OW Speed

[Captain Lust]

How exactly is OW speed calculated? What factors play a role?

[Prater]

Well, the knots value is how fast you travel 400 coordinate units per minute.  A lot of things can affect this speed, such as weight, ship type, modules, knowledge, etc.

[Hodo]

I believe it is 2*battle speed of ship at that point of sail.  

This does not include any mast or sail bonuses like studding sails or stay sails.  BUT does include hard increases, like copper plating, lead sheeting, speed trim.  

So if you have a Snow that does 12kn at 135 in battle, it will do 24 kn in OW at 135.   

 

 

[Prater]

I forgot to mention OW speed is roughly double your battle speed.  I do not think the cap applies though.  I got my Lynx to 15 knots battle and I was getting 31 knots OW.  I applied optimized ballast and I now hit 34 knots OW, 15 knots battle with 96% sails.

[DeRuyter]

Cargo weight does effect OW speed. Not sure how much the reduction is, but if you overload your ship with battle loot your speed will be very noticeably reduced.

[Yankee jack]

"Overload" will slow you down a lot!  

[Hodo]

57 minutes ago, Prater said:

I forgot to mention OW speed is roughly double your battle speed.  I do not think the cap applies though.  I got my Lynx to 15 knots battle and I was getting 31 knots OW.  I applied optimized ballast and I now hit 34 knots OW, 15 knots battle with 96% sails.

That is because I dont think the speed cap in battle affects your open world speed.  

So you can reach 34-35kn OW.