Navigators Guide to Sailwind - Using the Quadrant

[@grumbotron4597]

My favorite part of this game so far is how the community comes together to chart the stars just like the sailors of old, and use that knowledge to navigate the ocean. Really cool detail that I've never seen in a game before.

[@Stan-f9c]

Excellent tutorial. I'm coming back to the game after a year and have forgotten all of this.

[@ravenheartwraith]

thank you for this, especially the second half that's not on the instruction paper.

[@anarchopupgirl]

Fantastic work, mate, this was really helpful, I made my first voyage to Oasis today and being able to check my latitude nightly eased my anxiety very much

[@PeglegNav]

Thank you for giving a visual reference!!! Super appreciate you!

[@newgirlde]

1:37 North Star Location 2:08 Quadrant Useage at night 2:26 Quadrant Useage at noon 4:54 First Longitude Reading (1900) 5:46 Second Longitude Reading (Midnight) 6:33 Third Longitude Reading (0520)

[@newgirlde]

When you pulled up the navigators guide ingame it showed the community name for the constellation, but it doesn't show that ingame for me.

[@odin7hewanderer424]

thank you very helpful indeed still

[@seanbowman9180]

How do you know what to subtract from the reading for longitude? I dont quite understand where you get that specific number for that specific time etc.

[@SimGamerTV]

I just did the math from the chart provided to get the equation. At the specified time, Milnead is 15-degrees above the horizon at Aestrin, aka Longitude zero, but, it's 20-degrees above the horizon at Gold Rock City, which is at -5 Longitude. Thus 15 - 20 = -5. The times were chosen by the community specifically to find a star close enough to the horizon to use. Hope that helps.

[@JTelli786]

So with the North Star method does the time of night matter? I’m assuming it would, how would one judge the time without the clock?

[@SimGamerTV]

As long as the North Star is visible, latitude can be read at any time at night.

[@elnico5623]

the planet (pretty sure it's not earth) rotates along an axis right? the northen star is a star that so happens to be right along that axis, so it is directly above the north pole, since latitude is just that, degrees away from the north pole you can always use it regardless of your longitude or time of night

[@amygrindhouse4193]

i dont get it...

[@obiwanfisher537]

How does the quadran know the angle though? I get how it works in game - point and it and it magically knows. But weird. With a sextant you have these mirrors etc so you can see whatever you aim at and the horizon, and when both is centered you can read the angle. But this tool? I think it's fictional, or someone needs to explain it to me o.o

[@SimGamerTV]

It has a weighted plunger on the bottom of the line. So the indicator is always weighted strait down even when the sight aims up.

[@obiwanfisher537]

@@SimGamerTV Ohhh... I see. It looked like a lever or something to adjust with the hand.

[@jeffjefferson5095]

@@obiwanfisher537 I’d say more like a pendulum. It could literally be a free hanging string with an angle card. Look it up online, it’ll make more sense. 👍

[@SuperSeagull12]

It's just a weight on a string, that's pulled down by gravity. You can imagine that when you go to look at the side to read the number you pin down the string with your hand.