Captain's log

[morgan terror]

next time i'll just use sail to straight away. the problem with realistic sailing is that at least half the time the place you want to go is upwind. it's damn annoying! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="modding.gif" /> especially when you get the same headwind 5 times in a row. what's the chance of that happening?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

And you have to tack to get there and the DirectSail occurs when on the wrong tack? AGH! That must be REALLY annoying. The final position where you end up depends only on your course at the moment of the DirectSail update and the distance from the island, not your actual position relative to the island. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_confused.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="icon_confused.gif" />

 

[morgan terror]

well, a single tack often takes a whole hour. every. single. TIME! tacking is in fact pretty reduntant. you often gain more by just waiting. and then you discover it would have been better if you tacked because the wind stayed the same. i'd really like to know what that button was that prevented weather updates so you could capture a surrendered ship before it dissapeared because you took too long.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

It's not the weather updates that make the ship disappear; it's the DirectSail updates that occur just slightly later. You can turn them off with the 0 button (NOT the numpad one). And while we're at it: 9 dumps a mine in the water. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dev.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":d:" border="0" alt="dev.gif" />

 

[morgan terror]

good to know. i forgot about the mines. maybe i'll use that later. are you sure that that's in build 13 update 3 as well? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_confused.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="icon_confused.gif" /> i'm pretty sure it was only added until b14 a6.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

It's in the DirectSail mod, which I KNOW you are using. But indeed it is NOT in Build 13 Update 3. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="no.gif" />

 

[Cylon13]

Say Pieter - How the HELL can I make you "LOL!"? Eh? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Oh; I laugh quite a lot. If I find something funny, that is... <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/user_comment.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="user_comment.gif" />

 

[morgan terror]

ouch. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />

well gotta drop some mines then i guess. should be handy when i get caught in a sticky situation again, like in me wee little gunboat when i met those pirates.