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Navigating by waypoints in sailing view.

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Oldtimer

Master Mariner
Hi all,

excuse the dumb title. Also this may have been suggested before but still:

- is it possible to make a function to navigate by first setting a waypoint on world map as in Sea Dogs AFAIR and then

- switch to sailing view but have your ship follow the course set on the world map?

Yes, I`m lazy but still want to spend more time in sailing view at sea while remaining on course without checking position every now and then.

I think it would be a great feature in coming builds.

Regards, Oldtimer
 
Don't know if that could be done. What do you want that feature for? To sail from island to island in 3D? You can do that in Build 14 and the required course would just be a straight line; no waypoints required.
 
Hi Oldtimer,

We actually have a mod included in the Build, called DirectSail. With this mod, you wont have to use the worldmap at all. I think its included in Build alpha 14.6 and up. I never tried this mod myself, though.

But I know some of the hardcore sailing guys enjoy spending several real days getting from i.e. Falaise de Fleur to Oxbay. How they use it and how they navigate, I dont know, but you are more than welcome to PM Morgan Terror, who is known to use it a lot <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
you can't actually take that long on a directsail journey, but you can keep on using it for several trips in succession. for instance, it took me at least two real-time weeks to do a full circle round the archipelago. with several pauses in between, of course. i haven't tried a cross-archipelago run yet. i only tried once, and it was taking a huge amount of time. when i got to the worldmap after i gave up, i wasn't even halfway.
 
Hi all,

thanks awfully for the info. I`m still on build 13 so I have not tried DirectSail. Will do when build 14 is less buggy.

Regards, Oldtimer
 
Or you just <a href="http://pafiles.com/potc/ccc%20experimentals/Directsail_jan25.zip" target="_blank">install the mod on top of Build 13</a>. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />
 
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