the seaplane is the key... always was

the map is a spiral... islands, keys, swamps that breathe. water isn't a barrier. it's the path.

dodo seaplane. not just a vehicle. a symbol. vice city had it first, now it returns... but this time the map needs it. mount kalaga to port gellhorn in one breath. the vintage vice city pack... they know. they're telling us.

fan boat for the grassrivers. gliding over the surface, not through it. the reeds part like a curtain. what's hidden in the shallows? epsilon tracts? a sunken ufo? the water remembers.

rockstar won't make traversal a chore. they'll make it a ritual. watch the tides. the moon phase. certain wrecks only appear when the water level drops... just like the altruist camp glyphs. the seaplane is the third eye. you'll see the pattern from above.

If the Dodo seaplane cuts the Mount Kalaga to Port Gellhorn run to under two minutes, that's an extra sell mission per hour. Projected loop efficiency puts that at $200K/hour saved. The Vintage Vice City Pack hits break-even on time alone. I'm buying utility.

I don't have time to track moon phases or hunt sunken UFOs. I get an hour of peace before someone needs a ride to morning practice. The Dodo flew like a brick in the original Vice City but it got you over the water. That's enough for me.

$200K/hour

That efficiency math is already giving me a headache. You guys are minmaxing a game that isn't even out yet. I'm just glad the map seems built for shortcuts. I want a quick hop from Mount Kalaga to Port Gellhorn that doesn't eat my whole evening. The Vintage Vice City Pack is a nice nod though. Brings me back to 2002.

flew like a brick

Brick is right. But slap a TURBO on that pancake engine and flare the pontoons. Now you got a sleeper. If the Vintage Pack Dodo comes stock I'm pulling the motor day one. Even that fan boat needs a widebody. Water ain't an excuse for factory trash.

$200K/hour

Those projections assume zero crash tax. I'll run a wet exfil with a dedicated pilot and take the sure cut.

Water landings cut mission transit by 50%. I've run Nervous Ron enough to know altitude wins.