"offline afk" mode

[frail copper]

Feels too close to an autopilot suggestion, would be rejected

Not to mention how it makes boating literally the best thing without question under any context if you can just, sail while not being in game

People already get mad enough about boats as is, this would just add a massive amount of fuel to the fire

Even without boats, completely useless and too complex, flights are not that long

[sick linden]

You- you do know it only takes 30-40 mins per flight right?

[woeful bobcat]

it's not really for planes

more like ships and airships

[frail copper]

I gave an entire paragraph explaining how it'd be stupid overpowered for ships

Without question

[sick linden]

^

[tidal epoch]

Imagine I’m in a boat start a trip then just faze through the map to get from tomfoolery to Valois while sleeping

[frail copper]

There'd be no reason to play the game period if you could set sail without being in the game itself

[sick linden]

Aero vs nautica war part 3

[woeful bobcat]

read the bottom

[frail copper]

Even with Leo-Auch, stupid overpowered

Imagine playing like, PF or whatever then log back into Aero for an easy 900k with a Seawise

Without doing anything in Aero but set sail before logging off

[sick linden]

Ok so, i afk to a safe point, relog there, afk to another safe point, rinse and repeat till you get to your destination

Need we also remind you about the money printer that is leo-auchen

[viral shell]

why make an already very good grinder even better?

[woeful bobcat]

thats already what you do with an auto clicker

[viral shell]

besides

[sick linden]

I rest my case

Literally just removing the autoclicker bit

[frail copper]

That's limited to people who have the afk time and a good enough PC to overnight a ship

[viral shell]

you can just

set your autoclicker

[frail copper]

Making it so everyone can will nuke the game

[woeful bobcat]

the difference is having your pc on or off

[viral shell]

i really dont mind it

[sick linden]

The economy will be in shambles

[viral shell]

call me insane but i dont care if i have my pc humming when i sleep

[woeful bobcat]

otherwise you bias the game to people with good pcs

which i have might i add so it s not a personal thing

[frail copper]

Not just PCs, but also the time

[woeful bobcat]

say that to all the boat chainers already in the game

[woeful bobcat]

it takes more time to do this than what we do now

[sick linden]

At least they’re a noticeable minority

Imagine if everyone was doing it

Airliners would be useless

Aka

[frail copper]

What yer proposing basically allows everyone to chain via long jobs and get 100 million WP with a grand total of like, 20 total minutes logged in the game

[sick linden]

Literally the whole point of the game

[woeful bobcat]

it takes longer to do this offline afk thing than online

[sick linden]

Will be useless

[frail copper]

Doesn't matter, still a passive source of income by not playing the game

[woeful bobcat]

you mean like boats as they already exist?

[frail copper]

You gotta keep the game running with boats as is

[woeful bobcat]

yeah leave and forget

[frail copper]

With yer suggestion, you could just, not play Roblox at all and still get paid when you log in

You could not touch yer device all day or a trip or something and still get 900k+ with an afk'd Seawise trip without any threat of internet issues

[woeful bobcat]

youre not playing the game anyway, just keeping it running on your pc

[frail copper]

You still gotta be in the game as it is, meaning you can't play other Roblox games, can't turn off yer device, and internet can and eventually will kill yer trip overnight

With what yer proposing, every reason to not boat is irrelevant

SST chaining and recon doesn't matter if you can have a boat run while yer device isn't even on

No reason to crate hunt when you can have a boat sail in the Cloud while you play Bad Business or some shit

[viral shell]

also in theory, the game has to actively calculate the position of your ship as it moves and it also has to save it, therefore i can imagine it taking up more server space than just leaving your computer on

[frail copper]

No reason to touch Aero all day when yer guarenteed a paycheck cuz you remembered to set sail that morning

[woeful bobcat]

this every reason you say really are just the possibility of having your internet fail and the impossibility to play other roblox games

[woeful bobcat]

already a thing

[frail copper]

Still gotta be logged into Aero as of now

[tidal epoch]

once again this is just a way to make already easy grinding even easier

[viral shell]

i agree with life

[woeful bobcat]

it saves its position already, it doesnt really move when a player is offline

ofc it's stupid to simulate how a ship actually moves for hours instead of approximating

