Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30638561-20131214202704/@comment-24108228-20131214204826

We will add it, on one condition. You code it and somehow make it not lag, not us. Have fun.

But you see my point. And it is like diseases, it would be nice for the more experienced players, late game, but for new players, they don't want to be stranded on Teraphyx because their raft keeps getting destroyed by your waves. They may not even know how to make a sailboat, and being stranded on an island is bad, and will deter them from playing more.

Plus, it would create too much requirement for the shipbuilding level. Once the player has finally gotten off wherever they started, and settled down, they will want to get better tools, and will need to go to a different island. Unfortunately, the desert current (your coding that) is affecting your route, and you need to make a ton of boats to get enough shipbuilding to get a large sailboat, or merchant frigate depending on how extreme your currents and waves are. This would apply to everyone, and shipbuilding would be absolutely vital for survival, and swimming? Screw that, you would drown in 3 seconds.

I love shipbuilding. When I am not terrorising pyros with my duel crossbows, I sit at my favourite mainland forest and mass produce merchant frigates. However, if this were to be added, everyone would have shipbuilding. It would be the first thing anyone did, make better boats so they can actually get around. Then my skills would not be special, yet I would still have to sit at a forest, making boats to grant me the ability to move around. More boats would add to the problem, as if I could advance beyond the server with boats better than a frigate, then half of the game would be taken by boats and the sea.

My point is, the sea was never supposed to be interesting. I may find new boats fun, you may find new boats fun, but others may dislike that they now have to spend 20 minutes at the start of each game simply crafting hulls and sails together. If the current was nerfed/removed, along with waves, a "New Boats" thread I may agree with. But your new boats are to make the currents possible, and the currents are not possible to someone who is not a master shipbuilder.