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« on: December 31, 2009, 01:53:58 am »
Thinking about the issue of rotating boats... perhaps it could be implemented in such a way as boats would only be seen in one of the four cardinal directions? As in, say, adventure mode, you go to the dock and pay to go on a voyage. You see the boat, sure, and can walk around on it, but when it disembarks you go to the world map view for the duration of your voyage. It would stay in this view unless the ship were attacked (pirates, sea monsters, horrible storm etc.) and then it would switch to the normal map view with the ship displayed in one of the easy four cardinal directions (until the catastrophe is averted)
I'd say that this makes large boats a quite bit easier on the implementation side, while allowing the player to still construct his own ships and walk around on them as an adventurer, so it's not too bad of an abstraction, I'd think.