Will we finally get ship to ship combat?

You probably have to be an old timer to get the reference.

There isn't much more water then like small lakes or rivers, there are ships in 1 zone though

I think literally everyone that posts on the forums knows that joke.

Ahoy! If'n ye parrrrchase thee limited arrrrdition pirate persarrrna and ship in a bottle mount, matey.

And not just these forums. Hehehehehehe

Players: "Can we have ship-to-ship combat?"
Designers: "No, we have ship-to-ship combat at home."

Ship-to-ship combat at home:

Three ships, in Unkempt Woods, for some strange reason! Ship to Ship combat is back, baby!!

I read that the ship-to-ship combat is just off the Burned Woods zone

Can anyone give me a sow?

Nah we aint getting ship to ship.

That takes years, decades with this engine.

If its EQ3 and modern engine, very possible not within a year, within quarter.

Someone who UE5 for fun, they already ship steering and everything down. 1 month SOLO coding.

"EQ, they lack dev's, the team is to small, yada yada yada"
hold my beer.
SOLO ship steering, geometry, wind, and everything, done.
UE5 did 90% of the work, 5% just put the pieces together, 5% was asking chatgpt.

Meanwhile EQ, they would need 5 extra years, its very complex to do on an old engine.
Without those dev's who were craving just to work on weather and all the fancy stuff.
Those hardcore dev's gone.
"we will wind, weather, all of the nice soon"
Karanas do have weather they did make progress. Something better than nothing.
However, those guys are gone. long gone.


Voice AI, done.
EQ years decades.
Good engine, within the quarter it'll be done.


People already got EQ in VR.
EQ EQ, Meanwhile, 64 bit, UI engine upgrade.

This is why old games where they let community go ham.
Starcraft Used Map Settings
Quake1, all those Quakeworld maps

That is reason why those games exploded.

Games today, no touching.
Wait 2 years for the UI upgrades.

Doesn't matter if someone else SOLO does it in like within a quarter

This is why other games better wikis and what not
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:Main
Go ahead make fancy stuff.

EQ
https://www.reddit.com/r/everquest/comments/n9p0fn/everquest_api/?rdt=40653
https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/everquest-1-api-key.288187/
No, no touchy.

Do stuff the hard way,
output file and yada yada

EQ in their dreams they wish they could do this
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers
EQ in their dreams they wish 10 years later, there LFG system would still popping.
GW2, find the meta zone, find the biggest squad, join. Easy join.
Easy doing 54+, 100+ people stuff