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Board » General Discussion » Game Feature Suggestions

Posted by AGage Posts 411 Registered at 2008-12-27 10:31:57	2009-03-16 04:03:57 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	As I read it Bruce, there would still be a designated finish, but also a designated latest start time, so if you start and still dont finish in time, bad luck... But if you cant reasonably expect to finish the race in time, then it wont even let you start.... I help develop the client interface for the best online ocean racing sim there is... __/)/)_/)__
Posted by Laser sailor at Pupuke Posts 15 Registered at 2008-09-15 02:36:19	2009-03-16 04:09:03 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	Agreed. Good idea.
Posted by ita10267 Posts 88 Registered at 2008-12-29 10:33:09	2009-03-16 09:43:04 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	A button to erase all the delayed commands (DC) at once; or the possibility to select more than one DC in order to delete a group of them. That would be great. By the way everything else is great Ciao
Posted by ESEA Posts 20 Registered at 2008-01-18 11:31:37	2009-04-15 10:56:54 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	The divider/measure tool works a bit funky as it lays down a route but when clicking on the tool again the route disappears. This is not conducive to planning ones strategy easily. It would be better if the route you just placed down would stay there until you double clicked the tool or single clicked to add to the existing route set down or being able to set a second route to compare with the first. By the way welcome back all and thanks to the team for bringing back our SOL Take it "ESEA" go sailing
Posted by Flavio Massari Posts 4 Registered at 2009-04-13 20:36:10	2009-04-19 04:31:05 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	I would suggest an improvement on the weather forecast slider, some bigger marks that show the six hours forecast, and maybe some little marks that show each one hour. good sailing, i like it
Posted by jakob Posts 364 Registered at 2007-09-04 10:05:30	2009-04-19 05:17:24 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	Thanks, we will consider your request. ...one of the guys behind the game...
Posted by westerly Posts 1 Registered at 2008-12-12 05:42:49	2009-04-22 09:33:32 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	Small thing but is there a home button on the race page? Sometimes I want to go back to the main page without a million clicks. Great game thanks
Posted by jakob Posts 364 Registered at 2007-09-04 10:05:30	2009-04-22 10:14:47 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	In most browsers you can cmd-click (or similar) on a left-arrow to open previous page in a new window. Try if that works ...one of the guys behind the game...
Posted by NZL_PaulR Posts 311 Registered at 2008-07-22 12:21:30	2009-04-26 06:03:24 - Re: LEADERBOARD Game Feature Suggestions
	Once upon a time . . . , (all the good stories start this way), SOL had about 200 yachts in races and therefore being on Page 1 in the top 50 meant something, the top 25% of the 4 pages. Now with 1100+ yachts, the leaderboard has 22+ pages, being on the top 25% covers many pages. I would like to suggest an alternative. Perhaps having the Top 5% on one page, then 5 to 10% on the next page and so on with perhaps those in the last 50% of the fleet be on the last page. (See next Post as well.) If it breaks, it's not strong enough!
Posted by NZL_PaulR Posts 311 Registered at 2008-07-22 12:21:30	2009-04-26 06:08:59 - Re: Game Feature Suggestions
	With 1100+ yachts, many start late or do not start at all. Perhaps we need to have a 2nd division that will allow for other sailors to start 24 hours later (for long races like VOR leg 6 etc) or for shorter races, start 4 or 6 hours later. This would allow for time zones around the world and different peoples availability when not working, travelling, sleeping or eating etc. (Why have I left out family time? LOL) Perhaps some races could have 2 or 3 division starts and allow finishers in previous divisions to have another attempt. If it breaks, it's not strong enough!

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