Fortune Favours The Bold (a new mechanic)

Sry, but i dont see a benefit.

Soloslopers are the first who lose in this case. They cannot escape anymore "normal" but lootstacking gets punished because you have less manpower than anyone else.

I think its a mechanic which is very hard to teach ingame. You just have to know it is this way.

But i think, what i really didnt want is, that there is less strategie. Atm you learn to know the ship speeds. So you get options. Yes, my fastes route is X, but if i drive Y, i come across an island. But my opponent will come closer. Could i made this route?
With an ??? boost on both ships, who can really tell how fast they are?

Lastly, its benefity the ships differently. A brig with perfect wind will get a greater boost than a sloop.

I like the mechanic, more loot on your ship the more Gold you earn from turning the loot in............

@paparug420

You can test it. Of course there are guides on thr net and most of us use them.

You yourself can see the wind. You notice that you are always fast with the wind. You also notice that it is not a real world simulation, because you shouldnt move against the wind.

But it feels natural to learn it. Of course you are right, most of us open a wiki and read the data. Testing takes time.

With the gold boost, you have to show it to the player. Also: other players should notice it too, i think, but that would be debatable.
The more you put onto the ship, the faster it will be. I wouldnt know how to show it to a player, but perhaps you have an idear.

Lets say you fix that, now a player knows how much boost he has.

I will crunsh some numbers i got from kiwhen on YouTube and his sailing speed video. Fokus on the sloop, because here i fell is a problem:

Against the wind
Sloop 1,05m/s
Brig 1m/s
Galleon 0,93m/s

With bonus 25% (multiply 1,25)
S 1,31m/s
B 1,25m/s
G 1,16m/s

You now can get 0,01m/s faster away if both ships have a bonus and the wind favours the sloop.

How much does a sloop lose in worst case wind?
Tailwind
S 1,36m/s Bonus 1,7m/s
G 1,71m/s Bonus 2,14m/s
Differenz
0,35m/s 0,44m/s

Crosswind
S 1,53 m/s Bonus 1,91m/s
B 2,30 m/s Bonus 2,88m/s
Diff
0,77m/s 0,97m/s

What can we see in this numbers? I would assume both have bonuses. After a reaper hopped Server or raised his flag freshly he doesnt have the bonus until he sinked the first ship/gathered some thinks. Atm a skelly captains x-mark-map can give you big powder bombs or chests of sorow/etc which rougly brings you to 5000g pretty fast.

In any other case a sloop loses much more. Every mistask while sailing leads to a faster punishment. Bestcase you get away a little bit fast, worst case the enemy comes near much faster.

I think in pretty great gold numbers. Who will get the hardest punishment? Beginners and telltale driver. Telltale dont loot often.
And beginners just get cheapchests at the start. A chest for 250 Gold? Gather 40 of them for the boost.

This thoughts are without PvP engaging ships. Because if you want to fight, you dont need a faster ship.

In the other cases it seems to change every hunter/pray mechanic in favour of the skilled.

I now thougt long about your suggestion and i hope you can see my concerns a little bit clearer.

This will end up having the opposite of the desired effect. At the moment players have the option of running away. And the game is designed so that every ship has a direction where it is fastest.

This would heavily disadvantage new players, who are already disadvantagd by general game knowledge as it is. They'd never have the speed advantage because the low rank voyages provide such garbage loot. 5k would take them multiple voyages and picking up all the loot they see...let alone 10k. As veterans, that's easy peasy...but remember back to when you were new and didn't know that a shipwreck alone can have upwards of 5k worth of loot in it.

So you're telling me if you are chasing a ship laden with loot, it will have a massive boost to its overall speed (making it impossible for the same ship class to catch up) yet that will increase ship vs ship battles? Righto.

Am I missing something?

@paparug420 that or people will just not bother, see it as too much effort when they can go do something else.