Stowaways (Dark Souls Invasion)

This wouldn't really work because in Dark Souls people invade around specific closed areas as opposed to the fairly large and open map of SoT.

@ob9s Yeah I get that.

@Sweltering-Nick Steady on. XD
I ain't saying a copy & paste a feature from dark souls but merely asking could something similar be added. Perhaps new option for adventure mode for the more PvP inclined player.

You are correct, nothing stops me from just acting like 'An Invader' in adventure mode, quite often I row around looking for unsuspecting pirates and with the rowboat it adds the challenge of 1 life but it is also time consuming and dowright boring for the first hour.

And yes, spawning on another player ship is OP, I agree, I was merely asking

Say theres a voting table on the brig cage to allow random invaders.
The bell rings and the invader spawns in the brig.
The crew has to watch this player and make sure they don't break out.
The invaders goal is whatever they choose but when they die they drop a skull which is sellable.

Ways like this to incentivise piracy and voyages at the same time. I wouldnt expect a game changing idea but something like above could be a small addition for full crews of friends to do when the seas seem quiet.

Just thinking of ways to spice the game up XD

@sailorkek said in Castaways (Dark Souls Invasion):

I haven't played Dark Souls

You should! All of Fromsofts games are pretty much masterpieces of game design.

what ways could something like this work in SoT?

This could work as a way to make the reapers flag fulfill it's role. If the Reapers flag essentially worked as "dried fingers"/"delicate string" do and players had a way to "invade" those players servers it could make for much more consistent PvP.

@waronpants2664 Thanks for the response, yeah I know I should just haven't got round to it hahaha.

@Sweltering-Nick Well whats to stop people from server hopping until they find their friends, not much execpt the fact you dont get to choose which server you invade or which people invade you.

@sweltering-nick said in Castaways (Dark Souls Invasion):

@sailorkek So it's completely random, eh? Fair enough...

In that case, i propose we rename the concept to "Stowaway" instead of "Invader". ;3

Done, I thought I already had a thread called Stowaway but it's under a different name.

Speaking of which, how long does the invasion last? Like, when does it end, got any specific ideas?

I'm not sure about how long but figured they'd at least be limited to one life or something. Probably only limit the ship to one invader at a time to avoid exploits as you mentioned.

I'm thinking any "reward" dropped by the "invader" would be more profitable for other crews. This way the original crew still can kill them and claim it but if another rival crew were to kill him they would also get rewarded.
The reason for the increase for the rival crews is incentive for the original crew to keep the invader alive as a hostage. Players doing thatcould RP they're keeping him alive from they're old crew.

This second part is flawed mind you, whats stopping the original crew from just getting allied crews to kill them and as you rightly stated in your first comment , I can just try and find friendly people

the game already has what you want