I'm on a boat....

Being able to buy a deed for a boat and sailing it around the waters in Ultima Online was one of the coolest features... anyone with me on this??

Even cooler would be boat-PvP/combat.... imagine sailing the seas and coming across another boat and being able to fight it out, both ranged combat for boat-to-boat (BtB combat!), perhaps with canons as well?, and/or boarding another's boat with a plank for normal hand-to-hand combat... could be NPC's in the boats so the anti-PvP are happy, and/or also actual players for the newly coined BtB combat.

I'm not sure if this idea's already been posted, did a quick forum search and saw nothing for "boats".

Anyhoo, just an idea.

Can't wait for Alpha!

 

There are currently no user controllable boats. :-/

 

Everyone enjoys the memory of taking their first pirate ship in Ultima III. But we'll assume this is planned for a future release.

 

Koldar I thought this was a "wish list" forum ! I know it's a far stretch, but one can dream, can't they?

Do me a favour and mention this to Rich would ya?

 

PrimeRib, I was thinking about Ultima Online circa 97-98! But yes Ultima III too... ah the good ol' days.

 

During the kickstarter in one of the live feeds it was discussed. Option will not be available in episode 1, but is not out of the question for other episodes. We went very deep into discussing the hows and whats of owning a boat. So it is on the minds of the team, but not at this time. Just not enough development resources to get to that point right now.

 

There was some talk about making controlable boats in coming episodes so... *crosses fingers*

 

This looks exceedingly dope:
http://www.archeage.com/en#ship-main

 

It would be nice to have some small fishing boats.
It looks like many of the maps so far have a river going through it.

 

I agree, it would be sweet to have a skiff I can control. I just know what they've said in chat a couple of time.

 

According to XL Games History page:
2006 Second half Started developing the next generation MMORPG 'ArcheAge'

7+ years in the making....nice to have a budget that big.

 

I love the look of Asian MMOs; however all too often they fall short in gameplay and UI. But building ships, manning cannons... this looks awesome! I wanna meet the dude who concepted this and shake his hand.

 

Seriously, they got a lot going in that game. It's crazy they even set such lofty goals to do all of that, but I guess that's why it's taken them 7 years.

 

The cut scenes look amazing, but CGI often looks much better than actual gameplay.

 

forward one, forward one, forward one, forward one, forward one, forward one, forward one, forward one, stop, target tillerman, Vas Flam, Vas Flam, Vas Flam, forward one....
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Aye, aye matie! I am getting an anchor tatted to my sunk-in chest. If there are not boats to be had, upon initial release, maybe 2015 ? I know a lot of Pirates.

They are a funny crowd, a lot like the large Urk' community.

Give a junky looking armor set and a funny looking hem, with an axe, they have a blast. Both RP & PvP.

*Deathblow is an Urk' lover*

sent kisses to Captain Jack.

 

I waited 3 years for Arche Age and now I'm giving up on it and will play Avatar instead. Arche age had everything I wanted in a game...but sadly they didn't bring it to the US and the release dates get moved every few months...Plus the makers of rift are doing it so my hopes for it are not high.

As for boats..it was Ultima Online that introduced me and made me 'want/need' boats in all my games...It's kinda rare to see but totally related to the sandbox game. Plus I love to fish in deep sea and catch strange new fish and discover new pieces of land and new adventures...It's just part of what I want here.

 

They havent said no to boats yets, but they have said they are not likely in E1.

 

Actually during KS this was a topic of discussion. I don't think we'll see it in episode one but maybe later on. For instance the baron 2 founder reward was a ship, it was dockside but later on it coulf be moveable.

 

I support the Idea of Ships or Rowboats - if fishing is a big part in ressource gathering, boats need to come - fishing from shore just isn´t the real thing ...