Manpower, no matter how small your country, has a minimum monthly increase of +100. Sailors have no such base increase, which makes certain starts incredibly difficult.
For instance, Hormuz, a one-province island nation, who need to avoid getting blockaded during wars and whose lifeblood should be sailors, get a single measly sailor per month. Building a single light ship or transport takes over four years, and actually fighting a naval battle is always a Pyrrhic victory because it takes decades for their navy to recover.
Obviously land-locked nations shouldn't be getting sailors automatically, so I'd like to propose something like the following:
base sailor recovery rate = 5 × (number of coastal provinces) / (total number of provinces)
Thus, if 100% of your provinces are coastal, it'll translate into an additional 5 sailors per month. No coastal provinces means no sailors, while having even a single one will get you a single sailor per month.
The 100 manpower base recovery rate allows you to build a single regiment every 10 months; somewhat similarly 5 sailors per month would allow you to build a light ship or transport every 10 months. Obviously this won't matter much to Spain or England, but it should help smaller, coastal nations who really need the sailors.
For instance, Hormuz, a one-province island nation, who need to avoid getting blockaded during wars and whose lifeblood should be sailors, get a single measly sailor per month. Building a single light ship or transport takes over four years, and actually fighting a naval battle is always a Pyrrhic victory because it takes decades for their navy to recover.
Obviously land-locked nations shouldn't be getting sailors automatically, so I'd like to propose something like the following:
base sailor recovery rate = 5 × (number of coastal provinces) / (total number of provinces)
Thus, if 100% of your provinces are coastal, it'll translate into an additional 5 sailors per month. No coastal provinces means no sailors, while having even a single one will get you a single sailor per month.
The 100 manpower base recovery rate allows you to build a single regiment every 10 months; somewhat similarly 5 sailors per month would allow you to build a light ship or transport every 10 months. Obviously this won't matter much to Spain or England, but it should help smaller, coastal nations who really need the sailors.
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