Boating

Intro

Boating is one of the many exciting ways to get around the MOO. The expanded part of the ocean still has no sky tiles, so many places are only accessible by boat.

Types of Boats

There are four boats available at the moment, in varying fuel consumption and price. They are bought from Yachtzee in Botany Bay.

Name	Cost	Notes
Runabout	$12,500	This is the cheapest and smallest boat.
Speedboat	$32,000	Unknown.
Fishing Trawler	$54,000	Has a deck, a cargo hold, and a helm with a nanotube door.
Luxury Yacht	$265,000	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 <> is you or a nearby port (check for the ones that are off center for ports), black <>'s are other boats, 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)

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) --Crysis 23:10, 10 January 2012 (GMT)