What I Would Like

[Bartholomew Foulsteel]

Originally Posted by Roger Dreadrage

bart ur amazing in ur knowledge of sailing and ships.

Thanks mate. I'm the son of a son of a sailor. Also, I have sailed everything from small catboats and sloops up to crewing the Lady Washington (you might recognize her as the Interceptor in the first POTC movie, but she was used in all three). Even before I was sailing I was learning about sailing and even played a game in my youth called Don't Give Up The Ship, which was a Napoleonic era sea battle simulation.

As for making sailing more difficult, it really shouldn't. You can still steer the ship just as you would in the game now, just affect spped based on hull length, sail plan, amount of sails, wind direction, and wind speed. The game would do all that automatically for you.

Pirates tended to favor sloops (or in other areas of the world other fast, light ships) because sloops could point higher into the wind (great for outrunning big Navy ships-of-the-line) and had a shoal (shallow) draft, so they could take them into shallows and up small rivers where the bigger ships couldn't go.