Raft catchers

[moostiiq 10]

So every shipyard in the game is designed to be perfect raftcatchers, and since rafts have a horrible turnradius, once you realize you're heading fo one it's often too late to avoid it, or you have to choose between leaving the raft where it is or ramming it into one. Not as annoying for me after i more or less stopped using rafts, but now my own shipyards get random rafts stuck in them instead. Any thoughts? Possible to change raft mechanic and/or shipyard design? Allow rafts to reverse perhaps?

[Nightstrasza 137]

2 minutes ago, moostiiq said:

So every shipyard in the game is designed to be perfect raftcatchers, and since rafts have a horrible turnradius, once you realize you're heading fo one it's often too late to avoid it, or you have to choose between leaving the raft where it is or ramming it into one. Not as annoying for me after i more or less stopped using rafts, but now my own shipyards get random rafts stuck in them instead. Any thoughts? Possible to change raft mechanic and/or shipyard design? Allow rafts to reverse perhaps?

Already lost 1 raft and 2 other times spent like half hour each on getting them out from shipyards not to mention rocks. Yes, the rafts get stuck on everything bcs of trash controls, they just keep driving into whatever they get stuck into.

[moostiiq 10]

To me the no rudder/raw sail mechanic *kind* of makes sense but then if the wind is directly against you and you turn the sail almost 180, why does the raft not reverse even slightly......?

[Coggage 239]

Simply for the sake of not accidentally obstructing other players, rafts really need to be able to back up.  Sometimes you get stuck so badly you need to make yourself another, but there's never a place you can place a Tiny Dock on most islands.  I don't even think Rafts NEED to be built using a Tiny Dock anyway, you should be able to make them in your Inventory, like Looms and Tanneries.  That way people could make a replacement, offload the old Raft and then scuttle it.

[Badkebab 79]

49 minutes ago, moostiiq said:

So every shipyard in the game is designed to be perfect raftcatchers, and since rafts have a horrible turnradius, once you realize you're heading fo one it's often too late to avoid it, or you have to choose between leaving the raft where it is or ramming it into one. Not as annoying for me after i more or less stopped using rafts, but now my own shipyards get random rafts stuck in them instead. Any thoughts? Possible to change raft mechanic and/or shipyard design? Allow rafts to reverse perhaps?

Close your sails completely hold down s key your boat ship raft will slowly start to reverse can be done with any ship I believe 

But yes the buttresses on the shipyards are a pain

[Jean Lafitte 451]

I had the same issue with my last raft.  Got jammed in the side structure of a small shipyard and simply couldn't move.  Fortunately, one of the locals graciously came over and rammed my raft several times with a sloop to get it un-stuck.

Had to demolish this raft yesterday.  I was going to take it out to retrieve a corpse and got wedged into a cliff face.  Couldn't turn, couldn't back up.

Edited January 16, 2019 by Jean Lafitte

[Winter Thorne 696]

3 minutes ago, Badkebab said:

Close your sails completely hold down s key your boat ship raft will slowly start to reverse can be done with any ship I believe 

But yes the buttresses on the shipyards are a pain

Didn't work for me when I tried that.  Are you sure it works on rafts?

[Nightstrasza 137]

3 minutes ago, Badkebab said:

Close your sails completely hold down s key your boat ship raft will slowly start to reverse can be done with any ship I believe 

But yes the buttresses on the shipyards are a pain

Can't do that with raft, the only control of the raft is sails wheel.

[moostiiq 10]

2 minutes ago, Badkebab said:

Close your sails completely hold down s key your boat ship raft will slowly start to reverse can be done with any ship I believe 

But yes the buttresses on the shipyards are a pain

I do that to park my ships neatly, but close your sails and press S on a raft? Well that just makes you walk backwards and get wet.

As for real world rafts, rudders are more common than sails are, and staking is the way to back off. If any ingame floating vessel is to be impossible to get stuck it should the raft!

[Vaenix 131]

7 minutes ago, Badkebab said:

Close your sails completely hold down s key your boat ship raft will slowly start to reverse can be done with any ship I believe 

But yes the buttresses on the shipyards are a pain

This would require the steering wheel that is used on the bigger ships.  Unless this item can be placed on rafts I don't think this will work for those with this problem.

[Coggage 239]

26 minutes ago, Badkebab said:

Close your sails completely hold down s key your boat ship raft will slowly start to reverse can be done with any ship I believe 

But yes the buttresses on the shipyards are a pain

Rafts do NOT reverse.  You can hold the S key until you die of old age and it will do nothing.  Actual ships, yes.  Rafts, no.

[Badkebab 79]

10 minutes ago, Coggage said:

Rafts do NOT reverse.  You can hold the S key until you die of old age and it will do nothing.  Actual ships, yes.  Rafts, no.

Well there you go you learn something new every day, simple solution, add s key functionality to rafts, problem solved, alternatively build a ramshackle sloop instead. 

Edited January 16, 2019 by Badkebab