Sail around World feat

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by TheArsenal
Refresh my memory, can this feat be achieved by using two ships which sail half the world each?

I am sure this is not the case with the Super Apolyton Pack 2 as I wondered if it were possible in the last game I have played a few days ago. Two longships sailed in opposite directions and when they crossed each other paths at the other end of the map I was not given the feat. I thought it had already been awarded to an AI civilization but I earned it later when my ships pushed their exploration further away in different parts of the map.

[TheArsenal]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
I am sure this is not the case with the Super Apolyton Pack 2 as I wondered if it were possible in the last game I have played a few days ago. Two longships sailed in opposite directions and when they crossed each other paths at the other end of the map I was not given the feat. I thought it had already been awarded to an AI civilization but I earned it later when my ships pushed their exploration further away in different parts of the map.

Thanks. This is one feat I never tracked carefully. I generally push several early exploration ships out at once in various directions and always seem to be taken by surprise when I am told I achieved this feat.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by TheArsenal
Thanks. This is one feat I never tracked carefully. I generally push several early exploration ships out at once in various directions and always seem to be taken by surprise when I am told I achieved this feat.

This is a feat I don't try to rush at as the AI civs are not trying to achieve it in the earlier part of the game, if they are interested in it at all (that I don't know). When I have two ships which are of no use elsewhere I sail around the world.

[J Bytheway]

Here's a slightly more graphical demonstration of what Locutus was saying. The thick white line is a line of constant x, and you can see that you went from that line all the way back to it, thus you went round the world. (x might actually be decreasing, rather than increasing where it says...)

[HuangShang]

oh i see what u mean now
now we can all expliot it

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by HuangShang
oh i see what u mean now
now we can all expliot it

All in all you will only gain a few squares, I don't think it is worth bothering about it.

[Locutus]

Yeah, J Bytheway is correct, that's exactly what I meant (the direction is right as well). And yes, Maq started out at x-coord 20 and when he got the feat he was at x-coord 21 and he had crossed all other x-coords...

Tamerlin,
Actually, if you take the route that the arrow on J's map indicates (in an angle of 90 degrees to the x-axis), you only have to travel ~half the map (more precisely: 1/2 * sqrt(mapwidth^2+mapheight^2)), so you could safe a bit more than 'a few' squares.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Locutus
Tamerlin,
Actually, if you take the route that the arrow on J's map indicates (in an angle of 90 degrees to the x-axis), you only have to travel ~half the map (more precisely: 1/2 * sqrt(mapwidth^2+mapheight^2)), so you could safe a bit more than 'a few' squares.

I think I have missed something in an earlier post and thus I did not understood it like that, it becomes a kind of bug that can be exploited then.

[J Bytheway]

Because of the way the squares work travelling along the arrow will take the same number of moves as travelling horizontally or vertically, though.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
Because of the way the squares work travelling along the arrow will take the same number of moves as travelling horizontally or vertically, though.

So this is a matter of distance travelled and not of number of squares.

[Alex]

We are all forgetting about the map geography, aren't we?

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Alexnm
We are all forgetting about the map geography, aren't we?

It seems this flaw is not linked to the configuration of the map choosen by the player. I remember having been awarded this feat when I had not sailed through the whole map and I am always playing with the SAP2 and normal maps.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
Because of the way the squares work travelling along the arrow will take the same number of moves as travelling horizontally or vertically, though.

D'oh, you're right... What was i thinking...

Well, at least this bug can't be exploited then, even though it still doesn't really make sense geographically...