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Valcyra
Sep Member 2005

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Looks a lot like my skill suggestion, when you made the competition for a new skill.

I can try to repost it here:

The sailing skill we never had... Sea navigating:

This skill combines crafting and construction for building the boats, and the new sea navigating skill for different tasks you can do with the boats and ships.

With the new sea navigating skill, you can go treasure hunt, discover new land and cities, and you can sail goods.

You could go fishing or you could fight sea monsters, pirates or even fight other players in some areas.

You can race other players and stake in a pound, win or lose. You can also race NPC's and win smaller amounts of resources and gp's if you want to see how your boat sails.

Actually there are many possibilities on how to train your new sea navigating skill.

Have in mind that the below is just examples.

Building boats of different materials, using your construction and crafting skills:

- All kind of planks
- Steal bars
- Wax
- Rope
- Swamp paste
- Fine clothes for the sail, sewn together with thread (crafting skill)
- Cannons for a Frigate or other warships
- Paint (dye) for the boat, if you don’* want it just woody look, you can dye the main boat.
- Also dye the sails and the flags of the boat. This could be pirate style or crusade style, or
your heraldic banner style.
- Rudder for steering the boat (crafting skill)
- Paddles (crafting skill)

Boats to build:

Fishing ships:
- Kayak
- Rowboat
- Fishing boat

Explore ships:
- Christopher Columbus Santa Maria
- Schooner

Goods transport ships*:
- Ancient Greek Merchant ship
- Roman Merchant Ship
- The Kyrenia ship
- The Merchant Ship Afloat

Cargo and warship:
- San Gabriel (up to 4 cannons) can hold the largest amount of cargo

War ships
- Viking warship "Stallion of the Sea" (0 cannons)
- Frigate "Frigatten Jylland" (up to 6 cannons)**

Racing sail boat:
- Optimist dinghy
- Courageous
- Columbia J-Yacht
- Bermuda Sl RS3/OSRS acc: Valcyra
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07-Aug-2015 18:08:06 - Last edited on 07-Aug-2015 18:11:28 by Valcyra

Valcyra
Sep Member 2005

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*) You could use the warships for gods transport, but ships made for goods transport do the job faster and can hold more crates of goods, except for the San Gabriel.

**) the original had 40 cannons, but would be little overkill here :D

Treasure hunt:
All ships can be used for treasure hunting.

Discover:
You can use all kind of boats and ships to discover new land and cities. These cities offer products for you to sail and requires other types of goods.

The dock
There would be at least one dock where you build and repair the boats.

If you regret the boat your building, you can "dismiss" it and then start owner (you won’t get your resources back). You cannot sell a ship.

Ports to sail to:
Ports your able to sail to, there is already a huge number of ports, among these are:
- Catherby
- Tyras camp
- Relekka

You can leave the boat at the port in the city, or you can pay a fee for a cabin boy to sail it back to your dock.

Fishing:
Sail the seas to fish (fishing skill)

Fighting seamonsters:
Sail the seas to fight sea monsters (ranging and navigating skill)

Fighting pirates:
Sail the seas to fight pirates - requires a frigate or another warship (Ranging and navigating skill)
- If you’re lucky you gain great treasures.
- If unlucky, your ship might have to be repaired in the dock with different resources. Depending on what part of the boat that was broken during the fight.

Fighting other players:
If you sail in the PK seas, you will be able to fight against other players. This might give you a great reward, but the risk can be high, if your ship sinks and the other player wins.

... To be continued on page 18... RS3/OSRS acc: Valcyra
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07-Aug-2015 18:08:12 - Last edited on 07-Aug-2015 18:22:35 by Valcyra

Rancor
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abra238 said :

fair enough @ your last point. I'm currently very opposed, but before I go around spreading that this is a cancer idea, I'll wait for some more development on the idea.

Much appreciated. Why are you opposed, out of curiosity? From what I'm seeing out of this skill the PvP will be entirely optional, the skill itself will be optional, and it will open up the ability to explore lots of new areas and experience new content.

I just have trouble seeing why people are so extraordinarily opposed to the idea right from the start.

07-Aug-2015 18:08:34 - Last edited on 07-Aug-2015 18:10:03 by Rancor

abra238
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Sir Tankladd said :
Slay Helm said :
abra238 said :
Markipedia said :
nice joke, hope all the controversy and hate this brought in just the 10 mins it was announced made you reconsider

Yeah, it seems to only be like 30% approval from the forums so far...
Corp got around 10% approval from the forums, then it passed by *85%+, the forums are always pessimistic and full of haters, plus say everyone only posted once on this thread (not true) there would be 150ish posts, 70% no voters, wow a grand total of 105 no voters, dayum.
Yeah exactly. A very small fraction of people post on the forums compared to the voting playerbase.

OK, fair enough. I would be very interested in seeing weekly strawpolls on twitter to gauge interest. I feel like right now it would be either very positive or negative, and it would change a bit over time, especially as more details are released.
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07-Aug-2015 18:09:02

Im Nate

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Dr Clayton said :
First off, thank you for at least giving us the option of a poll to see if we want this or not. Secondly, I don't think any major updates such as Sailing should be added to Old School Runescape if it hasn't even been in RS3 yet.

Edit: Rather than creating a new skill, why not try to rejuvenate Fishing Trawler?

Uh what? That is what we SHOULD be doing is doing major updates that rs3 doesn't have and not copy pasting content that we disliked and left. Why shouldn't we be doing new content? You sound like a jealous rs3 player. Maxed Sept 24th, 2015 - 134th to max

07-Aug-2015 18:09:16

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More feedback:
USE FOR FIREMAKING
The new gem dragons, if passed a poll, should be in a different question as the sailing skill, same as rigour and augury, i think that the gem cave that they are in, should have special firemaking levels to light the cave as you go deeper possibly, like say the beginning of the cave is sapphire, then emerald, then ruby, and say a 90 firemaking requirement to reach the diamond dragons, give a use for it if you want to get to the top tiered dragons and deepest part of the cave, maybe something amazing at the end. Requiring say 95 firemaking to see Maxed Total PvM / PvPer

07-Aug-2015 18:10:29

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