New types of Galleons, Sloops and Brigs

  • Lleorb
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    This is an idea I gave some time ago but I wanted to go deeper, as we saw new ships in this last update...

    I would like to enter the menu and after selecting the ship (Galleon, Brig or Sloop), I could also choose different versions of each ship. The ships would have the same speed as their class and the same skins could be used, the only difference would be the format.
    So that the ship's mold isn't really an advantage, they just have to be free and available to everyone, so everyone can choose how they're going to sail.

    A new ship always excites players, like the launch of the Brig, Rare would have the opportunity to bring any new designs to the game, Chinese ships, Spanish ships.

    • Example of a possible new galleon:
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  • PersonalC0ffee
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    What do you mean by different?

    Are you talking about moving cannons or sails around or what?

    What would really differentiate them?

    Because if you start moving functional pieces of the boats, you could run into an issue with balancing.

  • Lleorb
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    @personalc0ffee Only the mold of the ships, like the example in the photo... With the cannons in the same or similar positions.

    But these issues Rare can balance, the focus is on having other ships, as a Man o' War with 6 people would greatly unbalance the game this would be a way to add new ones

  • PersonalC0ffee
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    Boatswain

    I feel if you start moving around cannons you are going to get into that issue of; "best boat" and I don't really want to do that where no one will use any other "type" of boat, other than this particular one, with these sails in this placement, and with these cannons here.

    This is of course just my opinion but I feel we have plenty of variety and boat types for the game with the cosmetics.

  • Galactic Geek
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    Even if all you changed was the outer cosmetic appearance of the ship (leaving barrels, cannons, etc. in the same places as they are now), Rare would still have the problem of adapting all previous and future cosmetics being added to their current workload. The idea sounds nice in principle, but practically-speaking, I think that's chiefly why we won't see it come to fruition.

  • Lleorb
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    @galactic-geek this if the adaptation of the skins is manual, I think it's perfectly possible to program a way to adapt the skins automatically, identifying in each model where the colors should be.... this might bring some bugs eventually but it is a solution.

    But as I said, the point is that adding a new ship with 6 people would unbalance the PVP, so adding variations of the classes we already have seems to be the best way.

  • Aydavo
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    This is what I was thinking a lot. Great idea I just want to have more versions of the boats we have.

  • Galactic Geek
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    @lleorb ...or we could simply not add any more at all because the ships are fine as is. 😅

    The only thing I want shipwise, is the ability to customize our ship's lanterns, harpoons, rowboat, and name.

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