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Old 05-12-12, 06:22 AM   #120
11Bravo
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@urfish

Thanks Kaleun! It has been very challenging and fun for me.

@LemonA

I uploaded the chart ruler even though voyage 3 is far from complete.

@palatum and P_Funk

There would be no practical way of presenting the very precise information found in a nautical almanac as in-game graphics. There might be a way to create a condensed version of low precision data that would cut down on printing. There might even be a way to put something useful in-game, like a perpetual almanac or sunrise/sunset table in-game. It all depends on how much accuracy is necessary. If the method is limited to 30 km, we only need celestial data good to 10 arc minutes, not 1 arc minute or arc seconds.

Most likely the final solution will involve pdf's that the player would print out, although the actual books should work better.
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