More realistic boat travel - should it be done

techolous · Post by **techolous** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:29 pm

Since code for player driven transports has been commited, shoud some of the boats used for transportation between cities actualy travel between the cities and not instantly transport the player?

kshinji · Post by **kshinji** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 9:54 am

Ekhm... wouldnt they be doing it to long?

elmex · Post by **elmex** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:28 am

Hm, making the boat traveling a real travel would be nice. but it's
not fun to ship around the whole continent to get to navar for example,
or 20 minutes only water to get to lakecountry or santo dominio.

Traveling to navar over the land is quite dull already, and doing that trip
everytime again is also not very fun. I heard from quite some games
where you have a travel-book and you can travel to visited places with
such a book very quick. This way you take the long travel to navar once
and can get back to scorn and to navar again in no time.
This is of course not realistic, but realsim is not the aim IMHO, fun should
be the aim.

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:45 pm

The only problem with that approach is that it is normally only used in single-player games, where game-time and play-time can be two different things, this can't happen in a multiplayer game.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:49 am

theyre enchanted ships, they travel quickly, but with a slight delay. they should be a portal, and a small ship map, so you can walk around, but keep it less than 10-20 seconds. then the user can disembark, through another portal.

kshinji · Post by **kshinji** » Sat May 06, 2006 8:24 pm

seconded

elmex · Post by **elmex** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:59 pm

Aaron wrote:theyre enchanted ships, they travel quickly, but with a slight delay. they should be a portal, and a small ship map, so you can walk around, but keep it less than 10-20 seconds. then the user can disembark, through another portal.

That sounds like an good idea to me. I've had that in a textmud, that when you travelled
with a ship it took some time...
IMHO it would be okay to model a boat map and make the travels even longer
(1-2 minutes?) dependend on the distance.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Mon May 08, 2006 9:53 pm

not 1-2 minutes unless you give a very good reason, and let the user know there game hasnt just frozen up... and a way to see scenery would be nice

techolous · Post by **techolous** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:28 pm

The way i was thinking of doing this, was by hooking a script onto one of the new transports (there are a few boats in scorn's port that have been converted specificly for that map). Instead of the player(s) moving it, it would have a pre-set course (using waypoints taken from a file), with some inteligence dealing with how to get back on course if the boat/cart/etc is pushed around.

After that gets done, i was also thinking about adding a way to have a way to call additional scripts (specified in the list of waypoints), so ships could run into storms, get attacked by pirates, get lost (part of a quest), etc.

BTW, with the transports you can see what is around the boat (you see the boat not yourself moving on the map). Also every method of using the new transports to crash a server involves picking it up, which won't be allowed for these ones.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:04 pm

what about a magic carpet or djini bottle? you can pick them up, and then drop them and get in, or trap people and bind them to the lamp. unless of course they blow their way out...