Sailing Development Progress Update | Milestone 1: Navigation

[@GabrielScoville-v9k]

I think if you guys are diligent and bring in testers for feedback quite often you guys can pull it off - it clearly won’t be easy with this community

[@henlofrens]

Very true, it has already been a year and I won't mind it being two more if it means it will be an absolutely great addition to the game.

[@PowhaBottom]

Sailing doesn't belong in osrs

[@GabrielScoville-v9k]

@@PowhaBottom care ta share why u believe that?

[@henlofrens]

@@PowhaBottom cope and seethe while me and me crew are plunderin the seas havin a blast 🏴‍☠🦜

[@ThisIsMyYouTubeAccount1]

​@@PowhaBottom Sailing belongs in osrs

[@beatboxinghippie]

Take all the time you need team

[@TPhoneHome]

Is Ned going to be the Skillcape NPC for sailing?

[@kingbball66]

He has to be

[@fraud291]

he better be

[@greedyisgud]

pls jagex im begging you ned deserves this

[@Lalalalalalalalalalalanx]

Obviously

[@tylersimmons2154]

They've mentioned him giving it in the Q&A's. But who knows until it's live.

[@uncivilsum]

0:58 “Keep going! You’re good! You’re good”

[@Thestuffnope]

"Dont worry, Captain! We'll buff out those scratches."

[@StickFiguresMaster]

Awoooo Ahhhhh Leedle leedle leedle lee

[@HavocParadox]

It's going to look funky when like 20-30 ships are all at that one salvage spot.

[@SouthernWolff]

The ship wrecks could be instanced

[@dvst_tv]

Already looks funky when 20-30 players are at any resource node. But they’ve stated that only a limited number of ships would show at a time as one possible solution

[@Jon-cw8bb]

They don't want to instance it ​@@SouthernWolff

[@SouthernWolff]

@@Jon-cw8bb fair enough, I was just just saying they could be.

[@jmd489]

They could have no collision locations, and have ships go semi transparent when overlapping

[@Cissero]

I want a Dragon boat.

[@coyotetracker1]

Third age boat. Requires a third age naval design that you gain scraps of from rare cargo drops.

[@MrGalRoz]

@@coyotetracker1 yes but the chance to get them is 1/200k

[@Diapolo10]

Barrows gloves? Barrows boat!

[@stunningwaffle]

Barrows boat from the sailomancer

[@warne.7994]

you get the left half as a drop from salvage at 1/2,000,00 or 1/69420 with ring of wealth. buy right half for 750,000,000 Gp from klarense

[@Patchichos]

I'm glad it's not being rushed and actually taking the time to make it good

[@PowhaBottom]

"Make it good" what a joke

[@ThisIsMyYouTubeAccount1]

​@@PowhaBottomcringe

[@JoseCruz11123]

This looks good to me, not sure what your deal is. ​@@PowhaBottom

[@MrObliviousegg]

I hope it never gets released.

[@telezon7206]

The devs working on this seem very passionate and excited about this project. Makes me smile to see people who love what they do sharing their passion with us

[@stefanhall617]

Honestly! And looks like its going well in my opinion!

[@ToTheGrave20]

Too bad it looks fekn terrible

[@JoshuaWilliams-ij4ih]

They get paid to smile

[@2jz-boi]

@@ToTheGrave20 bro why so toxic its just a game lol

[@evghb]

Speaking of draw distance, most players already use the max draw on the GPU plugin of Runelite, but making it even further would be a huge update

[@IDrinkYourMilk]

Mobile has an increased draw distance slider also

[@Tuzzz94]

I don't. It makes my PC crash

[@lilpullout]

who is most players? i love it when people lie to fit a narrative

[@_Professor_Oak]

@@Tuzzz94 upgrade your PC then bozo, crashing from a game like OSRS is embarrassing.

[@moes.]

@@lilpullout every one of my mates including myself maxes it out so from my perspective it also looks like most

[@lucasathus]

I think before you guys release it each mod should grind it until 99 first Just to avoid releasing a boring/slow skill like agility, or too click intensive like thieving/hunter/construction

[@hardup9809]

This is completely fair, if I have to grind a 35khr skill ima be so.mad

[@lpcmark]

This is either going to be really cool or flop instantly. I hope the devs really take their time and do this well.

