Scenario
You're a Rare Employee and Rare are planning for a new update set primarily for Pirate Legends, they have tasked you to come up with numerous ideas for this Pirate Legend update from name, voyages, features, anything, and the best part? You can go completely wild with it.
What sort of Pirate Legend update would you create?
I don't really have a fleshed out idea storywise or namewise or anything.. but..
PL specific Tall Tales involving the hideout, the ship inside, the lord etc, revolving more around other legends of the sea and lore. There's plenty. Maybe hints teases and a bit of content drops about making some legendary push to make the trek to some of the other seas as a setup for future content. Sea of Five Winds and whatnot
Rewards like unlocking a toggle for tattoo glow (we know 100% current tattoos can glow easily) curses, and just more of the big "Legendary look" type rewards.
I would bring the captaincy update players have anticipated for ages, which would give legends more control over the ship customization and perks. I’d also do an Athena overhaul and rebuild the voyages. Instead of just having legendary quests be a combo of all the other types, I’d introduce something completely fresh. Maybe the “Sea of the Damned” could be a PL exclusive area where they have to hunt for lost souls and defeat new ghost bosses. New cosmetics as well.
My idea would be:
Forgotten Legends
Features:
Three new tall tales centered the pirate lord, Athena's fortune and the Sea of the damned. The tales would be themed around pirate legends and each would ultimately lead up to unlocking new features, and meeting new characters.
Captaincy. Players can now have access to broader ship customizations, allowing for lanterns, harpoon, and rowboats to have their own skins for the various ship sets. Players can also customize the layout of furniture and other decorations on the ship. Special hull types that alter the physical appearance of player ships: one that makes your ship look like a skeleton ship, one that makes it look like a ghost ship, and other ones that make ships look more fancy, etc. Players can also purchase livery templates and design their own sails, flag, and custom hull color/decalls. Additionally all available and future figureheads can be dyed any combination of three colors for a 500k. Unique titles, clothing weapon cosmetics that are unlocked throughout the captaincy campaign and other commendations. Ships can now be named just as pets, and scoping in on a ship on the near horizon displays said name.
Man O war
The man o war has finally been unleashed, however a community driven event tasks players with gathering materials to craft the ship, and once all materials are handed in, the ship unlocks for all players, as well as rewarding them with a unique ship set.
Sea of the Damned
A terrifying, and hellish version of the reality we know and love, in addition to some new areas exclusively in the sotd. This area would be unlocked for players who complete all forgotten legends tall tales, which unlocks the "Deathbreaker" a magical artifact that until now, was secretly in the hands of the pirate lord. Using this idol creates a portal into the sotd that players can sail through. There would be cool events and objectives for players to do every day, that also change regularly as well, and one of the noteworthy rewards would be the ghost curse.
Thoughts?
Update name: The Legend of Athena's Fortune
Features:
Captaincy - Pirate Legends in a crew have the ability to name the ship (using a ship title system) decorate captain's quarters, and choose different hull styles: All of this is purely cosmetic. (No special privileges with voyage voting, or crew configuration, just to avoid conflict.)
Legendary Captain Progression - this is how you'll earn your Ship titles, captain's quarter's cosmetics, and hull styles. Not entirely sure yet what tasks this will include
The Legend of Athena's Fortune Tall Tales - this is a 5 tale arc that tells the story of Athena's Fortune and how the Pirate Lord got the daggers in his back. It can be initiated by Legend, and non-legend crew mates can tag along. Pirate Legends are awarded with a Ghost Curse at the end.
Revamp Athena's Fortune Voyages to make them less recycled content... still thinking of what can be done, but I think they have plans for this anyway.
I know this seems like a bit much for content that's locked to reaching Legend, but with how accessible Legend status is nowadays, I think this would pan out well.
