Cleaning tools

Really? you think people would log onto a game to clean.

I can hardly be bothered to fill my barrels.

I prefer minigames on the ship.
Im not cleanin anything. It just doesnt sound fun at all.
As long as its not required i see no problem tho.

I can see the post in the forums now:
" i was just tryin to clean my ship and a griefer came and sunk me!!! Let me clean my ship in peace!"

@dandydiamond617 said in Cleaning tools:

You should have a mop and a broom along with bucket to swab the deck this would give players something to do on long voyages around the map and long with the mop and broom you should have to tools to scrape barnacles off the underside of your ship, here are some examples of what these tools could be used on.

When you puke on the deck you'd have to eventually swab it off or leave it there, there could also be wet sand or mud as well as dry sand and dirt from walking ashore and back aboard to swab as well as salt from the water, as well as blood from when you get hurt aboard the ship, and if you have animals aboard the ship there could be excrement left behind along with scales and possibly feathers depending on the animal.

It may not be the most important thing to add but I'm sure players would appreciate the depth and realism it would add to the game and the task of keeping the ship clean.

This post is an excellent example to how diverse this community is... Never in my life, have i ever considered that someone wanted to clean various forms of bodily waste from the deck... For literally no other reason specified... I guess the work is its own reward! :)

By all means, if people want to be janitors, let them be janitors, i guess. xD

I must counter-argue one point though, this game is not about realism... At all... here's an example:

Puke stains are pretty disgusting to look at... we definitely need cleaning tools!

Mothers of our crewmen will be glad we taught them some useful skills for life in this game... who would have thought that could ever happen.

I think this is a great idea.

It reminds me of a similar post from last year where we talked about the idea of having to "get your ship cleaned." It was something like the longer you are out at sea, the dirtier/saliter your hull would get. It is then up to you to stop at a shipwright to clean it (and patch holes) or leave it dirty to other players know you've been on the seas for a while. Seemed like a fun, small mechanic to add, but the priorities were elsewhere.

@fenderbendur said in Cleaning tools:

I think this is a great idea.

It reminds me of a similar post from last year where we talked about the idea of having to "get your ship cleaned." It was something like the longer you are out at sea, the dirtier/saliter your hull would get. It is then up to you to stop at a shipwright to clean it (and patch holes) or leave it dirty to other players know you've been on the seas for a while. Seemed like a fun, small mechanic to add, but the priorities were elsewhere.

But ships live in the sea whether at sail or at anchor. They’d all be equally “salty”.