The Reason Why Boats Ain't Floating...

[Neyvn]

Its cause you don't.....

You see today while at work I was thinking about HnH, something that could have gotten me yelled at. Heh. Anyway. It suddenly came to me why Jorb and Lofter haven't put boats in yet. You see its got to do with what happens when your game crashes, you get logged out right...

It happens to me all the time, moving down the road pulling a Cart behind me, when suddenly due to a bit of Map I haven't seen yet (In the New/old Supergrid,) I get sent to the Loading screen for a bit, well too long. So the Client Logs me out. Unable to load the screen...

So I come back into the Game and am unable to Hit the 'Log In from last spot' button so I am left with the log at Hearth instead. My thoughts are that if I ever Swam I would die the moment this happens, thats why I have not bought the Skill, even with the Toggle. You see the game Freezes your avatar at that one spot holding what ever over your head or running on the spot if you were moving before hand (this happened while using the Crossroads to a new place a while back). Now in the River we all know what happens to yah if you stop moving for a good amount of time, you drown...

Now thats one part of the problem, you can't log out/crash in the middle of the river...

The second is the fact that when you log out attached to something, that thing detaches and is dropped onto the ground. Containers, items, Carts. I bet you any money that their first attempt with boats was by using a very similar code to what they use for carts, and their tester crashed, detached to the Boat and thanks to not having, or having swimming and being in the middle of the River. Drowned...

I can see what would happen the moment they release Boats without fixing this Hiccup, all you whiners, and Blackmail Quitters, will whinge and complain and quit cause your character Drowned while using a boat, heck you all did when Swimming was introduced so don't say you won't. I don't think they want to handle anyone dieing due to something like that so they ain't putting Boats in until they work out how to fix this problem...

And I can tell you it won't be an easy fix, cause if they do that, How many of you would use something like, Cart Logs out with you, to store godly amounts of stuff with Alts. Hmmm...

So I say let them work things out, and don't complain that they haven't made boats when they bring something else in. Cause if they didn't you would complain that they haven't done anything for a while. Children the whole lot of you, and I don't exclude myself...

((Expects Flames, but don't care. Wearing Flame retardant Clothing...))

[Potjeh]

I thought it's common knowledge that loftar has already handled boats code-wise, and the only thing holding them back now is lack of sprites.

[Neyvn]

I thought it's common knowledge that loftar has already handled boats code-wise, and the only thing holding them back now is lack of sprites.

I had assumed that it was along the lines of the Cart Code...

[Potjeh]

And I assume that loftar has already thought of and tackled these issues, as he's had ample time and he seems quite interested in working on boats. I guess we'll see who's right when we get the boats, which most likely means we'll never know for sure

[Devour]

I thought it's common knowledge that loftar has already handled boats code-wise, and the only thing holding them back now is lack of sprites.

I had assumed that it was along the lines of the Cart Code...

Assume makes an ass of u and me. =(

[CG62]

You know I actually had a bit of a solution to this problem:

Anchors. They drop when you log out, and allow you to log back in on your boat. You boat can drift a slight amount with an anchor, but it's nothing compared to how much it could without an anchor.


Just a thought.

[jorb]

I thought it's common knowledge that loftar has already handled boats code-wise, and the only thing holding them back now is lack of sprites.

Ok, these are just vicious lies. There is not -- to my knowledge -- a single line of code written for boats. Yet.

[Yolan]

I thought it's common knowledge that loftar has already handled boats code-wise, and the only thing holding them back now is lack of sprites.

Ok, these are just vicious lies. There is not -- to my knowledge -- a single line of code written for boats. Yet.

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[Loopoo]

Jorb, when will you make boats :C

EVERYONE HAS BEEN MINDFORCING, WILL YOU MAKE OUR WILLPOWER GO TO WASTE? DAMN YOUR EVIL WAYS, JORB!

[sabinati]

"mindforcing" is both useless and annoying