Shipwright upgrades

  • Mizter Man
    Sailor
    Insider

    Let shipwrights at outposts repair boats for a price. Repair would set all level holes to 0, remove mast cracks, set capstan and helm back to normal, and refresh the boats paint.

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    Players should also be able to change types of boats with the shipwrights. They would now be able to start a session with a sloop and upon learning more friends are getting on, upgrade or downgrade to a fitting boat size.

    Resources in barrels should be transferred to the new boat but not anything on deck, such as treasure or crates.

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  • Galactic Geek
    Seafarer
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    @themadlad94 said in Shipwright upgrades:

    The ability to change boat size in-game gets requested quite a bit. Rare would have done it by now if it was so easy. The problem is that servers can only have a certain amount of each type of ship on a server (along with a player cap), which means that if you were a sloop in a full server and made a galleon for all your friends, it would break the player cap. Also, if you were being chased while solo slooping, you could easily go to an outpost and change into a galleon and invite all your friends, giving you 3 more people and 3 more cannons to fight the aggressor (which would be overpowered).

    🔨 (if there was a nail emote, I'd think you just hit it on the head; thanks for hammering the point home).

  • TimedSatyr79799
    Seafarer

    I agree with restoring ship paint and damaged things to normal.
    But you should not be able to switch to another ship in game. You can leave simple.

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