Guild Wars 2

The Havoc’s Heir truly is chaotic – the skritt there must love their Rat’s Nest! If it all possible, I would swap the ship up to a longer or wider model. Sharp camera cuts, twisting directional demands and NPC’s so close that you mis-choose them is an issue not seen within the Royal Terrace.

As a side note, the Royal Terrace now needs an activity NPC for equivalence of purchase. This is the only utility boon of the Havoc’s Heir.

The ship is also missing the ability to travel to any town as advertised.

Oh man, I wanted to buy the Captain’s Airship Pass so badly, the PERMANENT one, but I won’t. The airship feels like a dump compared to the Royal Terrace. An absolute cramped, musky, cold, dump.

digitalruse.9085:

The ship is also missing the ability to travel to any town as advertised.

NPC near the helm provides you with that facility.

Royal Terrace does look nicer than the airship though, by a large margin. But it gets the job done for me.

It didn’t really meet up to my expectation in visual , isn’t this the same air ship we go on in the living story? But its convenient I suppose :/

Slight buyer’s remorse.

Havok’s Heir is a bit cramped, yes.

It’s probably the same size as the Pact airship at Fort Trinity, which is fine when it’s empty but after a few crafting stations go in it starts to feel tiny. And of course we’re used to Toymaker Tixx’s airship being gigantic, which hardly helps.

Perhaps they could scale the model up 20%?

I do like all the facilities and the NPCs.

Another thing which causes cramping is when players start to fill the place up. Once you add 10-20 players in there, which is what’s happening right now, the airship quickly becomes a stuffed sardine can!

Just an idea: what if the airship was like the Hall of Monuments? A personal instance set high in the clouds, similar to Edge of the Mists, with the illusion of flying along like in the Highwind (woo, FF7!). Quick to load, no extra players to cramp it up, and for me… it wouldn’t cause my machine to run out of memory for once!

(32 bit WinXP frequently runs out of memory these days in Lornar’s, Bloodtide and Gendarran Fields after a few map changes, possibly to memory fragmentation)

It’s a definite downgrade from RT. It’s a refugee ship, not a luxury cruise.

Cirian.8917:

Just an idea: what if the airship was like the Hall of Monuments? A personal instance set high in the clouds, similar to Edge of the Mists, with the illusion of flying along like in the Highwind (woo, FF7!). Quick to load, no extra players to cramp it up, and for me… it wouldn’t cause my machine to run out of memory for once!

(32 bit WinXP frequently runs out of memory these days in Lornar’s, Bloodtide and Gendarran Fields after a few map changes, possibly to memory fragmentation)

I like your idea of an instance, if we are going to have a load screen regardless it might as well be a separate micro map. Although, maybe they don’t want to generate all those instances for players (sure we have home instances, but who actually consistently goes there or spends extended time in it, same can be said for most other player specific instances).

Re: 32bit XP, while this is entirely off topic considering that Microsoft is pulling the plug on it in April (figuratively, since it will be exploit city population everyone when there is no more security updates, some even speculate that people are sitting on exploits and trying to make money off of them after this happens) an upgrade might be in order.

I am also mildly curious what will ArenaNet’s policy be in regards to XP going forward.

Got a ticket from the bags, went there and saw it’s more of a boat than a ship, annoying to navigate at that. I do believe you pirate wannabes can have your crammed box. I intend to stay in the royal terrace with the rest of the glorious master race, drinking wine and taking quips at the dirty peasants that try to get past the bouncers.