New Fast Travel Information

[Harri 4815]

 

The Fast Travel Update

 

Hello friends,

 

As I’m sure everyone has seen over the past week or so, we have been experimenting and using our new fast travel plugin. I’ve been trying to get as many of the old ones replaced as I can to be ready to move to the new system/s that will be in place. This new plugin not only allows group travel, but allows mounts and animals to be taken through, feels a lot more immersive, and allows us to avoid the whole ‘Vailor state’ of a map.

 

Warp9 Travel Guide

 

The way these new travels work is that, once you enter the region designated to that fast travel, you will be able to be affected by this fast travel. Fast travels are set a time which they will automatically and constantly tick down from. Once that amount of time is reached, all affectable entities within the region will be teleported.

 

In simpler terms:

>walk into fast travel

>wait for timer to be reached

>fast travel

 

Upon entering a fast travel region, this prompt will appear in your chat:

 

 

Fare: however many minas you will need to pay to use this fast travel (minas are subtracted from your persona’s pocket, rather than your bank).

Mounted fare: however many minas it will take for a player riding a horse/bear to use this fast travel.

Animal fare: however many minas it will take to transport an animal attached to a lead (note the animal must also be within the fast travel region).

 

You also will be met with this at the top of your screen:

 

 

This is an indication of how long is left before you are warped. Be warned, as fast travel times tick irrespective of players entering them - this means that the region is constantly counting down, and will automatically warp each time the assigned time has elapsed.

 

Sometimes (usually by boat) you will be warped to what’s known as an intermediary warp. This is sort of like an instance in the whole travel journey, to show off the travel and make it feel like you really are travelling. When in one of these, just wait and you will eventually be warped to your destination. Do not jump/walk away from the instance, don’t do things /sit etc. If you get stuck, please modreq for a mod to come and help you.

 

New Travel Charters

 

Fast travels now come with many new toggleable features, and so, I’ve decided to try and incorporate them into a ‘new’ system so that players may take advantage of them. For a fully upgraded and maximised fast travel, it will cost the same as the previous system, but a more basic one is a lot more manageable.

 

Pricing

 

Cart:

A cart costs 0 minas + 50 per 100 blocks the cart has to travel to reach its destination. You must build your own cart or pay 50 minas for a moderator to copy+paste a basic one in. The total transport time must be a minimum of 1 minute. Intermediary travels are optional, and a travel instance may be created for them. Carts may travel between two settlements of the same faction and on the same island. They will only travel throughout the day.

 

Boat:

A boat costs 500 minas + 25 per 100 blocks it travels to reach its destination. You must build your own boat or pay 150 minas for a moderator to copy+paste a basic one in. The total transport time must be a minimum of 2 minutes. Intermediary travels are required for a boat, and a travel instance will be created for them. Boats may travel between any two docks, and across to other islands. They will travel through the day and night.

 

A settlement may only have 3 of each type of fast travel at any one time (excluding fast travels from spawn).

 

Additional features:

Transportation of mounted players: 250 minas

Transportation of mobs: 250 minas

Transport throughout night: 500 minas

50% total travel time reduction: 1000 minas

Transport of new personas: Your settlement must have one of these filled out and submitted.

 

Fares

Fast travels will cost 1 mina per 100 blocks travelled to use.

Mounted players will pay double the normal fare to travel with their horse.

Animals will cost half the normal fare to be transported by cart.

Animals will cost the normal fare to be transported by boat.

 

Notice

If you have an existing fast travel that operates on the old sign system, please report it to me or another GM to be changed into a new warp9 fast travel.

Any existing fast travels will be automatically considered a ‘fully upgraded one’.

Administrator buy shops and higher mob drops will be implemented soon to begin getting minas back into the economy.

FARES WILL NOT BE ACTIVE UNTIL THESE ARE IMPLEMENTED

 

Everything on here is subject to change, as we are still seeing what works well and what doesn’t.

 

-Harrison

[Wrynn 1349]

Boy do I love this new Fast Travel system c:

<3 Tofuus

 

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[_Jandy_ 3519]

3 minutes ago, HB_ said:

You must build your own boat or pay 150 minas for a moderator to copy+paste a basic one in.

 

3 minutes ago, HB_ said:

You must build your own cart or pay 50 minas for a moderator to copy+paste a basic one in.

Can we have some images of what the mod provided builds will look like?

[Harri 4815]

4 minutes ago, _Jandy_ said:

 

Can we have some images of what the mod provided builds will look like?

Imagine the smaller ones from spawn/resource island in terms of boats, and a small, 2x3 wagon for a cart.

