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I don't know that I'd worry too much about converting locations to compass directions; there don't seem to be that many people who see it that way. I suppose I'm just planning to use your reference points as though they are the uniform front/back and right/left orientations used by everyone; so, using those orientations for reference, I could now give my own front/back and left/right directions to players that don't respond well to my compass directions/referential landmarks.
Personally, I've spent hours on the high seas, not earning rep at all, but just observing respawns and sailing patterns (often just following vessels around to see where they'll sail). There are lots of things in the game that I have no awareness of, but the High Seas seem like a very small place to me and even after they make changes I pick up the changes quickly.
Unfortunately, my sense of direction is heavily tied to either cardinal directions/fairly specific distances, or by reference landmark. So, for example, I might say that a ship is west of Padres Del Fuego, or that its sailing route is confined to Mariner's Reef, or that it is usually on the same side of PDF as the main town.
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