Ship Masts

[Seeker]

Would it be possible to be able to manufacture a mast on top of boats?
Anyway here are my ideas on a mast:

-Only one person can fit in it.
-That person can see furthur then the others on the ship (in the visual map)
-He/she can still talk with the people in the ship
-You can raise flags on the mast. (like landmarks)
-You can see other flags on other ships from your mast.

Now my ideas on being able to see another flag go something along the lines of:

-You see a ship on the visual map
-You go into your people options
-in the people options you can see Mast with a person in it (a man in his twenties) --> this would be done just like when a person is in a vehicle.
-You can inspect the mast and it would tell you what flag is on the other ship. eg, A Flag of The Pirates (A Flag of <insert value>)

I really do hope that all made sense.

[Pie]

COOOL!!

[theguy]

i like the idea of flags but it would only be good if when you made a flag you named it so when somebody inspected your flag they would read the name you had given to it

an idea simpler to the acttuley mast has been suggested before but on land

[Seeker]

So...um...what does everyone else think?

[Nick]

Why do you three always team up on the same suggestions, it seems?
Do you mean a crow's nest, rather than a mast? I'm no sailor but I think a mast is a pole with a sail on it.

[Racetyme]

That's what it strikes me as too. I do like a crow's nest though, with flags, it could lead to all sorts of intimidation and fun.

[NiKnight]

We have masts and sails now. So maybe add crow's nest? It should be built on ships where is a mainmast and increase range of view by 25% (like spyglass).

[SekoETC]

Rooms cannot have an increase view function as has been stated in some other topic(s). It would require programming. Since it has been stated several times that programming has limited resources, I'd rather see them concentrate on building destruction and canceling/time out of projects where resources have been added rather than something that can already be achieved through several portable items in the game. Although it would be nice to have an option of increasing range of view that doesn't require hi-tech lens-crafting, and it would also encourage cooperation (since if you were sailing alone, you would have to climb down each hour to stop the ship from stopping due to 0 people on the deck).

[NiKnight]

Crow's nest shouldn't be a room, but just a "machine" (like anvil) which increase range of view for everybody on the deck.

[SekoETC]

Nooo, that would ruin everything. Why would anyone make binoculars if you could do the same thing with an addition that's most likely made out of wood and ropes? It would be far easier to build and the only thing that makes it in a way expensive is the prerequisite of a mast. It needs to be limited to one user who cannot steer the ship when they are in the basket and also the crow's nest should not be lockable and if someone dies there then they should automatically fall down.

[DELGRAD]

Crow's nest shouldn't be a room, but just a "machine" (like anvil) which increase range of view for everybody on the deck.

I have to agree with Seko.
You would have to climb to see further so only one person, the one in the crows nest, can see further.
I however, like the overall idea.

[viktor]

hmm seems nice. for the flag, someone should be able to do the picture function like we do for notes.
i'm sure there will be an overkill on teh whole skull and crossbones bit but oh well, that will seperate the bulk of pirates from the other more original flag designs lol

[Xyu]

Flags is good idea. Sometimes ship names give no information. You can completely confuse specially if ship is stolen or sold and name is not changed.

[shapukas]

I think crows nest should act a little different. You could se distant land from it. Not some town but land. Like in the movies. "Land, i see, land" Or it just imposible to program?