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The Golden Age of Seafaring

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:46 pm
by west
I posted this topic before, but due to some sort of bug on my part it never made it. Here it is again.


Lately it seems that a golden age of seafaring has begun in cantr. Without going into too many details, fairly regular contact has started up between points on the two oldest (I mean longest-inhabited) english speaking islands. I don't know what's happening on Dhung island but maps from there have been showing up on Blojt/Pok/Krif island for decades.

Also, contact is beginning to increase between other english speaking islands (again, without going into too many details).

I foresee a rapidly interconnecting world. At the very least, two sets of interconnected landmasses...

I have no experience with other language groups (although I noticed spanish and german people together when I had a german char) but the English world, at least, is getting smaller.

Discuss. Without going into too many specifics please

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:55 pm
by kinvoya
Yay! New resources. Maybe someday we'll get those elusive herbs and whatnot to mix medicines. And make tea and coffee. And maybe there's an island with a booze tree so people can finally get drunk.

*sings* It's a whole new woooooooooooorld!!!!

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:15 pm
by The Industriallist
Intercontinental trade should prove interesting...for one thing, you can now run from your past and be pretty sure it'll never catch up, assuming you can find someone to take you overseas.

I won't say we have a golden age until a naval war is fought. Or at least a decent skirmish. I wonder what the favored warship will turn out to be?

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:16 pm
by west
Until we can have attacking between/among boats, there won't be a naval war, just a series of coastal raids at most.

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:26 pm
by Solfius
what about raiding style boarding actions? Isn't that possible, or more acurrately if I understand correctly, effectively attaching a fortress to a ship and attacking until you win

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:30 pm
by Cookie
It's possible but then theres the old. "Docking action stopped due to target moving"

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:08 pm
by AoM
This is why cannons need to be introduced... so we can get some real naval warfare going... and maybe give a suitable advantage to big ships which could carry more...

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:11 pm
by Neelix
I wonder when we're going to see a completely connected Internet in Cantr ;)

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:17 pm
by nitefyre
I agree with your sentiment, West.

Things are really opening up, in my opinion. Especially from my first hand experience. For example, 6/8 characters of mine have a boat's key in their inventory. One is an adventurer, another is a world reknown trader/captain/encyclopedaeist, etc.

Fun stuff.


Cookie Monster wrote:It's possible but then theres the old. "Docking action stopped due to target moving"


If you're a good Captain, and know how the seas work, there's a neat way around that.

Anyways, my characters (one above them all) stakes their place in this world of global intercontinental sea movement.

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:09 pm
by Peanut
Whoopee...

One of my chars has traveled from The K islands like "random number" cantr year(s) back.
And he found new land.
He wen't a back about "random number" year(s) ago.

:twisted:

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:08 pm
by west
Yes, very good, but no more specifics please. I know actually quite a bit about travel between the islands in that location, but I don't think it should become something talked about on the forum. Let nature take its own course with that.

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 10:58 pm
by Nick
nitefyre wrote:If you're a good Captain, and know how the seas work, there's a neat way around that.

Anyways, my characters (one above them all) stakes their place in this world of global intercontinental sea movement.


Pssst.
Keep the secrets of pirating away from the forum! :wink:

Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 2:43 am
by nitefyre
Nick wrote:
nitefyre wrote:If you're a good Captain, and know how the seas work, there's a neat way around that.

Anyways, my characters (one above them all) stakes their place in this world of global intercontinental sea movement.


Pssst.
Keep the secrets of pirating away from the forum! :wink:


Thus, no specifics.

It's also the secret of evading pirates ;)

Unless they're lucky, or have common sense. :P

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 5:42 am
by Dragonslayer4ever
yep. I'm ready for global intercontiental wars now. *starts patroling along the beaches*

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:10 am
by Lemon Demon
Ah, cannons, now that would be fun! :twisted: I can see it now, firing the most hated criminals at pirates, blasting them out of the sea. *laughs evilly*