Sailing speeds have yet to be awknowledged/addressed/fixed.

@skirakzalus said:

People run because they don't want to fight, the only way any adjustments to the ship speeds would change that was if it didn't make escaping a viable option, which would be a pretty bad change.

My point with that sentence was to highlight the issue of sailing on a ship that could have more potential speed instead get dusted behind. I was thinking of the Galleon vs Brigantine there. Fixing the sailing speeds would allow players that want to fight catch up to those players you're mentioning and in my opinion wouldn't break the game. It would bring Rare's intentions to fruition (intended speeds).

@skirakzalus You have encapsulated my thought well in the end. Thank you! :)

@eggamer13 said:

This doesn't need to be "awknowledged/addressed/fixed" because it's not an error, it's not a bug or a glitch. It's an intended mechanic to balance the ships, because otherwise, you couldn't win on a sloop (you) vs galleon chase.

Is there a mention of me saying that a sloop shouldn't win a galleon chase? That was a Brigantine I talked about. A Galleon is faster (barely) than a Brigantine if they both had tail wind, but if you were to put them in cross-wind scenario, the Galleon gets dusted. Let me know if that sounds intentional!

@captain-coel said:

Are we sure the speeds aren't intended?

I'm quite certain they didn't mean for people to be faster on a Sloop when they're not catching full potential wind VS. when they are (NOT full wind scenario). Or the fact that all ships collectively are faster if they had their sails perpendicular to the ship VS. on either side instead (NO wind scenario).

I think some of the behaviours of the wind are unintentional; setting the sails to stupid is probably the main one.

I wouldn't mind removing that entirely because its not intuitive to new players. They aren't going to know that setting the sails in the worst possible position is actually the fastest way to travel.

In order to correct this I think they'd need to add a few more levels of "wind" so that you can get different speeds based on how close you are to full billow. The sloop should always be the quickest under the worst conditions. The brig is harder to place; you could make it slower than the galleon but have it accelerate much quicker maybe?

I think Rare is fine with the way the ships currently work, and there are much bigger problems for them to tackle so they are not likely to look at stuff like this until much later.

@omnipotence13 You can have intuitive sailing techniques without being a sailing simulator.

I'm going to assume that you do "sails to stupid" whenever applicable and chasing another ship.. Before you knew that potential, didn't you angle your sails to catch as much wind as possible? Wasn't it obvious to you that to catch up to the other ship you have to use all the wind available to you? Would you doing so make this game a sailing simulator any more than what we're talking about here, eg. fixed speeds? Please think before you comment sir.

@omnipotence13 said:

It doesn't take long playing this game to realize that they put a lot of thought into wind/sailing mechanics. It does no good to have a galleon always catching a sloop.

Sigh.. At what point are you going to admit that sailing with your sail literally into the wind being actually faster than sailing with it on the side is not thought out or intentional at all? And I'm not even saying to make it hyper realistic, make no mistake. You're not Rare to come in here and say all these things on behalf of them. You're someone that consumes literally anything and everything Rare would toss your way and not put any thought in it yourself, judging by the way you reply to me. And no, the sloop doesn't always have to be caught up by the Galleon, I don't see anywhere that I mention this. If you're attempting to say that these broken values are in place for balance between ships you are utterly clueless.

Sure, I doubt sails to stupid was intended but they have known about it and chosen not to fix.

Another part where you begin to speak on behalf of the devs. Is there any FAQ where they said, "guys we looked into this and it's fine"? No? Speaking for them in this way makes you sound abhorrent. If you have a source on your claims I'd love to see it, I'm in favor of agreeing with the devs if there's something to agree to. What you're doing is just talking to talk. Or more specifically, to farm some reputation.

In reality, you shouldn't be able to sail into the wind at all.

I'm not arguing that at all here. I gather we both want a basic sailing experience. After all, like you said, it's not a simulator. If it was anything resembling of a simulator, that would the "Sim of fun", as I'd like to call it & there's no fun in complexity in a video game. What I'm arguing is that currently you can be rewarded for doing it "wrong" (eg. sails into the wind), and you know that's not what the devs wanted. (If you're going to say that they looked at it and said fine one more time I'll poke you :P).