Boats - Upgrading & Transporting
by Sandy, sash777, June 27 2006

Boats upgrades are very expensive, but are they worth it? There is basically only one way to look at the cost: in terms of silvers / saved click. What you then do with that figure is up to you. Some will be more concerned with the silvers spent, while others will be more concerned with the clicks saved. Obviously, buying a better boat means you'll have a less silvers, but buying a better boat means you'll have more clicks with which to gain silvers and XP. What you have to decide is how much silvers/click or XP/click you can make with the extra clicks afforded by your new boat, and if the crippling expense is worth it in at least one of those terms.

To decide which type of boat is the best balance for you, you have to estimate the daily number of trips you will make to Thord-Artin. It is obvious that a character making six trips per day for stone building or monstology would benefit more from a higher level boat than a character only making one trip per day for conquests.

Choose the average number of daily trips you make per day in the drop down on the left, then click "Calculate Boat Upgrade Details". The table on the right has four columns:

• the first column is the level of the boat
• the second column is the amount of silvers it would cost you to upgrade to that boat level from a level one boat
• the third column is the number of clicks you'll save on average with that level of boat
• the fourth column is the number of silvers you paid per click to save that many clicks per day with that level of boat

Boat Transport Costs

The cost of having your boat transported to you is calculated using the following formula: Distance * Character Level * SQRT(Boat Level).

Calculating the distance is a little tricky, however. If you remember Pythagoras from your basic geometry lessons, you'll be all set. You have to measure the diagonal distance between the start block and end block. Count the number of blocks East to West (A), and then the number of blocks North to South (B). Port blocks count (the boat is on the land when in a port), and only count the start OR the end block, not both. Also, you're counting blocks "as the crow flies", not "as the ship sails". Once you have those two numbers, the distance is calculated as the square root of (A*A + B*B). Multiply that by your level, then multiply by the square root of your boat level, and then round the result to the nearest integer. That's the transport cost.

You could do all that, or you could just enter your character level, boat level and the two locations in the following drop downs and click "Calculate Boat Transport Costs".