Boats are awful

[Jimjam]

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

Yeah, they're classic. On live they've still got the two boats running the original routes. I hear boats are a real pain in the ass to code on the emu, though.

Didn't OOT get redone on live? Was it rolled back to the original one?

[Sorn]

OOT is redone and instanced and the boats were reskinned and go really fast, but they didn't change the routes from what I could tell. The zone's still mostly water.

[jolanar]

I thought the boats went twice as slow here because it's the only way to make it so people don't fall off?

I support 2 boats to make up the difference.

[Sorn]

They go about the right speed (15 min one-way, 30 min round trip), but with two you only have to wait 15 min max at the docks instead of the current half hour.

[myriverse]

Generally, P99 boats are several times better than they were on Live.

[maskedmelon]

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

What's worse than waiting 45 minutes for OT boat?

Waiting 45 minutes for OT boat and having some ass train a goon just as it's about to leave.

Trains very often can move you much faster than boats.

[nectarprime]

Boats are part of what makes this version of EQ so special.

[Tupakk]

Did t think people still took the boats.

[lowner411]

Yea, some people still take the boats, if for no other reason to get into the OOT. Others don't feel they have the plat for a good DaP tip, because they are new and not twinked, and others are stubborn, and some just want to do it and get a joy of shouting "BOAT" when it comes in.

Yes, they are slow, and doubling the number of boats would be great. And yes, they must be hard to program in Sony/Verant/Dayspring doesn't want to program them, I can imagine our extremely talented volunteers aren't terribly interested in it, either.

[yyrkoon]

if boats were fast they would be called planes