Boat Arrival Times

[mickmoranis]

I got another time on 8:50 am weird.

[Sorn]

30 minutes round trip (and a 30 minute wait time if you're trying to catch it), 15 minutes one way, plus extra seconds for zoning and waiting for players to zone in.

Over the course of time the boats will shift their arrivals due to the extra couple of seconds, so arrival times are only consistent for about a day. Timeline-wise, we should actually have two boats for FP/BB and possibly announcements, but boats are a pain in the butt to program (so I hear).

Soooo the boat zones 4 times in a round trip (from BB, zones into OOT > FP > OOT > BB), with 48 round trips a day (approximately). Let's say zone times vary between 10-20 seconds, meaning each round trip shifts the arrival time between 40 seconds and 1 min 20 seconds, which in turn means throughout the day, the arrival time will shift between 32 minutes and 1 hour 4 minutes...and of course it eventually makes a full circle around the clock, leaving us convinced that it arrives at xx:xx and xx:xx if we only ride about once every three or six weeks.

Well, that's just with a guesstimate of 10-20 seconds variance on there, which may not be the case (could be smaller, could not even have variance). Also, I suck at math. Feel free to correct me. :P

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by Sorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

30 minutes round trip (and a 30 minute wait time if you're trying to catch it), 15 minutes one way, plus extra seconds for zoning and waiting for players to zone in.

Over the course of time the boats will shift their arrivals due to the extra couple of seconds, so arrival times are only consistent for about a day. Timeline-wise, we should actually have two boats for FP/BB and possibly announcements, but boats are a pain in the butt to program (so I hear).

Soooo the boat zones 4 times in a round trip (from BB, zones into OOT > FP > OOT > BB), with 48 round trips a day (approximately). Let's say zone times vary between 10-20 seconds, meaning each round trip shifts the arrival time between 40 seconds and 1 min 20 seconds, which in turn means throughout the day, the arrival time will shift between 32 minutes and 1 hour 4 minutes...and of course it eventually makes a full circle around the clock, leaving us convinced that it arrives at xx:xx and xx:xx if we only ride about once every three or six weeks.

Well, that's just with a guesstimate of 10-20 seconds variance on there, which may not be the case (could be smaller, could not even have variance). Also, I suck at math. Feel free to correct me. :P

All of that said, nobody has ever created a thread where people actually print their arrival times... perhaps server resets keep them aproximitly on the same schedual give or take a few mins and you can make your plans of travel a little bit easier, if we confirm all this data [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Post your boat arrival times and where, and see what kinda magic we can uncover!

Or just post random times to be mean, which in reality is far more likely.