Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-26271588-20150402220220/@comment-24108228-20150403141946

Narcoblix wrote: I just want to say... No. Since you went through soooo much trouble to read Survivor's thread about a new boat, I would recommend you study up on every other thread created in the past. I'm sure that reading all the threads isn't necessary. Mind you, I'd recommend reading a handful of them. They're quite interesting.

Anyway, as far as the suggestion goes, I'm going to have to say no too. The concept of a new boat isn't bad, but you're making it nomad exclusive by making it cost lots of iron and coal. With that much metal and coal going to waste, you're using a ton of steel tools and weapons on just a boat that's slightly faster than a catamaran (after you've given it 3-6 coal for any sizeable journey) and fireproof. Only nomads can afford it, and even they don't really have any incentive to spend 30 coal and a load of iron and stone on a machine that's so easily stolen. Catamarans are cheaper, easier to maintain, more discrete, and less devastating when stolen.

Not only that, but the crafting recipe is far too long to fit into the crafting window, even the engine is questionable: Refined Iron + Refined Iron + Refined Iron + Iron Gear + Iron Gear + Iron Gear

I'd say it needs work. Fast boats at the later end of the shipbuilding spectrum is good, but these are far too expensive to use, and are completely exclusive to rich nomads, the likes of which are already overpowered.