Player Boats operational

Player Boats, a feature our players have been waiting for a long time, has finally been made operational. Even in the past we've had player commandable boats but those have been unarmed and lasted only around 10 minutes. However, the real player boats our now in game.

Player boats will be sold as boat deeds at a boat seller npcs. At first the boat sellers will offer 3 different sizes of boats: small, normal and large. The smallest of these boats has max space for 5 passengers and 1 cannon for each side of the boat, and the cost is around 700k gold. This is a very good choice as the first boat as it allows travelling. However, if someone happens to attack then it's probably best not to fight back but escape. The small boat is also the fastest.

The normal boat allows up to 10 passengers and 3 cannons for each side of the boat. Normal boats will probably be the most common boat for highbies as they can be used for war and transporting parties between places.

The biggest boats cost 6M gold but they're gigantic. A large boat allows up to 25 passengers and 6 cannons for each side.  These are a very good option for transporting whole clans around. The largest boats also have the most hitpoints so it's going to take several smaller boats to take these giants down.

When buying a boat from the boat seller NPC the boat won't come fully armed. Instead they'll have some small default amount of cannons and passenger seats. Players can then buy additional cannons and passenger seats to reach the boat's max values. Players can also buy different sails for the boat so this makes it possible to have your very own pirate ship.

Whenever boat takes damage the boat's hitpoints will go down. Currently there's no way to see the boat's hitpoints but user interface for that will be added soonish. If the hitpoints go to 0 the boat will sink and turn into a shipwreck. All players inside such a boat will fall into the sea. Broken ships and shipwrecks can be repaired by normal npcs for a fee.

The boat seller NPCs will also offer a "Recover boat"-option which recovers a boat or shipwreck no matter where it is located. This should be useful if the boat is lost in the middle of the ocean or sunk somewhere.