[@maverick7037]

Every person that voted for this will regret it.

[@nooux1966]

@@maverick7037 All 25% of the playerbase, the real people who will regret this will be jagex when they realise that rigging the poll was a massive mistake

[@MrMastermind790]

@@nooux1966 How did they rig it?

[@nooux1966]

@@MrMastermind790 I can't give you straight up proof because I don't work at Jagex obviously but there's no way this passed with more than 75%, every stream, every comment, every thread I saw before the poll was overwhelmingly negative towards sailing. Not to mention Odablocks community which is massive, spite voted no for some reason that I can't recall but can bet that was a good 10-15k no votes just from his fans alone. So basically answer to your question is, they just simply tampered with the numbers, which is easy to do considering we don't have a live count on yes and no votes.

[@WilliamMcAdams]

The team is going to *have* to figure out an instance system for Sailing. The waters aren't big enough for even 10 players to all have massive ships converged on a single area. Imagine Ports. It's a neat idea, I like sailing as a concept, I voted for it, but there are some serious considerations with the current direction of the Skill.

[@ExtremeGnome]

They really put a green pixel on the 73 hit xdd

[@Cranson92]

Honestly, I'm glad you're taking as long as you are. The movement was my personal biggest barrier to the idea of sailing. If the fundamental feeling of sailing is bad, all the rewards in the world wouldn't make me like the skill, so I think investing a lot of time up front on the foundation of movement/navigation is the correct way to do things. Hope it's smooth sailing from here.

[@killer30556]

Now if we get a new version of sea shanty 2 with the skill, that would be epic

[@evghb]

how could you possibly want a new sea shanty 2 when the current version is literal perfection

[@anactualseagull5980]

Or we could stop running the same song into the ground over and over again

[@Knotzer95]

@@evghbbut consider, sea shanty 3

[@1Psyblade1]

Would it be Sea Shanty 3 or Sea Shanty 2 2?

[@Diapolo10]

Sea Shanty III: Raise thy Anchors

[@kingson2104]

i still can't believe this is actually going to be a 'thing'

[@NormalJeff]

Ned better be the skillcape holder!

[@skmitty]

poh dock?

[@Pizza4Lunch]

Imagine all the bugs this is going to cause on launch

[@hardup9809]

Was part of a bug that gave 2m fishing xp hr was patched in 30ms

[@WarbrainJack]

It’ll be fantastic

[@_Professor_Oak]

@@hardup9809 30 milliseconds? Damn

[@Julianobarbone]

I’m old enough to have seen a lot of Jagex’s “great ideas” turn to huge mistakes. But people can’t fathom others being skeptical?

[@ultratronger]

did you forget that right before launch there will literally be another poll asking "should we release it as is?"

[@Ash-Ketchum-and-Pikachu]

@@ultratronger Jagex will force this update on those who don't want it

[@MrObliviousegg]

This will be trash, mark my words.

[@Platinumstyx]

I moved back to osrs after I experienced divining and invention in rs3. I'm very skeptical about a new osrs skill.

[@MyUniqueVibe]

Once the skill is released, I hope we get future updates that allows us to customize our ship colours, including the sails.

[@emarin2006ftw]

yeees

[@paddy2672]

I remember when this skill was an april fools joke 😂

[@KarolisOfficial]

in RS3 it still is and even has a joke quest written around things like that

[@Diapolo10]

I loved getting 99 Benchsitting though!

[@jackmobile5606]

wish it was a joke, because it looks like a joke

[@zach071591]

It should’ve stayed as a joke. This skill serves no purpose to the game whatsoever.

[@darkouhhai9940]

​@@zach071591Like firemaking, what's your point?

[@Delysicx]

They really went head over heels with the puns. This whole skill is a giant pun. What of the other methods that require traveling by boat and when is an appropriate time to train the train? Are we talking right off the bat of Tutorial Island with sailing mains and is it going to require combat experience? What happens if a player lamps it to 99?

[@longdongsilver6298]

they really got a employee sitting there deleting negative comments about sailing all day... how sad!

[@dsproductions19]

Port tasks sound like a great area for expansion. Things like fixing or building NPC ships, fixing the dock, scrubbing off barnacles, etc. There could also be tasks for finding and salvaging a shipwreck, or slaying sea monsters.

