Cylindrical Earth

[elanaiba]

Originally Posted by Gunnodayak

I am not supposed to make anyone proud to be romanian, I am not a demigod like you think you are. And don't forget that I AM PAYING YOU, by buying your crap, not the opposite. From my money and from other's you are earning your daily bread. So, please try to show some respect for the hand that feeds you.

1) I am not in any way superior to anyone here and never pretended such. I may not be allowed to speak on certain matters or post whatever I want, and I'd say that goes against being all powerfull as the demigod accusation may imply.

2) I respect very much the community here, and frankly, its for them that I work. Like any man, I may fail in some of my endeavors.

[Rip]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

1) I am not in any way superior to anyone here and never pretended such. I may not be allowed to speak on certain matters or post whatever I want, and I'd say that goes against being all powerfull as the demigod accusation may imply.

2) I respect very much the community here, and frankly, its for them that I work. Like any man, I may fail in some of my endeavors.

Please don't forget a VAST majority of us are very thankful for that. Not to mention a number of us are even more thankful to know you as a friend.

Don't worry about your baffles. There are a bunch of us back here sweeping them.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

1) I am not in any way superior to anyone here and never pretended such. I may not be allowed to speak on certain matters or post whatever I want, and I'd say that goes against being all powerfull as the demigod accusation may imply.

2) I respect very much the community here, and frankly, its for them that I work. Like any man, I may fail in some of my endeavors.

2010 best post of the year candidate.

[martes86]

Not much more to add here after the fire, other than a big thumbs up for Dan, Neal, Webster, and anyone else mature, constructive and intelligent enough not to fall for the trolls' tricks.

Originally Posted by Rip

I'm not. I am just glad Neal didn't yell Crash Dive, and make us all dive into the front seat.

That'd have been hilarious!

[AngusJS]

Could the SH map center on the North Atlantic, say by using 45 degrees N as its "equator", so that the main area of operations would suffer from the least amount of distortion?

[theluckyone17]

For what it's worth, I'd love to see the world model described by Frederf implemented, hopefully for Silent Hunter 6 . Anything that increases the realism is a plus in my book.

Goldenrivet, I second the motion.

Neal, thank you.

Elanaiba, thank you.

[Bilge_Rat]

I dont see why UBI should change anything, it is infinitely more simple programming a game using a flat world.

Most players never even realized the SH 3/4 game was flat and it has no practical impact on the game, other than a arbitrary visibility limit.

In SH 4, where the distortions are huge compared to SH 3, I had done some checking on fuel usage and travelling time between various points on the SH 4 map and what it should be in the real world, but the difference is not really noticeable....especially after the novelty wears off and you start warping from point to point...

[martes86]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Most players never even realized the SH 3/4 game was flat and it has no practical impact on the game, other than a arbitrary visibility limit.

You're very wrong about that. It does affect navigation (if done emulating real procedures and all that). Since it doesn't project on a spherical model, distances are distorted, and the realism goes away the moment that sailing to some place in the sim doesn't take as long as it would in the real world. Also, as pointed by Nisgeis, flat has issues with horizon-line sight.

Cheers