Right now the arena has already been changed once making it into more of a pvp mode than a condensed adventure mode but I feel the Arena is such a missed opportunity. Instead I have been thinking how fun it would be if it was split into two separate modes. (These gameplay suggestions are not my ideas for names)
Naval combat: similar to a Battle Royale and the current mode, where you have your ship vs four others, last standing wins and you get one ship Respawn.
A TDM pvp based mode: where players are on an island with all the same load outs randomly generated at the beginning of the match, each either have a total of 3 lives or we could do team with most kills wins.
These ideas are some of my basic concepts and can be a lot better with some changes, but for now these are my thoughts. What would you add/ change?
The Arena and why it should be changed
Yeah, I think at this point, there seems to be a separation in the player base here. There is a group of players who want to engage in Ship to Ship naval combat and a group of players that want to PVP player to player on a ship or an island or something.
Now I play a decent amount of arena, and I enjoy both types of combat, but as it stands right now, both galleon and sloop arena are both hampered by this split in player goals. In galleon arena, you have whole galleon crews going to board for PVP action, leaving the ship to drift aimlessly and sink or struggle along with 1 or 2 crew members who actually want to manage the ship. In sloop arena, every other match I play, half the lobby wants to go TDM on an island, and the other half wants to run chests and do ship combat. The way it shakes out more often than not is a generally unorganized and weirdly disparate feeling lobby where some people are off doing their own thing, and the others are confused as to where everyone else is.
I understand the need to limit game modes to keep the player base together, but I think some sort of Ship combat game mode and another Player combat game mode is the way to go. I know the devs want to keep their ship to ship stuff in there, so I don't know; maybe the TDM mode is like a bunch of ships lashes together and moving through the ocean somehow with cannons and sails, etc. Perhaps you fight for control over the sails or something, and the goal is to sail the whole ship to 1 area or another, I don't know.
The point is some people want to fight, and some people want to sail, and everyone seems, not entirely, but generally unhappy with the arena as it is now.