[Taketheshot 3834]

Still don't know why we would purchase a cart for alot of money and then pay to use it? I like the plugin but paying for transport is one of the most fucked up things you can put on the server. The economy is fucked. Yes were getting admin shops and mob drops but do you not think those minas would go better towards player to player transactions rather than a cart? As it stand right now I will have to pay roughly  200 minas to get from the human hub yo say...Karlsburg or Westerlands. We need to be working to get more money into the server rather than funnel it out via these carts which make little sense. Again capitalizing on what others have said on other threads. "Why would I buy a fast travel cart and then charge my citizrns?" We understand this is based off good intentions but this hampers roleplay extremely. It's not our fault the map was made gigantic. Why do we have to pay to go from point A to point B.

This is not something that needs to be placed on this server.

[Harri 4815]

1 minute ago, Taketheshot said:

Still don't know why we would purchase a cart for alot of money and then pay to use it? I like the plugin but paying for transport is one of the most fucked up things you can put on the server. The economy is fucked. Yes were getting admin shops and mob drops but do you not think those minas would go better towards player to player transactions rather than a cart? As it stand right now I will have to pay roughly  200 minas to get from the human hub yo say...Karlsburg or Westerlands. We need to be working to get more money into the server rather than funnel it out via these carts which make little sense. Again capitalizing on what others have said on other threads. "Why would I buy a fast travel cart and then charge my citizrns?" We understand this is based off good intentions but this hampers roleplay extremely. It's not our fault the map was made gigantic. Why do we have to pay to go from point A to point B.

This is not something that needs to be placed on this server.

If it honestly is that detrimental they will just be removed. We may even give players the ability to control the fare on their carts so that players will actually give the owner of the cart the minas, rather than it going up into thin air. That way it's technically a player to player transaction. The idea behind fares is that fast travels are meant to be a luxury, whereas people are able to freely and easily use them now as if they're nothing. If they don't work out, they will be fixed accordingly or removed, do not fear.

On top of that, this is not a steep price what so ever. Most carts travel a couple hundred blocks at most. I can't see anyone using more than five minas, and the admin shops easily allow you to make 50-100x that in one good session of grinding. Mobs also drop at least 1 mina, so killing five is not that hard to achieve.

As for the whole 'i payed so much why do i pay more.................' argument, I reduced the base costs of each type of travel by 500, so that carts are actually free (when not adding in the distance, which isn't too much).

[Taketheshot 3834]

7 minutes ago, HB_ said:

If it honestly is that detrimental they will just be removed. We may even give players the ability to control the fare on their carts so that players will actually give the owner of the cart the minas, rather than it going up into thin air. That way it's technically a player to player transaction. The idea behind fares is that fast travels are meant to be a luxury, whereas people are able to freely and easily use them now as if they're nothing. If they don't work out, they will be fixed accordingly or removed, do not fear.

On top of that, this is not a steep price what so ever. Most carts travel a couple hundred blocks at most. I can't see anyone using more than five minas, and the admin shops easily allow you to make 50-100x that in one good session of grinding. Mobs also drop at least 1 mina, so killing five is not that hard to achieve.

As for the whole 'i payed so much why do i pay more.................' argument, I reduced the base costs of each type of travel by 500, so that carts are actually free (when not adding in the distance, which isn't too much).

But do you not see how this will Hamper travel? People just won't go to other places because they don't want to pay.

The map is too big for a paid FT system. It's not a luxury it's a nessecity.

[Harri 4815]

Just now, Taketheshot said:

But do you not see how this will Hamper travel? People just won't go to other places because they don't want to pay.

The map is too big for a paid FT system. It's not a luxury it's a nessecity.

If that proves true, then I will remove it. 

[Taketheshot 3834]

Just now, HB_ said:

If that proves true, then I will remove it. 

Remember roadblocks...

[cj_scout 305]

I remember when Salvus had paid tolls for a while in Anthos. People stopped going to Salvus.

That being said, if the economy gets reinvigorated a bit, there shouldn't be too much of an issue. I like that it's suggesting to travel places yourself, maybe get some road rp going again, but... let's be honest, some people are too lazy for that.

[Harri 4815]

3 minutes ago, Taketheshot said:

Remember roadblocks...

look

they were removed

 

 

[DrakeHaze. 2524]

Wait you are saying the prime region owner isnt being payed the fare when people travel on their cart which they payed for? I am confused.

[Harri 4815]

1 minute ago, Blad said:

Wait you are saying the prime region owner isnt being payed the fare when people travel on their cart which they payed for? I am confused.

This is a feature we may add, if it is requested enough.

[Jistuma 1996]

Just now, HB_ said:

This is a feature we may add, if it is requested enough.

Should only be a % of the fee, we need a mina sink.

[Man of Respect 5471]

1 hour ago, HB_ said:

Do not jump/walk away from the instance, don’t do things /sit etc. If you get stuck, please modreq for a mod to come and help you.

 

 

On a sidenote:

Fast Travel with cost and time just like I'd love to waste my ******* time on a boat as I sit there alone save one or two rare instances