Bring WINDCATCHER back please!

[Edward Edgemenace]

On thing I do notice on pirates that have windcatcher, is that NPC ships shoot behind my ship, instead of at me. That does not mean (nor even imply) that my ship is traveling any faster. Many tests now, repeated by other people, confirm that this is the case: windcatcher is broken. But you personally, I am not asking to believe, anything.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by Edward Edgemenace

On thing I do notice on pirates that have windcatcher, is that NPC ships shoot behind my ship, instead of at me. That does not mean (nor even imply) that my ship is traveling any faster. Many tests now, repeated by other people, confirm that this is the case: windcatcher is broken. But you personally, I am not asking to believe, anything.

I apologize, then.
I just went on a while ago and asked a friend to help me test this.

While I used a rank four windcatcher and got close to an enemy ship I had my friend sail next to me.
My speed didn't show an increase as I sailed neck and neck with him and the enemy fire went behind me.
My question is, why would POTCO waste time making enemy ships do that anytime we use windcatcher when it would be easier to make our ships go faster?

Talk about a good optical illusion.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

My question is, why would POTCO waste time making enemy ships do that anytime we use windcatcher when it would be easier to make our ships go faster?

To give advantage to people who knew about the defect, an initial advantage in SvS when it was first released. (There was no "re-training" back then.)

Yup, very obviously harder to go to the trouble of making the convincing optical illusion, instead of just making the ships go faster (exactly as described.)

[Arioch]

Ok ......so we all know (most) of us that windcatcher does not make your ship (any ship) faster in any way shape or form... This I have known for months however the fact that it causes the affect of throwing off the aim of enemy ships?

This has not been noticed by me as I stopped using the skill entirely a long time ago.

So with that being said if you use lets say windcatcher 5 there is a possibility that you will be a hard ship to hit with broadsides in svs?

Just throwing this out there as I have noticed a lot of ships that seem to be harder to hit with broadsides and was blaming it on the server (abassa)

This is food for thought as it seemed to be the weaker ships (nubes) and evidently people who were not informed wind catcher does not work.

going to have to do somes tests concerning this in the near future. quite possibly it might also throw off the aim of gunners as well but I seriously doubt that.