Yes Bob, you're absolutely right. However, this is not a role-playing issue.
When you are sitting on the boat one second and on a rock the next with
the boat nowhere in sight, that is a bug. The /loc command is a bug-fix
command. In a normal game situation I would not use it, but as a bug-fix I
greatly appreciate having it available and I SURE appreciate all the help
from the great citizens of Norrath that frequent this list.

Zendarin
The Wandering Minstrel
Fennin Ro

>From: Bob Stewart <bstewart@...>
>
>At 08:50 AM 6/24/99 -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> >Swim to -2140, 7490 or 220, -9210. Those are the two spots the boat
> >stops. Good luck!
>
>In a similar vein to the discussion of bards wearing plate and other
>aspects of roleplaying, are there other hardheads out their who would
>rather drown than use /loc and numeric coordinates?
>
>Personally I consider /loc a debugging command and a roleplaying
>abomination. I refuse to deal with it. If we are to have such a pin-point
>locating and finding capability, it should be a proper in-game mechanism,
>not a computer programming artifact.
>
> Bob