Sooooo 8 player ship confirmed?

It could potentially just be a phantom Flying Dutchman or black pearl (Davy Jones ship, I can’t remember what it’s called as it’s been awhile since I’ve seen the films)

Anything more than a 4 man ship would be OP. No matter how the ship itself is balanced, if a 5-8 person crew gets the board on an anchored ship, it's going to be impossible for a smaller crew to escape that. Spawn farms would be game ruining.

@cheatingpirate

You have a very fine balance right now between the largest crew size (4 person galleon) and the smallest crew size (solo sloop). The balance honestly is already pushed to its limits in my opinion.

So a theoretical 5 to 6 person ship would have to be slower and clunkier than a galleon, which wouldn't feel fun although it would probably be very fast at full billow.

Balance issues aside, unless they increased the player/ship count on a server, one of these ships would take up about 25% of the server space for players. Imagine 25% of server space being taken up by one crew that's anchored in the middle of nowhere doing nothing or out in the Devil's Roar all night. It would make servers feel very dead.

@lethality1 new features like 3 new enemy types perhaps?

I’d hold all judgment till we know exactly what we’re getting.

I doubt sincerely it's a new ship type.

I would however love it if we could somehow change the design of our ships at the shipwright, because I NEED this design.

Could work like this:

Ship spawns in default like normal. Shipwright has a new tab called "ship schematic" and in that tab are unique models that you can toggle to change the physical appearance of the ship.

So in this instance, you could select this new ship model, and still apply whatever cosmetics you like.

@valor-omega said in Sooooo 8 player ship confirmed?:

I doubt sincerely it's a new ship type.

I would however love it if we could somehow change the design of our ships at the shipwright, because I NEED this design.

Could work like this:

Ship spawns in default like normal. Shipwright has a new tab called "ship schematic" and in that tab are unique models that you can toggle to change the physical appearance of the ship.

So in this instance, you could select this new ship model, and still apply whatever cosmetics you like.

If the ships hitbox changes with the cosmetic the smallest most adventageous hitbox will be found and everybody will sail with that exclusively. So if they ever change ship models the hitbox should remain the same. Which will in turn make for wonky stuff happening. Cannonball holes floating in mid air for instance.