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YourMomSA | 2018-03-24 | 20:02:02
Some random information from my explorations for anyone who might be curious...
- Based on the below, the real world doesn't have any land north of 84N. Plenty of sea ice, but sea ice is open water in the game. I think it's probably safe to assume everything in the game above 84N is open water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_northerly_point_of_land
- The furthest North you can actually see in the game is 85N, and that's at the top of your screen in full zoom. If you zoom out, you can't see as far North.
- The furthest North you can set a waypoint is approximately 87N20'. That's by zooming all the way out and dragging the bottom of the waypoint's stem up to the top of your range of cursor motion.
- The furthest North you can actually sail is 89N30'00". It will sail slightly past that, but then resets your latitude back. Your E-W progress still occurs, but every N movement is immediately reversed.
- With some rough math, I approximated the distance around the world E-W at 89.5N to be 188 nm. I'm not sure if that's right or wrong. When sailing W at 18-20 kts, I was covering approximately 30 degrees of longitude per hour. That would suggest 6-7 nm per 10 degrees at that latitude, which would suggest something like 220-240 nm around. So... it's something in the 180-250 nm range around. I did it in 17.5 hours, but I slept through half of that and I think I may have been going upwind quite slowly some of the night. You can't see the wind forecast up there, so all you can do is set it to W or E, turn on the autosails, and hope for the best. I think if someone just went up there, set it to W, and kept a running "best circumnavigation" time checking once per waking hour, within a few days they'd be able to establish a time around 12 hours. To do it much faster than 10 hours, you'd need a pretty lucky wind pattern. Roughly 6 hours should be technically possible... but I doubt the winds would ever align well enough for a time better than maybe 8.
- Once you're way up there, you can't use a waypoint to get out. When you attempt to set a waypoint, it stops the entire waypoint graphic too far North to see or move. You need to set a course on a southerly angle and achieve enough southbound progress to get below about 88N before waypoints can be used again.
Pretty much useless information. It would be inappropriate for VR to ever schedule a race that involved sailing up there... but I had always been curious about this stuff, so I figured I'd publish my findings.
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