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Moving with [[ship]]s involves special commands and is restricted in couple ways.
Also different things affect the speed the ship sails or fly.

== Tradelanes ==
Tradelanes are the key to fast travel between realms.
Tradelanes show up as an orange glow in the oceans: "There is a faint, orange glow in the air."
While cruising on a tradelane your speed will be much improved, but you'll need to chart them out and survey the waypoints where they change direction.
Surveying waypoints is easier for navigators, and having a high level navigator grants a vastly superior speed from cruising on one.

== Navigators ==
You can hire ship's navigators in a tower adjacent to the navigator guild.
You'll need at least a rank 5 to have much hope of creating maps over open seas.

Navigators are capable of creating reference maps, which they can then use to plot courses for a ship.
The more trained the navigator is, the more likely they are to succeed at their various tasks; also, the more likely they are to be able to pilot around a minor obstacle.
Finally, a higher ranked navigator is faster at plotting courses - a vital skill for ships that travel at extremely high speeds.

Navigators have six ranks with fees as follows:
# 800 gold
# 4k gold
# 20k gold
# 100k gold
# 500k gold
# 2.5M gold

Promoting a navigator gives you a 10% discount off of the cost of hiring a navigator of the next rank.
Note that due to the number of students versus the number of people hiring a ship's navigator, you have your choice of name and rank in your navigator.
However, once chosen, a navigator will never allow his or her name to be changed.
Of course, you could fire your navigator and hire a new one.

== Waypoints ==
BatClient has most waypoints labeled.
You can get most common waypoints for free from {{Finger|Presence}}.

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