Voyages of Discovery

[jlan5031]

I've been interested how long voyages would be handled. For example, I've been interested in the exploration voyages of discovery. Those would be long voyages. Are there plans to create a Save Voyage/Mission command? The South Pacific is vast and far away from Europe, so from where would one set sail?

[Justme]

I don't think the maps that big(yet) right now limited to the Caribbean. Europe may be next way down the line.

[SeamanStaines]

Need the map function before this is possible. I got lost at Sea.

[Prater]

How would the map function help you Seaman?  They have said it won't show where you are.

[Johny Reb]

How would the map function help you Seaman?  They have said it won't show where you are.

Are you suggesting that maps are useless if they don't show your current location??? I guess I should throw all my old road maps out and erase the memories of driving across the country a dozen times with their aid. Oh, and I'm a pilot so I guess Ill throw out all my aeronautical charts as well now that I know they are worthless after all this time.

[IonAguirre]

SeamanStaines:

 

Just a few advices for navigation:

 

In short distances the Earth can be taken as flat. Hence dead reckoning navigation becomes a trivial matter.

From speed, time and heading, its easy to guess the location of the ship.

 

Lets say A is the departure place, S is the ships speed, H is the heading and t the time travelled.

 

Total distance travelled will be: D= S x t

 

Now: from navigation standards:

NORTH-SOUTH(latitude)

Positive sign means to the North, negative sign means to the South

 

WEST-EAST(Longitude)

Positive sign means to the West. negative sign means to the East

 

D(latitude)= D x cos(heading)

D(Longitude)= -D x sin(Heading)   --> Note the minus sign

 

Example:

Speed 9 knots, heading 215º, time= 2 hours

 

Distance= S x t= 9 x 2= 18 Nautical miles

D(latitude)= D x cos(heading)= 18 x cos(215)= -14.7 (14.7 miles SOUTH off the departure location)

D(Longitude)= -D x sin(heading)= -18 x sin(215)= 10.3 (10.3 miles WEST off the departure location)

 

If distance is longer than 300 miles, the flat Earth approach can not be used becouse errors start turning too big.

 

Regards

Edited May 19, 2015 by IonAguirre

[Bart Smith]

About discoveries and voyages here is nice info: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/batavia-journal.html

[BroodingPhobos]

The issues I have with the open nature of the game is that discovery is only for those who play first.  How do you do voyages of discovery 2 years after the game is released?   Say a new player buys this game in 2017.  Will exploration be a viable gameplay feature in open world at that time or will everything already be explored?