Directions
Available to Registered Users who are logged in
The Directions feature of Sightings.biz gives you detailed directions from your current location to any other place within the game. This can be really useful for finding your way to guilds or to pubs on a Celerity quest.
To get Directions, click on the link of the same name on the left-hand menu bar. The first thing you will be asked is what type of place you are trying to get directions to. This can either be a well known place such as a pub, a transient place such as a shop/guild, or some random location (any old square on the map).
Please note that if no locations of a particular type (such as potion shops) have been sighted recently then that option will not be availaible in the list.
Once you’ve decided what kind of place you are trying to get to, click the Continue button. Suppose you have chosen Owned Buildings. The next screen would look something like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td>What kind of place are you trying to get to?</td>
<td>Owned Building</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>What is the name of the place you are trying to get to?</td>
<td>
<select name="endLocationId"><option value="1696">AdaMaS' Crypt</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr>
<td>What is your current location?</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Easting</td>
<td><select name="startCoord"><option value="Aardvark" selected="selected">Aardvark</option> <option value="Alder">Alder</option> <option value="Buzzard">Buzzard</option> <option value="Beech">Beech</option> <option value="Cormorant">Cormorant</option> <option value="Cedar">Cedar</option> <option value="Duck">Duck</option> <option value="Dogwood">Dogwood</option>
</select></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td>Northing</td>
<td><select name="startCoord"><option value="1st" selected="selected">1st</option> <option value="2nd">2nd</option> <option value="3rd">3rd</option>
</select></td> </tr>
<tr>
<td>Modifier</td>
<td><select name="startCoord"><option value="NW">NW</option> <option value="N">N</option> <option value="NE">NE</option> <option value="W">W</option> <option value="X">X</option> <option value="E">E</option> <option value="SW">SW</option>
</select></td> </tr>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr>
<td>Use transits?</td>
<td><input type="checkbox" name="useTransits" value="on" checked="checked"></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" value="Get directions">
Simply select the location you are trying to find, enter your current location (see here for more information), check or uncheck the Use Transits box and press the Get Directions button. The directions will be given as the number of moves and the compass direction in which those moves should be taken. Total distance will also be shown. For example, the following directions show how to get to WhiteLighter and oOPHYy’s Abode from Tapir & 47th:
The route from Tapir & 47th (SE) to WhiteLighter and oOPHYy's Abode (63AP) is: 1. SE x 6 2. E x 16 3. Take the transit from Melpomene to Uranie 4. SE x 2 5. S x 36
If you want to get to an arbitrary location in the game, in order to, say, rendevous with a lover, the approach is similar, but instead of getting a list of places to choose from, you have to enter you current location and the location you want to get to. Be careful not to mix the two up, or you will end up at the exact opposite of where you were trying to get to.