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JB


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2014-04-07 11:56:44 - Stealth boats.
During the last Mount Gay Rum 40th Gosford to Lord Howe Island Yacht Race 2014 as psail was closing to the final, some tactical maneuvers had to be done, namely, covering one of the surrounding boats (some were less than 2 miles away).
To perform that, the minimal is to know their positions and estimated directions.

But, how can you do that in a proper way if the boat as a color that is totally stealth?
Sail Fair.
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2014-04-08 20:33:09 - Re: Stealth boats.
I don't think there is a good way to do that.

I think Aaron was working on this. I added it to the ideas for sol development list, so we wont forget.

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2014-04-08 21:09:03 - Re: Stealth boats.
I would suggest that the best way to deal with the problem of invisible boats is to change them all (except one's own boat) to the same colour, perhaps black, which would be chosen specifically for it's visibility on both the daytime and the nighttime screen. This should not be hard to do as it would involve only DELETING that part of the program that chooses the colour to be assigned to each different boat.
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
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2014-04-09 10:28:44 - Re: Stealth boats.
Viva Rod and Kroppyer.

And thank you for your comments/replies.

My suggestion for solving this “problema” is the following one:

1 - Depurate the “stealth” colors from being shown and the color used for the real racing boats;
1 - From the remaining colors, use only five to eight different colors, depending on the total number of boats registered for the race.
2 - The colors are applied to the boats in classes of rankings in the leaderboard, i.e., the first 20- 40 boats have color red, the following 20-40 have a lighter color, and so on.

With this boat color system (“clouds” of rankings) you can also quickly understand the relative boats positions.
Sail Fair.

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