Turning into a Navy.

[ezras]

I would like to suggest that when an army turns into a navy the dialogue box for us to choose which type of navy automatically is prompted. Currently you must stop exactly on the actual dock. This is frustrating at times to say the least as a path almost always extends beyond the dock. Shouldn't we be forced with this choice no matter where the path lands us?

[KGB]

Please no.

95% of the time I am taking the default boat because I don't want to spend any gold and I'd hate to have to click away on a pop up I don't want/need. Those few times I am going to upgrade I make sure to stop on the dock and upgrade.

Now, if it was an optional dialog that I could check/uncheck if I didn't want this unless I stopped on a dock then I'd be OK with it popping up all the time.

KGB

[SnotlinG]

There are a few problems with changing the shiptype after passing the dock:

1. The game can´t be sure you really have passed a dock this turn. Maybe you are in the middle of the sea and wants to change your shiptype. No (easy) way for the game to control you have the right to change into a new shiptype

2. Changing into a new shiptype at the dock normally means your movecosts change as well, so maybe you would not reach the tile you are now standing on (with your new ship) if your shiptype had been changed at the dock.

I guess we can work around all this by allowing a ship to change shiptype anywhere, but thats not as much fun, and also not very logical to me

[magian]

I think the current ship system works pretty well. Like KGB, I would prefer to not have the window pop up every time I pass a dock.

My only concern is that new players might not be aware that stopping at a dock provides additional options.

[SnotlinG]

In beta5, there will be an option for enabling/disabling the ship-popup

[ezras]

Yeah, the pop-up would be annoying and the stop on the dock upgrade would work.

As for newbies, perhaps it can be a hint/tutorial box that pops up during the first game. I doubt many people jumping into the game will realize this is an option at first.

But the fewer pop ups the better, I will just have to remember this feature moving forward.