Originally posted by ling.speed:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

tacking becomes faster than paddling the majority of the time (always for the long boat).

I've just tested that in the post you are quoting. Krave is very often better off rowing upwind. You can go all pythagoras on wiki and it will never tell you that in higher winds the ocean is rough and you cant keep that 45 for more than few seconds.

Now im starting to woder about longboat too. If sailing close to 45 deg is not reaching hull speed it would be faster to row in low winds too. But alas its more fun to tack soo...


edit: Actually yeah for Longboat the tacking brakepoint is at about 2/3 wind strength (with precise sailing, and best case scenarios for tack). So for like 50% of the time rowing is going to be noticably better than tacking in longboat. Which is surprising, and a bit sad... but then its rare to be exactly upwind and tacking has other benefits like revealing more map.

Even in rough water you can easily keep a 45 degree angle to the wind. The sailing program is not that complicated. You still sail at speed but your boat takes wave damage. In any case paddling in rough seas will be slowed just as much as sailing in rough seas by the same wave mechanics (maybe more since you'll spend more time paddling and have that much more time to be affected).

Its kind of moot anyway, since not too long after you have a long boat, you'll also have access to the Moder forsaken power.

I've done several trials in my long boat sailing into my base and sailing is always faster than paddling in the long boat except in rare cases where there is a navigable river that cuts through 2 land masses and paddling in those tight quarters cuts off a huge amount of open ocean sailing to get around the other land mass.

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