ObiQuiet Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 In a flight sim, players learn "flaps", "ailerons", "pitch" and "yaw". In Naval Action, they could learn "Port", "Starboard", "Fore" and "Aft". 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Actually this brings good memories of bloops and mishaps of flight situations I like the correct terms in the UI but don't mind about voice chat being left/right etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Terkildsen Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Aren't we forgetting about larboard? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObiQuiet Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share Posted July 14, 2016 Yes, we are. "Port" was declared the replacement for "larboard" by the RN in 1844, though of course "port" was in use before that especially for steering commands. So, I think "port" is good enough for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturin Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 An option in the game menu, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sella Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 Wasn't larboard eventually "replaced" by port because it sounds to similar to starboard? There was one historical event that lead to that that currently escapes me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Jack Walker Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 I would love that change...more immersion...and so easy to learn for everyone in the end . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObiQuiet Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share Posted July 14, 2016 Should be larboard and starboard. Some more background: L. G. Carr Laughton (1928) THE WAY of a SHIP, The Mariner's Mirror, 14:2, 132-148, DOI: 10.1080/00253359.1928.10655462 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1928.10655462 p.136: "Mainwaring, who compiled his Seaman's Dictionary between I 6 2 o and I 6 2 2, knows both ''larboard'' and '' port,'' and wrote in what was clearly the period of transition. The origin of the term "port" is difficult, and hardly belongs to this enquiry; and it does not seem necessary to say more here than that, after continuing in limited use for two centuries, for helm orders, and as applied to the heeling of the ship or the topping of the yards, it did not fully come into its own until I 844, when it was promoted by Admiralty Order to be used for all purposes 'Vice "larboard" thereby abolished. For at least twenty years before that date "larboard" had been dropping into disuse, so that the order in fact did little more than confirm a change which had already become almost complete. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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