. It was, for all intents and purposes, an unsustainable arms race. However, the limiting factor would not be victory by one faith over the other, or by states lacking resolve falling to those willing to bleed harder, bleed more. No, the reason this time was, as reductively put as possible, simply one of resources and money.
The Italian forests, the woodlands of Dalmatia and the tree-lined hills of Lebanon have been plucked empty. Even in England lumber is growing more difficult to procure. Prices ever rise as the usual sources for good shipbuilding lumber are running dry and timber needs to be sourced from farther and farther away. Shipbuilding is a business and it is more competitive than ever. Prices soar as the wealthiest merchant houses outbid each other for access to new sources of lumber and new ships to join their mercantile fleets.
Even larger is a human shortage. A good warship requires oarsmen, sailors, navigators, and fighters too: people who can keep steady in a fight while the only thing between them and certain death is a thin wooden vessel their enemy is trying the hardest to capture, or worse, destroy. Skilled men who can keep steady in a storm or stay disciplined in a fleet's formation. At the current rate, their losses are greater than training and experience can del
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Just look at those single gun turrets. I didn't know you could place them like that.
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Building ships in Lisbon and in Cochin.
