>Yeah, it's cheap but time consuming. I really want to figure
>out a way to shorten the ship times, but if the boat is docked
>taking tickets for 4 hours in the Seaport and, say, four hours
>in Modan, then that leaves me 16 hours that needs to get taken
>up by travel time, so it's 8 game ticks either way. It's hard
>to shorten that up time wise unless I move where they pop in
>because other boats are trying to dock at their set
>schedules.

Or you could shorten the travel times and have them spend more time at the destination port. The alternative is the ships doing two or more runs/day. Something like 3 ticks in port, 3 ticks either way. Total 12 ticks/cycle. One dock spot would have docking capability for four ferries that way. Also, a timetable object(some kind of a bulletin board or sign) in the dock room where the ferry is boarded would be nice(if there's one's one already, I've missed it).