Burying items after being sunk

  • Rare Jumbie
    Commander
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    Some of my friends sunk a Grade V ship last night and their opponents buried their flag and presumably logged off shortly afterwards. While I understand that this is something that doesn't happen often, I think that there is a reasonable amount of friction that could be added to the map generation process to prevent this. If players want to bury a set of items on an island, they must first go to their quest table and "grab an empty map". This allows them to bury up to 10 items on a single island. If they want to bury more, or bury at another island, they need to return to the ship and grab another empty map.

    Upon being sunk, a player will lose their treasure maps (as it currently is implemented) and their empty treasure maps as well.

    This added friction prevents players from being able immediately bury their loot after being sunk, but they can continue to bury items after returning to their ship and collecting a new empty map.

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  • D3ADST1CK
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    I think this would kill the burying feature faster. No one is going to go out of their way back to an outpost or seapost to grab an empty map to bury something, so they just won't.

  • Rare Jumbie
    Commander
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    I made a mistake, I meant quest table, (on their ship). Edited

  • WolfManbush
    Champion

    Imo one of the points of being able to bury is exactly what happened

    got sunk, survive, hide the valuables if so desired

    to me that's a huge part and point of the ability to bury

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @touchiertooth28 did u see, where he buried it? Then just go there and dig it up...afaik you can dig anything up without the map for it (player buried loot only)

  • Rare Jumbie
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    @schwammlgott

    Wasn't me that was playing.

    @wolfmanbush

    I would only agree with this when the crew sizes are equal. But in the case of a sloop sinking a galley, it's 2 v 4 where 3 of the recently sunk players can truly distract the 2 sloop players while one person goes and hides a valuable piece of loot. When one ship sinks another, the victor should have a fair opportunity to gather valuables regardless of where the opponent sunk.

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @touchiertooth28 ok...but anyway...if you know on which island and the location, not exactly, just walk there a bit and look close...those buried treasures leave a spot, that looks different AND when you walk on them, they sound different...
    So if they leave the server, it's not a problem to get that stuff anyway

  • WolfManbush
    Champion

    @touchiertooth28 said in Burying items after being sunk:

    @wolfmanbush

    I would only agree with this when the crew sizes are equal. But in the case of a sloop sinking a galley, it's 2 v 4 where 3 of the recently sunk players can truly distract the 2 sloop players while one person goes and hides a valuable piece of loot. When one ship sinks another, the victor should have a fair opportunity to gather valuables regardless of where the opponent sunk.

    I agree with that to some degree which is why I'm always talking about how I think ships should spawn far away from the sink area

    but until all the pirates are dead that just has to work itself out.

    as a solo I know how frustrating situations can be but that's just a part of taking on larger crews.

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