"Seas of War" simulator

[Nobody]

I know this is far from being compete or bug-free, but I would like to present you my first reasonably working and "user-friendly"^* version of my "Seas of War"-Simulator, before the outbreak of a new war.
If you have the time, I would like to ask you to look for bugs, grammatical and spelling errors and anything else that comes to your mind should you use it.

What does it do?

• plot ship courses from a players perspective
  
• ship movement ac- and deceleration, turning
  
• some kind of variable sighting (I'm not sure whether it works the way I want it)
  
  What does it not?
  
• combat
  
• torpedos
  
• collisions/ramming
  
• radar, sonar
  
  So, what do you think? Worth improving?
  
  
  
  ^*) that means it can be used without having to edit the savegame-files.

[TexanCowboy]

Sorry for not checking this out earlier....just downloaded, working on setting up a scenario. Question: Does Course Selection go from 0 to 360?

EDIT: Orderes misspelled on combat screen. Should be Orders.

[Nobody]

Sorry for not checking this out earlier....just downloaded, working on setting up a scenario.

No need to apologize, I'm just happy to get any response at all. ;)

Question: Does Course Selection go from 0 to 360?

That is standard practice in navigation to do so (so I have heard). The program itself does not care though. If you want to go course 2371.4° or -593° you can do that. ;D
Changing course is done incrementally. Positive values are turns to starboard/right, and negative to backboard/left.

A note on the grid. The direction of the axis is "computer-style" meaning positive x-values are on the right, and the positive y-axis points downwards.

EDIT: Orderes misspelled on combat screen. Should be Orders.

Thanks. I would also be interested in incorrect capitalization, if anyone sees something, tell me.

Oh, one more question: which resolution does the program use on your machine?

[TexanCowboy]

*Checks*

I have a Vista Home laptop, and it runs on a .....1280x750 grid....combat would be nice to have, but that would be near impossible. BTW, whats the range that a ship can be detected at, and how fast are each of the *turns* in minutes.

[Desertfox]

After asking for color, the program exits itself. Am I doing something wrong?

[TexanCowboy]

Use numbers for colors...AKA, 1=Red, 2=Blue, etc.

[Nobody]

*Checks*

I have a Vista Home laptop, and it runs on a .....1280x750 grid....combat would be nice to have, but that would be near impossible. BTW, whats the range that a ship can be detected at, and how fast are each of the *turns* in minutes.

As for Range, consult the Seas of War rules and tables, "variable sighting" and depends on the size of both ships. I made some modification to it, so that it becomes increasingly difficult to detect far away ships. The maximum (two size 8 ships) is 420 hm/42 km.
How fast your ship turns depends on your speed and the selected turning radius. The rules give a minimum radius of 6.5 hm for small ships and 8.5 for larger ones. "My" normal radius is 1 nm (actually >=18.5 hm) because it reduces some negative effects of turning (speed loss, bad for gunnery, they might even have to seas fire).
One turn is 150 seconds, or 2.5 minutes.

After asking for color, the program exits itself. Am I doing something wrong?

Probably. ^^
The Program runs in 256 color mode. But I would advice you only to use the first 16 (actually 1 to 15).
Did you by any chance try to input a color NAME?


Did someone look at the two example games?