Kraken Hunting Company for Pirate Legends. (Idea for another Trading Company)

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    I remember hearing that Rare was thinking of making a Company that specialises in Kraken Hunting and I know that many people are complaining about "Cosmetic" Rewards are not enough and that they want more! Well here is my suggestion! A Company that specialises in Kraken Hunting for the Pirate Legend's, let me explain.

    Who Gives You The Voyage?
    I feel that in the Pirate Legend Hideout we should get a NPC who is half octopus and takes inspiration from Davy Jones, he will be a member of the Pirate Legends but also cursed. (Enter lore stuff blah blah blah) Anyway he should specialise in Hunting the Kraken and have many different quests where you bring back tentacles from certain Kraken.
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    What makes all the Krakens Different?
    The Kraken that you hunt should all have individual features and looks, such as in one quest you would hunt a Kraken, lets say his name is "Slice The Slippery" He will be a 20ft blue and have scars on his body, a missing eye, and burns on his face, that would be one Kraken but then you can hunt another Kraken called "Ivor The Intelligent" who would be a 45ft Grey, wrinkled Kraken who has a missing tentacle and a Chain wrapped around his neck.
    (This would add unique qualities to all the Kraken and would be really cool to see!)
    Krakens would also have a different amount of Health, Speed, Strength and combinations of attacks. The Harder Voyages you get, the stronger and scarier the Krakens get.
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    How would you track the Kraken?
    You will be given a special item that allows you to hunt this Kraken and bring members who are not Pirate Legend along to hunt them, this could be a Compass, Horn or Magical Artifact that changes sound or appearance, so that when you are heading in the right direction it shows you by glowing or making a musical note.
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    How will you stop Kraken's swarming the map?
    I think that the Kraken that you choose to hunt should spawn when you get the Quest, this would stop servers being filled with 4 different Kraken in later games, You will get a picture of the Kraken from the man, and be able to identify it with the photograph and then it will spawn, this also gives opportunity to other crews to either follow you and help you hunt the Kraken for rewards, or possibly stumble across the Kraken and either perish or steal the hunt before you get there!

    How will everyone be able to benefit from Voyages like this?

    • Players can stumble across your Kraken by accident and be able to get rewards from killing it. before you get there.

    • Pirates will have a Common foe, we know griefing is a problem at the moment but doesn't need to be! If there are Kraken quests, you can recruit other ships to hunt down a common foe, so both players can get rewards!

    • A Reason to grind out for Pirate Legend that isn't purely cosmetic! I read a lot of reviews on the Forums and there are many (like myself) who are fine and happy with cosmetic rewards, but being able to reward players with Kraken Hunting would be the best reward you can do! Imagine knowing that Pirate Legend enables Kraken Hunting, much more people would grind for Pirate Legend just so they can hunt Krakens!

    Are we likely to get this for Release Date, March 20th?
    Short Answer No. But if the developers had time to prepare and work on such a cool amazing system it doesn't mean that in the near future after release, this may become a possibility. I already know that they have thought of a system like this, lets just see what the Developers think.

    Thank you for reading this and please tell me if you would like this as a feature!

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  • gonzo2744
    Marauder
    Founder

    @jamiethe1egend
    a merchant something like this? ;)
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  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @expl0itation How about this?
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  • MyCrystalwings
    Seafarer

    I am loving this idea, would definitely bring something more to the table for pirate legends!

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @mycrystalwings
    Thank you!

  • Capn Moza
    Legend
    Insider

    @jamiethe1egend Rare has said that the Kraken is going to be similar to the xenomorph from Alien isolation, always somewhere on the map

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @omega-131313 said in Kraken Hunting Company for Pirate Legends. (Idea for another Trading Company):

    @jamiethe1egend Rare has said that the Kraken is going to be similar to the xenomorph from Alien isolation, always somewhere on the map

    I know it will be constantly on the map, but they have also talked about adding companies in the game later on, and that they talked about one that hunts the Kraken. I think this would be a cool thing to come out in one of the later updates after the game is out!

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @personalc0ffee I think this would be really fun!

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @personalc0ffee said in Kraken Hunting Company for Pirate Legends. (Idea for another Trading Company):

    I would rather hunt a bunch of sea monsters.

    Then we can kill 'em and grill 'em. Be the nautical mobsters.

