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Board » General Discussion » Velocity made to course

Posted by Zembu Posts 41 Registered at 2008-12-15 20:58:27	2009-02-13 16:05:03 - Re: Velocity made to course
	Aaron, I agree - there are too many requests for things to make it easier - those who want to win will work on their own methods for getting best course - hasn't helped me much yet, but having fun trying
Posted by Adam Posts 5 Registered at 2009-01-11 16:55:10	2009-02-14 00:41:35 - Re: Velocity made to course
	Well there are people that are using weather routing software etc. so it wasn't about making the game easier
Posted by erratic Posts 5 Registered at 2008-10-15 19:35:40	2009-02-14 18:33:51 - Re: Velocity made to course
	I guess the difference is do you want SoL to be fun or a chore or put from the other perspective, simple or realistic (for some definition of realistic). We can be reasonably sure which one is stronger commercially. Personally, not being a professional navigator and route planner or experienced ocean race skipper I welcome any tools that give me information and if they're integrated into the clent even better. Perhaps for the hard-core there could be an 'ironman' button for each race where you get a basic straight predictor, a polar diagram (without current line and dot maybe) and weather. They can even get highlighted on the leaderboard if you like. Of course there's no way to check if they're using external software though and since the client data is avaliable for anyone who has programming ability, they could even be running their own client.
Posted by AGage Posts 411 Registered at 2008-12-27 10:31:57	2009-02-15 05:44:01 - Re: Velocity made to course
	a6km: You can always download Sailplanner yourself. While I will sometimes consult this software, I never rely on it or follow the exact course it recomends. Mostly I use it as a learning tool, by determining what I think is a good route, then afterwards consulting sailplanner to compare, then try to understand why it reccomends a different path than I came up with. It wont ever give you the best route for SOL though because the polars are slightly different between the two, and the weather resloution is also different. I help develop the client interface for the best online ocean racing sim there is... __/)/)_/)__

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