I'm sure "Sailor Babes" would be a better gimmick -maybe "Sailor Pete" in some areas but what about a generic title that would allow you to feature different areas of the world later - like Flight Simulator? For example

Open Waters: The Greek Isles
"Captain your own ship to exotic shores."

then later you could do

Open Waters: The Caribbean

and so on

Sailing Waters...

just a remark:
The demofile is corrupted (only ca 5 MB)

Hey,

the new title (and hopefully the last ) is Days of Sail: Wind over Waters™

Thank you all for your ideas and insights. Unfortunately I can't edit the original post, so please update your bookmarks:

Trial demo
web page
Trailer 8MB
Trailer 23MB

There's still time left for last-minute fixes before going public... Your opinions are very important.

A thing I have noticed:

i dont see where the wind is coming from...
Maybe you add a kind of flag on top of the boad, that is swinging with the wind,
or some kind of Winddirection-Compass.


Ok, just saw it is on the HUD,
but maybe another flag would be nice.

Also, did you apply mip-maps onto the models?

I have left my island-terrains without mip-mapping, just look better this way. But, actually, I would eventually opt for better islands than the ones I've got, probably in a next version with Sphere and chunked terrains... Besides, Damocles, I'm jealous of your terrains!

All other models have mip-maps - or at least I think they all do...

please chack that,
it seemed to me, that the Houses and other models either have no
mipmaps, or you have set the mip-mapping distance different.
(d3d_mipmapping = 0; or
mip_flat
mip_shaded
differently
)

well, indeed a couple of models were not mipmapped.
Thanks for pointing it out.

Well, has anyone finished the race in a good position or the sim in time, or do you still think it's too difficult?

I managed to finish 5th place in race mode (after a bad start with people bashing me about...) and in simulation mode I ALMOST reahced the finish line. These results were made on easy.