    Kraken calamari

  • ChrisBobPlays

    @jamiethe1egend I love this idea, the thought of being such a fearsome pirate that even Krakes will run from you is amazing! Maybe the more you level up your reputation, the more cosmetics you can unlock so crews can see you and think "Let's not mess with him, he's killed like 15 krakens." Maybe like sails with tentacle paintings like on the islands, or a figurehead that looks like a Kraken, or possibly a sword that looks like something off The Flying Dutchman, cob=vered in tentacles or other nautical stuff.

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @chrisbobplays
    Imagine if some kraken are actually more scared and actually run away that would be cool too!

  • PrinceOfPromise
    Marauder
    Insider

    @expl0itation Oh God not Xur! That creature is cursed.

  • ChrisBobPlays

    @jamiethe1egend That would be awesome, chasing down a kraken!

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @personalc0ffee
    We need to eat all the Monsters...

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @personalc0ffee 0_1520297914756_d87b56de-fe68-4f4e-a190-9fe0d9fbf894-image.png

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @princeofpromise What is cursed?

  • PrinceOfPromise
    Marauder
    Insider

    @jamiethe1egend Xur, the pic that the first poster posted. He was a vendor in Destiny that only arrived on the weekends and sold extremely rare gear. He was cursed bc he usually only had gear that you already had, and never the ones you wanted D:

  • PROJECT ADC

    This idea is legit amazing, the only thing i would add to this is that once you kill one type of kraken its head or "identifiable difference, for example the chain around the ones neck you mentioned, would become available as a figurehead or to be a decoration on your ship that is visible.

    The pirates within the immediate vicinity of someone starting this quest would be notified, and could form a "fleet" with the person starting it, then the quest would scale to the amount of ships within the fleet, for example how much hp the kraken has, and (potentially) which one spawns or maybe have all types of kraken able to spawn at different sizes, to allow for epic battles on the open sea, so that the kraken doesnt look obsolete in comparsion to say 6-10 ships firing at it.

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @project-adc Oh Yes!!! Or getting a painting of that Kraken as a reward that you can hang up inside your ship! In the cabin or the bottom parts!

  • Cursed Castaldo
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    Very interesting idea, not bad at all. Love the enthusiasm!!
    I don't think this would work very well only because the Kraken is supposed to be a random natural happening, just like storms (even if you can see where it is and were it is heading. That would kind of take away the epic sensation of knowing that there is that one beast that can come out of no where and bring you down to Davey Jones' locker and take away of that awesome story saying you deleted the one and only Kraken.

    Still like the idea ;)

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @killingcurse1 I was thinking that maybe when you get a quest like this, it actually replaces the kraken in the world, unless another player is interacting with it.

  • Cursed Castaldo
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @jamiethe1egend hhmmm, interesting.

  • gonzo2744
    Marauder
    Founder

    @princeofpromise how is he cursed? haha

  • PrinceOfPromise
    Marauder
    Insider

    @expl0itation Fine, "cursed" is maybe the wrong word. He's an agent of evil (as with anything RNG related that doesn't go your way) :)

  • PROJECT ADC

    @killingcurse1 The idea would be to remove the random aspect altogether, or maybe still have random krakens roaming but just make them different to the ones we hunt, i think there is room for both, or maybe add the random aspect as a giant squid rather than kraken, not sure thought??

  • PROJECT ADC

    @jamiethe1egend ye that would be great, i was thinking with the chain you could have it like around/near your cannons, slightly drooped off the side of the boat, but making it cosmetic only so it doesnt interfere for the physical interaction of manning a ship.

    with the painting idea, maybe a picture of your pirate AND / or whole crew, with their swords drawn and all standing around the krakens dead body, with each kraken sporting its own identifiable features, you could "collect" paintings of all your kills.

    Id want the painting to be accurate in the skins/cosmetics your pirate/crew were wearing at the time aswell.

  • BizmoFunyuns102

    @jamiethe1egend said in Kraken Hunting Company for Pirate Legends. (Idea for another Trading Company):

    @omega-131313 said in Kraken Hunting Company for Pirate Legends. (Idea for another Trading Company):

    @jamiethe1egend Rare has said that the Kraken is going to be similar to the xenomorph from Alien isolation, always somewhere on the map

    I know it will be constantly on the map, but they have also talked about adding companies in the game later on, and that they talked about one that hunts the Kraken. I think this would be a cool thing to come out in one of the later updates after the game is out!

