Why aren't shanties getting more attention?
I feel like they are a huge part of this game and could be for example a new emporium or TT reward kind of thing. Official SoT song like: Who Shall Not be Returning, Wild Rose, Stitcher's Sorrow + We Shall Sail Together ofc, etc. could be all made into the in-game shanties.
It would work just like emotes where u could just choose a shanty loadout you like... (Lets say 5 shanties max)
I believe the shanties are very very memory intensive.
But, perhaps once more shanties are eventually added - if possible - they could add a shanty select system. When holding an instrument, press B like you would to choose bait for a fishing rod, and it’ll let you choose from a radial of shanty symbols. Like a Wagner style Valkyrie helmet for RotV, a ship with its sails down for Becalmed, the Hungering One for Hungering Deep etc.
Shanties are very difficult to add. You have the different tracks for different instruments - right now, 4. Then you have 4 versions of that (normal, drunk, underwater, drunk and underwater), so 16. Then you have the number of versions that play depending on who leads and how many people are playing, being perhaps another 8 or more versions (not sure exactly how many there are), which makes it somewhere in the range of 128. Then, all of that for each song, of which there are currently 6 - 768 tracks already in the game. Adding new instruments is similarly difficult.
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