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Board » Technical Support » Warning for miss entered data Please

Posted by ulf Posts 3 Registered at 2008-08-14 14:17:57	2009-02-13 09:29:39 - Re: Warning for miss entered data Please
	Slightly off topic here but I encountered a funny glitch the other day whan I set a new course. I was about to tack, from 36 deg. TWA to -36 deg. TWA. I knew this in advance and set the new figure in the approproate box and made sure the correct radio button was enabled. However, I was waiting for the right moment to tack and so wandered off to the chat, the list of boats, steering, etc. Back and forth several times. When the right time came I once again checked the control panel - it was correctly filled in from before. I made my tack. To my surprise the new TWA became -33.5 deg not -36 as I had set! Fortunately I saw this immedately and could correct so it was no issue really. But noe I wonder if there could be a bug that makes the control panel "forget" the radio button if the user "wanders off" like I did? Having said this i again want to point out that I just love the job you all do developing the game and still think it's the best I've seen! /Ulf on "Spiff", NF 293
Posted by AGage Posts 411 Registered at 2008-12-27 10:31:57	2009-02-13 13:04:54 - Re: Warning for miss entered data Please
	I have done exactly as you said... set the - of my current TWA for a tack in a few minutes time... gone to other tabs and come back... clicked 'Send Command' without any problems ESEA: a) sorry I thought you were one of the few that went between mainland and oland... Again the only workable solution really (to cover all the things you said) is to make sure you enter the right angle I help develop the client interface for the best online ocean racing sim there is... __/)/)_/)__
Posted by Zembu Posts 41 Registered at 2008-12-15 20:58:27	2009-02-13 15:48:33 - Re: Warning for miss entered data Please
	ESEA I'm really surprised that you would make such an issue out of your typing mistake - requesting alterations to accommodate your possible future carelessness seems just too much.
Posted by ESEA Posts 20 Registered at 2008-01-18 11:31:37	2009-02-13 16:00:47 - Re: Warning for miss entered data Please
	Weather it gets implemented or not is no big deal to me. It is just a annoying at the time, in the end this is a just a game. As a designer I believe if you have ideas that could benefit others put it out there. So if Kalle and co are twiddling their thumbs doing nothing it could be something to keep them out of trouble --- Last Edited by ESEA at 2009-02-13 16:03:58 --- Take it "ESEA" go sailing
Posted by NZL_PaulR Posts 311 Registered at 2008-07-22 12:21:30	2009-02-13 20:56:24 - Re: Warning for miss entered data Please
	There errors we have all made and will continue to make . . . . It's all part of the fun and the chances of racing IMHO. Bad steering => accidental round ups and sudden tacks DO HAPPEN in REAL yacht racing so why not allow them here. Some of the earlier comments about setting an angle, wandering off to chat or making coffee, refilling rums etc all happen. I suspect that you may have set a new TWA correctly numerically BUT you left the radio button on CC; hence when you came back and tacked, you went to the "NEW CC" that the previously carefully calculated TWA equated to. Unfortunately, or in some cases fortunately, the wind had altered and although you are now on the "NEW CC" the TWA is now different. As for safeguards and extra warnings, I would be annoyed to have those as often near headlands one tries to send the command at the right instance so that with the command timing delays etc, the course change happens just right. There could be an arguement to have two additional options of "TACK NOW" and "GYBE NOW" but then these crash tacks and gybes will damage your boat more than doing a series of gentle course alterations so that you can reduce speed, safely tack or gybe and then increase speed which then keeps your performance % higher, so you are sailing faster sooner. So QUALITY steering tacking and gybing are all better than CRASH tacks or GBYES, just the same as in real life!! See how real SOL can be. So the message is PRACTICE. After all that is another FEATURE of SOL sailing. What?? You don't bother practicing??? I rest my case! If it breaks, it's not strong enough!

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