[tidal epoch]

That’s not the main problem here

[dreamy girder]

CatHatFish~1

[tidal epoch]

Eh someone already added a denied tag

Resolved

[viral shell]

just like

leave it on when you go to bed

[autumn venture]

I literally developed a method for boat chaining, this would make it INSANELY OP

[viral shell]

idk

[frail copper]

Boatflation from being able to sail without being logged in would be insane as well, it was already bad enough with standard boating

Imagine hundreds if not thousands of players logging in each day to 500k+ waiting for them, daily

[woeful bobcat]

so really your arguments are that boating is op in general

[viral shell]

because it is op in general

[frail copper]

Your suggestion would make 'em even stronger

[viral shell]

i mean

[tidal epoch]

Yes

[viral shell]

i can make

700k wp

when i do

guess what

[woeful bobcat]

nothing

[viral shell]

anything besides playing the game

[tidal epoch]

No point in arguing as this is already denied

[frail copper]

Yer entire suggestion takes a niche part of the playerbase and makes it so everyone can do it regardless of device or budget or anything like that

[woeful bobcat]

really youre arguing more against the current gameplay that this suggestion

[autumn venture]

Boats are fine as they are, they do NOT need buffs

[viral shell]

i agree

[autumn venture]

Case in point

[frail copper]

We're shooting yer suggestion down since it'd make an already powerful part of the game the only part of the game

[viral shell]

boat chaining is stupid op and i have to try it before it gets patched

[autumn venture]

Eh

Wont be patched, there are several factors that make it unlikely

The sheer timesink required

[viral shell]

aright then nerfed lets say

not patched

[autumn venture]

The fact that you need a boat atleast 2 mill value for it to be somewhat efficient

[frail copper]

Big point I'm raising is how yer taking a niche playerbase, one who has the time and device to handle afk boating, and giving it to everyone, while making it even easier than it is nowadays

Keep in mind there's also like, 10 boats max? Maybe 20? Sailing at a time

Now imagine thousands running in the system

Per day

Earning 500k or more, per boat

Per trip

Tha's what yer suggestion is trying to do

Take a niche mechanic and making it far too accessible

Far too powerful

End of story.

[viral shell]

about like, half of this is made in a week by just boating

[autumn venture]

I made 5 times that so far to my estimations (the 4 mill that is)

[woeful bobcat]

nerf boats youre all saying basically

[viral shell]

yea they are kinda ever so slightly slowly ruining the economy

[autumn venture]

No

[frail copper]

Boats themselves are fine as is, as they are now imo

Chaining is a bit strong, but by default they're fine

[autumn venture]

Problem is, boats ARE sort of balanced around afk'ing em

[golden garden]

Think about it from a developer standpoint... why would we want to add a feature that rewards you for not playing the game?

[frail copper]

This suggestion just deletes all of the downsides, outside of needing to trade with others

[autumn venture]

They had to, because otherwise they would have made everything else pointless

[frail copper]

Great point, didn't think about that one

[woeful bobcat]

unless you count leaving the game running with an auto clicker as playing, the game already rewards you for not playing

[tidal epoch]

The game still gains playtime

[golden garden]

You're being a part of the player count

[woeful bobcat]

ah so it's about the playtime stats

[golden garden]

We want that number to increase, not drop :P

[frail copper]

Plus, since you have to spend time on the game with the ships, you'd want to have a goal for what to buy

[autumn venture]

Boaters still contribute to player count

[frail copper]

If you can just run it in the system, there's no commitment, even if yer just afking

You aren't playing the game, so you aren't going for anything besides being the richest

Boating as it currently is still has you thinking of the game, even if its just to catch the boat before you head to school. If its just running endlessly in the system, there's no reason to think about the boat nor the game

You could forget about the game for a week and come back to see you had a lil paycheck waiting (assuming you didn't miss the island entirely )

[woeful bobcat]

i mean, if you forget then your boat could run out of fuel or break ruining your trip

[frail copper]

Almost no boats will have fuel problems for a long haul trip, condition not too sure on how that goes when yer wedged but, still, you are far more disconnected if yer vehicle's just a string of code in the system rather than a physical object you gotta keep track of

