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Navigator’s World Map

Nonel

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Trial and error. Heh. Sometimes you get lucky and drop that pin exactly on the spot you need the ship piloted to. Once you do best to just set that map aside for when you need those particular waypoints.
 

Amber Witch

Babbling Loonie
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Open the map by double clicking it then click the "plot course" button on the top. Then drop a pin or a series of pins at the locations you want to go to throughout the course. The pins can be dragged around if you want to change it's location. Make sure your route doesn't take you through any land masses. When done plotting click the 'stop plotting' button. Then drop the map on the boat's tillerman and they will remember the course. When you say "start" the tillerman will sail to each point in order. If you stop for any reason and then wish to proceed along the course, you say "continue". If you wish to go back to the first dropped pin you say "start".
 

PlayerSkillFTW

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The World Maps crafted by player Cartographers are much larger and more accurate. You can simply insure them for 10 gold as well.
Here's a comparison between player crafted "World Map" vs NPC bought "Map of the World".
World Map Comparison.PNG
 

Miretar

Journeyman
You would think that given the time and money spent to develop the High Seas booster that the devs would also have added a decent navigation system at the same time.
 

Petra Fyde

Peerless Chatterbox
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How do I plot a course on this tiny map?
Like this: https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/gameplay/ships-guide/#navigate

I have many different maps, some seacharts, some world maps, all drawn by my treasure hunter. Here's my fisherman's 'sailing back from seamarket' map and my 'finding stuff for the zippy quest' map. The problem comes when you run into an obstacle like a water ele or dolphin, but that's a good thing really - it keeps less conscientious players from wandering away from the keyboard.
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