Boating

Intro

Boating is one of the many "exciting" ways to get around the MOO. As of yet, the new part of the ocean has no sky tiles, so only a handful of the old objects like Kakuri Island, Stormfront Island, and the oil rig can be accessed from the air.

Types of Boats

There are three boats available at the moment, in varying fuel consumption and price.

•Roundabout This is the cheapest and smallest boat. It costs about $50,000. It can go 15 knots at full speed. •Fishing Trawler This boat has a deck, a cargo hold, and a helm with a door. It costs $189,000. It has a cargo console, but they don't do anything yet. At top speed, it travels 18 knots. •Yachts These boats are pricy, at $529,000. They have a large, several-tile deck, and several cabins and other rooms inside.

Boating, and How To Do it

When you get in the helm of a boat, you will have several commands available to you.

Undock undocks you from whatever dock you are currently at. Dock will present you a list of docks in range, and ask you to type a name to dock somewhere. So typing "dock port" would dock you at the Port of Freedom City if you were in range of Freedom City's docks. Throttle sets the speed of the ship, ranging from 0 to 100. Steer sets the heading of the ship in degrees. 0/360 is north, 90 is east, south is 180, and west is 270. Omap will show you a map of the surrounding ocean. The red <> are you or a nearby port (check for the ones that are off center for ports), black <>'s are others, and the rest of the colors are pretty explanatory, green usually being the mainland, blue being water, everything else being island or other bodies in the water. Watch will make you watch the helm if you aren't already (you automatically start watching it if you type a command such as steer or throttle), and ignore makes you ignore the helm.

                                     |                                       
 heading  [ 150->0            ]                   gps pos  [ 121.348,37.7238  ]
 speed    [ 9.0 kt->15.0 kt   ]                   fuel     [||||||||||||||    ]

That is what you will usually see every tick you move a significant amount. If the horizon changes at all, you will also see the horizon in this readout. Above the readings is the compass. The | is you heading, and if you see a ^ nearby, that is an indication of how many degrees you are off.

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This is a readout of the horizon, showing an island or something far away. Islands will get bigger and expand to two lines, while ships and other things generally stay pretty small.

--Anchorman 01:31, 1 March 2010 (UTC)