[@WestCoastCams]

Out of ALLLLLL the possibilities of a new skill, and THIS is where we're at... Not the slightest impressed

[@kxngklizhy9185]

yeah a sh1tty meme skill that has failed already in rs3 that half the community doesnt want. the devs are totally hearing us

[@waahaah861]

@@kxngklizhy9185 There is a vote before it releases, if half the community doesn't want it then you shouldn't be worried.

[@melthrix]

idk this looks boring, hopefully theres more to it

[@gfyGoogle]

It’s a pre-alpha, of course there’s more. They’ve put out tons of blogs showing the numerous features, training methods, and activities they have planned

[@epic321123]

For me I think this will make the world feel small, because in reality it is. They only reason we felt it is big was because we couldn't actually see the other islands or anything and trips to other islands seemed a big deal (take dragon slayer for example, it seemed like you traveled quite far). This feels like turning on noclip and flying around the map... ruins many things.

[@J0shhT]

I heard them mention before they would be adjusting the distances between some islands to account for it

[@koenwijnen8278]

This sailing looks terrible... People only wanted it as a meme

[@moon_jesus4k477]

@@koenwijnen8278 nah i want sailing because it has the highest potential of the other skills proposed, and will create the most new content. If youre hating on the concept of new old school content, then dont sail.

[@renegadegex]

Obviously it needs a lot of work but seems the devs understand that unless it's a full skill at launch then people will hate it. I like the ideas so far though

[@maverick7037]

Unless it is not a skill and becomes some other form of additional content, i.e a minigame, questline, etc, then people will hate it*

[@LoadingMeerkat]

I don't think this can ever look good with the tile-based movement system RuneScape uses.

[@brad7957]

me too... i think it would look great with a tile-based system where you boat paths to the tile

[@Silent_Depths]

It can feel good to play though, despite looking janky at times. Haven't you ever played anything older than Rs? There were plenty of awesome janky games in the 90's and 80's... like Sid Meier's Pirates, y'know up there as one of, if not the best sailing / pirate game made to this day.

[@LoadingMeerkat]

@@Silent_Depths Sid Meier's Pirates sailing actually looks pretty decent. Far better than what is shown here. But who knows how this will look on release, it could be decent but so far it looks horrendous to me lol.

[@Silent_Depths]

@@LoadingMeerkat I hope they get the feel of it right on release, but I won't mind fixes and adjustments later on. As long as sailing retains the Osrs character and isn't over designed for its purpose, it will be fine. (In other words - not too many new user interfaces loaded with information and not too complicated gameplay loops restricting player freedom of exploring all things related to the skill.) At this stage of development things are not going to look polished or anywhere near playable, but I see the potential and what the dev team is trying to achieve. Maybe that's because I've worked on software development in past and know how it goes.

[@ianmccurdy1223]

Bro literally nothing in this game looks good.

[@lew0071]

Best Devs ever!. Listen to and involve players in decision making, and very upfront with what’s going on behind the scenes. Kudos! 🎉

[@Pietrosavr]

I see a lot of people complaining about it not being very exciting, I would like to remind you that mining and woodcutting exist. You click on a rock or a tree, and that's it. This is already more than that. Honestly, how interesting the skill will be will depend a lot on the content it unlocks (new islands, items, quests) and the random interactions in the ocean (ocean battles, monster hunting, dangerous weather, rocks to avoid etc). I imagine a master sailor being able to access new islands that can't be accessed in any other way because of the harsh ocean conditions and battling a kraken with cannons and stuff. But it looks alright right now.

[@lysergiicuk133]

Is it me or does this feel more like a quest/minigame than a skill?

[@nosferas6817]

yeah

[@frietjedemeeuw9591]

Its you

[@MultiPets.]

It is not only you.

[@HeyImBoschea]

My first though. This looks like a minigame (and not a good one). I cannot even imagine grinding to 99 using the current "systems" they have in place. Looks so clunky..

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

Dung had a lot more of flak back in the day because it felt so limited when launched. Here you will prolly have yhe whole world of content at launch and several activities to do. It's transformative, it's different enough to not look like a quest.

[@flackenstien]

I'm so thankful for the way they are going about this. Taking their time, keeping us updated, and going really in depth about what the skill can offer. I can't wait to explore the seas and find all sorts of treasure and new PvM and skilling activities.

