For the sake of neg rep stupidity, here goes...

[iamsamoth0]

From what I understand the destinations are not the explorer areas, but the public areas that have explorer areas attached. So to go to the Spa you would need Ataraxia all explored. I'm not sure how it works for public areas that have multiple explores; maybe any of the explore areas or maybe a specific one. Anyway, my impression is that the list of destinations is generated for the specific PC that talks to the 'navigator'.

After yesterday afternoon though it kinda' came to a dead end for me. Nothing about the guild ships will be useable/beneficial/or playable for me at all. So,....
Maybe one day it will apply to the other players here. But, for now I guess I just have to not worry about them.

[MrkGrismer]

After yesterday afternoon though it kinda' came to a dead end for me. Nothing about the guild ships will be useable/beneficial/or playable for me at all. So,....
Maybe one day it will apply to the other players here. But, for now I guess I just have to not worry about them.

Mostly we (the guild I am) just want them for the guild bank(s) at the moment. The thing that currently irks me is that the smallest airship has ZERO large slots, but that isn't that big of a deal since the large guild chest is GL40 anyway. Personally i would prefer if a small guild could get a large chest, and I would also prefer if guild storage was permanent and not on a timer. But I guess a 'plat tax' for guild storage isn't that bad.

[iamsamoth0]

Is it not a statistical inevitability that guilds renown will balance out at some point? Where that each day you really just go back and forth between 47-48, or 71-72? If the rate of decay eventually just offsets the natural accumulation of renown then each day some twenty guilds or so might just pendulum swing at a certain level(plateau)? And spam the world with guild progression messages.

[joneb1999]

It occurs to me that ships really are only another way to keep people active but without any orignality, instead grinding to get the reknown and keep it, to earn the gold to keep paying for the extras, to get all tasks in explorer areas done so your ship can take you there and so on. Will there be grind to get a certain amount of combined guild favor for the relevant vendors and extras, ie Coin Lord or would that be Kundarak favor to be able to have the bank on board?

Also there wil be a place in the shop where guild members can give points to their guilds which coud end up with a guild tax of tp to buy things via the shop. I really dont like the way Turbine are taking this.

[iamsamoth0]

My rough calculations yielded a total of 3484000gp per month in maintenance fees for the big boat. Not including the base price. With only half the large slots filled(the choices are very scant). And a full crew of ten and most all the small hooks filled.
I think they will successfully drawn down some of the reserves out there

[etla]

Which will hopefully reduce some of the ridiculous prices in the A/H.