[Idea] Cursed Captain’s Painting Frame – Capture Moments, Decorate Your Ship

This is actually an insanely cool idea, but I worry about the feasibility of it. Do you know of any other game with something like this? I think it would fit PERFECTLY if it's possible

When used, it "paints" a snapshot of whatever it’s facing

Think of all the..well placed loot to create images.....

@boneheart1237 said in [Idea] Cursed Captain’s Painting Frame – Capture Moments, Decorate Your Ship:

This is actually an insanely cool idea, but I worry about the feasibility of it. Do you know of any other game with something like this? I think it would fit PERFECTLY if it's possible

Feasibility-wise, I think it's possible! Games like Spider-Man use shaders for photo modes, and the sot in-game paintings might already use filtered screenshots. Something similar could be reused here.

To keep it balanced, maybe limit it to 5 paintings per crew. picture going onto a ship and seeing paintings of the Shrouded Ghost when that craw had found one or a snapshot of a player that got killed as they floated away. lol

It would be abused to make political/racist/hateful symbols and NSFW instantly with almost no way to moderate short of manually having someone verify each painting before it can be displayed. Just not feasible

@potatosord said in [Idea] Cursed Captain’s Painting Frame – Capture Moments, Decorate Your Ship:

It would be abused to make political/racist/hateful symbols and NSFW instantly with almost no way to moderate short of manually having someone verify each painting before it can be displayed. Just not feasible

If the concern is that players might pose inappropriately or stage offensive scenes for the painting, that risk already exists — and is handled by existing reporting and moderation systems, just like with ship names and pet names. Saying the idea isn’t feasible because of potential abuse is like saying custom ship or pet names shouldn’t exist because some players misuse them. Rare addressed those issues through moderation, not by removing those features.

Any inappropriate paintings could be deleted, and the player warned, banned, or have their painting privileges revoked — just like current content moderation in Sea of Thieves.

And if Rare were worried about abuse, one potential moderation method could involve the community itself. Paintings created in-game could be displayed on a gallery page on the website, where players vote for the best or worst ones. Any inappropriate paintings could be flagged by community moderators, temporarily hidden both in-game and on the site until Rare reviews them.

@uluckyhitreg You can put text filters in place to block the overwhelming majority of bad names, the rest are mopped up in reports. You cannot make a system that can inherently tell if a picture is offensive or is making symbols relating to hate groups. To say that "the system already exists" ignores how easy it is to filter text and how nearly impossible it is to filter images automatically.

@potatosord said in [Idea] Cursed Captain’s Painting Frame – Capture Moments, Decorate Your Ship:

@uluckyhitreg You can put text filters in place to block the overwhelming majority of bad names, the rest are mopped up in reports. You cannot make a system that can inherently tell if a picture is offensive or is making symbols relating to hate groups. To say that "the system already exists" ignores how easy it is to filter text and how nearly impossible it is to filter images automatically.

that’s just not how it works lol. text filters aren’t magically easy — people dodge them constantly. image moderation isn’t “nearly impossible” either. models already catch hate symbols, nudity, even subtle meme stuff. neither system is perfect, but acting like one’s solved and the other’s hopeless is way off honestly shows your understanding of tech is limited and kinda outdated.

@uluckyhitreg This is a game company which literally does not have a system for DOCUMENTING WHAT PLAYERS SAY IN THEIR OWN GAME. If someone says a racism, you have to manually record that they did it and send it in. Do you think they're going to have a system that can stop images from having inaproppriate pictures when they can't even keep track of something as simple as chat logs? I remember quake having stored chat logs. In the 90s. And yes, text filters really are that easy. Someone gets around the filter, you just add what they typed to the filter and it doesn't work anymore. They aren't going to use AI to scan pictures, they can't even save their own chat or damage or location logs. If a player teleports 2 map squares to my ship, that should be an instant ban no matter what, that's just straight up not possible within the game limits, and yet they do it anyways.

@potatosord said in [Idea] Cursed Captain’s Painting Frame – Capture Moments, Decorate Your Ship:

@uluckyhitreg This is a game company which literally does not have a system for DOCUMENTING WHAT PLAYERS SAY IN THEIR OWN GAME. If someone says a racism, you have to manually record that they did it and send it in. Do you think they're going to have a system that can stop images from having inaproppriate pictures when they can't even keep track of something as simple as chat logs? I remember quake having stored chat logs. In the 90s. And yes, text filters really are that easy. Someone gets around the filter, you just add what they typed to the filter and it doesn't work anymore. They aren't going to use AI to scan pictures, they can't even save their own chat or damage or location logs. If a player teleports 2 map squares to my ship, that should be an instant ban no matter what, that's just straight up not possible within the game limits, and yet they do it anyways.

you're mixing up what this one company isn't doing with what’s actually possible. just because they can’t log chat doesn’t mean image moderation is impossible — plenty of platforms already use models that flag offensive visuals. and no, text filters aren’t “that easy” — people dodge them constantly, and adding every bypass manually doesn’t scale. i also literally suggested a simple moderation idea: let the community vote and flag stuff via a gallery system. there are tons of ways to handle this — if Rare actually wanted to.

The more you talk, the more it feels like your view of how this stuff works is oversimplified and based on outdated info. i think you just like arguing for the sake of it lol. that’s all i’ll say — there’s nothing else to add.