I miss V1… the skyworld idea has been around for a while, hopefully starting it brings in new players, and some old ones, like tim. I think that the best way to reduce server dependence on TP is to bring about the following;

Longer cooldowns, but a gradual change.

Community projects to build paths, canals, aqueducts, rails, etc. Possibly payment?

Transport links between the main hubs (trade, cove, spawn, skyshop, shop, donate, etc), which smaller towns can connect too to gain access to all the warps.

Take the following scenario; I’ve gone to skyshop to find some wood, but its out, so I take a ship/minecart to trade. Over time, warping from my house to trade, and back again takes time, so I decide to do 2 things; I buy a house at trade, so I can spend my cooldown time in safety, and begin construction of a rail link between my town and the nearest “warp”, cove for example, so I can also have a link to every other warp on the server via rail. So, not only does the economy of the warps increase due to increased stays, but they also gain links to smaller towns.

I have an idea. We could make it so it charges for warping based on rank, like:

$5 for deckhand

$10 for cadet

$15 for sailor

And so on.

Assuming that area near any warp is not much safer then area near spawn, because most noob hunters use dynamp anyway, warps are not really key factor for new people. They don’t even know what does each warp have, and most of them don’t check them out at all for long time. It is also extremely easy to find or make random teleportation plugin, which would allow you to /wilderness once a day or something like that. Way safer, and it saves out the trouble of warps.

Also @Godsdead, there are few things which prevent people from using ships and other methods of transportation:

1. Cruise mode moves too often, cruise was designed so you can sail while doing something on board.

2. Minecarts are EXTREMELY slow, way slower then in vanilla. I have no idea whether that is intended or not, and what plugin causes it, but it is the case. This made them practically useless.

3. Claim has min wide of 8. This is a big problem. If you want to make railway or cannal, you might as well want to claim it. But this consumes 8000 claim blocks for every 1000 blocks of length of 1 block wide rail! That is ridiculous! We planned one railway project with DirectorAnivian, and actually started working on it, but it was stuck on claim blocks, as any other transportation project before!

The only thing that has kept me from building a good ship is that they are far too easily griefed. Now, if ships worked like any other claimed property only they are mobile, you better believe I would be all over that. The fact that your ship can be sunk  (if in an unprotected area) while you aren’t even online though is very disheartening. That is why most people keep theirs stowed on their protected property – they are just for looks. @GodsDead would you consider this an option if it is even possible?

It only results in frustration and wasted time right now. The way I have it visioned is that ship battles would work like /seige. The loser would be forced back to their bedspawn by being killed or he would surrender and then idk… be temporarily locked in an onboard brig? (we can get creative there) and his ship would be temporarily unlocked. After the timer wears off it would lock back up. You would then be forced to retrieve your ship in shame with a minecraft boat.

Disabling the sink option would also allow players to upgrade their ships as time goes on because they wouldn’t be getting sunk and having to waste hours rebuilding every time they want to sail.