Solved to change vessel's speed in Iron Man Setting.

[Mograine]

I like the idea of Iron Man setting, to sail and play the game close to realism! But alas, I have a problem with my Big Fella of a ship, it goes 1-2 knots against a wind (angled, of course), and sailing from island to island from S to N (when the wind in January mostly SE) as merchant is pain in the ass even with x20 speed.

Is there a way to make speed more like Arcade Setting (I think it's x3 time faster) while the rest to stay Iron Man?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

You could switch the game to Arcade, then choose which realism elements you do want at the top of PROGRAM\InternalSettings.h .

 

[Mograine]

Yeah, this would work, only that now I can sail against the wind, and I don't see there is an option to change that...

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Do you want to keep the Realistic Game Mode sailing model then, but faster?
Where there is a will, there is a way; but I can't look up the relevant code at the moment.

 

[Mograine]

I want everything to be realistic except speed of the vessel. I want speed to be x2 just like Arcade but without Sailing Against the Wind Feature.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I want everything to be realistic except speed of the vessel. I want speed to be x2 just like Arcade but without Sailing Against the Wind Feature.

Your question suddenly started ringing a bell and I found we discussed something very similar before:
Need Help - Several minor bugs + questions

Look for my posts about "TurnRate" there. That'll lead you to the code you need to tweak.

 

[Mograine]

So, before I fuck something up I should change values in Ships_init.c to each nation category? Screenshot

 

[Pieter Boelen]

So, before I fuck something up I should change values in Ships_init.c to each nation category? Screenshot

Before you do that, I'd suggest in PROGRAM\SEA_AI\AIShip.c find:

// Apply arcade mode
// NK switch to using defines -->
    if (iRealismMode == 0)
    {
        arCharShip.MaxSpeedZ = ARCADE_MULT_SPEED * stf(arCharShip.MaxSpeedZ);
        arCharShip.MaxSpeedY =    ARCADE_MULT_TURN* stf(arCharShip.MaxSpeedY);
    }
// NK <--

Replace with:

        arCharShip.MaxSpeedZ = ARCADE_MULT_SPEED * stf(arCharShip.MaxSpeedZ);
        arCharShip.MaxSpeedY =    ARCADE_MULT_TURN* stf(arCharShip.MaxSpeedY);

That way, the Arcade speed and turn rate multiplier are ALWAYS applied; and not just in Arcade Game Mode.

With a bit of luck, that'll do what you want without you having to make a lot of changes.

 

[Mograine]

Thank you!