wannabe skipper with lots of questions...

PaulPosition · 09-15-07, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Theraven

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Originally Posted by tater

I have no idea what the game gives you in metric, are all ranges in meters? The dimensional analysis should be the same, if a ship goes 1km in 6 minutes, it's making 10km/hr.

Not sure where the 15 seconds came from, I've seen it typed before, but it doesn't work. Perhaps it's for knots vs statute miles? No idea.

I dunno, I read it in one of the guides here somewhere and every time I've used 3:15 it's been pretty accurate so I never questioned it.

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Did some research with my friend google (it does all the calculating and converting for me, try it...)

I'll use .7 as a value from the ruler tool, no matter if I'm going metric or imperial...

Metrics :
.7 km in three minutes 15 gives :
(.7 / 3.25) * 60 = 12.9230769
So 12.923 km per hour in knots gives
12.92300 (kilometers per hour) = 6.97786177 knots
Or 7 knots. So the 3:15 would apply to metrics...

Now let's see with nautical miles, still 3:15...
(.7 / 3.25) * 60 = 12.9230769
So 12.923 nautical miles per hour... in knots?
well that's 12.923 knots according to google.

Let's try with 3:00...
(.7 / 3) * 60 = 14
14 knots?!? That'd better, should be pretty spot-on speedwise. But then, you can't translate the .7 directly you need to do like Tater suggests and multiply by 20 (.7 x 20 = 14)

Does that make any sense? (I sure hope so..

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