Please fix this unreasonable time sink

[Thilindel]

Also known as:

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<P> Ferry Dock on the Southern Bank of the Chionthar River
Exits: -N -S
The chionthar ferry rests on the river here. (illuminating)

[Arilin Nydelahar]

Bring teleport potions?

[Gormal]

I concur with the Mike.

[Thilindel]

Oh I don't mind that, I'm saying for the new players especially, that ferry takes like 10 minutes or more. There've been two since yesterday to ask me about it. Just a pain *shrug*

[Gormal]

The ferry never bothered me as a new player. I remember the first time my friend who got me into MUDding took a trip to Mithril Hall.

Kajib: "Dude, I got taken up to this place called Ice Crag where there is all this sweet blue and white equipment lying on the ground."

Me: "No way! How do I get there?"

Kajib: "Dude I don't know, some guy took me up there it took us forever to walk there, but there was a fountain of holy water on the way. I filled all my containers, so now I can heal myself by drinking!"

[Ashiwi]

I remember walking all that way to fill my containers at that well... and it was never much of an inconvenience, really. Heck, some of the time it was a blessing!

[Cirath]

The ferry never bothered me as a new player. I remember the first time my friend who got me into MUDding took a trip to Mithril Hall.

Kajib: "Dude, I got taken up to this place called Ice Crag where there is all this sweet blue and white equipment lying on the ground."

Me: "No way! How do I get there?"

Kajib: "Dude I don't know, some guy took me up there it took us forever to walk there, but there was a fountain of holy water on the way. I filled all my containers, so now I can heal myself by drinking!"

That sounds frighteningly like my reaction the first time Drix gave me the grand tour of Bloodstone.

[Thilindel]

That ferry I'm talking about is the south one by Baldur's Gate. I'm tired so was making that clear :P It's ungodly slow. It docks, then sits there forever. I don't know why water travel is so slow in the mud.

[Lilira]

Cus um.. they're basing it on like.. mud time.

So 10 minutes would be a 10 hour stop for loading etc.

[Thilindel]

Yeah, that's where it sucks =D If you come there right when it leaves, you sit there for x time and miss out. Gormal's familiar with that military tactic: Hurry up and wait. :(

Anyway, it doesn't add to the game to make people wait. Relatively, a room is a room. Since you can travel like 4 rooms per second, it'd be *dream* ooooh so nice if water traffic were remotely quicker as well!