Hi,
First of all, thx to those of you helping others in the wee spanish hours. It’ starting to work. Beginners don’t read the instructions twice before entering and have a tough first sail, having someone there to give some hints is very useful.
(My wife thanks you too, she was starting to think I was running the Space Station on a critical mission 24 hours a day <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />)
The questions risen lately:
What’s the course?
Start – A mark – offset mark – leeward gate (enter between) – A mark –offset mark – Finish.
If you have doubts, follow the robots…
How rules are managed?.
System verifies (tries to, anyway) all collisions, and decides who is at fault. The offending boat’s name turns to black and boat is stopped. It is the users responsibility to make a 360 turn.
So, if you don’t know the sailing rules, or not sure, do as you would in a real race: keep clear, and if your name turns black or you are protested, do a 360.
If you know the sailing rules, and by any reason you are black-marked but you think you had rights, just go on but, at least send a message explaining to other sailors.
There are, and always be, people cheating, may be unconsciously or shy. We shouldn’t be too touchy about that. It is not an honour to win cheating…
Just remember there are other things more important that this game.
About Robots.
Robots are stupid machines. They have been programmed to be 5% faster. We expect you sailors to be much smarter.
Robots are very simple, follow few rules, don’t know about wind shifts…. Try to avoid them and, please, don’t protest them (they are not going to make 360!).
In order to help new sailors in a new regatta field has been opened. It is for starts practice, clock cycles from minus 2 minutes to plus one minute, and restarts. Beginners can work the starts there, aiming to be only a few seconds late on the start line at the start time.
There exists since last week a third sailing field, called training. No regatta there. You get a boat and can try all keys in a plain of water with several buoys.
To all, remember that right-clicking on the boats will give you some info on the boats user (name, country, sailed class…). If you do it in your own boat you can fill or update the info others will see for your boat.
To finish, just a welcome to new users, American but also Swedish, Dutch, Israelians, Belgian, French and Canadians (I sure forget some countries, sorry).
aestela.
