Ship Ownership - Please Help - Page 2

Admins · #16 01-29-2006, 05:12 AM

Well there are already shipyards, but with many people having ships they would be full all the time and just messy.
The only thing I could imagine would be to have some harbours on the main island with docks but they cost good money and only protect your ship for a few hours, and you can also park your ship freely on your kingdom map, to destroy your ship the king would need to remove you from the kingdom then.

Zeltino · #17 01-29-2006, 05:46 AM

If it costs good money for only a few hours, then nobody would pay. Besides, someone else could then come in and steal it. I think the "valet" parking for ships in a public harbour is your best idea. Once the harbour is full, it won't accept any more ships. Or, just set it so that one player can only put a maximum of some amount of ships, and can not put more in. Then, he/she can pull them out whenever they wish, but only them. You could make it so there is no real "harbour", but some script that keeps track of how many boats you put in, etc.

Raziel · #18 01-29-2006, 07:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeltino

You could make it so there is no real "harbour", but some script that keeps track of how many boats you put in, etc.

That's the one. Then you have no mess.

Emily_Cruddas · #19 01-29-2006, 11:17 AM

The idea of a house boat sounds nice, people who just joined a certain kingdom would have a temporary place to live and store their belongings while they get a real house prepared.

Just a suggestion but perhaps you can add a new type of shop? This would allow a house boat permit for new members to a kingdom that gives them a small boat to store items in for one full week, this should be more than enough time to get a new house up, and the time limit could be the motivation to MAKE the house in a week or you lose the boat, and anything you were dumb enough to leave in it. (the kingdom leader or proper athority would have to approve the boat permit first, just like house flags)

Valder · #20 01-29-2006, 12:11 PM

I actually like the idea of being able to use the boats as mobile houses. Houses take a very long time to build and most people have to walk very long distances to go and grab their stuff. It's also a good way for someone to go and store items if they have too many without having to walk all the way back to whatever kingdom they are in with 1.2 speed :-/

Felix_Xenophobe · #21 01-29-2006, 01:09 PM

Houseboats for teh win!

Zeltino · #22 01-29-2006, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Emily_Cruddas

The idea of a house boat sounds nice, people who just joined a certain kingdom would have a temporary place to live and store their belongings while they get a real house prepared.

Just a suggestion but perhaps you can add a new type of shop? This would allow a house boat permit for new members to a kingdom that gives them a small boat to store items in for one full week, this should be more than enough time to get a new house up, and the time limit could be the motivation to MAKE the house in a week or you lose the boat, and anything you were dumb enough to leave in it. (the kingdom leader or proper athority would have to approve the boat permit first, just like house flags)

And if someone wants to perminately live in a boat, they need to make a new house boat every week?

I personally would enjoy to live in a house boat. Sounds pretty fun to me.

Draenin · #23 01-30-2006, 12:49 AM

1. Don't make it to where normal ships can be owned by only one person it's hard enough to have to wait for the ferries when in a rush.

2. Kingdom boats should only be usable by members of that kingdom.

3. Boats should only be parkable along shorelines or else on docks. There's a bug that gets ships stuck if you run them into docks just right, and it's really annoying. If that gets fixed, there will be more of a use for docks, so the number of them on all islands could be increased.

Those are the basics of what should be changed.

Damix2 · #24 01-30-2006, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Draenin

1. Don't make it to where normal ships can be owned by only one person it's hard enough to have to wait for the ferries when in a rush.

2. Kingdom boats should only be usable by members of that kingdom.

3. Boats should only be parkable along shorelines or else on docks. There's a bug that gets ships stuck if you run them into docks just right, and it's really annoying. If that gets fixed, there will be more of a use for docks, so the number of them on all islands could be increased.

Those are the basics of what should be changed.

Docks should be "hard" as of right now you can crash right through them

Zeltino · #25 01-30-2006, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Draenin

1. Don't make it to where normal ships can be owned by only one person it's hard enough to have to wait for the ferries when in a rush.

If they can be taken out of the public harbours by other people, then what's the point of paying money to put one in? People can just wait until someone pays to put one in, and then steal it. It would defeat the whole purpose of having public harbours.

Draenin · #26 01-30-2006, 01:41 AM

Do you even know what is necessary for a 'harbor' to be in place? And why would you pay to build a ship? It already takes 50 or so boards to make one.

Zeltino · #27 01-30-2006, 02:34 AM

No, I don't know what is necessary. But your not paying to build a ship. Your paying to put your boat into the harbour. Besides, I don't fully support the idea of a public harbour. I think there would be many flaws, but I'm just trying to think of ways it would work.

MadScience7 · #28 01-30-2006, 03:28 AM

I would like to see ships lockable, that is a really great request. How about this:

Any ship parked in Main waters should be able to be destroyed, whether locked or not. If a kingdom ship is parked on it's own island (i.e. black sail on Pirates, or red sail on Samurai) then they should be invincible. However, this should be limited to parked boats touching a dock or shore, so abandoned boats out in the water can be sunk. Any boat moving at any time should be fair game.

Alan

Emily_Cruddas · #29 01-30-2006, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Zeltino

And if someone wants to perminately live in a boat, they need to make a new house boat every week?

As i said it was just a suggestion, but i see what you mean, i can suppose someone NOT in a kingdom may want a place to live/store the valuables they find, perhaps the rent a dock thing could be a nice idea, since if you needed to be in a kingdom to have a protected ship it would limit new players to how long their moble home would last (someone may be just mean and sink it because it's not under kingdom safety?)

So making some form of boat parking garage that keeps track of individual players boats and how many they have in it already? You wouldn't actally go inside and see rows and rows of boats lined up, rather, when you pay, the boat vanishes and is "stored" in a parking area, you get a numbered ticket (like in the raffle house) and can return anytime with the ticket and your boat reappears, this also isn't a foolproof idea though, people get ideas to store valuables inside a boat and you may just get an empty boat back, so try to make a house since boat houses can be an issure and render normal houses useless.

Borstal · #30 01-30-2006, 05:38 AM

Stefan I have a question for you, are you thinking about putting House Mode / Battle Mode into ships? House mode we could store items on our boat and down in the bottom of the ship (Cargo hold) without them getting stolen or boat hijacked we could also park it etc... Battle Mode is for Battling other ships/RPING. Right now I don't even build a boat as its pointless as it will just get stolen and I can't keep it for that long as I have other stuff to do...