[@nickcarpenter118]

Im really enjoying how this has turned out!! Cant wait to sail!!!

[@kxngklizhy9185]

then go to rs3 and test it( btw it failed there too )

[@EastCoastJerkStyle]

Shamanism looking better and better.

[@kxngklizhy9185]

it actually is and will be. but you cant outmass the dumbos

[@gageross3826]

That’s crazy that Hozier is a Senior Concept Artist for OSRS

[@frickinfrik]

If that skill Cape isn't changed to Navy Blue I will be very upset

[@asta4412]

Agility skill cape?

[@frickinfrik]

@@asta4412 there are only so many colors but this one has to be navy blue

[@joeltw]

@@frickinfrik along with sea foam white for the trimmed version

[@PowhaBottom]

Or just poo brown cuz the skill is absolute shit

[@matt260]

Yeah the water looks so bad the offical HD mode will definetly be needed here.

[@kirby282]

Thank you team! Glad you are taking your time with this.

[@alexbrennan5985]

Still cant believe theyre making an old playground rumor real

[@skimrizzle9598]

hope they add traveling that randomly generates an ocean or island as a form of dungeon that would be cool

[@MorRochben]

Looks fun but I'm very worries about how this will look with even a handfull of ships, am I even going to be able to see the water?

[@BTChanOSRS]

ocean is pretty big, if you consider on release, it will be crowded, and that will be funnier, not worst, just ppl talking shit

[@nc8186]

I doubt youll see others

[@batstewart]

@@BTChanOSRS The chaos of a new skill releasing is so much fun. I haven't experienced that since farming, lol.

[@whynotp2p]

@@batstewart coulda on rs3 with necromancy.

[@batstewart]

@@whynotp2p rs3 doesn't exist to me 😂

[@EvanJams]

Great job with the update! Definitely looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you. Take your time and make it awesome!

[@kxngklizhy9185]

No we dont want that sh1t of a meme skill. you can play sailing in rs3 btw.

[@007kingifrit]

@@kxngklizhy9185 but rs3 is filled with mtx, i want sailing in a slow and rewarding environment with new skills to level up. kiss your max cape bye bye =) you don't deserve it.

[@Kaiju.Hunters]

What would be crazy, is if you guys could create a "Grand Line" type area on the seas, where it would be like the wilderness (going here would be optional and not forced). You could have battleships and fight to the death, dropping whatever you have on you/inventory, but also if there is any storage on your ship, it can be raided like pirates would. Don't know the mechanics of boarding another ship, but I think this, along with tasks, treasure hunting, salvaging, ship building, etc. could make this skill one of the best in the game! But some sort of PvP with loss of loot would be amazing. The PKing community could be revitalized by this

[@Kaiju.Hunters]

@@jaakkojuhani They could even roll out updates to include "The seven seas", all of which are risk areas. Some have multi and can include clan wars with multiple members on a ship with different delegations, others are single and can be more individual. The possibilities are endless really.

[@GuthixisTeaFlask]

This looks so dang good! The salvage system is beautiful! :D Very excited can't wait. The ship facilities look fantastic, the lantern fits perfectly. Keep up the outstanding work

[@ianh1504]

Can you repoll it? I think a lot of peoples' votes would have changed after forestry

[@1OnlyOneOnlyOne1]

I love how the most replayed part of the video is the ''Sailing Skill Icon''.

[@AlexM413]

I'm sorry, I know the team working on this is passionate and all, but this does not look like a OSRS-worthy skill. This is straight up an activity you would do to pass time and explore whatever content comes out from it (e.g., islands, deep sea activities, etc.). Not only will this look and feel completely ridiculous with hundreds of ships sailing in the same direction and anchoring the same islands, but the entire concept of levelling up this 'skill' seems so daunting. I understand players want a new skill in the game, and I'm open to that idea, but sailing isn't it. It was a joke/meme idea of a skill since its origin and people simply jumped on the bandwagon and voted for this one. There are so many better skills you can come up with in OSRS, and maybe the focus during the polls shouldn't have been ridiculously biased towards sailing.

[@amirulithnin1416]

reminds me of somewhat puzzle pirates. hope theres multiple combat ship pvp/pk with good insane loots in the open seas!

