So I am one of the folks with the belief that sailing the ocean is going to have its share of problems in terms of scale of the world map and what not. There's something that will be mechanically off about it. I propose we consider how sky ships could be a main course of sailing, especially at higher levels of grind.
The sky ship technology is already started, we have hot air balloons and gliders. What if these tools were used to land on island clouds?
Most skills have a point where the skill unlocks something drastic. For sailing, it could move players onto airships.
There are a couple of mechanical benefits to airships. Clouds are not a finite resource. Ships that sail the water are bound to static, permanent islands. Air ships could be used as a vehicle towards randomly generated islands, tapping into the infinite resource of cloud based islands. This could be a mechanic that helps keep the grind to 99 a fresh experience.
Skills typically have a host of quests associated with them. One of the quests could be sailing to the cloud permanently located over Morytania, unlocking a new continent roughly the size of karamja floating in the sky.
Making the game taller instead of wider provides Jagex with some serious flexibility. This could be an easy way to implement the scale sailing is supposed to be without getting pigeonholed into static world map changes.
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29-Apr-2023 17:05:45
