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BattleMaster => Locals => East Island => Topic started by: Mac Tir on June 29, 2014, 08:58:03 AM
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Hey,
Just wondering if sea travel was an option on east island. I started playing just pre glacier, so I'm not entirely certain if it ever was working there or if the glacier mucked up the sea zones somehow.
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No, sea travel is testing-islands only at the moment.
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Ok. For some reason I had thought it was fully implemented. Good to know I'm just crazy.
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IMHO, migration of new features to stable ought to happen a little quicker than it does
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IMHO, migration of new features to stable ought to happen a little quicker than it does
Sea travel is not like most features. We can't just flip a switch and have it activate on stable like we usually can—all the sea zones need to be carefully hand-drawn and the data for them entered into the database.
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Coding takes a ton of time and work. It really is exhausting, and half the time once you have written the code it responds or implements itself in really weird ways, ways that you never intended it to, and have no idea why it did what it did. Consider again that this is such a monumental effort for something no-one involved is getting paid for on a regular basis and the wait times are understandable.
Took a few comsci courses in high school and uni, decided it was way too much work required of you that would ultimately be taken for granted by everyone else.
Anyways, the point of this was that I had thought I had seen the option to travel by sea with one of my chars on EI when I had just started them, had even talked with other members of the realm about the potential of sea travel to help us in our war, which were rebuffed not because it wasn't implemented, but because they weren't feasible. But later when I went to check on the possibility of another sea route the option wasn't there, making me seriously question my sanity.
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Thanks, I've been a professional programmer for around 17 years & have some idea of these things ;-)
I was speaking of more than just sea routes - "fame" is a small example - but that's prolly a topic for a different thread
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Kind of helps along my point though. I too would wish that some of the newer coding is implemented faster, but realize the complications, have no way to help with them, and so shut my mouth about them.
If you have the ability to, why not proffer your skills to aid the faster implementation of the code that you would want implemented?
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There are some sea routes on EC, like to get to the OI islands and I think there was one between Isadril and Hamadan before it got iced over so maybe those are what got you confused?
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Maybe, it was a while ago. The problem is my mind is swearing to me that I read something along the lines of ''embark on a ship? embarking with your current entourage will take xx gold and xx hours to do so''. Clearly my mind is trying to plot against me.