WIP Officer System Modifications

[Pieter Boelen]

20 minutes later: It seems to be fixed. The only oddity is that when I got on my ship and started tacking out of the harbor I could hit "R" and get fast time, but then it would immediately fall back to normal time.

See this post and the following ones: http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/...ng-interface-screens.21352/page-2#post-467668
That must be what happened to you too. Knowing that, do you think anything would need to be done about it?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Aye, that's what it is. I tested this new behavior and it looks like it hits at approx. 45 degrees from the wind. With the wind coming from about 45 degrees the ship dropped out of fast time about the time it was pointing due North or 0 degrees.

That is pretty close to the limit for most ships so it shouldn't cause too much trouble.
It bothers me because:
1. I often sail ships that can go much deeper into the wind than that.
2. I am most likely to use fast time when fighting the constant head winds. I often spend a day or more just sitting there waiting for the winds to change before I can sail on. Doing that in straight time would be tedious.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The "dropping out of time compression" is linked with the "sails fluttering" sound. So it will only ever happen if the wind is from straight ahead.
As I said, it is not intentional, but a side-effect of the way I coded it. It'd be easy enough to remove that "slow down" altogether again.
Unfortunately I haven't thought of a way to fix it properly yet though.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

This is now included in http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/build-14-beta-3-progress.20686/page-86#post-468003