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  • 2009-02-14 18:33:51
    Re: Velocity made to course
    Board » General Discussion
    I guess the difference is do you want SoL to be fun or a chore or put from the other perspective, simple or realistic (for some definition of realistic). We can be reasonably sure which one is stronger commercially.

    Personally, not being a professional navigator and route planner or experienced ocean race skipper I welcome any tools that give me information and if they're integrated into the clent even better.

    Perhaps for the hard-core there could be an 'ironman' button for each race where you get a basic straight predictor, a polar diagram (without current line and dot maybe) and weather. They can even get highlighted on the leaderboard if you like.

    Of course there's no way to check if they're using external software though and since the client data is avaliable for anyone who has programming ability, they could even be running their own client.
  • 2009-01-28 05:53:08
    Re: Velocity made to course
    Board » General Discussion
    Zembu> standalone client / web client - both can calculate stuff like that the same way they can calculate the angle you are sailing to the wind.
  • 2009-01-27 12:46:54
    Re: Velocity made to course
    Board » General Discussion
    I think it would make as much sense as the current VMG wrt wind. Both are useful in different ways.
  • 2009-01-27 06:25:00
    Re: Velocity made to course
    Board » General Discussion
    ^
    There shouldn't be any additional load on the servers - the client could calculate it.
  • 2009-01-26 13:04:06
    Re: Proxy
    Board » Technical Support
    Hi

    How's work on the flash client's proxy issue going?

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