Building boats on other boats

MrPenguin589 · Postby **MrPenguin589** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:25 pm

So basically you build boats on other boats. Say you have a sloop and you're out on the ocean. You could build a dinghy on it and launch it from there. That would be really cool. But the limit is that you can only build a boat smaller than the one you're on. Like, you couldn't build a galleon while you're on a raft, but you could build a raft (or hell, a sloop if you wanted) on a Galleon. Make sense?

tiddy ogg · Postby **tiddy ogg** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:48 pm

To wander off topic already, is it possible to build a boat on an inland location? I envision a Noah-like prophet/nutter.

MrPenguin589 · Postby **MrPenguin589** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:49 pm

You can, but it goes nowhere. I've seen it happen before. It's quite amusing.

Actually, they might have fixed that bug... I don't know...

Crosshair · Postby **Crosshair** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:54 pm

Yes... i think my character was rather embarassed when that came to light....

Chris Johnson · Postby **Chris Johnson** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:00 am

The feature which allowed characters to build boats inland was upgraded a while back . The main enhancement being that you can't do this anymore.

nitefyre · Postby **nitefyre** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:17 am

tiddy ogg wrote:To wander off topic already, is it possible to build a boat on an inland location? I envision a Noah-like prophet/nutter.

There's already folklore of the sort somewhere in Cantr where a boat was constructed inland.

Agar · Postby **Agar** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:03 am

I had thought it would be funny as hell to make a galleon and other boats, a whole fleet, in the middle of the pok desert.

Pity I can't have my lunatic see his dream out now, because of in game programming restrictions. Nothing like having something hardcoded to crush a madman's dream

ratm · Postby **ratm** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:47 pm

Chris Johnson wrote:The feature which allowed characters to build boats inland was upgraded a while back . The main enhancement being that you can't do this anymore.

XD Another quality feature from the ProgD.

Stan · Postby **Stan** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:44 pm

Yes, but it building a boat inland would be similar to building a house, but with a free lock.

I think it was a canoe I saw built inland and it was used as storage, I think.

tiddy ogg · Postby **tiddy ogg** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 3:03 pm

So why not allow it? People live in canal boats etc in RL, and I've never seen mention of rivers, but they must surely be in Cantr.

Agar · Postby **Agar** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:21 pm

I saw a dugout canoe inside a building at one point too.

I even built a dinghy inland once for the sole reason of having a lockable storage for healing foods. No clue at all where the key has gotten to though ...

Seko had a suggestion once for getting rid of the free locks for boats while keeping them safe from thieves.

The idea was that when the boat finishes, the initator is moved on board. Now thieves would have to work together to drag you off, and there's no wooden locks. If you want a lock, you build one. If the boat has metal, then it has a lock, and the key is in your inventory.

If that was the case, then boats could be built anywhere again, since they wouldn't be able to be abused for free locks.

Prog D?

Building boats on other boats

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