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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant

Sextants are mid level jewelry crafting items (requiring at least 30 skill to attempt).  They can be made out of any metal.  Optional extra :- some metals (not sure which) giving a slight bonus to accuracy.

 

To use select, then right click on a visible celestial body (sun or any of the 3 moons) and choose "navigate".  A 120 second timer will start up (reduced by QL of sextant).  When this time ends it will return a message

"After sighting <celestialobjectname> you calculate that your position is roughly (lat\long)".

The accuracy is not a tile by tile accuracy, but a rough location (maybe as accurate as one small server map square).  A nice idea would be to have QL effect accuracy (a 100 QL sextant being capable of giving exact location, scaling down to the map tile location at 1QL).

Each use damages the sextant slightly.

Of course we could also just get one of these for christmas....

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With the 'promised' bridges there are new parts for a dioptra, they include a sight and protractor, sounds a lot like we will have the parts for a sextant right there.


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Excellent idea, especially for us Wurm astronomers!


 


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New Jewelry smithing items?


An action besides examine on the celestial bodies?


More use for tracking...?


 


 


 


 


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I'll put my neck out and give this one a bump.  These are something nice that would help every player...


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Going to bump this up since it still seems like a good idea all this time later.


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Bump


If not a sextant then a 'boat compass' mounted to the boat itself that is not negated by movement.


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With the 'promised' bridges there are new parts for a dioptra, they include a sight and protractor, sounds a lot like we will have the parts for a sextant right there.

 

All you need is a measure of time for longitude. Latitude is just a simple angle calculation at solar zenith. Or a good "chart" I guess and we have maps.

 

+1 to idea revival and to sextants!

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