[@roberson644]

Don't rush this, just make it good and keep giving updates!

[@mepluspie]

Thanks for the update on Sailing. Seen a lot of doubters recently, so it’s nice to see the progress being made. It’s extremely important that everything is done correctly for this launch. Take all the time you can get

[@HNezlxrd]

Damn this looks siiick even in this state! Can't wait!

[@xReDxTuRtLeZx]

seeing creative freedom and opportunities in itself here, i want to suggest sailing being a portion of the game that we can utilize our current skills in a way dungeoneering did rewarding higher stats overall but also accommodating to lower, while also being fun, immersive, and having great opportunities for solo and teams. for sailing, i would like to suggest something that allows us to use our processing skills on our boat, land on islands to use our resource skills, combat skills for ship fights, boss fights on islands/water beasts etc, and having opportunities to do so with friends. this would probably work well with it being a skill since we would not want to make this a best in slot training for every skill as a minigame. rewards given at the end of a journey, based on objectives with possibly some optional ones for points at the cost of time which is also points? dungeoneering didnt really feel like a grind until i was well over 95 and thats not the same for any other skill

[@abraham3556]

ill be honest. I genuinely really dont like how sailing is looking. Maybe im a doubter and it will be fine. but It just, i dont like it? ahh yes' let me luff my sails and do fetch quests, but as a skill. :/ I just, I don't know what to do with this.

[@unarmeduim2150]

As someone who "voted" for sailing (by choice) I'll admit I'm not impressed with this as a skill but I like the idea. Just not as a skill. Just make fixing sails con exp make fishing from the boat fishing exp Sailing doesn't need to be a skill to add the content into the game. this is basically if clue scrolls was a skill.

[@nooux1966]

For the love of god just make this a damn minigame, every little concept of this looks scuffed beyond belief and I can't see it looking any better at final release when there's polish on top. Said it then and i'll say it now, this poll was rigged due to how much work had already gone into this project pre poll.

[@maverick7037]

Sounds accurate sir

[@HeyImBoschea]

I was all for a new skill but this looks like shit. Looks like a minigame, and a bad one. Unfortunate

[@Sound_Pollution]

I think the potential for new storytelling on islands and the seas is insane

[@mikekenny1698]

I feel like this skill is a bit too ambitious, perhaps should have just been a minigame or something

[@TakedaIesyu]

Regarding the draw distance, is there anything wrong with adding options for draw distance similar to those in RuneLite? Maybe a preset "short" distance (which is the current default for OSRS players), medium (which could be farther) and long (even farther still)? Of course, entities like other players, NPCs, and the like would only appear within the range of "short." EDIT: Realized that I forgot to say: really happy with what I'm seeing so far! By all means, take your time! I look forward to seeing the technical alpha! And don't worry, I know that alphas aren't supposed to be the "perfect finished product" ;)

[@janzgrobelnikthegr8]

i regret voting yes

[@allisatom-b8q]

Rip shamanism

[@ricksanchez5595]

I voted no, sailing has minigame aspects that shouldn't be a skill, we're looking at dungeoneering with extra steps

[@noahhertel]

I do too, but it was the best of three bad choices

[@janzgrobelnikthegr8]

@noahhertel4098 i fell like shamanism would be better

[@bradfarley3051]

I voted no.

[@shaun4655]

Im interested in how sailing will interact with old content. For example dragon slayer and lunar diplomacy. Certainly they're huge parts of those quests, but it could be tricky making skill requirements when so many people have already completed them without the skill. Thanks for the progress update!

[@Nordic_Noir]

Honestly, this still looks terrible. It just doesn't fit osrs, I can't believe it was voted in. I think it would be fine as a minigame akin to dungeoneering which it looks like anyway, but making this a skill just doesn't work.

[@007kingifrit]

you would have complained about construction being a skill too if it came out in 2025

[@loganperini8112]

Very exciting. i feel like this is being taken much more seriously than summoning and Dungeering. It really gives me hope for someone that has been playing before 2007.

[@KnightD345]

Love the potential for this. Give us a good, detailed ship combat system. Different cannons, loadouts, PvP, etc. make positioning matter. I think the potential to “infuse” special attack weapons into the cannons would be an amazing item sink (I.E. imbue a cannon with a dragon warhammer to give it a unique special attack). I would also love the capability to build a dock at my POH, where my ships could be stored. This stuff probably won’t happen, but I would love to see them float some creativity with this release!

