Solved Question regarding Direct sail

[Capt Pete]

Ahoy!
I have grown a level 62 pirate with hero's reputation and is considered honoured . I fly a Spainish Royal Galleon in the Golden age of Piracy.
I disable direct sail quite a bit due to the slow boat I use to chase down runners. Once I have my prey and head back close to shore I toggle direct sail once again.
What I was wondering is, once you toggle off direct sail, does it toggle of other things? like "sail ho's" and random flotsam?


thanks in advance and best regards

Pete

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Indeed it does, because all that is part of DirectSail.

 

[Grey Roger]

It also toggles the 1 hour day. With Direct Sail disabled, a day lasts 24 hours. Useful if you're trying to sail into harbour with the wind blowing the wrong way, so you have to tack, so it's going to take a few hours to get there.

Toggling Direct Sail off is also useful if you're chasing an enemy ship, only you're under a false flag so he doesn't realise you're an enemy yet, and you don't want the ship disappearing as you follow it into range of the next island.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

It also toggles the 1 hour day.

Does the toggle do that too? I can't remember now, but that would indeed make sense.

 

[Grey Roger]

Yes. If I remember correctly, when I complained about the 1 hour day, it was you who suggested I toggle Direct Sail off or on to disable / re-enable it.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Yes. If I remember correctly, when I complained about the 1 hour day, it was you who suggested I toggle Direct Sail off or on to disable / re-enable it.

It would be easily checked; the relevant code is in the DirectSailCheck (or something similar to that) function in PROGRAM\CCCDirectsail.c.
The actual hour-adding is in PROGRAM\BATTLE_INTERFACE\LogInterface.c so it would need to be checked how that if-statement around it looks.
I know I rewrote that at some point and thought it made sense at the time. But I don't know anymore what I did.

 

[Capt Pete]

Thanks for the replies

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Yes. If I remember correctly, when I complained about the 1 hour day, it was you who suggested I toggle Direct Sail off or on to disable / re-enable it.

Yep, confirmed that the code does indeed do that.