Purchasable Rowboats!

Buying supplies is dumb enough and so buying rowboats is even more dumb. Being a thief is not supposed to be so convenient and proper with buying the things you need. This is why you should simply loot barrels or board an enemy ship with a storage crate and seal every single recourse from them and then let them sink. If they have a rowboat you steal that too while you’re at it. The rowboat can otherwise be found very easily on any island. The one thing that would be cool is customizing them but it would probably be a bit of a tricky thing to implement.

With the recent successful addition of purchasable resources

I wouldn’t call it that. But with this, I already see a problem. Kids want to buy stuff instead of searching the great open waters for them. As a pirate or sailor would.

No island I’ve visited doesn’t have a rowboat.
So common it annoying

Omggggg dude this is a really good idea

A nice idea. Would help both types of players - PvE and PvP.

@burnbacon said in Purchasable Rowboats!:

With the recent successful addition of purchasable resources

I wouldn’t call it that. But with this, I already see a problem. Kids want to buy stuff instead of searching the great open waters for them. As a pirate or sailor would.

No island I’ve visited doesn’t have a rowboat.
So common it annoying

100% this right here.

@galactic-geek lol eyyy same nameee

@wolfmanbush which style of thievery would this not be convenient to?

Idk if I agree with the prices OP listed. Instead of 3 planks, maybe a whole full wood crate plus ~17k gold or so.

Sure there are a lot of row boats on islands but if I was rework the rowboat system it be:

Row boats found on islands are rarer, at 1/2 health and can be repaired at outposts/fitted with a harpoon for gold.

If you buy a row boat at a outpost it does not come with resources.

@butterfinger750 I dont think this is needed. Row boats are all over the place. Im already not a fan of Rare adding in buyable supplies.

Just my opinion.

@illbushido305 the crates are very helpful for those of us who aren't stealing though. I know that when I start up my Gold Hoarder Emissary im thanking those extra planks and cannonballs for the extra long voyages

@wolfmanbush said:

make it much much easier for hit squads that hop... I don't think enabling through features is healthy for the environment especially when this most serves people that don't really contribute to production

I'm usually on such "hit squad" crews, and I agree with you that purchasable resources have helped make my style of play easier.

But it's not just hit squads purchasing them, or benefiting from how easily they're accessed.

I have a buddy who is new to the game, and we did some DR voyages during the most recent double-xp weekend. Before heading over, I made sure to purchase a wood crate, just so we'd have that buffer of an extra 50 planks.

I have another buddy who has about 100 barnacle chests left to turn in. We've been doing fleets to help him reach his goal quicker. Before heading over, I'll buy some cannonballs and planks. 50 extra cannonballs can go quickly, and won't make a whole world of a difference, but they do help.

Requiring at least some effort should always be necessary imo and with resources and rowboats for sale at (imo) ridiculously cheap prices just cuts way back on effort required for hoppers

I would think that if someone has the gold to dump into resources, that they probably did put in some effort to get to that point.

Granted, gold is easy to come by and doesn't require much effort to obtain to begin with. You can sail to a few islands and shipwrecks, and collect enough washed-up junk to recover the cost of any crates you purchased in that session. Though this does require time to do.

Resources too. They're everywhere, in pretty much every barrel lol. Doesn't take too much effort to stock up a ship, but it does take time.

So, while resource crates do reduce some effort required, what they really cut down is time. Regardless of your preferred play style, less time spent stocking means more time spent voyaging, doing world events, tracking emissaries with your hit squad, or whatever else you want to do.

@miserenz said in Purchasable Rowboats!:

Sure there are a lot of row boats on islands but if I was rework the rowboat system it be:

Row boats found on islands are rarer, at 1/2 health and can be repaired at outposts/fitted with a harpoon for gold.

If you buy a row boat at a outpost it does not come with resources.

If that's the tradeoff for being able to buy rowboats, then NO THANKS. The fun of finding a rowboat on an island is so much better than this.

If they were to be purchasable, they need to be like 25-30k with no resources, and possibly no option for the harpoon, or 10k more for the harpoon. The resource crate is already 17k and this comes with one as well.

Honestly, at this point I don't see much of a reason to not just include one on a spawning ship. Place harpoon row-boats out in the wild, that way, players have some motivation to swap out to an upgraded version. I get that in the current game you can just attach one of the random ones, but is this such a bad quality of life item? It wouldn't phase me at all for a change like this.

I get it, rowboats are all over the place, but is it such a big deal that having one attached to start. Considering how fragile they are, having replacements out in the wilds still makes the current system work.

This is something that I've wanted for a long time. The purchasable one should have an empty storage locker but it comes with matched ship cosmetics.

Another QoL would be the option to repair rowboats, even if it required a lot of wood.

haha nice idea... but happiness when you found one, will vanish :CC

I would love to be able to buy a rowboat but why would it cost wood? That's unnecessary.