Dinghy docks to dinghy

[Crosshair]

I like the ranged weapon idea.

[Redbeard]

I add my support to boats being able to dock at the very least to similar sized boats. Or maybe be towed to shore?

[SekoETC]

I wish there could be a waiting time, that a ship couldn't be docked until it had been stationary for a certain amount of time. Currently if you manage to go right on top of it (and with undocking, all you need to do is pick the right direction) there's nothing stopping you, and it will be instantaneous. Then again if speed docking was disabled then it would be harder to catch pirates.

So basically, all boats should be dockable in some way, but some (like the darter) should keep an advantage of being somehow harder to catch, at least when they're moving.

[Nick]

Look, how about a 'Steel Docker'? That way it stops some random newspawn with his shoddy dinghy stealing that dinghy off the shore of Kwor!!!

Costs a bit of steel and can dock to anything? It fits one person and is like a shiny metal arrowhead shaped boat, you could launch them from your bigger ship to dock to anything else.. Anyone else for 'Steel Dockers'?

I'm suprised you don't see the hole in your logic.

What docks to the docker?

[N-Aldwitch]

Other steel dockers, I guess. I can't remember the suggestion THAT well, it was months old..
At least that way it keeps the docking situation within the confines of the rich and more able leaders of towns rather than a pesky thief.

[Nakranoth]

Such that you only need to worry about the pesky rich thieves? And could only catch them if you yourself were rich? Tools are always usable by both sides.

[alshepro]

Let me pose my contribution like this:

How can I rescue a dinghy at sea whose driver has died?

PS I just posted this in the support forum and they told me to put it here. this is a much-needed implimentation!

PS2: i like the raft idea

[tiddy ogg]

But the plus point is that they can be useful navigational aids.

[Sicofonte]

dinghy docks to dinghy

sloop docks to sloop

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galeon docks to galeon


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Redbeard]

Isn't that what I suggested?

[Sicofonte]

Yes, I'm supporting you

[SekoETC]

Do not spoil the darters. If there is no special coding, if everything is just assigned some vessel it can be docked by or what it can dock to then darters will be screwed over. Since they're slower than a sloop that doesn't require steel, their only advantage is that they cannot be docked.

[sanchez]

But the carrying capacity, and I'd argue the speed as well, of a darter is too great for a vessel that can't be docked to. Three armed people with onions are rendered by it nearly invincible, if their timing is good. There ought to be a rubber raft or some other docking craft that can't move fast enough nor fit enough weight to be useful for anything else. And that should be the only undockable one.

[Redbeard]

Anyone think allowing vessels to dock to similar vessels is a suggestion that should be accepted... Please stand and salute

[Sicofonte]

-profusely nods-