Please just remove boats and put ports in [Blue AND Red]

[Kender]

Originally Posted by Man0warr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Boats working isn't classic. Riding a boat was a shitshow in classic.

actually boats worked fine in classic. they didnt start breaking till the luclin era when they started changing the graphics engine

[khanable]

Originally Posted by Kender [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

actually boats worked fine in classic. they didnt start breaking till the luclin era when they started changing the graphics engine

Untrue, they were always shitty

I can dig up some posts but I found a few from early 2000 of people complaining of the wait and how they'd break and you'd have to petition and shit

[Kender]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Untrue, they were always shitty

I can dig up some posts but I found a few from early 2000 of people complaining of the wait and how they'd break and you'd have to petition and shit

maybe i was lucky then. i never had an issue with boats

[Crom]

Originally Posted by Recycleb1n [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why do I remember ports between boat locations then. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks for providing a compelling argument with zero substance.

Actually...every time the boats got bugged, they put in "porting gnomes" untill they fixed the boats again...so it is as classic to have porting gnomes as it is to have boats...(but they were only ingame when boats didn't work if I remember correct)

[Swish]

Boats working as intended in Archeage, perhaps we could learn a thing or two?

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[Ravager]

Are boats gone yet?

[Haloren]

Originally Posted by Recycleb1n [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nah. It's got nothing to do with hard or easy. It's about it being quality of life suggestion. I am completely uncompelled as to how the suggestion affects you in any way, shape or form. Especially since I can't log two accounts in even though its CLASSIC.

If you've been in EC for more than five minutes you will see someone standing around ooc'ing many times for a port to Lavastorm or Sro. They are 2-3 zones over. Thats lazy and ridiculous. Even for those that are in a hurry to get to a group or a target. By the time you actually get a public port you could have probably already been there. I would almost venture to say the same about taking a boat depending on the time of day given how many times ive used a boat.

As a player who has a 50+ Druid AND ports many people all the time, I take the boats on my other characters. I may take a port here or there but I enjoy the boats too. Sometimes I will get there and to my luck here it comes. Other times i'm like "oh come on, how long does it take" That's classic.

Adding porters do not solve your or anyone else's problems of maximizing your time on when playing. Get a port if you don't want to spend your time using the boats. I choose to spend my time using the boats. no one is preventing you from finding a druid or forcing you to use them.

Quality of life suggestion...hmm. Well, things are always better in the future. But, we have chosen to spend our time in the past. A specific past for better or worse. And as much as I have complaints about things that I wish there was on the server that aren't technically classic. I am happy with the server very much. You could enjoy the freedom on another server but you wont have the classic discipline (yes i know of the caveats) we have here.

Cheers to the folks who fixed the boats.

Okay back to my 1999 coma.

[Buellen]

OP and those who support him

when you started here you did see the title project 1999 right ? you did read the information on front page and the rest of the stuff about this server and what it is about right ? you understood the goals of the server admin are trying to reach right ? (if not see my sig for the quote)

During original release , kunark, and velious THEIR WAS NO PORTING GNOMES. if a boat broke you waited, found a port , and or found something else to do where you was at.

I am also not a raider or hard core I have leveled my war from 1 to 50 and have traveled by boats many many many times. IF you do not like boats and or paying for port then i highly recommend you pick a class/race the starts where you want to level 1 to whatever level you wish to adventure here too, without having to take a boat or paying for a port.

Leveling a warrior i knew i would be running /swimming everywhere I wanted to go. I made the decision at level 14 to set my self up in fiona vie as my main bind point. I did this because i would be take the boat to timorous and swimming to fire pots chamber to port myself to wherever i needed. Ina all the level from 14 to 50 i have done the swim to fire pot chamber many many many …. times and only ever got killed once because i swam to close to raptor island.

—-how to swim to fire pot from fiona vie —
take boat (if you have to wait fish , do laundry , clean your office etc till boat arrives)
when boat zone in jump of the west side and swim south west till you reach neg 10500 the North /south number of LOC command.
swim directly west till you reach positive 4000 in East / West part of LOC command, and start to swim south you will quickly come to the sunken spire marking the fire pot room.
have a handy map of the fire pot room so you can quickly zone to where you need to go or just memorize it like idid after so many trips.

[Evia]

No boat rides? Are you mad? might as well bring in the POP expansion pack because the whole "insta teleport" aspect kills my immersion. I like feeling like I'm playing in a "living breathing fantasy world" and the long boat rides (unfortunately, sometimes) play into that.

[kaev]

Originally Posted by khanable [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Untrue, they were always shitty

I can dig up some posts but I found a few from early 2000 of people complaining of the wait and how they'd break and you'd have to petition and shit

There was definitely some craziness with boats pre-Kunark, lots of players would bank their gear before taking boat from FP to BBM or vice versa. GMs tended to turn a deaf ear to boat problems (like getting murdered by sharks and cyclopses).