Devlog

The player guide was written from the sim's own numbers, the welcome page opened on a clip of a frigate making sail, the great ships gained carved bows and sterns, and the open sea learned what to do…

Chain shot now brings masts down one at a time and they fall over the side, the tutorial became two, and the gun stations show their loading and your hits.

Ships you leave behind now sail in squadron and answer flag signals, struck ships became derelicts, and the Battle Builder replaced the list of engagements.

The open sea became one sea for everyone, round a walled capital called Corona, with a chart that stays blank until you explore it and ship's boats that can take prizes.

Engagements stopped ending, a tutorial arrived to teach the controls, and the Co-op Arena opened as a standing room that anyone can join.

The Cabal's ships got captains who sail and fight them, and members can now fight each other in multiplayer rooms.

The busiest day yet: the first engagement, the Frigate Duel, a shipyard with a page and drawings for every hull, and battles cut from fifty minutes to five.

The sim moved into a home of its own: Quarterdeck became one site, with the world at /world/ and a community site around it, at qd.navalgaming.com.

The ships got guns, crews to fight them and an enemy to fight: every ship but yours now flies for the Notorious Plantation Cabal.

The sails stopped being a speed setting and started being sails: the yards now catch the wind, back, push the ship astern and turn it.

Quarterdeck began as a single ship on a blank sea in the browser, sailed by hand against a shifting wind.