Post:Tuesday Tidings - 105 - Ilaya Taipa Barges - 02/22/2022 - 20:28

Tuesday Tidings - 105 - Ilaya Taipa Barges · on 02/22/2022 20:28	1927
Happy Tuesday, folks! This week's project has been in the works for a couple of months (originally proposed back in September!), but discussions about it came up on the Discord again recently, so it seemed like a good time to get this done! The Traders' Guild has secured a relay network between Ilaya Taipa and the Crossing Guildhall to provide an updated status on the comings and goings of the merchant barges visiting the piers as they travel up and down the river. Directions: If you enter the massive iron doors on Commerce Avenue and take one step east, there's a new notice available to the public to see this updated scheduling! It should make it a little easier to track the comings and goings for those watching for particular inventory. To clear up a little confusion over how these barges work: Do note that the ship names are randomized, but all the ships that visit a given pier pull from the same pool of items. The surfaces (shelves, crates, barrels, etc that hold the items for sale) are the best way to identify what's actually available (and they're included on the notice!). There's not much overlap with surface names. I know at least one (an oak barrel, I think?) is duplicated and each has different items, but for the most part the surfaces for a given pier are uniquely named. The home shop room displays the actual home items for sale, since they don't use surfaces. The rotation of each barge is pretty standard -- they stay docked for 18-24 real hours, and it takes ~2.5 hours once they leave for the next one to dock. If no one has checked the notice or visited the area in a while, the barges will 'freeze' and you may see a series of 'was due several days ago' type lines. That's normal and this new notice is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate in those cases, but self-fixes as the area catches up to where it should be. That's it for this week! I know we'll be back with more next week and the week after, so stay tuned as the Tuesdays continue rolling on! Zadraes (for the team!)
This message was originally posted in Discussions with DragonRealms Staff and Players / Game Master and Official Announcements, by DR-ZADRAES on the play.net forums.