First to commission BB

[mrchuck]

BY some miracle I've managed to get a BB into service before anyone else (i.e.Britain)

To my surprise, no announcement or prestige bonus. I would have thought it would be at least +2

Intentional? Or an oversight?

[EwaldvonKleist]

Yes, the player doesn't get the announcement the AI gets either. Would be a fun feature if the ship type "Dreadnought" ingame is named after the first Dreadnought class ship launched.

[mrchuck]

I would suggest that there should be an increase in tension as well as prestige, if the player does this before any AI faction,

At a stroke, you have made Bs obsolete. Chances are everyone else will be annoyed to say the least...

[EvanJones]

The current version tells you who built the biggest of each class. It also puts your quality at risk when hopping over 120% of what's in play (but do it anyway).

At a stroke, you have made Bs obsolete.

Unfortunately (or not) BS will never be obsolete.

I was hoping that David Hackett-Fischer's "Historical Fallacies" (1970), establishing the Historical Method, would have partially turned the trick, but no soap, not even in academia . . .