Speaking of Time Sinks

[Malia]

How bout that boat ride to MS, any chance of reducing it by half at least, i know its been here forever and its a staple of the game and its the feel of riding on a boat and all but damn.. its still REALY big timesink.

Thanks =)

[kiryan]

I believe that I recall staff saying that boat moves as fast as possible without major change.

Theres a bazillion ocean rooms between WD and MS (or something) and a boat can only move 1 square every 30 seconds (or something).

[Lilira]

Bah!! Everyone knows Gate Travel is all the rage...

"First chevron locked"

"Ya know.. big circle thing..glows blue.. flushes sideways."

Yeah yeah.. I crack myself up.

[alendar]

"Ya know.. big circle thing..glows blue.. flushes sideways."

that flush anology reminds me of elves = turds....

:)

alendar

[Gormal]

At least elves should have a nifty way to head back to their islands. Its so easy to leave but nigh impossible to return with any semblence of haste.

[Lilira]

Lerinala gestures with her hands held together as though grasping a stick. A strand of magic flows from her hands to twist the smokey air of the plane she stood in and coalescing into a rainbow portal.

"Damn... Calimport... Toss it back!"

Gate fishing. Its not just a sport for when you're bored.

Sorry Gormy.. couldn't resist with you having an elem and all.

[flib]

rrrr.. deleted! making my own post haha sukers!

[daggaz]

a boat can only move one room per 30 seconds? feh. the fix is as easy as making halfling jam.

Just remove a few dozen of the ocean rooms. you dont even have to remove them, just edit the vnums in the exit directions so they get skipped.

[Malia]

Daggaz that would be to easy... if its that easy it woulda been done long ago... (whistle)

[Gruy]

actually malia i think it is that easy:p
its just a way of routing vnums if its vnum 19-75 just link the exits from 19 to 29 then 29 to 39 so on and so forth...

if you were being sarcastic then sorry for telling you something you already knew:p

[Malia]

I was being totaly sarcasticl, thus the *whistle* at the end.

[Gormal]

wait, you whistled there too... was only the second one sarcastic meaning you weren't the first time... oh the hurting

[Adriorn Darkcloak]

I don't think it would be a problem if:

1. You set it so the boats always arrive at the same times each boot

2. Silver Lady doesn't sit at dock for 2043 hours.

3. Realms Master goes faster than hair growing.

4. When one is at MS, the other is at WD.


I know some of the things kinda are like that now, but not really.

And btw, there's one that goes from BG to CP that is just ridiculous. Forgot name, it isn't Barracuda.

I personally like the boat ride taking as long as the Silver Lady ACTUAL trip takes.