The point of this topic is below the story.
I usually fight with strategy. Most people that PVP i find, button mash. I keep myself steady unless they are using a blunderbuss (Huge respect to those who try fighting without the blunderbuss)
I love when i meet someone who uses strategy like me. I once met someone at Daggertooth, we were civilized, passed in our loot. Drank and played some shanties. Then he wanted to initiate a proper sword duel, noticed he hit the block button several times and took a swing in the air.
I did the same, the fight was not button mashing rage. We were careful, he was very good and I could keep up. Dodging while blocking, swinging and hearing the ''ching!'' rather then an empty swing through the air or constant swinging from both sides.
It was like one of those epic coordinated sword fights from Pirates of the Caribbean. Won the duel and set sail to find some treasure.
Later that day I encountered that same person. This time we used our pistols but it wasn't just a wild shootout, since his crew mate had a mic, we set up one of those old fashioned pistol duels. Standing back to back we took 10 steps away from each other, turned when given the word and shot, one shot aloud. I haven't touched up on my skills using a pistol much, but after he hit me, we continued the same way. He killed me afterwards, pretty darn good he was.
(The point of this topic)
After that I didn't see those pirates anymore. It got me thinking, it would be pretty cool if we could initiate PvP with our own crew?
There could be a menu where your crews usernames are listed, you want to challenge the Captain and take over, and give orders? Select him in the menu and request to challenge your crew mate. Being in the same crew and communicating with each other before the match could make for some amazing duels. Of course the person challenged can accept or deny the challenge.
You could train your crew to get better at fighting with swords and aiming with pistols. Blunderbuss is pretty much straight forward, I think that's the go to weapon for people boarding. But training amongst your crew? That could be a lot of fun!
As i mentioned in the story, people like that are pretty rare to come by. They were respectful and fun to interact with. Not only do I think requesting combat from amongst your crew would be fun, but I think it would encourage more players over time to have awesome duels with people they meet on the Sea, rather then button mashing.
Keep in mind: This does not effect open PVP with other Pirates. That should always remain as it is now.
So when it comes to Pistols. I think maybe the pistols could be one shot kill for a head shot, or two shots. Amongst the crew anything can be organized to have fun, it can be controlled amongst the crew.
Amongst friends, it would just be a fun duel. Role play wise, it would be a challenge, maybe to take the position of anothers role as Captain, or hell, if you love role play, whoever wins gets a promotion from deck hand to first mate. First mate could end up later challenging the Captain. That's just a thought for you really if you like role play which i think is a big part of this game.
As for being defeated in the duel? Yeah for any PVP you would end up on the flying dutchman but I think after our screen goes black, you end up in the brig of your ship. It would be like you lost the challenge and that's where they drag you after (not literally dragging.) So they just release you after the duel.
I think this could be a lot of fun. If you have anything to add on to it, be my guest. I don't consider any idea 'stupid'. There's good and bad ideas, but I like hearing them all. Fire away!
