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My main whish for a next springsharp is more cross correlance in the armour selection. That means if one wants to have inclined belt three things should appear:
A) The belt height should reduce accordingly - or the belt weight should increase for the same height
B) The deck area should increase and thus - in case an armour deck is selected to lay on the top of the main belt- the armour deck should become much heavier.
C) The space below water should reduce more.

One thing I would really like to see are contured belts.

Once engaging different numbers for forecastle length on the freeboard page, the respective value in armour weight for this deck should change accordingly. Otherwise people may trick the model.


Of course it could be very helpful if the program starts to sim three armour deck levels:
A) weather deck
B) high main armour deck with (Yamato) and without slopes (Iowa)
C) low main armour deck with (Bismarck) and without slopes (as a splinter deck as in Iowa)

Any change here should have important cross correlance effects on the barbette weight and the degree of metacentric stability.

An aspect I found of little consequence is turret thickness of the "other" areas (not barbette nor faces). This should be perhaps replaced with "roof" thickness, which is more important in most cases.

best regards,
delc