Boats

So, there is some MASSIVE potential with boats/ships in this game. I see there is not a mod section for watercraft. Is that because there is not any? It would be SO fun to flood different compartments and see if a ships goes down or not and how it goes down.

I would love to see 'official' ships from the DEVs.

 

I think reason is there are only few old mods.

http://www.beamng.com/forums/boats.49/

 

Go look at the boats thread, it's a sad wasteland of cancelled and broken boats...
There is a reason no one makes boats

 

What is the reason?

 

The engine mechanics, constant buoyancy updates, look at them, they all end up cancelled

 

It is to do with the way they behave in the water as it is a lot different to land as there are different levels of friction and buoyancy. I mean crashing the Jahre Viking into the Exxon Valdez would be pretty cool though.

 

So in other words technically it is possible once the water friction and stuff is more concrete?

 

Boats stopped becoming a thing after 2015.

 

Well, yes and no, as the game updates, the way object like water and terrain also update, and if the water keeps getting updated, so will the boat mods, where the problem comes from is the creators keep having to update the boat to fit the water requirements before they can finish it, which leads a lot of them to just quit it altogether

 

Hmmm I sure hope we can find a way soon.

 

If they put a stock boat in the game then it would be nonsencical. The game is called, BeamNG.drive, not BeamNG.sea.
But that does not stop modders to make them.

 

Someone made on but its deformation is not very good

 

You can drive a boat...

 

Precisely. And besides, BeamNG.Drive is for "malleable physics everywhere." Now, it seems to me that everywhere means the sea, too.

 

very much so.

 

Yes, so, lets hope for water physics updates

 

Well there is this thread that I found about the subject. I know it's for helicopters but it's the statement that Nadeox1 says that's important. http://www.beamng.com/threads/helicopters.24835/

Also shouldn't this be in the suggestions thread?

 

Well, this wasn't purely a suggestion.

 

It would be cool though to have something like the Amphicar

 

Well, that would take forever. You would need to make the car, then the propellers, tweak its bouency, then add the thrusters.

Only, they want to stick to land vehciles since they are only. But people still make mods for them. Also a boat is very hard to build.