Ammo and banana boxes on Rowboats

@skulliah said in Ammo and banana boxes on Rowboats:

@riareth

Even outside of the Forsaken Shores, there's been quite a few times where having a ammo box nearby would have made the OOS voyages a lot easier.

Almost every big islands have at least one ammo box on it (and it's often near the places where the skeletons spawn). That way, it rewards you from exploring the islands.

I know where most ammo box are, either from experience or from online maps, but that is not really the point, it's more about making the row boat a bit like an "resupply" point away from the ship. I can think of several bigger islands that have a single ammo box quite far from where skeletons spawn. For instance, on Wanderer's Refuge the skeleton's spawn a lot on the south part of the island, but AFAIK the only ammo box is on the the north side.
You'd normally park the ship near where they spawn, but it's still a bit of time lost to go back and forth to resupply. Nowadays even more with the Boom Skellies.

I'd prefer to be able to find bananas crates more easily to take them on my row boat and be rewarded for stocking supplies :)

I'd be also happy if the crates were more abundant, of we could buy them from from the merchant ( maybe 1 per outpost per game month at price higher than we could sell it back full outside of a voyage). And it would make the 1000 banana crates delivered achievement more possible.

@xCALYPT0x Great minds think alike. To be fair, the ammo box and banana crate suggestions have been floated before, joining with the new rowboat just makes perfect sense.

@ant-heuser-kush said in Ammo and banana boxes on Rowboats:

@riareth Naw, we have to find banana and plank crates out in the world just like the rowboat. That's the whole point of in-game progression. If you want to do a resupply run, keep your crates, do not sell them.

If it was easier to find those crates, I agree. Right now they're too rare.

I'd still like for the rowboat to get an ammo box, unless of course they introduce movable ammo boxes.

I do the same thing with a cannonball crate, I keep it on the top deck near the cannons for easy refills instead of running all the way downstairs.

I do as well.

@ant-heuser-kush How do you it being a problem with camping?

@ant-heuser-kush I can see some camping happening, but I don't think it's abig advantage against players. If I got hit by a camper, on next respawn I'd just bring the boat and cannon the rowboat to little splinters. It's more useful for PvE.

@personalc0ffee It depends on how far away you need to leave your ship on the Forsaken Shores expansion and how many supplies are around on the new islands.

Because they keep saying that you "need to prepare" before heading there and that you'll want to use the rowboat to go to shore, my impression is that both that you'll park quite a distance away and that there won't be many supplies on the islands. So you'll probably be dying a lot, unless there's some way to resuply without going all the way back to the ship.

If my assumptions are wrong, then this suggestion isn't a "need". But I think it would still make the game better, because the "down time" between either resupply or respawn isn't particularly fun ( although the death might have been... Surprise Boom Skellie!)