5 ships For sea of theives

I think..Man o' War ship, should be the Burning Blade Boss battle ship....
Bring back the early "Hungering Deep" days where you needed three other crews to fight.

@stevent2002 I want a Man O War because I have more than 3 friends that want to play every now and then. I'd love to be able to play as a 5 man crew. And yes, a crew of 5 or 6 SHOULD beat a crew of 2. It shouldn't be balanced.

@stevent2002 It should be as balanced as possible, I agree, but that doesn't mean every fight should be a 50/50 chance. In a 6v2 in any game, the group with 6 players will usually win every time. Why should this be any different?

@stevent2002 said in 5 ships For sea of theives:

youre asking for the majority of the playerbase to have an awful experience just so you and a group of friends can play?

What are you on about? Majority of the playerbase? Awful experience? How often do you come across an efficient Galleon crew in adventure? It's pretty rare, even more so to get a crew of 6 efficient players all together. And yes, I'm not sure why this is a hard concept to grasp, but the smaller crew, that has a weaker ship, and less firepower, and less crew members, should not usually win against the big tanky ship with more cannons and crew members.

Also, the sloop can ALWAYS escape. Dead wind and sail off.

They can absolutely balance a 6 crew ship. In relation to how all other ships are balanced it is easy.

Galleon has 3 masts, 2 turns per side of the helm, 4 cannons each side, 1 deck below water line and one above, currently the slowest ship into the wind and fastest with full tail wind.

Man-o-war would need: 4 masts, 3 turns per side of helm, 6 cannons each side, 2 decks below water line and 1-2 above, the new slowest ship into the wind and matches the galleon with full tail wind.

They would also need to give it water filling balance that would require 2-3 crew to board and bucket given more than 1-2 holes.

The issue is Rare has studied crew sizes and determined anything more than 4 starts to lose the feel for a tight knit crew they wanted for the game. Could you imagine 6 people trying to efficiently coordinate in this game during battle? It is hard enough for most crews with 4 which is why galleons are a fairly rare sight (1 per server at most for me last few months) and to me as a usual solo Reaper, the easiest targets.

@stevent2002 said in 5 ships For sea of theives:

@kommodoreyenser its not about the ship itself. its about the crew size. galleon is significantly stronger for the simple fact its a 4 player ship. its not hard for them to send 3 players over to a sloop to spawn kill and at that point it doesnt matter how slow the galleon turns, because the sloop crew is not getting out of the spawn kill. also doesnt help that galleon is the only ship you cannot sink if youre too close since you have to hit the bottom deck to actually fill the ship up with damage

I always keep my distance when fighting galleons until I know they have repair pressure on them. This will happen even faster if they shoot over 3 people to try and board. At distance it is easy to avoid boarders by turning out of reach. Super easy to hear them cannoning over. If one does manage to grab my ladder, 99% of the time they get one blundered once they reach the top of my ladder.

Keeping distance also allows you to hit those lower deck shots.

My checklist for hitting galleons solo also includes having at least 1 ballast ball.

If you are trying to avoid a galleon trying to engage you, that is easy and everyone knows how. Into the wind and board the chaser to anchor them and gain distance. If you have stuff to sell, just drive-by sell for a bit once there is 30seconds of space and you are good.

@galactic-geek said in 5 ships For sea of theives:

@KommodoreYenser You can't just balance everything by numbers - if it was that easy, Rare would have done it already. The feel has to be good too. If doing something like raising an anchor or turning a sail takes too long, pirates are going to get bored quickly and jump overboard!

Hence my last point in my post, Rare didn’t like how larger crews “felt” to play so this will likely never happen.

I feel these new ships need to be implemented for testing. Like the brig these new ships will help breathe new life into the game. New ships, new strategies, more variety on the ocean.

If they're not gonna give us more primary weapons, why not more ships?

While they're at it they should test the addition of two more ships in adventure mode.

You'd first need to increase the server cap limit if you want all those ships to be used without it feeling like an empty ocean.

@oneeyed-w1lliam said in 5 ships For sea of theives:

You'd first need to increase the server cap limit if you want all those ships to be used without it feeling like an empty ocean.

I agree, they should add two more ships per server. Add more life to the game.

How this thread hasn't garnered more attention is confusing.

You read that correctly we exploit to get our friends on the same map right now, and no there is really nothing rare can do to stop this.

Truth, he ain't kidding.

@galactic-geek But you know it’s not about the principle of having 5 ships right. People upvoted the post not because he suggests 5 ships, that in itself is not cool, I feel like I shouldn’t even have to say this. It’s because of the ships he suggested. I think the new ship that isn’t the Man O War would be a great addition to the game.

@tdogcrocky434 maybe it was a joke in which case I’m stupid but if not^^^^.

I agree with all the ships although the brig with 3 people is plenty keep that the same just make people choose between ships more strategically!

Speed VS. Turning
Speed vs Cannons
Turning vs Cannons

Make the game for optional and create a sense of fear if you see a Man o' war coming across the horizon!