ship bugs and ship jackers
 

:whatever: !pissed!
i hate all the ship bugs whan ladders dont aper the ship wheel the lookout bud
infact evrything do do with a ship is buged and why cant u lock ure ship hull up i tent to use it as a house but peaple bust into it a nick my stuff
plus noobs come and jack my boat . all the time! so why cant u have ofissol captins that are the only ones that can use the wheel !pissed! #

and how the hell do u repare ships and why cant u build port like you can build houses.

and that brings a close to my rant

Yes ships are rather buggy. The not being able to lock them thing isnt really a bug, more of a wish for different content. Although when in a ship battle it becomes apparent that an important skill of battling is reconnecting fast when you get glitched off the wheel and cant move.

Seriously. Before they "fixed" ships, they were less buggy. I mean, when you got stuck you could actually move and grab the wheel again. Now you have to reconnect or jump off the ship. Craziness.

The ships are very buggy now, when i am driving a boat i tend to only hold on to the wheel when i need to turn then i get off the wheel till i need to turn again this does need to be fixed. I wouldn't like to see people being able to lock thier boats, i rather enjoy stealing pirate boats and it sure gives them something to do :)

:\ hmmz

how aobout you ships atomatily unlock when under 50%
and your rigth this sould be in suggestions

I need some more exact bug reports, I have not experienced problems when using the ships. Do those things happen with both v2 and v4?

About that locking thing.. that's what Kingdom harbours are for.

If you don't want people to steal your ship, join a kingdom and store them in the shipyard.

Please Raziel, Alan and all of you using ships alot, explain the shipbugs, so Stefan can fix it! :)

What they are talking about is this:

After grabing the sternwheel of the ship in order to steer the ship, you will be fine for a while. Then, there's suddenly some fort of offsynching with the movements of players and ships that causes them to get warped to the front of the ship, where it looks like they are still steering it. However, you cannot steer this way, and the ship will continue to head in the path that you were before you got warped to the fron of it. It used to be to where a person could disengage from the sternwheel by pressing a few buttons, but now that doesn't even help. Also, the rigging in the decks of certain ships don't always load, and a player has to lay down an item and grab it in order to get back up. I've also heard that the above-deck ladders on the sides of a ship aren't working properly anymore, either.

Ok, thanks Draenin! Does that happen in v2 and v4?

I will test it later on today, I suppose.

Additions to this bug.
Occasionally instead of being warped to the front of the ship, you are warped to the left and right only inches from the wheel but are still in the controlling animation, alike what draenin said in the front of the ship. Also, sometimes the synching problem will just cause your character to stop steering, but still be standing there, causing you to have to push a again to regrab the wheel. Not as annoying as being warped to a different part of the ship, but just part of the bug I suppose.

Ok fixed some stuff in the npcserver for preventing that warping bug, also you can always unsteer no matter where you are on the ship.
I have also fixed the display of the ropes, which was a problem in the gani script.
There is a new third button to enter the cargo room if you have problems with grabbing the black thing.
The missing cargo room npcs might be a problem of disappearing npcs after reentering the room after some time, this is fixed in v4.

Thanks Stefan!

Sometimes I'll be driving the ship, and out of nowhere, my character will shift to another part of the boat, but still have the driving GANI on, and I can't get off or anything, eventually I'll have to Leave Boat by clicking the red arrow and get back on, it's really annoying.

Normally 'A' should work always now, have you tried that?

See mine, draenin, and stefan's postings
^^

Problem solved, thread closed.