Hi polish sailors !
First, sorry for not speaking your language. This is a little message coming from France.
I visited your forum some years ago when I was playing Virtual Regatta...
With some good friends (wineblood, gtlog and cookie), one year ago we start building a new "winds cells" sailing game (kind of like the old Virtual Regatta principle: same wind parameter in each 1° x 1° cell).
It is a long way, not fully accomplished, but it's geting better and better.
The name of the game is "regattagame" and it's over here:
http://www.regattagame.net
You can try it and play with the "demo" boat without registering, click the english flag, then the "visit website" button.
There are three main types of races running on:
- WeekRaces: around 2 days race starting each friday at 20h00 UTC+1.
- Challenges (Marsylia - Kartagina, Emden - Rostock, Atlantic (north) record (with a wodolot) and Jules Verne Trophy. Challenges are always open, the aim is to beat a record.
- Races: the Clipper legs are ongoing, Frozen race leg 3 will start this sunday at 20h00 UTC+1
Different boats, and polars are used depending on the races.
RegattaGame is free. It's developped by a team of volunteers. However it's possible to donate a few euros that are used for hosting costs.
Donate give you 9 schedules instead of 5 and 9 waypoints instead of 5, and allows you to customize a bit the game interface.
Everybody (donators and not donators) plays with the same boats and same 5 sails.
If you are used to VR, you will learn regattagame very fast
Some specific things with regattagame are:
- no advertisement of any kind,
- listening to the players problems and wishes
,- kind of lighter interface that doesn't need any browser plugins (except one for audio, but sounds are not mandatory),
- a bit of random in the winds forecasts, so it's not really worth it trying to get the forecasts as early as possible,
- random "fog periods" in which you can not see the other boats,
- coming soon, a stealthy mode that will hide your boat from others for a given time.
Everything is explained in the user manual:
http://regattagame.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=190
There are some very good skippers playing, leading sometimes to very short time differences like 1 minute after several days sailing ! You might know some of them if you are playing VR...
The game languages are french and english butit's easy to add other languages if needed...
Feel free to test it.
Ask here or on regattagame forum if something is not clear.
Fair wind to all of you.
blzblz, for regattagame.
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Januszku ...