I've gotten burned by this many times and just fell for it again, so I have to ask why?
I had a bearing of 120 set for the Arctique. When I last checked after the weather update the router was indicating to hold that TWA till after the next weather update. However, I got timed out of VR over dinner and when I logged back in the new route that was autogenerated had me sailing 110TWA. I've noticed this before. Sometimes the route is a completely different strategy. Usually, I wait till the next 10 minute update to run the route with fresh coordinates before making any course changes, just to be sure. However, this time I reacted and made the course change because it appeared that a lot of other boats had headed up a bit. After incurring a sail change I check the rest of the pack. Shit, only that one boat I had looked at before making the move had actually headed up, everyone else was still at 120TWA. When I ran the route at the next update from the server, sure enough back to 120, exactly what I saw before dinner.
So, has anyone else noticed this? When a route is autogenerated upon login, does it take your start position from your actual position at that moment, from the last server update, or is VR feeding the router BS?