Ferry

Un Ferry o un Taxi es una persona que se ofrece para transportar personajes de niveles bajos a localizaciones del mapa que esos personajes no han desbloqueado todavía. Esto es distinto a un Runner que llevará a personas a áreas del juego que ellos podrían localizar físicamente, pero que cruza un terreno difícil con monstruos poderosos. Un Ferry, en diferencia, crea un grupo simplemente con otros personajes en él, entonces viaja en el mapa a la localización en cuestión. El grupo entero, incluso los personajes "bloqueados", viajen a la nueva localización.

El término Ferry se usa igualmente para el servicio y la persona que proporciona el servicio. Esto es diferente al uso habitual del inglés en donde no se puede aplicar a los individuos.

Advertir que los ferries sólo funcionan en ciertas áreas del juego. En la mayoría los casos, si un jugador no ha desbloqueado una localización y el líder del grupo intenta trazar viaje a esa localización, el otro jugador simplemente será expulsado del grupo.

Elite Factions Missions

A ferry can be a member of an alianza that controls Cavalon or Casa zu Heltzer who agrees to transport people from outside the controlling alliance to the Elite Mission outposts from the respective capitals. The member of the controlling alliance, who has direct access to the restricted areas, teams up with the players from outside the alliance desiring to be transported, and enters the Elite Mission staging area. This transports everyone in the party, including the outside members.

Some alliances ferry people for a fee; others do it for free or tips. ArenaNet has made their position on ferrying fees known in a forum posting on guildwarsguru.com. They believe it is up to the alliances that control the cities to charge for ferrying or not, as they see fit.

For other ways of accessing Elite Missions, see the Elite Mission article.

Ferries in Elona

The Consulate Docks mission town is a short, peaceful walk from Kamadan, but it is not accessible to players who have not completed the quest called The Time is Nigh. The Consulate Docks employ the best armorer in Istan, so low-level characters often ask to be ferried there so they can purchase high-quality armor from him.

Characters wishing to provide ferry services can accept the quest The Time is Nigh, serve as a ferry for other characters, abandon the quest before accepting the quest reward, and then re-take the quest as many times as they like. It is a bit time-consuming, since the character had to listen to a tedious speech by Kormir in Campos de Churrhir each time he or she wanted to serve as a ferry, but it offers a chance to make a bit of money on ferry fees and/or tips.

It was thought that, in December of 2006, ArenaNet closed this loophole, meaning that most characters could only ferry other characters once; and that if the quest was abandoned after arriving at the docks, one would not be able to take it again (and would lose out on the quest reward); but as of January 12, 2007, at least Canthan and Tyrian characters are still able to repeat ferry.