
Post by
zezo | 2009-08-17 | 14:18:11
I've made some progress with that, but there are less than 3 days left to the end of this race so there is no time to test everything properly, so it will be left for the next race.
About Frogeater: people have developed their own tools. One player sent me a screenshot of impressive-looking tool done in Excel. But it's not only the router - a lot of small things affect you and I think frogeater has learned the game very well.
In the real world you wold not sail East of Dursey in the start of this leg, but the game map made this possible, and doing so gave few miles advantage.
Another advantage that some players must be using is that the next +6h GFS actually comes out about 2.5 hours before it shows in the game (1.5 hours before it shows here) and that can make quite a difference in unstable conditions.
Then there are small but important details like changing sails and heading before the wind update time. That can make 1 mile difference every 12 hours, and those sum up.
I've already stated that all that small things seem to be more important than the exact route taken, and still believe that to be true.