I think it also goes back to visuals as far as the Tech tree goes.
I mean think about it, if you start with first rates what would you upgrade to? First rate with a few more guns? That may be exciting as a historical but the average player (not a historian) would not enjoy that. They'd rather start with small little frigate navies and then later on when the finally get the ship of line have alot ooohing and aahhing about how much different it looks.
As for uniforms, i'm sure they will mod it, but as it is there are a few who can barely run game as is, i'm sure they didn't want to increase the graphics requirements anymore (if that would have)
It also could have just been a time thing, every company has to make cuts, and maybe uniforms were one of those, since it's not part of gameplay (which still needs a little to alot of tweaking depending on who you listen to)![]()
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