Make hourglass fair

What isn’t fair?
How aren’t you able to turn the tide?

It’s all open world. Hourglass isn’t a mode with rules. It’s an instant PvP. It’s the same as if you rolled up on someone doing these events.

Take control and turn the tide. It isn’t that much a big deal. If you’re struggling. Defend as well.

@xdragonman15558 or they could just give us set supplies and prevent that.

@riptide3809

My favorite is when someone made sure Redmaw (fire meg) would aggro to us when we rose up. The fish nuked, our mast goes down, fire is everywhere, just lovely lol.

@look-behind-you nothing about HG taking place on Adventure prevents set supplies from being implemented for invading ships.

@fysics3037 what about Defenders. You know you don't have to Invade, right? Or did that change and I missed it.

@redeyesith defenders can just keep whatever supplies... They already set it up with detections on whether you're defending or invading

@look-behind-you Care to explain how you reached that conclusion?

@look-behind-you As I said before, there's nothing about HG taking place on the adventure servers that would make set supplies for invaders impossible or even difficult. You never have to "unset" supplies or anything. I imagine each barrel "object" in the game has an "ArrayList" which is effectively a list that can expand or shrink based on what's in it. All you would be doing is running a simple command that when the surfacing sequence begins, each barrel "object" has it's "ArrayList" cleared and then refilled with a certain amount of each supply. Then you just clear any treasure or storage items on the ship. With the new private servers on the way, I'm sure they could reuse the code there in order to create storage crates at select spots on the ship. Once a match ends they can pick up their opponents supplies, they have their own left over from the match, and they're welcome to get more in the vast open world if they so desire. To be clear, the game is not storing whatever supplies they had beforehand in server memory. You dive (and get a match), those supplies are gone, and you don't get them back. If they dive again the command happens and the supplies are reset to the set supply values. If they're defending the command is never run, which is simple because again they already set it up to detect whether you're invading or defending.

There's nothing "complicated" or "impossible" about the system. If things do get too complicated they can easily descope by, for example, just saying there aren't gonna be supply crates in Hourglass that season. It might take some effort and debugging, but it would make Hourglass much more interesting without distracting from the combat fundamentals (and bloating the impact on servers). They could change what supplies are available each season or month to keep things fresh. It'd make matches more fair and provide a "ruleset" for the community to rally behind (instead of vague points of toxicity like whether or not bonecallers are "allowed"). One month they could take they could give you a lot of chains and scattershots but not as many cannonballs, leading to a closer range meta. Or they could give you a meager amount of chains but a few green curse balls and bonecallers to create a boarding meta. It would keep hourglass a lot more fresh, fair, and interesting without over complicating the activity or creating too much stress on the servers.

if u get a bad spawn just full sail away and reset the fight. noone will be mad.

@look-behind-you yeah I will be enjoying custom servers. Depending on what tools they provide, I'll likely be spearheading competitive/PvP mode development. Your response does nothing to support your claim btw.

@fysics3037

Which part? Custom servers and what they offer or Hourglass follows the same rules as the whole server?

For hourglass to give set items to ships. They have to be in own set area with own rules.
So what you’re wanting. If I decide to defend and not dive. I should get a lot of supplies to prepare myself for the up coming hourglsss I’m taking part in. While I’m waiting

Along with any extra supplies I’ve found or stored on my ship between then and now. Since it be wrong to lose my supplies I gathered for a fight I’m preparing for. Now who is at disadvantage? The diving ship or one waiting?

Also: any ship between me waiting for my hourglass fight will find I’m fully prepared from the moment I leave the docks. Thanks to hourglass (or before during my session)

In the very end. Fairness is how you make it. I can have a rowboat with kegs and wait for someone to appear. Drop my duo and row around, force you close and boom. (Happens)
Hourglass very simply is “PvP on demand” during my session.

Yeah this isn't a real issue. I do get fights that start in skeleton fleets sometimes but that's just where they are. The other boat dived to it too. Ally 420+, 310 in servants. I have over 1000 HG matches and do not see this as a real issue.