Yeah, I know. That'd be VERY cool. And it's really not that hard to do. You have certain times you "know" - sunrise, sunset, and (easiest, as it requires no table), noon. Check your GMT-calibrated chronometer and compare it to local time, and *boom*, you know your longitude. Get out the sextant, measure the elevation of the north star to horizon and *poof*, latitude.
It'd be so easy to implement, and it's almost all the way there, but, then, the game just suddenly makes it hard to do for no reason.
ARRRGGHHH!
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