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I dont think that a new skill is the way to improve os...
I think tat a new skill almost forces people to train it as nobody wants a skill to be level 1.. i like the concept of sailing, but maybe in a way a new skill doesn't have to be introduced? in a way that it could combine skills..
such as making the boat through construction (different con levels unlock you the ability to make different boats.)
certain strength / agility levels will make the boat more controllable and therefor you will be able to sail to other locations.
but this also allows more skills to be updated e.g. you could make certain smithing levels to create items for the boat, such as anchors.. (maybe in certain places you need a certain anchor to get too.. e.g. mithril+ anchor to stop the ship in ardy.. making the anchors themself untradeable to encourage people to train smithing.)
fishing could be included by making certain fishing levels for deep sea fishing, which would demand more things to fish, such as squid ect.. (squid could be level 65 fishing for example and heal 12hp non cooked or 16 cooked.) this would again encourage people to train there fishing and cooking skills..
another idea would to be at a certain level (60+) construction, once unlocking the ability to make a bit enough ship, you could opt to then make your ship you home..
I like the idea of sailing but as i feel like most people wouldn* want to have to train another skill, where as doing it this way would encourage people to gain more experience in there current skills and still have the excitement of sailing and a new way of exploring runescape.
you could even introduce a sequence of new quests where you have to work for a sailor and work your way up, e.g. start as a cabin boy in the 1st 'novice' quest, then work as a sailor in the 'intermediate' quest, and then as a ship captain in the 'hard' quest to enable the ability to make your 1st ship.
sorry for the really long message
I think tat a new skill almost forces people to train it as nobody wants a skill to be level 1.. i like the concept of sailing, but maybe in a way a new skill doesn't have to be introduced? in a way that it could combine skills..
such as making the boat through construction (different con levels unlock you the ability to make different boats.)
certain strength / agility levels will make the boat more controllable and therefor you will be able to sail to other locations.
but this also allows more skills to be updated e.g. you could make certain smithing levels to create items for the boat, such as anchors.. (maybe in certain places you need a certain anchor to get too.. e.g. mithril+ anchor to stop the ship in ardy.. making the anchors themself untradeable to encourage people to train smithing.)
fishing could be included by making certain fishing levels for deep sea fishing, which would demand more things to fish, such as squid ect.. (squid could be level 65 fishing for example and heal 12hp non cooked or 16 cooked.) this would again encourage people to train there fishing and cooking skills..
another idea would to be at a certain level (60+) construction, once unlocking the ability to make a bit enough ship, you could opt to then make your ship you home..
I like the idea of sailing but as i feel like most people wouldn* want to have to train another skill, where as doing it this way would encourage people to gain more experience in there current skills and still have the excitement of sailing and a new way of exploring runescape.
you could even introduce a sequence of new quests where you have to work for a sailor and work your way up, e.g. start as a cabin boy in the 1st 'novice' quest, then work as a sailor in the 'intermediate' quest, and then as a ship captain in the 'hard' quest to enable the ability to make your 1st ship.
sorry for the really long message
10-Sep-2015 17:37:45
I have an idea for sailing!
As a reward from exploration, there should be tiered gear that makes your sailing be at a slightly better rate (or a higher chance at getting better random generated areas).
The gear could be tier'd based on your sailing level (or total level), and make you look like an awesome pirate (peg leg please).
The tier'd gear could be randomly obtained when looting chests and you have a chance of getting any tier'd level gear at any level, but the higher tier'd gear would be rarer.
Much like how you can obtain the giant pouch from the monsters from the abyss even if you don't have the rc level to use them yet. (and you could also get worse tier'd gear at later levels- it could be random)
I also think that the pirate hook should make an appearance in the sailing skill in a valuable way. It costs a lot of tokens from the brimhaven course and its mostly cosmetic, but I think this skill could give the pirate hook a use and make the pirate city of brimheaven a rejuvinated area
(maybe make brimhaven a place to dock your ship?)
10-Sep-2015 18:59:11
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