Some stuff I was thinking about

Alright listen up guys. This post is about fast-travel. Y'know how when your on the sea skipper, just waiting on the boat, listening to Seaskipper Captain drone on, something about Skien's Island or dead pirates, and you look out at the static background of water blocks over a flat underwater-ish ground? Y'know how when you're on Calo's Airship, you can barely move 2 blocks, and you're stuck looking at the edges of two, always there, static mountains that aren't even moving? Well this changes that. I think that the Seaskipper, Calo's Airship, Kandon-Beda balloon, and others such as the Alekin carriage, should be completely revamped. Have the Seaskipper actually moving over the ocean, have Calo's Airship flying over the ocean or mountains, have the balloon fly over the sky islands, the Alekin carriage moving along the road. Add smooth take-off and landing, docking and leaving cinematic for all of these fast travels, and change the in-between time from just standing on some blocks to a full-scale view of the boat or airship going over the sea or air. Sure, Seaskipper Captain could still say stuff, but make it not the outdated chat version used before Fruma, and give him a portrait thrown in to boot. And just like with the Fruman Underground cutscenes, these would be skippable using the F key or other keyboard command. Fruma shouldn't be the only one who gets cool fast travel. Give Wynn and Gavel the same liberties.

 

With the Fruma trains, only the tunnel walls neet to be animated, whereas with all of your example entire landscapes would need to be animated.

 

I mean, it could be a skipable cutscene, ala the Fruma intro cutscene?

Press F (switch hands) to skip...

 

I mean, just water and sand would have to be animated to move, wouldn't be that much more work honestly

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I detailed Press F (swap hands) to skip near the end