[@emarin2006ftw]

instead of a dock attached to your poh... how about a POH teleport to a small island surrounded by docks and people running around gathering logs, rocks, making planks to fix/upgrade their ships.

[@ToTheGrave20]

Sounds awful

[@PatrickUnrated1]

Fantastic update! Love seeing progress updates and hearing about bug fixes that have been addressed during development. Very interesting.

[@spartaan1318]

Take the time to get it right! If your delay to it right it’s delayed for some time, if you have a bad launch, it’s remembered as a bad launch forever!

[@DatGuyYonder]

Take all the time you need, and keep killing it Jagex! Clearly a lot of love going into this!

[@marty4384]

Speak for yourself sir. This is game wrecking content and every clown that called for this in the beginning is now regretting jt

[@CaleoGaming]

This looks terrible. I still don't understand how this made it through the poll. With the three choices that were presented, they shouldn't have bothered adding a new skill at all.

[@JoseCruz11123]

It made it because people wanted it, and this looked just fine for early stages.

[@externalboss9404]

@@JoseCruz11123 Agreed.

[@DakotaStone]

So excited for this skill! Appreciate you guys providing these updates. Can't wait to see more! Great job so far

[@Crispyburger12]

Looks like a bunch of chores to do

[@lesterkooij2778]

I actually cant wait, it seems so fun to do

[@chillibean281]

Yoooo, We sailing with this one! 🗣🗣🗣

[@FinnishFox]

Looking very good thus far! Sailing is shaping to be excelent!

[@space12345-c]

I still think this thing is an april fools joke

[@ArktikUSF]

I hope with the draw distance update we can see monsters from farther away as well

[@rickyeska1]

I really worry that the release of sailing will become the new "eoc" type event for osrs. That people in the future will look back and say "sailing release" was when i stopped playing". Maybe we should give players the option to fully opt out of this skill and not be forced into it? I feel like when adding new content like raids for example it doesn't change enough of the game for it to feel less old schooly as people don't have to touch that content at all if they choose not to but worry a new skill completely shakes up everything and removes that last little bit of the game that stays true to OSRS. I think as we get closer to the release of this skill you are going to see the playerbase split into 2 groups one that supports sailing and another that is strongly against it and threaten to quit over it's release and beg for another version of osrs

[@gfyGoogle]

You can already opt out of any skill by simply not training it. Entire builds exist based on this concept lol.

[@B_Don99]

Why would this stop anyone from playing? It’s a complete non-issue. EOD completely changed the core of the game, this is simply a boring skill that you can totally ignore and wont change the PvM meta.

[@incenius5008]

Will you be opening up more map space around or spacing out the continents a little bit to add room/scale for sailing?

[@joelmendoza9414]

I think we should be able to range each other from each other ships. Like have team friends shooting to other boat to hit other players!

[@Nerdsown]

Thanks for the update. Excited for the next one!

[@bigbaddrag]

Can we get a Soggy Baguette from the salvage crates?

[@Trance_OCE]

Ehh... Just doesn't hit right

[@ApacheChief3000]

awesome, I really can't wait. I have a lot of faith in the current team. take your time guys!

[@jamiechatmanhe]

i still cant believe this is real.

[@BonkleBrick]

thanks for the updates yall

[@BrothersDrinkwater]

This content looks really cool, (and I don’t mean to be a jerk just genuinely asking) why can’t this just be content? Why does it have to be a skill? It feels like all the things that might be possible on a sailing ship could instead give xp in other, current skills and then I can’t see anyone that wouldn’t be excited about the new content

[@TheFates666]

Because we voted for it to be a skill 4head.

[@ricksanchez5595]

Agreed. Like I can't see the huge difference of lower or higher levels in sailing, I get that it unlocks certain things, but those things are targeting other skills... like what exactly will sailing have that will be sailing only, new boats and islands doesn't quite grab me. 90 % of people will probably rush the 99 and walk away

[@andrewlwitthuhn]

What is anybody losing by making this a skill? I don't understand the negative feedback, considering it was polled and doesn't take anything away from the core experience of the game. If someone doesn't want to deal with sailing, they can choose not to participate.