[woeful bobcat]

and yeah miss your destination lol

[frail copper]

So, for points against this we have:
Makes long haul boating far too accessible (boatflation would be insane)
Makes long haul boating far safer (no internet or power problems to worry about)
Disconnects the player from the game even more than standard afking
Lowers the playtime and player count for the game (not helped by the fact boats would be the go-to, rather than just an option)

[woeful bobcat]

i still wouldnt use boats because i want to fly

personally

[frail copper]

Some people may wanna fly still, yes, but people who want easy earnings are gonna flock to boats if you can just have it run in the system

Why do recon or SST chaining when you can play a completely different game and still get paid when you rejoin Aero?

[woeful bobcat]

at the stage where boating beats those you are already end-game

wait thats not true nvm

[frail copper]

Even lower end ships would still have a role if you could get paid without being ingame

Unless you actively like flying, there'd be no reason to use anything but ships with this suggestion

[woeful bobcat]

why would you play aero if you dont like flying

[frail copper]

Casual players and people who want to easiest income will flock to ships 90% of the time at least

[frail copper]

People submit autopilot suggestions all the time

[woeful bobcat]

to be fair it can be annoying to manually set your vertical speed and heading all the time

[frail copper]

That's why people wouldn't fly if you can have a boat run without even being ingame

[woeful bobcat]

but then what would you be earning wp for?

no point grinding for an sr-71 or sonicstar youre not going to use

[frail copper]

Now yer feeding into one of my other points that I tried to bring up, if you can just sail in the system why play the game at all?

At least current boating needs you to stay ingame, so there's some commitment, even if you're simply running it while away

With your suggestion, you wouldn't even need to be ingame

[woeful bobcat]

why do we even have boat chainers in the first place

hmm yes let my computer run for half a day sounds like a fun time

[frail copper]

Still commitment to the game

With your suggestion, you wouldn't even have to be ingame

[woeful bobcat]

so committed that you set an autoclicker and an alarm clock and do something else

[frail copper]

As for boat chaining, think that was Etina playing around with the mechanic and people joining in when they realized it was insane

[frail copper]

The game's still on your mind as is

If it can just exist in the void while you do something else, no reason to think about rejoining to check on your ship

Also no reason to check at all if its just part of the system, internet and power aren't a problem

[autumn venture]

They only joined in ONCE i started releasing it lol

Because people sure as hell arent really able to figure out how

I get frequent questions about it

[frail copper]

I mean, its tricky, partly cuz it isn't even intentional

Its playing with weird invisible hitboxes and using a mechanic meant for aircraft

[woeful bobcat]

boating in plane game is weird in general

[autumn venture]

Eh, boat chaining as it is, woulnt even be possible if the devs get chaining itself in order

Such as capacity limits

It would be a lot less efficient

[frail copper]

Then why propose a suggestion that makes it inarguably better than the planes?

There's no reason to fly when you can run a boat without any downsides outside of trading

[woeful bobcat]

i can name some other downsides

less wp/h, slower speed, unpredictable trajectory

slow as hell in general actually

[frail copper]

First two are completely irrelevant when you don't even need to be ingame, as for the third one that's only if you suck at aligning the ship

[woeful bobcat]

are we talking about the suggestion or current gameplay?

[frail copper]

The suggestion

Ingame, the wp/h and slower speed absolutely matter

That's why boats aren't the go-to as they are now

[woeful bobcat]

even if you line up your ship it wont end up where it's pointed

[autumn venture]

Floating point

Usually not a problem if you spend attention

[woeful bobcat]

the suggestion

your ship will not spawn exactly where predicted

[echo venture]

The moment I saw this suggestion I knew it was instantly going to be denied

[timid valley]

https://tenor.com/view/talk-lizard-ironic-gif-25847938

[glacial atlas]

[burnt gorge]

man what the hell

The economy will explode if this goes through

[grave bone]

point 1: "Saves electricity"

What?

That's your main concern?

This feels mostly like a loophole for not adding autopilot to the game

[thick solstice]

This ruins the fun of the game

[timid valley]

Bro is so broke he cant afford the energy bills