Suggestions for Fleet Organisation enhancements

[mrchuck]

Yet another list...

Having now played with Fleet Organisation a fair bit, I think it could definitely be improved. I like setting up divisions and it definitely does help in battles, in that you're less likely to have a configured division slowed down by an old clunker that got thrown in randomly.

Can this be displayed on a per-Area basis as well? It is typical in real fleets for the regional commands to be segregated even though the current setup gives you the overview. It'd be good to have both, with an option to break the overview by region. The FO tab displays the location of the division, but doesn't sort by it which would be easier to read.

I would like to be able to view Atlantic Fleet, Baltic Fleet, Med Fleet and so on separately.

Make FS a 'division' too to make them easier to spot and manage especially if there are lots (e.g. GB). Provide an option to rotate ships on FS back to a home area with a right click, and to remove from division and add to FS if you need to keep up the tonnage. Managing ships on FS atm is a pain of varying sizes depending on who you're playing as.

When setting division roles, it'd be really good if the editor could remember what was last set if all you want is to change is e.g. 'Support' to 'Screen' and leave the assignment the same. Or if you want to keep the role and just change the parent division.

Highlight DD divisions which are less than 5 ships to make it quicker to assign reinforcements.

Provide an option to sort divisions by ship type. This can be more or less achieved with 'Ships in Service' except that SiS shows you non-divisional ships like KEs and AVs which clutters things. FO does not seem to sort when you click on a column.

Once I have steam turbines, I generally rebuild my CAs and a lot of the time they end up as BCs in the 1900-1915 period due to very heavy primary guns. However they do not get removed from CA divisions automatically. Same goes for rebuilding old destroyers to KEs. Kind of annoying to have to go back and fix this by hand. Some smarts here would be nice.

I have to say I found the old division editor more readable but I can't put my finger on how exactly.

[MaximKI]

Thanks for the feedback! We'll consider some of these for future improvements.