wannabe skipper with lots of questions...

[Theraven]

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.

edit: I read about this rule here:

http://www.paulwasserman.net/SHIII/#...ervation%20(DS)

and it says to use 3:15 because

"NOTE: Up through Tutorial version 2.1, I was using a 3 minute timing instead of a 3 min. 15 second timing. The slightly longer timing reduces the error from about 8% to about three-tenths of 1% and is just as simple to employ!"