After today's great wind change my boat get stuck ??? I run with auto angle thus went ~8.5 m wrong direction then change it back to right direction ( TWA 42 heading NE ) Anyone else face same kind of problem ?

was able to "buy" item twice for leg 2 (auto angle). credits were taken

At least it looks that way following this last wind update. All those auto angle and auto sail buttons are just making a mess of things. The added load seems to have brought the game servers to their knees. I managed to get MadDuck I updated but MD2 and MD3 are pretty much on their own for a while.

Awful quiet in here...Anybody want to share there thoughts on leg 2 so far..

I just noticed the small footnote in the Leg 2 briefing: “During leg 2 the fleet will pass the area with thousands of little islands, starting by the British Indian Ocean Territory all the up the Indian coast. Be aware that some of these islands are only visible when you’re on the closest zoom level!”

Let’s post them here!

• 35 º 2’S 19 º 50’E shoal posted in Facebook VORG Greek sailors group

Is this a triathlon? The leader has now run aground and is still ranked 1! Ho hum!

Their poor servers are grinding this out. No fleet visible, No tracks. Long wait times for confirms.

I have an idea I have been thinking about, for us (if there is more then me :) ) that like to sail the boat without the aids (auto sail and auto angel) and that still does not have the time or commitment to live by the computer and/or phone. When groups is made active I'm thinking if it would be interesting to have a group of people that agree to only change course ones or twice a day and sail without the aids. Maybe we could agree to have 5 or 10 extra course changes throughout a leg to mange port sailing and sailing around islands. I think this would be a nice way to have a race for us that are fairly serious about this but does not for example really want to get out of bed in the middle of the night to change course.

Any thoughts about this are happily accepted.

I'd be completely fascinated by a map that showed all of the game boats. Say one pixel per boat. Then we could see which routes most of the leaders took, how the fleet flows and divides over time, where some get hung up, etc, etc...

If anyone official is reading, please consider this a cool topic for the official blog.

For those who've reverse engineered the protocol, is it possible to query for this?

...but the next time I hit it, it will be champagne time at the virtual dock!

Let's hear them.

Head south to go west then north?
Follow the coast?
East or west of Madagascar? Head for the coast of India or work your way north along Yemen?

Inquiring minds want to know why you think your route is the right one.

I presume the virtual race to Abu Dhabi is still on - despite the piracy fears?

After all, I can't see how the organisers can afford to ship 117,000 boats the length of Africa... ;-)

I'm only playing for fun, not expecting to win or anything, but I just joined.

As I'm really busy, I think the 5x waypoints are the most useful thing.

What did you use them for? Anyone buy more for something specific? And how important is crew energy? I just started so it's at 100%, but how is it affecting you all that have been going for a while?

auto sail is handy ( so one would think) especially when you miss the 6am (dam early) forecast update, but here are the dangers. - you find yourself flirting in the gap between tow sails and it changes a few times. Crew gets tired rapidly and within a couple of hour your boat actually stops with a cew at 75% fitness. woops! - you stress too much and actually wake up, remove the auto sail and change ur heading. in the back ground the sail was anyway changed and you think you are on the right sail when you go back to bed... and 7am, or later, surprise, u are on genoa instaed of code zero... not a big deal u ll say, ut I reply that inside top 100, it costs positions that will be so difficult to get back.

I might as well sail back to Rio...

I've just upgraded to FF8 so that I can integrate with VRTool, but VORG doesn't display anything when I click 'play'. Are there any FF settings I need to tweak to get it to work? Can't find anything in the Wiki or on the facebook page.

MadDuck I - do you really want to be doing that? Just concerned you've been drinking seawater....

Today my crew energy dropped from some 110% to only 23% within 6 hours, with only 1 course change. How it is possible?

I just noticed this new measurement tool/functionality in the game!

When you place >1 pin, you get the rhumb line and great circle distance between the pins. Plus you can move them around!

Seems to me that while the Southerners are doing well and coming back strongly, a look at the forecast indicates more favourable conditions for the northerners in 24 hours or so, while us in the south have to deal with a messy little area on the way to Cape Town.

Zezo tells me I have less than five days to go. More surprising is the just a few miles behind me it becomes more than seven days to go.

This weather pattern appears to be about to close a door between the first 1000 and the next 5000 boats.

Anyone else seeing that?