Stuff to do on boats

MrPenguin589 · Postby **MrPenguin589** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:18 pm

I think it would be cool if when you're on a boat in one spot you could go fishing. And also, it would be cool if there we things to hunt, like sharks and whales. Maybe show the whales on the map (as white dots or something) so you can pursue them.

Pie · Postby **Pie** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:33 pm

and soon we will be able to see humans as some color of dots to eh? GREAT IDEA! And you could get wail oil from wails, and use that oil for gas!!!!!...... getting gas from a wail..... GREAT IDEA!

Nick · Postby **Nick** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:12 am

I don't think that's what he was getting at, Pie.
But yeah, there should be more things to do at sea. Maybe underwater resources, like oil, salt, titanium.
And of course fishing. But this has been suggested many times before. I remember suggesting it myself a few years ago, and I'm not claiming to be the first either.

Pie · Postby **Pie** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:23 am

Well... what i am saying is that in real life.. if you do somthing like burn the blubber of a wail(i think thats it) you will get oil, and we dont actually have oil, and only have gas, we would get gas from a wail. And, why could we see wails in the ocean and not se humans coming doun a road?

Postby **Surly** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:26 am

...

We do have oil, Pie.

But still not entirely relevant to the initail suggestion...

Nixit · Postby **Nixit** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:42 am

Whale? Do you mean whale?

Sho · Postby **Sho** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:13 am

Whales would be interesting, and might even be implementable.
Idea: Code whales as computer-controlled ships, moving at, say, longboat speed. Move continuously, randomly change direction at random intervals or upon hitting land.
Attacking a whale would use the docking mechanism. Because whales would move all the time, one would have to get qute close to a whale before attacking it.
Once docked . . . I have no idea. No actual hunting, just gain X amount of various goodies and take a tiredness hit? Simulate crew attacking the whale by having them automatically deal damage and gain tiredness when the ship docks to the whale, and have whale escape if it is not killed? Neither of these ideas appeal to me.

Possible refinements:
Make it so only certain boats can dock to whales - consider making a "whaling boat," like a dinghy but nerfed somehow, for this specific purpose.
Make it so you must have a harpoon (tool/weapon, takes wood and iron, or wood and steel) to attack the whale. If we go with my second whale-hunting mechanism, this would probably make it easier to code - only one thing to test chars' inventory for.

Oil from whales is realistic in real life, but not in Cantr - Cantr oil, from its main use (road-paving), would seem to be something more like tar than whale-oil, which was used as a clean-burning lamp oil. Gas, unfortunately, is not much better - it has to be refined with coal to make propane, besides which it's just not a good name (heh).
Probably whale-oil would need to be created as a new resource. Proposed use: some sort of machine, compatible with ships, that would use whale-oil to cook, making ships completely self-sufficient.

kinvoya · Postby **kinvoya** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:49 am

Probably whale-oil would need to be created as a new resource. Proposed use: some sort of machine, compatible with ships, that would use whale-oil to cook, making ships completely self-sufficient.

That would be totally cool. We need some kind of stove that can only be built on boats.

Also, if there are whales, we need to get special whale bones from them that can be used for large projects (like umm...what is whale bone used for?) from them.

Whale blubber could be a high energy food.

Sunni Daez · Postby **Sunni Daez** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:22 am

I want to fish from my boat...just regular fish....it could be random...you have to stop to do a fishing project....and it may be unsucessfull....like the crowbar and lock thing...

[edited for stupid type-o's]

Pie · Postby **Pie** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:58 pm

or, Now heres an idea, Make it so if you apply wale oil on A machine, YOU WONT HAVE TO REPAIR IT FOR A SERTON AMOUNT OF TIME DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH WAIL OIL YOU HAVE!!!!!!!!

(Edited for pie'os. did i get them all?)

Sho · Postby **Sho** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 5:31 pm

Interesting. Like an instant repair, possibly? The problem is that whale oil was never actually used as a lubricant, as far as I can tell from Wikipedia.

theguy · Postby **theguy** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:11 pm

dont whals have somthing on them u can eat like blubber or some kind of food whals could be a type of food as well as oil

but why just whals why just sharks cantr is a fantesy world why not have fantesy monsters in the sea like types of dragons and monters that have big theeth in fact that then brings you to the subject why not have mithicaly monters on land (hawks attaking people just dosent do it for me wwhy not have Dragons swooping down why stop with animals why not have meteors hitting cantr citys it would be really cool

PLESE NOTE I WENT MAD WHILE WRITTING THIS POST (WHAT ELSE IS NEW)SO I DO EXPECT SOME OF IT TO BE REJECTED BUT SEA MONSTERS WAS PROBLEY A GOOD IDEA

kinvoya · Postby **kinvoya** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:21 pm

What makes you think Cantr is a fantasy world?

theguy · Postby **theguy** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:35 pm

http://www.cantr.net/e107/content.php?article.18

also some people own cars but people still use longbows and primative wepons

althogh everything will be primative when people use wepons in the year 3000 they will laguth at todays wepons

Nick · Postby **Nick** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:37 pm

Pie and theguy, you should be friends.

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