Giant spike of land near Truk

[Barkerov]

Has anyone else ever seen a tiny speck of land at approx 1520E 8000N which towers above the sea?

[propbeanie]

Not in my game... Here's a screen grab of a Google Maps page:



that's Truk at the bottom, and Nomwin Atoll at the top, with a red dot just above (North) of your location. I don't know what the scale of the image would be, but I've zoomed all the way in, and find nothing but ocean in Real Life. Then there is the ME map:



of which I somehow cut-off the bottom border that shows that the cursor position was 152.000392 and 8.000064 (the "grab" does not capture the mouse cursor), closely marked with a black dot. The ME map is actually rather accurate for a "game". It is missing some detail, but has a good bit of it. That is "full zoom", btw

In both cases, no landform at all near there... Do you have mods mixed-up maybe? aka: Mod Soup?? If you were off the coast of Japan, south of Tokyo a bit, we might say that you've found Sofu Gan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot's_Wife_(crag)

[Rockin Robbins]

A transported Sofu Gan was my first inclination.

[Barkerov]

I will grab a screenie of it on my way back.
I am using RFB with the improved ship physics mod and TMOplot if that helps.

it seemed to me to be less of an island and more of a ladder to heaven, such was the height

[aanker]

Yes, a good distance North of Truk at 8° 0' N, 152° 0' E, I have seen a huge spike approx 240y N-S, x 470y E-W, and higher than cameras.dat will let me go. As mentioned above it towers into the heavens forever.

If I zoom my in-game map way in there is a land mass shown at very high resolution.

I suspect it has something to do with the Truk mod that is used in another mod I use (Spyron) although I haven't checked the northern border of Carotio's Truk mod. I do have Ref's Terrain Editor but haven't thought that this one spike is that big a deal to fire that Editor up - I guess it would be a big deal if I sailed into it because this thing is solid (I've checked).

Edit:
Carotio's Truk mod has a Northern border at: E152N008 or 8° 0' N, 152° 0' E. and is used in Spyron, TMO, RSRD, RFB, and more, so that may explain why Barkerov and I have 'the (cool) Spike' using different mods... but I am not saying Carotio's Truk mod has anything to do with it because Truk is south of that. There is a thin sliver of this Tower landmass South of 8° 0' N but that wouldn't explain the un-modded part of the landmass that is North of 8° 0' N.....

[REL] Carotio Truk Corals Harbours Cities Locations
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=138007
(I may have most of the missing graphics someplace)

Actually this tower is pretty cool : )

Happy Hunting!

[Armistead]

I call it the beanstalk..... I came under mass attack by planes near it and so damaged I couldn't dive so I used it to run circles around until night.