Boats¶

P99's boats run on fixed schedules, but knowing where in the cycle a boat is requires seeing it. nParse+ tracks boat sightings and projects the schedule forward.

Boat timers in the Boats section of the Spell Timers window

How it works¶

When a boat's arrival announcement appears in your log (or arrives over the PigParse network from another player who saw it), nParse+ anchors that boat's schedule: it knows the time from announcement to dock and the full round-trip time for each boat, so one sighting yields the next docking and departure times.

Sightings you make are shared to the network, and everyone else's sightings flow to you — so on a populated server the boat schedule is usually "just known" without anyone standing on the dock.
Boat timers appear as timer rows in the Boats section of Spell Timers, so you can see how long until the Sirensbane or the Maiden's Voyage comes back before you decide to swim. Landlubbers can hide the section with "Show boat timers" in Settings → Spell Timers.

This is a port of EQTool's boat service over the same shared feed, so nParse+ and EQTool users pool their sightings.