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ybw_Kingfisher


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2009-06-15 05:25:30 - I'm through
Dear editor,

Last night I sat up untill 0200 to make sure all was fine. This morning I woke up at 0630 to check up on my positions.
At 0200 I had programmed three future course changes: at +0125, at +0225 and at +0645.
Guess what, the +0125 was never executed, so at 0630 I found myself parked on a headland.
This morning at 1100, I found that the course changes I implemented at 0600 were not correctly applied and I find myself again against the land.
Now some have told me that it could be due to the weather file changing. If that is the case, this is a game of chance, not a game of navigation skills.
This is now the third race in which the autopilot has seriously let me down.

So to make it clear: untill waypoints are implemented in the user interface, I will not be playing SOL anymore. Please retire my boat from the Leg 9 race.
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2009-06-15 06:16:43 - Re: I'm through
Hi. The weather is changed as soon as we get hold of new data, thats the backbone of the game. Sad to hear you do not like that. You are welcome back any day if you like.
...one of the guys behind the game...
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2009-06-15 06:39:05 - Re: I'm through
But just give people the possibility to put in a set of waypoints with a fixed route. It cant be that difficult? And it will still leave a competitive advantage to those that want to sail according to wind angle.
Again, the third time in a row I switch on the computer in the office and find 3 days of carefull navigating down the drain? Do you expect us to sit watches for three days. It wears thin after two races, I can assure you. Some even have a system where they hand over boats to players in other time zones (I'm in UTC+6h BTW, so I do the morning shifts).

Again, the time delay system cannot be relied on on in-shore passages so why even bother. In this last race, I was even extra carefull, with a 30 min margin, not even caring about grazing the headland, I just wanted to avoid it and I *still* ended up on the shore, as did many other people.

I'm of to play more predictable games like tossing a few coins or playing blackjack. You can't turn navigation into a casino.
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2009-06-15 09:08:39 - Re: I'm through
True fact! Navigation is quite an other thing. Black Jack is a game of some fluke/chance - navigation is NOT!
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2009-06-15 09:10:53 - Re: I'm through
Hi boyz!! Navigatin is an exact !"science" - where as Black Jack is NOT.
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2009-06-15 09:28:26 - Re: I'm through
Cannot understand your problem. I have done the whole VOR-race on SOL. I´ve used the DCs hundreds of times. No fault, so ever.

But you cannot trust the predictor hundred percent! The speed can be a little higher or a little lower, and that changes all of your planning...

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