    @jamiethe1egend The idea of post launch companies sounds cool but where did you hear the idea of Kraken Hunting from? I've done my homework on this game but I haven't quite seen something like this. Rare has most explicitly stated that a fourth company, post-launch, for pirate legends could happen, however, I've seen nothing pointing towards Kraken hunting as a possibilty. It may be that I just looked over it as a piece of potential and not concrete information, but I want to know where this was stated is all.

  • BizmoFunyuns102

    Ok, I like the idea however due to the nature of the Kraken and how Rare wants the Kraken to be in-game; its just not realistic. Rare doesn't "think of the kraken as a boss, but more of a force of nature, like the storms in the game." Rare wants the Kraken to be like a storm such as it appears randomly and any player can stubble across it and face it's wrath. The idea of Pirate Legend only quest would essentially remove the Kraken from the game until a player reaches pirate legend (which supposedly takes minimum of 2 weeks). Even then, frequency of the Kraken would be fairly low due to the fact not every player would reach pirate legend. The idea is good in theory, but the ideals of Rare's gameplay goals would be greatly undermined by it.

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @bizmofunyuns102 said in Kraken Hunting Company for Pirate Legends. (Idea for another Trading Company):

    @jamiethe1egend said in Kraken Hunting Company for Pirate Legends. (Idea for another Trading Company):

    @omega-131313 said in Kraken Hunting Company for Pirate Legends. (Idea for another Trading Company):

    @jamiethe1egend Rare has said that the Kraken is going to be similar to the xenomorph from Alien isolation, always somewhere on the map

    I know it will be constantly on the map, but they have also talked about adding companies in the game later on, and that they talked about one that hunts the Kraken. I think this would be a cool thing to come out in one of the later updates after the game is out!

    @jamiethe1egend The idea of post launch companies sounds cool but where did you hear the idea of Kraken Hunting from? I've done my homework on this game but I haven't quite seen something like this. Rare has most explicitly stated that a fourth company, post-launch, for pirate legends could happen, however, I've seen nothing pointing towards Kraken hunting as a possibilty. It may be that I just looked over it as a piece of potential and not concrete information, but I want to know where this was stated is all.

    I think it was a scrapped idea such as the rats that are on your ship to warn you that your boat is flooding. I might've heard it on a video, but to be honest. I don't know when, I actually searched through 20 videos to try to find it! I think it might be a podcast, but they are 50 minutes each!

  • BizmoFunyuns102

    @jamiethe1egend ah yes the podcasts are pretty long but thanks for trying to find it for me!

  • JamieThe1egend
    Founder

    @bizmofunyuns102 I remember what was essentially said was that the Kraken will be in the game and they talked about making a trading company revolved around hunting the Kraken. I am pretty sure it was a recent one, try looking through the last few and see if it was mentioned there!

  • Cursed Castaldo
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @project-adc In my opinion, no, I don't think there will be room, that's just me, based off of my thoughts and the game. I mean, hey, who knows though :). And keep in mind Rare has already said some things on how the Kraken works, I don't see why they would change that idea a lot.

  • oOl3itn3rOo
    Commander
    Insider
    Founder

    @jamiethe1egend
    I like the idea of Kraken Hunting which could now even include Megalodons...
    but i would like to have it for everybody not only for Legends. (Myself being 31/27/24)

    I really think that there should be some kind of reward for defeating the kraken or the megalodons roaming the Sea of Thieves...

    I like your idea of LOOT like remaining parts of the body floating in the ocean after a successfull battle (a tentacle of the Kraken or a Scale of the Megalodon)
    You could trade these items at the Merchant Alliance at the OUTPOSTS and gain money and experience.

    Special HUNTING quests could be implemented where players go out to look for our beloved monsters the gain those items.

    (Maybe Other bigger ocean creatures could be part of this: Whales, Squids, Turtles ... can't think of any others right now ;) )

    If RARE doesn't want to include regular Loot when battling MONSTERS they could maybe think about doing achievement rewards like in the BILGE RATS.
    Players could get special Doubloons for killing 1 / 5 / 10 ... Megalodons/Kraken and invest in special Monster Slayer Cosmetics

    What do you think?

  • xCALYPT0x
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    Boatswain

    @ool3itn3roo Hi there! This thread is 5 months old. The forum has rules against grave digs so I would suggest starting a new discussion on this topic :)

    @Deckhands

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