Light, I think you accidentally have written the wrong date on the website. It says "16 June 2023" but today is the 15th
fixing this ty!
You guys are really knocking it out of the park with the Sailing development and these blogs. Loving the ship customization ideas.
Thank you so much! We really appreciate the feedback. :)
The team worked super hard on this blog because we know how important this step of refinement is!! A huge credit to our wonderful community creators (GentleTractor, ScreteMonge & Hooti_Tooti) who are helping to bring our vision to life in these blogs and videos!
This looks great. Better than I expected
Thank you! That is so great to hear!
I’ve waited weeks for this and I know it’ll be worth it. Thanks Jagex for get another killer blog!
Thank you so much for your patience on this one, we took the extra time to try and listen to the feedback we were hearing in Discord and on socials, so I'm really relieved to hear that it was worth it for you! Thank you :D
I will read it all later on but busy at work atm. Any preliminal tl;dr ?
You can get a tldr in the video asset here :)
Easiest no vote of my life this looks absolutely terrible.
Would absolutely love to hear your feedback on how we can improve to make sure we take into account your thoughts. Would you be able to tell us in our latest refinement survey? :( <3
Ship racing as a primary method does not seem fun. I think it ahould be moved to a secondary or tertiary training method.
We have a survey part specifically asking about 'Ship Racing'- would absolutely love your thoughts in there if you have time. Difficult to tell what 'not fun' means as it varies per player type. Thank you so much though for still engaging with us & leaving your feedback
As much as I don’t want Sailing and realise it’s coming anyway I appreciate the consistent updates on the design process.
That said if there is no “ship in a bottle” or something similar, I’ll be very surprised at such a missed opportunity. Even if it’s just a replica of our ships to display in our POH.
Thanks so much! Just ran this comment past Mod Elena, the devs are aware about this idea and it's a cool thematic - so basically, watch this space I guess!
"Passing over reefs improves durability,"
Should that be lowers durability? /u/JagexLight
Thanks for spotting this, small typo that we're fixing now!
So did you guys just completely ignore all the feedback that many people saw a map scaling update for sailing as essential for it to work? You said you didn't want to do it, players told you it was vital, then you just completely ignored that and have now seemingly just declared it as not happening? That's incredibly lame if so. If you don't do it on release, you will never ever do it, and the skills entire lifespan will be gimped because you didn't want to put in the work.
Heya! I was in charge of sending over the feedback to the dev team at the navigation blog so I will take this one. We saw positive feedback overall on the navigation blog. Players rightfully raised some concerns about map scale. The devs felt that we could get around this problem by designing the skill to have various smaller ship sizes. From what I remember, the community responded well to that as the work involved with rescaling the entire map would cost a lot of dev time. That dev time coming at the 'cost' of potential content was something we wanted to avoid. I don't feel this would cause the skill to be doomed forever but if it is a significant enough issue (especially at beta test) we would absolutely reconsider our options to provide the best experience possible. Massive apologies if you felt like we were ignoring that feedback as we certainly want to be transparent and communicate with you through this process
Is the whole idea of discovering islands been scrapped? A lot of players suggested and wanted to see this. The islands could be extensions to all of the skills we have atm if people want it
Definitely not! As Dabali mentioned that can come under 'Expeditions' but importantly as well we feel that 'Islands' and content there fit quite well under the reward space of Sailing. Once you're on land you're no longer technically "Sailing" and we'll go into our reasoning there properly in the next blog, which is coming up late June/early July.
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