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  • 2009-09-01 12:18:14
    Re: Time zone bug
    Board » Technical Support
    Jeroen said @ 2009-09-01 11:10:04:
    To comment on your technical bit of the question, all times are UTC both on the client side as well as the server side.
    This is done to eliminate any time conversions.
    So there is no relation between the time displayed and the computers clock.
    Not so: I can give you a screenprint which shows 12:00 UTC on the main clock and a delayed command to be implemented at 09:30, so which technically is long passed.

    Jeroen said @ 2009-09-01 11:10:04:
    The bigest factor in a incorrect delay is weather updates. They have a big influence on the speed and direction if on TWA.
    And there is a certain amount of error in the predicion line, due to rounding of numbers.

    Some of the interface like the prediction line, can give the impression to be exact but they do have some margins to take into account on the longer delays.

    --- Last Edited by Jeroen Tiel at 2009-09-01 11:11:45 ---


    So any delayed course change is an exercice in pure luck, rather than navigational skill?

  • 2009-09-01 09:06:22
    Time zone bug
    Board » Technical Support
    I'm currently in Astana (UTC+7), instead of Brussels (UTC+2). What I do is I just change the clock of the computer, instead of changing my time zone. So I just move the clock forward 5hrs, while the time zone remains Brussls-Paris, otherwise Outlook starts to mess up my appointments.
    But when I look at the UTC clock in the Sailonline clock, it gives me UTC as Astana time minus two hours. Example:
    It is now 1500hrs in Astana, 10000hrs in Brussels, 0900 UTC. The clock tab on screen of the client gives 1300hrs as UTC. When I give a delayed command, I see in the list of timed commands that there the correct UTC is used.

    So let me guess: the time tab calculates UTC by taking the time of the PC and the time zone the PC is set against and then calculates the offset? WHile the timed commands use the actual time of the server? So if your computer and the server are out of synch, your delayed commands could be too?

    Rammed another island today, but that is because the predictive position in this game is still a game of pure chance.
  • 2009-06-15 06:39:05
    Re: I'm through
    Board » General Discussion
    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.
  • 2009-06-15 05:25:30
    I'm through
    Board » General Discussion
    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.
  • 2009-05-15 11:41:50
    Re: Polar table
    Board » Technical Support
    jakob said @ 2008-03-15 13:56:37:
    We have made a decision to not hand out the polars in text format since we do not want to make life too easy for users with routing software.

    /Jakob
    Well, next time don't give us a map then, that will really make it challenging. Come on, this is a competition in Navigation and routing and you are telling us to fight with ine hand tied behind our back ?!?

    The graph can be precisely back engineered anyway, by useing the steer-to tool, down to a hundreth of a knot.

    Hmmm might do that this evening.
  • 2009-05-15 11:35:21
    Re: Top gun tips
    Board » General Discussion
    Yes, and would it be possible for someone to post the polars of the chosen boats?
  • 2009-05-09 17:34:24
    Re: Game Feature Suggestions
    Board » General Discussion
    What about adding waypoints where delayed course commands come into play?
    So instead of saying "turn to 180° in 2 hours", have a command that says "turn 180° once you have reached point A". It is what navigators instruct when they go to sleep or programme autopilots.

    I'm still miffed that I missed marker 4 in the suursaari race by 2 Nm, 25 minutes after going to bed (i'm in a GMT+6h country here, throw a dog a bone).

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