colordeus

would be useful even tho i wouldnt personally use, support tho

I now have 99 Sailing on Eby and 87 Sailing on GIM Eby so I have experience to work with now. I still love the effect of option 1 Boat Speed Boost so long as the boost is ignored during Barracuda Trials. I'm less sure about the implementation theme of "bottled dragonfire" despite it being a great missing item to bring into the game because how would you use it? Most of sailing is wind-themed. Simplest implementation would be to just make the boat speed boost a perk of reading the vote book rather than a shop item, just like the +50% exp vote perk.  The speed boosts should be +0.5 base speed and +0.5 max-speed for 15 minutes (stackable so if you read 4, you get 60 minutes). For context an ironwood (rune) hull has a base speed of 2.5 and a rosewood (dragon) has a base speed of 3.0 so +0.5 speed boost fits right in. 

• The Option 2 Daily task reset perk seems unnecessary. We can scrap that. Notice board tasks refresh every 60 minutes and you already get 15 daily task board refreshes. On my road to 99 I probably never used more than 8 refreshes in a day.
• The Option 3 Ocean encounter perk -- it could work but I don't think the ocean encounter loot is in demand. I never saw any ocean encounter loot that made me think: "I'd like more of this". 
• The Option 4 Cannon Max hit brew -- Sailing combat isn't released yet so this idea can be reconsidered later. It's not off the table like option 2 and 3 now are. 

A little joke: Sailing could be renamed Bank Space Nuker. I say that joke despite having already used a Bank expansion scroll. I wonder what the technical limitations to more bank space are? We could have a mini bank expansion scroll in the vote book shop. According to Perplexity AI's deep search, "OSRS gave 190 additional spaces for Sailing—100 base member spaces plus 10 added to each of nine purchased upgrades.". Alora, to the best of my knowledge, has given zero.  

In practice I've also spent more time killing frost dragons than actually sailing -- and expect to continue killing frost dragons for the dragon metal sheets and dragon nails. Just a sloop hull takes 600 dragon nails (40 sheets), a sloop keel alone takes 64 dragon metal sheets! (16 * 4 = 64). That's only two parts and zero facilities on one of your multiple boats. 

Just like there's a cannonball and burnt page item in the votebook shop, let's have there be a dragon metal sheet item in the vote book shop. We can give dragon metal sheets a starting price of 150 vote points before considering reducing the cost to 120 based on what the prevailing price of dragon sheets are months from now.  Spending more time killing frost dragons than actually sailing doesn't sit quite right with me so this gives an alternative path.

Last, an idea similar to the gem bag, we could add a bag of frags or corals to the vote point shop for the Elkhorn, pillar, or umbral frags. Corals are used to make Armadyl Brews, Haemostatic Dressing,  super hunter potions, and super fishing potions.  Likely this is an unexpectedly low-volume item given how low the total TP trading volume on Prayer regeneration potions and goading potions are, so this idea isn't as exciting as the others above. 

A priority note: Of the following 4 vote sites [RuneLocus, RSPS-List, MoparScape, RuneList], only RuneLocus has been updated to feature Sailing. RuneList still just says Sailing imminent, which is close. The middle two say Yama just released or Yama out now. So don't forget to update the 3 stale listings while this is still new. Also CONGRATS on being the very first RSPS in the world to implement sailing. Major achievement. In my opinion, you did a great job with the skill too.

TL;DR:

My suggested list of perks and items has been reduced to this:

1. Sailing speed boost. Perk, +0.5 base speed, +0.5 max speed, 15 minutes. Stackable so that 4 give an hour boost.
2. Dragon metal sheets. Item, 150 vote points ea when added. Maybe costing 120 vote points later in November/December 2026 depending what dragon metal sheet prices are then. 
3. Mini bank expansion scroll. Item, unknown vote point cost, unknown bank spaces.
4. Frag Bag. Item, unknown vote points, unknown contents of coral frags or corals. 
5. Cannon max hit brew, unknown vote points, raise cannon max hit by +1. +2 if you have a Keg of Perildance Bitter installed, since that keg already gives +1.

I think the first 3 would be a hit. 

Thoughts?


 

what in tarnation? almost none of this makes any logical sense whatsoever, i dont even know if what i just read is real, i think dragon metal sheets should be added somewhere, sailing speed boost has to be the most restarted (not using the actual word) thing imaginable, horrible idea, i do think we should be able to expand our bank a bit, frag bag is an obviously narcissistic attempt to merch and sell stuff, cannon max hit brew would require a new item and would genuinely not matter since we can use ranged gear alongside cannons.

having more resets its fine, theres no negative to it and could help with people looking for specific tasks, especially in when bounty tasks release if people want very specific monsters, ocean encounter boosts could be useful i dont understand the issue with that either?

overall a lot of your suggestions in general just seem aimed towards merching and getting money from vote books, all these suggestions seemed like you asked chatgpt or something, the post is probably ai generated lolol, i mean just look at ur tagline "Alora's #1 in Total Vote Book Trade Volume for perhaps the last 1 or 2 years" like cmon this isnt a billboard its not that serious

"Shameless self-promotion + AI disclosure: I prompted an LLM through a Mac app I built this year (also on iOS) to make the original dense wall of text here "more readable." I've always been better with computers than writing." yeah idk why you would even post this on the alora forums of all places dawg

support but make the omi pet tradable so we can trade it in for a mansion in miami as well

@Mhk i do agree that skilling should be a bit easier (especially with the lack of world hopping which sucks), if fishing spots don't move then having salvaging spots do the same wouldn't hurt i guess, but making the timer really long could also work just as well idk, although i dont persnally do much salavging i would like to see this def be improved for people who do because i do think that for only having one world its way too harsh

salvaging spots dont expire, they just switch positions on a timer, i do think they should last a bit longer but when one expires another one will instantly come up because thats just how it works lol, and it's based on a timer

so partial support for making them last a bit longer but not infinite because you can just switch spots (a lot of times it swaps to another spot next to you so it's not that bad)