Can we do something about the wind and maybe have it refresh every 3-8 minutes? Very infuriating having to do gold horder vaults or something and you have to keep cross mapping against the wind. Very tedious. Maybe a different mechanic that gives you some wind every now and again would be nice.
WIND!
The wind is global across the server, so any time you are against the wind some other ship could be sailing in the opposite direction and getting full wind. It already slowly changes direction constantly, though I don't know if anyone has figured out what the time signature is or if it has a pattern similar to how the storms work.
@longbeardfellow sagte in WIND!:
I'm still waiting on a SoT meteorologist YouTube video personally, someone get on that yeah
Here you got a storm-app, kind of...
The reason it seems that the wind is always against you is that you run slower into the wind, than when it is with you.
I am not sure of the precise values, but lets assume you only go one third of the speed against the wind than you would if the wind was dead astern. If you sail with the wind for 5 minutes, and then turn around: it would take you 15 minutes to sail back to where you came from. (This assumes no change in wind direction, of course.)
Thus, if it seems that the wind is against 75% of the time... well... because it is! But not because Rare hates you. But because... maths!
@d3adst1ck said in WIND!:
The wind is global across the server, so any time you are against the wind some other ship could be sailing in the opposite direction and getting full wind. It already slowly changes direction constantly, though I don't know if anyone has figured out what the time signature is or if it has a pattern similar to how the storms work.
I have reason to suspect that the storm is the progenitor of all of the wind upon the Sea.
@surveyorpete said in WIND!:
if it seems that the wind is against 75% of the time... well... because it is! But not because Rare hates you. But because... maths!
So sayeth the Surveyor!
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