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Originally Posted by Asheshouse
Arranging 12 KGV's in harbour sounds a bit unrealistic. After all only five of the class were built. 
At Pearl Harbour battleship row had seven BB's.
At Taranto there were 6 BB's.
In May 41 the British Mediterranean Fleet had 4 BB's and a CV operating out of Alexandria.
Operation Pedestal - 2 BB's and 4 CV's
The greatest impact on FPS is due to AA fire, not the ship model, but this can be tuned down in the Mission Builder.
Using the existing KGV model as a guide for future work seems reasonable to me.
Ashe |
Fine... put 5 KGV's plus a dozen destroyers and support vessels
FPS drops significantly on even the best systems.
AA fire is a big hit but the models themselves bottleneck the graphics system as well. Obviously as a mission builder you design around these kinds of limitations but it's unhelpful if the limits go up too far as they become prohibitively difficult to build enjoyable experiences for a wide variety of players. The KGV is finely detailed but I don't think, with the current engine limitations, there should be any huge bump in detail level above and beyond.
This is also why, for example, I don't model entire front lines worth of fighting in any of my campaigns. I saw someone do it once and I remember the slideshow that I experienced as a result.