Cannon balls for support rather than damage?

It'd certainly be funny, but I think the concept is far too niche. For a solo slooper like myself who is unlikely to encounter anyone friendly, a healing cannonball is beyond worthless.

Counter-suggestion: Pomegranates, mangoes, and pineapples can all be loaded into Cannons to serve a healing cannonball purpose. This way it wouldn't clutter the game with any new items. I still think the way SoT's healing works it'd be an extremely bizarre feature almost nobody would use, but it'd be a better implementation.

I also honestly wouldn't mind the ability to strap loot onto the front of cannons to fire it, too. If it hits a ship, it does create a hole, but the object ends up inside the ship's hold, so you could shoot a ship a supply crate filled with wood and fruit, leave, and refuse to elaborate further.

@galactic-geek said in Cannon balls for support rather than damage?:

@lexilogo Firing loot doesn't happen for a reason. It's called balance.

That was my gut instinct, but I honestly can't think of many reasons why not?

You could use it on some islands to fire loot back to your ship, but you'd still have to haul it to the cannons, have your ship be positioned correctly to recieve the loot, and be ok with the added noise risk. In some situations, it would be a faster way to haul, mostly out of Forts, but not crazily out of control.

You could use it to fire it to other ships in an Alliance, but I really can't think of a good reason why.

You could use it to fire to an Outpost, that combined with a crewmate being launched there means they could sell it. That'd be practical and not totally situational, but the distance you could do this isn't that extreme, and the waves constantly throwing off your shots means you'd probably want to just dock like a normal person.

You could use it to launch Chests of Sorrow/Rage, which would be very trollish of you, but probably not that effective in practice as it doesn't take very long to grab the chest and throw it overboard, plus the disadvantage of moving into combat babysitting those chests to start with.

Launching Kegs would be undeniably overpowered, but I think that's so ridiculous, it kind of goes without saying that it wouldn't be a thing, the Keg would just explode in your face if you tried it.

If there's something obvious I'm overlooking, I'd like to know, it's totally possible I've brainfarted on something.

@lightflake said in Cannon balls for support rather than damage?:

So here me out, instead of a cursed cannon ball, What if there was a cannon ball for doing good? I was thinking of an idea for a cannon ball that does healing or repairing instead of damage.

For instance. Say you are in a fight with another crew and your allianced friends (or not) say that they are low on water and need help repairing. What if you can shoot a cannonball that repairs 2-3 holes (tier 1-2) to help them out?

A different idea can be a cannon ball of Healing. So say that the other crew is low on food. You can shoot a cannon to their ship and it will give them back 30% health (I think 20% is to low). It would also be funny if you are hiding on a ship and you switch out their cursed cannon balls with cannon balls of healing.

I’m thinking NO. Cannons are for damage only. The mechanics of repair are perfect. Cursed cannon balls are a novelty this game really doesn’t need. What do you mean about other crew? Server alliance? The server capacity is 4 boats. Any alliance creates an unfair advantage.

It's a fine idea. Supply ball, repair ball, how bout a paint ball that changes the livery for 3 minutes?

All kinds of fun stuff can be done with this idea.

short answer: no
long answer: nope