Accuracy functions exactly like it did before. Accuracy mods result in an absolute increase in chance to hit. Watching individual hits doesn't give a good perception of the impact of accuracy mods due to random hit rolls. Log combat for a period of time and compare the hit rates and you should see a proportional increase in hits.

All accuracy values are shown now instead of having hidden server-side values. Take your gun accuracy and subtract the defense of your target and you have the unmodified chance to hit. Before, accuracy on guns was kind of an arbitrary point because you couldn't see how the target would affect your chance to hit.

If it says "<Blah> Speed, All" then it affects OS speeds. So, yes.

Read the second post.

Server side fixes only. The crash in the open sea and some video corruption issues patch will go to testbed today and then be deployed in a day or two.

/stance wide would be a bad idea. All the animations will pop badly at the feet.

Yeah people hated that.

Moving this thread to a more appropriate subforum.

Much of that information is, sadly, completely lost to history. However, we do know that many -- perhaps even most -- early American shipwrights were either born and learned their craft in England, or the scions of those who did. So any study of English shipwrightry of the period, in combination with American pictorial sources, is potentially fruitful.

That said, I'd recommend finding two books at your local library: Howard Chapelle's book on early American ships, and K. H. Marquart's book The Global Schooner. While IMHO they both have their scholarship issues, they provide a good place to start, including some early pictorial evidence. I believe more detailed info on both these books is in the sticky.

Moved from the Shipwright Discussion forum.

On a side note, JonBlaze from Gorath, SWG?