General Social/Chatter Thread

[The Rock Doctor]

Whatever that was, I'm blaming Foxy.

[Guinness]

See: https://www.navalism.org/index.php/topic,7479.msg94735.html#msg94735

[Desertfox]

I've always had Space Battleship Yamato in my OOB! I swear!

[AnchorSteam]

This site crashed yesterday, I am glad to see it is back now. Lost a whole day.

Thailand seems too tiny to compete and too risky, I will try Ethiopia if I can't get that SS to work, and I have questions about that.

Even tried to set up an opening move for Ethiopia, but the new map makes it obsolete!
...and ever time I try to post the map I lock up the thing here.... I am just crap when it come to tech.

[AnchorSteam]

I have SS stored in my mac, but what is a safe source for "Virtualbox"?
I ask because one must be careful these days.... very careful.

Downloads from here should be fine: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Just check the SHA256 checksums if you are worried.

I am a total retard when it comes to this stuff, damnit. I can't find which one is suppsoed to work with Apple. Will there be a date/time we can get together and get this done?

[snip]

I dont have a Mac to test on, but my recollection of an older one is that you want the OSX Distribution off that page Guinness linked since it is downloading a .dmg file.

[The Rock Doctor]

I was tinkering with the 1/14 report and was like, "Hey, I've got the cash, I should use up all my excess BP!"

Then I realized that having 43 BP of construction going on this turn was going to leave me wondering how to allocate the mere 28 BP I'd have next turn.  So things got slashed back to a more sustainable level.

[The Rock Doctor]

My next few sim reports are going to be simple:

-Battleships
-Canals.

They eat up something like half the cash budget and 2/3 of the BP.

[snip]

My 1914H1 report is a little behind its final tinkers because of a big fur torpedo name Desriel.



We adopted her yesterday and she is settling in nice.

[The Rock Doctor]

Congrats!

We acquired two pups in the spring - a Labrador named Uther (code-name Lugnut) and a Catahoula named Remington (code-name Dippy).  It brings us up to 4.25 dogs, though the chihuahua and one of the sheepdogs are up there in age.

[Desertfox]

I take it the Chihuahua only counts as 0.25 of a dog?

[The Rock Doctor]

I take it the Chihuahua only counts as 0.25 of a dog?

She's a lovely little thing that spends about 23 hours a day sleeping, so yes.

[The Rock Doctor]

Do we have formal guidelines/rules for simming sailing rig?

[snip]

I dont think there is anything formal. I know there was something back in the N4 days that seemed "reasonable" to me, I'll try and dig it up.

EDIT: My memory does not fail me, from here.

Hulls and Sails

Hull Materials: The 19th Century saw rapid changes in materials that ships hulls were constructed off.  In less than 50 years the worlds battlefleets moved from hulls of Wooden Hulls, to Ironclad, Iron hull and finally steel construction.  These different materials have different abilities to take the load of the ships weight.     

Sail vs. Steam: As the 19th century progressed there was a transition of warships from sail propulsion, to steam backup and finally to all steam propulsion.  The switch over to steam comes because of two reasons.  First is that ships can steam all the time in all weather conditions.  The second is that rigging is a fire hazard and source of possible debris to block the ships deck.  Of course a ship with sails does not need to go to port to coal and doesn't require the ship engine to be maintained.  So sailing ships will remain common in civilian service for a great deal of time.

To simulate the weight of a ships sail gear and the ballast to counter the torque effects the mast has on the hull misc. weight will be used.  A portion will be below the waterline misc. weight and the other as above the deck misc. weight both found on the Weapons tab for SpringSharp3.

There are two types of sail plans that ships can follow. The Full Rigged Ship (3 masted ship) or Brigantine / Brig (2 masted ship).

A full rigged ship can do up to 2/3 of SS hull speed (not ship engine speed but speed based on hull) Displacement costs being 1.5% misc weight above hull for Full Rigged Ship and 6.5% misc weight below deck.  On a 6,000 ton ship this comes out to 480 total misc tons.

A Brigantine can do 1/2 of SS hull speed.  Displacement costs being 1% Misc Weight above hull and 4% misc weight below deck.  On a 6,000 ton ship this comes out to 300 total misc tons.

[The Rock Doctor]

Thanks for that.