Islands through telescope

[Rusalka]

I've got a question:

If I sail with a telescope, I will see dockable places with an extended range? I mean will the message "You see dockable place" is generated?

[EchoMan]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's only the visible graphics that is affected.

[Rusalka]

I'm asking because I think it's important for sailors who are about to discover new land. If they reach it when player is sleeping, they could simple pass it without noticing.

[Piscator]

Yes, but we can't expand the docking range. Even now it's possible to dock to a location on the other side of an island.

[Rusalka]

Yes, that is what I was afraid of. So, this would probably require another message, which won't allow docking.

[SekoETC]

"You see a shoreside location at #DIRECTION#." perhaps? That would be useful, although it would be cool if they were only mentioned on first sighting and not on every boating tick.

[EchoMan]

Most explorers use large ships that doesn't get the "docking to land" option anyway. So they'd likely only see harbours, which are dockable from a longer range than land anyways.

[SekoETC]

That's why I said shoreside locations rather than dockable places. Because it wouldn't matter if they were dockable or not. I bet most people have a longboat or a dinghy docked to their raker anyway.