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DevBlog: Sailing - An Overview
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If this doesn't pass the polls I want a new poll for a re-poll
thats how much I want this poll to pass the polls
HYPED!
thats how much I want this poll to pass the polls
HYPED!
08-Sep-2015 21:14:24
Seems legit.
08-Sep-2015 21:28:29
Popped back in to the office to answer some of the questions.
Slay Helm said :
Looks really good, I like the idea of the new gem / jewellery - well done
Thanks! I am quite happy with that design.
Kilot said :
very excited with those new jewelry I think you should poll an update that would allow you to use a chisel on a fury to get an onyx out since they'll start being sunk
Yes!
Tank All Day said :
It feels like moving your boat will be very awkward if its just like walking. I hope the boat will follow a continued path off of a single click instead of coming to a complete stop until you click again.
Surely you'd want to be in control of the boat, though?
Mini Aurelia said :
Interesting, thanks for the summary!
I'm still a little confused in regards to the "buyable" component of Sailing. Is ship building going to be the area where players can spend money to enhance experience gain, or will excess money be useful for all parts of the skill?
Whether or not Sailing will be a "buyable" similar to Construction or Prayer is the most important consideration for me currently.
I want you to have a very expensive, grindable and viable training method but you will always be better off by actually sailing. Spending more on the top tier ships and discarding them will be viable but the experience rates still won't be close to competing with the actual exploring component of the skill.
San said :
I have questions:
1) How will sailing work to augment skilling if the journeys are randomised; how will you be able to get back to the same resource multiple times?
2) You mention that you can access resources without a sailing level if a friend takes you there. How will you encourage training of sailing, when this mechanic in construction has led to fewer people training because they can just leech somebody else?
3) You mention point to point routes. Given the number of ports already, and those to come, there must be hundreds of possible routes and an exponential increase as more are added. How will this concept be expandable?
4) You mentioned in the Twitch Q&A that you didn't wish to lock boats behind construction by requiring a construction level to build them. If, however, the boats were tradeable between players (so a player requires only the sailing level to use the boat), wouldn't this solve the issue? The boats wouldn't be locked behind construction, and it could also lead to a profitable method out of construction.
5) How will the click and point approach to moving the boat work a) in and around land masses (especially very small ones, like around tutorial island) and b) in relation to other players' boats?
I may have more questions to come, but these will do for now.
1) For the randomly generated events, you won't - though you may come across a similar little island more than once. We're also adding a couple of permanent landmasses in the form of Atlandys, Charlotaynia & Fossil Island which you can travel to at any point.
2) I'd expect you'd want to charge a small fee for offering such a service. There are plenty of other reasons to train Sailing!
3) There will be hundreds of routes - we can limit the number based on distance though.
4) That is an option, the specifics are yet to be decided but we'll go with the most favorable option with the community.
5) Ships won't be that big that you can't get close to an island; as for other players we'll have to wait and see but there'd be a huge bottleneck if you couldn't pass through them.
Slay Helm said :
Looks really good, I like the idea of the new gem / jewellery - well done
Thanks! I am quite happy with that design.
Kilot said :
very excited with those new jewelry I think you should poll an update that would allow you to use a chisel on a fury to get an onyx out since they'll start being sunk
Yes!
Tank All Day said :
It feels like moving your boat will be very awkward if its just like walking. I hope the boat will follow a continued path off of a single click instead of coming to a complete stop until you click again.
Surely you'd want to be in control of the boat, though?
Mini Aurelia said :
Interesting, thanks for the summary!
I'm still a little confused in regards to the "buyable" component of Sailing. Is ship building going to be the area where players can spend money to enhance experience gain, or will excess money be useful for all parts of the skill?
Whether or not Sailing will be a "buyable" similar to Construction or Prayer is the most important consideration for me currently.
I want you to have a very expensive, grindable and viable training method but you will always be better off by actually sailing. Spending more on the top tier ships and discarding them will be viable but the experience rates still won't be close to competing with the actual exploring component of the skill.
San said :
I have questions:
1) How will sailing work to augment skilling if the journeys are randomised; how will you be able to get back to the same resource multiple times?
2) You mention that you can access resources without a sailing level if a friend takes you there. How will you encourage training of sailing, when this mechanic in construction has led to fewer people training because they can just leech somebody else?
3) You mention point to point routes. Given the number of ports already, and those to come, there must be hundreds of possible routes and an exponential increase as more are added. How will this concept be expandable?
4) You mentioned in the Twitch Q&A that you didn't wish to lock boats behind construction by requiring a construction level to build them. If, however, the boats were tradeable between players (so a player requires only the sailing level to use the boat), wouldn't this solve the issue? The boats wouldn't be locked behind construction, and it could also lead to a profitable method out of construction.
5) How will the click and point approach to moving the boat work a) in and around land masses (especially very small ones, like around tutorial island) and b) in relation to other players' boats?
I may have more questions to come, but these will do for now.
1) For the randomly generated events, you won't - though you may come across a similar little island more than once. We're also adding a couple of permanent landmasses in the form of Atlandys, Charlotaynia & Fossil Island which you can travel to at any point.
2) I'd expect you'd want to charge a small fee for offering such a service. There are plenty of other reasons to train Sailing!
3) There will be hundreds of routes - we can limit the number based on distance though.
4) That is an option, the specifics are yet to be decided but we'll go with the most favorable option with the community.
5) Ships won't be that big that you can't get close to an island; as for other players we'll have to wait and see but there'd be a huge bottleneck if you couldn't pass through them.
08-Sep-2015 21:38:30 - Last edited on 08-Sep-2015 21:39:03 by Mod John C
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