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Thematically we've opted for the definition that your skill in Sailing is indicative of your capability to operate a Ship and it's facilities.

We really didn't want players to just gain XP passively, that feels like something that wouldn't feel like a skill, whereas using a tool to do a job very much so does, in this case, the ship and it's facilities are a tool and you're increasing your knowledge/expertise of these while using them.

We're aware of the sentiment of interacting with Sails too frequently perhaps getting a bit too tedious but that's where we have multiple avenues to affect this throughout the skill progression, for example: - Higher level sails could need trimmed less often, or be more effective when trimmed. - NPC crewmates (or other players joining your ship) could take on that tedium for you so you can navigate yourself.

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Yes, if we add retroactive Sailing XP we'd want to make sure the level was appropriate for that XP reward instead of everyone starting Sailing on launch day at, for example, level 30.

We're currently going to allow irons to sail with other players but with restrictions, those restrictions are currently unclear but we are aware of a sentiment with iron accounts needing to be responsible for their own account progression and we're looking to uphold that.

Currently anyone can join anyone's boat as long as it's at a port but we definitely want you to have more control than that for launch, such as only allowing friends, having join requests or just being able to kick people from your boat.

Hey, I answered a similar question here https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/1d3a4gh/comment/l66gddw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

but I appreciate you're being a bit more specific, so I'll try to answer as best as I can!

With regards to existing content, we're not looking to overhaul existing quest completion methods in the game world but we are interested in changing the framing of some quests and dialogue in them to account for the fact that Sailing exists.

A good example of quest integration is DS1 where the isle of Crandor is this massive big mystery but realistically we all know ...

This is a great question! There are lots ties to the Eastern Lands in-game already, and it's reasonable to assume that at some point we will expand over there, but we're not planning to go there with Sailing for launch. In order to do the content justice, it would need significant time spent on it as it's probably as big as Varlamore in scope. We want to focus on making Sailing good for the existing game world initially for launch and then look at expanding in future.

Hey,

First up, we're not looking to change any existing sailing requirements but we are open to these quests awarding some sailing XP upon completion (and available as a claimable lamp for those who completed them before Sailing's launch). We'd still want to set reasonable minimum levels to these so players don't just spend the first 10 minutes claiming lamps and going from, for example, level 1 to level 30 without engaging with Sailing initially.

For new quests in the future, I'd assume that we will lean into using the players boat where we can, but I'd imagine that will be quite subject to the developers design intent for that quest and also player feedback/validation. For example, if you're being rowed by an NPC along a river to a back entrance where you sneak into a castle it might not necessarily matter that you have access to a boat to sail the seas but if it's a quest like Bone Voyage, perhaps it makes sense to sail yourself, or perhaps the narrative of the q...

Hi there! :)

Great question. We published a blog during refinement on Sailing gameplay (Adding A New Skill: Sailing Core Gameplay (runescape.com)), which includes 'secondary gameplay' activities. Secondary activities involve existing skills and Sailing, so you'd be getting XP in two skills. The amount of XP though is yet to be determined and the activities themselves would need to be polled separately.

We've also talked about islands and the content found there in this blog (...

Hey, currently in the tech alpha:

• A boat will continue to operate as expected without the captain present on the boat for 5 minutes, this includes using facilities and moving the boat (if the player has been given navigator permissions by the captain)
• After 5 minutes, the boat will be considered disabled, this means none of the facilities will be able to be used, the boat cannot move and the boat will stay there until all of the players leave.
• If the captain logs in within these 5 minutes they will be returned to the boat, regardless of where the boat has now moved to
• If the captain logs in after these 5 minutes, they will be spawned on a new copy of that boat at the location they logged out, anyone else on the old boat will not be present.
• If the captain logs in to a different world, they will be spawned on a new copy of their boat regardless and will be unable to return to their old one.

So to your specific questio...

Hmm, I assumed you'd had it turned off given you had the side panel hidden. That is a known issue though, so kind of a sigh of relief.

You could try clearing the loot tracker out and see if it still crashes. It might be that the info is too full atm and clearing it could let you track again without perma crashing

What a comparison! Thanks for the question. :)

When you're sailing a small boat, we think it feels appropriate but we definitely see the concern when we look at large boats in comparison to the scale of the existing game world. During refinement, we looked at scaling up the world and moving landmasses.

When we investigated further, we felt it was apparent that we were trying to apply a real-life scale to a world that isn't trying to be at scale.

We have mansions larger than mountains, we have entire kingdoms you can travel between, on foot, within a minute or two, trying to enforce this sense of a realistic scale with Sailing just felt very against the grain for this game.

In light of this feedback, we've instead looked to focus our efforts on trying to control the size of the boat and try to tailor that to the environments at sea, for example, the areas around Crandor, Catherby, Port Sarim might be shallow waters which favour smaller boats whe...

Which iOS device? As things stand, we tried an 11 Pro Max in live and didn't get it, so wondering if it potentially hardware specific or setting specific. And what's your RSN? Feel free to DM that if you don't want to share it

Currently, no causes are jumping to mind from what I can see so will keep digging for a bit

Few questions for you to help us narrow this down - from what I can see, this is the first report of significant crashing of this kind

• iOS or Android?
• How often can you repro this? You've said 3 times, is that 10% or 50% of the time for example
• Which client version are you using? (assuming 222.1 but good to clarify)
• Is it only successful traps that are crashing you out?

All part of our plan to bring Josh Isn't Gaming down a peg...

Will ask the team to take a look at this one, Salarin's code appears to be as twisted as the man himself but I'm sure they'll be able to set him straight!

Team are working on a fix for this one, give your hard-working thralls a brief spot of respite.

Raised this one with the team, if I had to hazard a guess it's that LMS items are 'separate' from their maingame counterparts and we might have missed adding an exception to it. Team should be able to fix it easily enough (I hope!)

In this case we'd designed this stuff first, I'm not as close to the WGS rewards since it's not a project I'm actively working on so my uncertainty stems from not knowing their reasoning for the 'fiery' thematics since I've not been privy to those specific conversations!

Raised this one with the team!

Team are aware of both of these cases and looking into them!