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Board » Technical Support » is the game really reliable? (bad experience)

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marcoMB


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2009-05-20 06:41:19 - is the game really reliable? (bad experience)
I'm very disapointed.
I'm doing the Volvo.
Yesterday I programmed a course change for a few hours later after the buoy. It was supposed to be good. And today I see that my boat changed its course BEFORE the buoy. How is it possible? Can't we trust the game?
If the previsions (position at a given time)given by the game are not reliable you should say it.
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2009-05-20 07:18:38 - Re: is the game really reliable? (bad experience)
I am very sorry you feel this way. We all sail in as true conditions as possible given the information we get from the american weather service NOAA. The predictor in front of your boat predicts your path given the latest forecast. We get 4 forecasts per day. If you let your boat sail on auto for several days you will likely not sail very optimal. Are we ok now?

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2009-05-20 07:51:29 - Re: is the game really reliable? (bad experience)
jakob said @ 2009-05-20 07:18:38:
If you let your boat sail on auto for several days you will likely not sail very optimal.?
I'm not completely stupid. I programmed my change for the moment where the boat was (predicted) over the buoy. And today I see that the boat changed before the buoy. How is it possible? The delay was something like 3.50 hour. For me it's 3h 30 mn. Right? I'm absolutely certain I didn't make any mistake. So the previsions are not reliable.Or did I make a delay error?
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2009-05-20 08:03:50 - Re: is the game really reliable? (bad experience)
Hi MarcomB

Setting delays for a exact mark rounding is always tricky, are you sure that there was not a weather update during the delay. That is the most common cause of a delay not working as expected.

3.5 is indeed correct for 3 h 30 min delay
I am a ex-admin of SOL who joins in from time to time.
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2009-05-20 12:03:06 - Re: is the game really reliable? (bad experience)
That's surely the only explanation : a weather update.
But I feel very frustrated.
I had a good position and now I'm back in the 600's.
Thanks to everybody for the answers.

--- Last Edited by marcoMB at 2009-05-20 12:04:34 ---
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2009-05-20 17:55:10 - Re: is the game really reliable? (bad experience)
hm, I made the same experiences like Marco. I worked half an hour on the right time for the rounding, I sorted it out and checked it with CC and TWA and I gave another 5 minutes to it, to be on the safe side and another half a degree. The course could be nicely watched with the predictor and it was fine. That happened exactly 3 hours before rounding, and 20 min after the new weather. Just to miss the wp for 0.1 nm.

We had an finishing line issue at the Great Lakes Race, you will remember, where I (and lots of others) had the same problem.

I guess tonight we had again a computation issue where some were good and some felt through the gutter - like it happens with small thin islands, where some can hop over it and some are stucked.

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