Ability To Buy Storage Crates On An Outpost

You and everyone in the past few months have had this very thought. But you think of the pros of it and never the cons. Or what will happen if they do.

Sadly the cons out weigh the pros.

I think this would be useful but only if they were empty the only thing it would do is decrease the time it would take to empty out a outpost which is a pro. But if you were to buy it full that would be dumb. Cause you could use what ever you have in said storage crate and could fill a merchant crate and make infinite money. But if you were to just buy a empty one and only one ( for lag issues ) it would be very useful.

Yesterday i left 8 storage crates on an outpost.... yikes.. I guess I messed up the game balance... I'm sorry! Anyway if it's so easy to come by then it would take a galleon to visit two islands and sink a few skellies (or simply spawn at the outpost where i left those crates... my bad!) then there we go, they have their supplies spread on the ship and you have an OP galleon...... except if they are foolish enough to store all their supps in storage crates.. cuz that is kinda dumb. Any type of any ship already requires different tactics versus one another. I see no issue buying empty storage crates (but maybe at a seapost instead of an outpost.. cuz possible fishing purposes.. or maybe a new fish crate would be handy for that?... hmm..), but it's still unnecessary as there are a lot out there...

hmmm.... and (addition to buyable supply crates or not) what about increasing the amount the player could hold or change it around like 5 cannonballs and 10 food instead?

clearly the intention of these suggestions is to cut the time you spend filling up your ship.. and personally, most of the time I don't even bother and just set sail right away with the things I get from the barrels on the way to the dock... cause I'm sure i will come across a skelly ship or storage crate.

My ship log for lulz:
A few days ago I spawned at galleon's grave and set sail to go to the open waters between the wilds and devil's roar (to camp for kraken)... I was sure i could take it down with the cannonballs i already had on my ship. I never get past Three Paces Seapost cuz i got shipwrecks to loot, then went to sell those sweet barnacles... then went back to my original plans... meg spawend.. killed, went back to sell. Saw a player sloop fighting a skellion and skloop at the seapost. watching the long fight with my spyglass at galleon's still. The sloop sunk. Set sail. Another meg on me. Killed with precise shots, making sure not to waste. I have 3 cannonballs left. Wishing for some supplies. Two skeleton sloops at seapost. They collided into each other... battle music starts, they both sunk a few seconds after. Got two free storage crates with 60 cannonballs and planks in total. wish has been granted. went back to sell.

@daddy-shwifty said in Ability To Buy Storage Crates On An Outpost:

I was thinking the other day about how nice it would be to be able to buy storage crates while on an outpost. I don’t know about any of you, but I love using outposts. It greatly increases the time I spend collecting the items on an island. I also like that you can put it anywhere on the ship. I would really enjoy being able to buy storage crates, or any crate for that matter, while at an outpost. It wouldn’t matter to me if they were empty or not.

this idea has been talked about over and over again it's been flogged to death already

@schwammlgott but somehow grabbing ammo is much more satisfying in other games.

@schwammlgott Because it's rare. Same with cooked meg, trophy fish or kraken meat in shipwrecks/boats. And who doesn't like to collect colorful shiny balls even if they don't use it?

@Galactic-Geek @Schwammlgott @DADDY-SHWIFTY

@greengrimz 2-3 minutes can make the difference between win an lose...especially when the enemy is coming again and again after you sunk 'em...

No ship gathers supplies if they are coming back for you after they sink. Especially if it happened multiple times. You are either moving or you are doing a world event they want to steal. So they have no time to waste. Everyone is just gathering them along the way.

@greengrimz It's a matter of starting out with something at great advantage that wasn't earned. If they added this, why would we even have barrels on the ship at all? Think about that the next time you use a barrel for cover or concealment...

Barrels would still be important because storage crates can be carried(stolen or dropped from the ship). If someone is ignorant enough to put all their supplies in crates they are clearly wishing for a death sentence. Also it's not an advantage if everyone can have it.

Two very inadequate counter arguments imo.

The main thing we should be discussing isn't the pacing of the game or this 2 minute save. Or any of that blabla. The point is, this is not a horizontal progression which is kind of the motto of the game. All the vertical advantages of the game are locked behind luck or effort. But now we are talking about the addition of "selling" the crates here. This is exactly the same scenario as buying stronger bullets or different weapons or anything in that regard. Storage crates are very useful. Everyone would buy them because they are just better than going all the way to the barrels. But is this really the way forward? Because this would be the first time Rare would make a non-cosmetic item buyable and the moment they take the first step the demand for other non-horizontal additions will explode. What comes next? Gold Hoarders selling treasure chests? OOS selling ashen lord skulls so everyone can have a flamethrower? We are entering the danger zone.

The crate change would make the game better, but that does not mean it is the right choice. If Rare opens the door of adding vertical items to the shop, the game will completely lose it's nature. Just the risk of them overdoing it is enough for me to oppose this change.

HOWEVER

They should rework the the storage crates so that we can grab items inside barrles without dropping the crate. There should be an option to just transfer items from the barrel to the crate. I have no idea why this is still not in the game.

@galactic-geek said in Ability To Buy Storage Crates On An Outpost:

@sdrewger said:

Also it's not an advantage if everyone can have it.

The double gun exploit has already proved this statement false.

That needs a lot of practice, using a storage crate does not. They are not the same thing. But you are right, my statement was too general to hold any credibility.

@galactic-geek said in Ability To Buy Storage Crates On An Outpost:

@sdrewger said:

They should rework the the storage crates so that we can grab items inside barrles without dropping the crate.

This game seems to have a tendency to use your hands a lot. When you pull something from a barrel for example, it appears in your hand. With this in mind, how exactly do you propose we pull something out of a crate while using both hands to carry it, and then while still holding the crate, with both hands, put said item into a barrel? Do you have a 3rd arm that I don’t know about, Mr. Zapped Beeblebrox?

Then why are we not actually opening the barrels to get the stuff Mr. Play The Realism Card? Teleporting the supplies to your hand from the barrel is just as unrealistic as teleporting them to a storage crate.