The galleon cannons should be located in the middle deck, rather than the top deck. It would eliminate solo galleon, would make it more desirable for a larger crew since you'd have to man 2 decks.
Brig wouldn't be bad for cannons to be below also. Make it so the sloop is the only easy one to solo. More requiring larger crews for brig and galleon. Since they're meant to anyways.
Mechanically wouldn't work (visibility, limited traverse, and as was stated, holes) and just seems completely unnecessary to me.
If you've ever tried to sail a galleon solo, you should know it's already extremely difficult even before someone starts putting holes in you.
Solo galleons aren't a concern.
@lordqulex said in Cannon placement.:
There are so, so many reasons why solo galleon is a terrible idea. I can't imagine you've actually encountered one in adventure mode... I too wonder what prompted this statement.
If "stop solo galleons" is the only reason for this suggestion, my response is "Mission Accomplished, Rare!"
Exactly once my crew stumbled upon what we believe was a solo galley.
Default cosmetics, reaper's mark flag up, and just loitering outside of shipwreck bay.
We killed the 1 guy we found on board, sunk it, and all the while were expecting the rest of his crew to be tucking our trying to ambush is with kegs.
Did constant sweeps for tuckers. Never found anything and nothing ever happened, so he seemed to be solo.
This was before logbooks so we had no way of confirming the crew makeup.
@scheneighnay said in Cannon placement.:
Default cosmetics, reaper's mark flag up, and just loitering outside of shipwreck bay.
Oh that screams "noooooooooooooooooob!"
Have pity on the poor guy, probably his first day playing.
Are you saying it would eliminate being able to take out a galleon while solo? or people running galleon solo? Because running it solo is just a meme, and taking it out solo is a thing because every ship is intended to be able to take on any other sized ship... The galleon shouldnt just win by default JUST because its bigger with more crew.
The game would not be fun on smaller ships if you couldnt fight back against bigger crews.
@lordqulex said in Cannon placement.:
@scheneighnay said in Cannon placement.:
Default cosmetics, reaper's mark flag up, and just loitering outside of shipwreck bay.
Oh that screams "noooooooooooooooooob!"
Have pity on the poor guy, probably his first day playing.
We concluded that eventually, but our first thought was that it had to be a trap and we were going to bite because we wanted to see what they were planning.
We weren't risking much, and at the end of the day it's a game and we rarely pass up the opportunity for something zany to happen.
@restlessboredom That's a great idea! Let's also make space instead of the sea? What do you think of that?
The most likely explanation is that, that guy was open crew and his crew had left mid game or none even joined, it happened to me too many times while playing open crew, they would get bored and leave the fact that there was a Reaper's Mark is a good sign of trollage. Cause some will raise that flag for the sole purpose of baiting people to attack it.
