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Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:28 pm
by psychowico
When we talked about visibility of raws stored in container I got the idea for another use of this interface. I thinking about possibility of viewing ships sails in this way. This rather natural that we don't need be at the ship to see her sails.
It's can be first text, before another signs that this ship can have. And maybe in italic font to be easier to recognize. What do you think about this?
For example:
Kastor`s Ship (a brand new Sloop)
mainmast, gaff mainsail, jib
Re: Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:52 pm
by Doug R.
Sure. Makes sense.
Re: Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:00 am
by EchoMan
As I said elsewhere, I like this idea.
Re: Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:37 pm
by psychowico
Ofcourse it should be visible when ship is on water too. You think we should limit range from we can seeing sails? Maybe 75% of our normal visible range? Including the telescope etc. . Or just standard case: we see ship == we see sails.
Re: Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:02 pm
by Doug R.
Standard case seems fine.
Re: Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:42 pm
by Piscator
Actually, on a regular spherical world you might see the sails before you see the ship.
I also don't think that we need to make this more complicated than necessary.
Re: Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:07 pm
by psychowico
Implementation won't be too complicated. Ok, so I treat it as accepted.
Re: Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:20 pm
by Greek
As an addition to this idea: additional names of ship should be visible on sea just like it is when ship is docked to harbour or the coast.
Re: Seeing sails of ships
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:45 pm
by psychowico
Both things are in game now.