ncaoa
Templar
Getting killed by Deathkin. Again.
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Post by ncaoa on Jul 19, 2013 15:18:25 GMT -5
An upgrade that adds rowing oars to reduce speed penalty when sailing against the wind or with 0 masts or sails would be cool. 
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Post by grävling on Jul 19, 2013 16:56:47 GMT -5
An upgrade that adds rowing oars to reduce speed penalty when sailing against the wind or with 0 masts or sails would be cool. rowing oars would not work. You actually cannot sail against the wind -- unless the magic in the game lets you -- you must tack. rowing is what you can do if the wind just drops. Something I miss from this game. The wind doesn't change, and the windspeed doesn't either. I think implementing Sea Breezes -- this is a technical term that won't mean what you think it does, unless you already know --- see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_breeze would be a lot of fun. But it might be hard on the animation. I am already annoyed with the art, that I think should show a ship with sails always full of the wind, thus they are lengthened and shortened as the course changes. And, should you want to sail into the wind, I think we should have animation of the ship tacking. This will make it very clear why one's voyage is taking longer, eating up sails and using up rations. Right now what we have looks sort of like you are driving a car around the sea. Since I spend my summers pissed off at people who cannot sail and who own a status-sailboat-yacht around here, and who drive it like they drive their cars -- always under motor, always in the traffic lanes, nose to nose driving up the coast just like stop and go traffic -- you can take my annoyance more as a reflection on them, and not any real annoyance with the game. But one that showed real tacking would be way cool .... |
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Post by Cory Trese on Jul 19, 2013 16:59:33 GMT -5
Sorry, it will never be a sailing simulator -- the game engine and graphics system just are not up to the task.
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Post by grävling on Jul 19, 2013 17:22:38 GMT -5
Sorry, it will never be a sailing simulator -- the game engine and graphics system just are not up to the task. But you could change the art based on wind direction, though, couldn't you? |
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Post by Cory Trese on Jul 19, 2013 17:53:11 GMT -5
Sorry, it will never be a sailing simulator -- the game engine and graphics system just are not up to the task. But you could change the art based on wind direction, though, couldn't you? The current codebase doesn't support anything like that. It uses in-memory tricks to rotate the same image to make the different facing directions for the ship. We could change the art based on wind and ship direction in a future update -- anything is possible! |
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Post by grävling on Jul 19, 2013 18:08:06 GMT -5
:-)
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ncaoa
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Getting killed by Deathkin. Again.
Posts: 972
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Post by ncaoa on Jul 19, 2013 19:40:38 GMT -5
I agree with grav. Its a bit odd to see a ship move around like a car. Great to hear art updates may be possible. Any ideas for a better upgrade of this type of function? |
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