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2010-03-19 13:01:00 - New Rounding Rules
Looks great Kalle!

Chompo and I gave them a good workout at Schouten Island and I think everyone will be _very_ pleased with the upgrade.

The side effect of doing away with the double rounding arrows is an improvement in itself! One question from the SRC: how will the server resolve the 180deg case so we can add this info to race planning guidelines and race descriptions? Default marks to port/stb etc?
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2010-03-19 13:33:39 - Re: New Rounding Rules
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Chompo and I gave them a good workout at Schouten Island and I think everyone will be _very_ pleased with the upgrade.
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Did you really? Without having tested it I am under the impression one could still sail onto the mark the correct way until "Rounded" and then turn 180° and continue the course.

Philip

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2010-03-19 13:38:38 - Re: New Rounding Rules
Schakel, no, the new rules enforces proper rounding of marks, in the direction indicated. The old style of just registering a rounding by passing above the wp and then turning back won't work - when you turn back the "next waypoint" will change back again with the new system.
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2010-03-19 13:40:27 - Re: New Rounding Rules
75T, regarding the 180 deg case, you need to ask Jakob how the direction is calculated..... :)
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2010-03-19 13:44:58 - Re: New Rounding Rules
Thanks for clearing that up, Kalle.

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2010-03-19 14:10:26 - Re: New Rounding Rules
The system should work with the 180 deg turns. The server then chooses a direction. To be frank we need some final testing of that to see that the client and the server agrees on the rounding direction. :-) Thanks for caring, testing and reporting!!
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2010-03-19 14:13:13 - Re: New Rounding Rules
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kalle said @ 2010-03-19 13:38:38:
Schakel, no, the new rules enforces proper rounding of marks, in the direction indicated. The old style of just registering a rounding by passing above the wp and then turning back won't work - when you turn back the "next waypoint" will change back again with the new system.
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Truly excellent! This game should reward those who discover the best strategy over those who can beat the loopholes of the game. Changes like this, and the timely implementation of it are a credit to the SOL developers.
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2010-03-20 20:44:09 - Re: New Rounding Rules
Thanks Kalle and Jakob. Impressive performance again :-))
I love the way you choose what is important and what can wait ;-)

Stu/Berth
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2010-03-20 21:09:46 - Re: New Rounding Rules
Thanks :-)
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2010-03-20 23:32:38 - Re: New Rounding Rules
Hirilondë said @ 2010-03-19 14:13:13:
This game should reward those who discover the best strategy over those who can beat the loopholes of the game.
..........

There are no loopholes if nobody is beating a loophole - so lopphole beaters feel encourage to chase one or two or more ;-)


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