Anyways, I think a new tool should be created the sextent. Using it, one could start a short project that will tell you the coordinates that you are at in whatever system the game uses(x/y North/East). I am reasonably certain the info is behind the scenes already available to the programmers. This would allow one to make maps or rutters so ships would be a little more secure not hugging the coast all the time for reference points. First time travel to a new place would still be difficult but once routes are established you could simply sail directly to the destination.
To build a sextent might require 75 steel, a screwdriver, and say 5 days. The project to use one might take about an hour.
New tool the sextent or is it sextant.
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An excellent idea, and you should know how much I like things for making maps. Did a little research and found an astonishing great site.
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61iflan.htm
For a slighty more accurate sextant with not that much more effort, I would suggest the sextant be broken down into parts, as is the current trend, with frame and arm, and also an unsilvered mirror (small piece of glass) and a slivered mirror (small peice of glass plus some silver). That would give you the double mirrored image that makes a sextant what it is. Add a hammer and file to the tools needed, and there you have it.
The sextant is most of the way down the webpage, but it details some very interesting primitive navigation tools as well. Anything from there ending up implimented in cantr would be a very very good thing.
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61iflan.htm
For a slighty more accurate sextant with not that much more effort, I would suggest the sextant be broken down into parts, as is the current trend, with frame and arm, and also an unsilvered mirror (small piece of glass) and a slivered mirror (small peice of glass plus some silver). That would give you the double mirrored image that makes a sextant what it is. Add a hammer and file to the tools needed, and there you have it.
The sextant is most of the way down the webpage, but it details some very interesting primitive navigation tools as well. Anything from there ending up implimented in cantr would be a very very good thing.
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This one was the first suggestion of a sextant and a ship-clock tools.
Here is the same, accepted:
http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.ph ... ht=sextant
And here there are more comments about the subject:
http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5312
Here is the same, accepted:
http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.ph ... ht=sextant
And here there are more comments about the subject:
http://www.cantr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5312
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