[@Alleggsander]

Because sailing is an actual skill irl? It's something you start off as a learner and slowly progress your ability to eventually master. How is that any different from firemaking, cooking, fletching, thieving, woodcutting... literally any skill in the game? Here's a better question, what's the problem with a real skill being a skill in the game? While you can use other skills while sailing, there's still a ton of actual sailing only progression. Learning to use new ships, learning to explore more dangerous waters, learning to utilize ship combat better, learning to race, learning to plunder shipwrecks, getting better and delivering more difficult cargos, etc, etc, etc. There are also plenty of cases of previous skills crossing over one another. I don't understand why attaching the word 'skill' to a piece of content makes everyone lose their minds. Especially one that is very clearly a skill by every definition of the word.

[@Alleggsander]

@@ricksanchez5595 "90% of people will rush the 99 and walk away" Congrats, you described 3/4 of the skills in osrs.

[@rebelrule2]

I always thought " were going to get a sailing skill" was a joke, at least I always hoped it was.

[@marty4384]

Agreed. The fact they are going ahead with this game wrecking content is the biggest joke

[@Solon_Ghebauser]

​@@marty4384in what way will it wreck the game, in your opinion?

[@gfyGoogle]

@@marty438472% support, cry about it

[@DanielWinans-g8m]

@@Solon_Ghebauser It likely won't but that doesn't mean its a good idea. Time spent on this takes away from other potential updates. Also, don't be surprised that a 20 year old player base is skeptical of big updates. We've seen alot of fails over the decades.

[@maverick7037]

​@@Solon_Ghebauserin what way will it benefit the game in your opinion?

[@rickyeska1]

I don't understand how this would even work in a crowded area. are ships going to just be clipping into eachother? are people not going to be able to go out into the water because on day 1 it's going to be swarmed with people

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

Have you ever been on GE? Clipping never was a problem in RS, dude.

[@ughok456]

@@Rafa-Silva-Altthat’s 1x1 players clipping, not 500 oversized boats covering the entire water surface.

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

@@ughok456 And the difference is...?

[@ughok456]

@@Rafa-Silva-Alt you can’t be this dense? 1x1 models overlap on the same tile. 10x5 tiles can overlap in all sorts of rotations and block out the entirety of the map. Use your brain before wasting my time in future.

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

@@ughok456 Who said you it'll be this way? Do you have a crystal ball or something, did you came from the future? I don't think so. Your guesswork is as good as mine.

[@Devin____99]

Had to rig the polls for the stupidest skill .

[@Limey570]

I've yet to meet someone irl or in game that's supporting this.

[@ClayKicker]

We're plain sailing on this one

[@mozarellagruyere]

since the dawn of time, i knew about sailing PROPS on DOUBLING DOWN on the joke :D

[@DeckardGains]

It’s just water agility.. also what happened to re-polling shamanism vs sailing? Seems like you guys really want sailing and will force it into the game no matter how bad the feedback is.

[@starbarzs7160]

really hoping sailing and the new engine come hand in hand - you mention draw distance (and didn't mention weather effects) which I believe (hope) the new client rendering will address

[@timtoontyme91]

Really reaching. If you pull this off and the community approves, I’ll be impressed.

[@Julianobarbone]

The same people that want it passed are the same people begging for free xp lamps to get it over with faster. 😂

[@warcaine7640]

This is gonne be huge! Hope you guys throw a in-game party at port sarim when you release the skill, the OG port ofc

[@BluefootDStank]

Yeahh I was excited for sailing but this looks so goofy. I know it’s pre alpha but still.

[@Chewy_XD]

I have never been so disappointed in being a Osrs player than I have now, this should have stayed as an April fools joke and that's it. I Hate all the people that brainlessly voted yes to this garbage skill

[@maverick7037]

The voters will all regret it

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

Quit playing and quit crying. Go play some private server or whatever. New optional content you don't want doesn't mean the game's ruined.

[@itsjokesonyou252]

i thought this fail the vote

[@Limey570]

we could only wish

[@Ash-Ketchum-and-Pikachu]

it did the first 2 times. Then jagex scams us by forcing shit to pass

[@coreycarries]

I’m a sailing naysayer but with every update I’m slowly coming around this is looking super promising

[@goatherder27]

This one is best left in the drafts