Re-work Mermaids, please.

@scheneighnay yeah, though again we have rope ladders we can not draw up and wooden ships on water that don't groan or creak when people climb the ladders so...

Thieves swimming under water to quietly approach should always be a concern when not under way and I would think they would not be in the habit of lighting torches or hehe flares....

No and should be no substitute for watching ones own ship or ones own destination.

Mermaids best scouts for those who can't be bothered to do it themselves.

@scheneighnay That is not what I said at all. Please read the post again. Thank you.

I can’t tell if your mad that your stealth was foiled by the mermaid that was worried you were too far from your ship

Or that you can’t find a better tactic to board a ship while far or near your ship.

Any case. Just change your fighting style. After all, SoT keeps changing everything anyways.
Some good some bad but the mermaids are not the ones are fault and don’t need a change.

@burnbacon "Some good some bad but the mermaids are not the ones are fault and don’t need a change." There is no other npc or player who are responsible for assisting one crew or player to locate another artificially (not organically, as the player tracking them down) so who else would you fault besides the mermaid ? Also not angry just baffled why is allowed or a feature of the game that has pvp in it. And "don't need a change", opinion pure and simple same as mine and just both are valid and up to the developer to decide .

And I am glad SoT developers are looking at the game and I hope they take another fresh look at mermaids and their purpose and possible unintended or after time decided that the feature could use a tweak here or there.

@personalc0ffee Help pirates who have fallen overboard not pirates that are not overboard (ie. on ship (at least they relent on this one, but, not on land). I do not see how highlighting a pirate helps them at all especially if because of very again visible presence of the mermaid that everyone can see there is a very good chance that the pirate never makes it back to the ship alive and is killed trying to get to the flare carrying "helping" mermaid.

"For the very reason you are baffled by it, is the very reason is there", please explain how this is so. This statement makes no sense and at the very least needs clarification, because I have given reasons and haven't listed all the scenarios where the mermaid in its current form advantages one set of players over others. And I hope that developers could consider this advantage again and maybe find a way to balance the advantage in some way.

Only the developers in the end, get to decide if this advantage continues in its current form as they are looking to improve the player(s) experience and expand the game opportunities. I am simply asking that they take another look at the scope of the advantage, please.

@personalc0ffee "The mermaids are there to give players away" Yep, this in a nutshell. Clear case of giving advantage to one party over another . That is precisely the issue that I would like the SoT developers to look at and balance out so there is no advantage to either party (the definition of balance) and allow both the opportunity for/at success . The mermaids getting players back to their ships so that they may continue fighting in that mode (ship to ship) is balanced. As of now land to ship battle is not and again that is what I would like to draw attention to and ask the developers to please consider taking another look at.

@sairdontis4317

Tl,Dr: I want to control the merfolk so I can be sneaky.

Get out. Merfolk are a foil. And worse a safety floatie. Ohhh I missedsoIgettotryagain
Ohh there'ssomeonenearmyboat...

You try to hide behind a wall of benefits, but your playstyle tells on you as much as the request.

Tucker.

@CeeofDeez You raise some other good points about mermaids. I would love to see your ideas added to their function as they would help keep the teams balanced even before a ship gets sunk.

@personalc0ffee It is the "most likely part" that causes the issue in this case.

@PithyRumble I am sorry that is how you misread my post(s) . I don't hide on a ship I fight on a ship be it mine or theirs with the goal of killing the crew to protect my crew and ship from being sunk by their crew or sinking their ship which serves the same purpose. I am not trying to make "tucking" easier as the definition of that slang seems to indicate stowing away on a ship for the purpose of camping . That is not the issue raised on the OP at all . Tucking is not the focus at all as the mermaid doesn't appear while you are on a ship so in this case the term "tucker" doesn't even apply. The issue is the advantage given to the crew on the ship that already has a massive advantage over the crew on the land especially after their ship has sunk. The crew on the ship does not need another advantage.

Looting is the most dangerous part of a fight (imo) as you need to leave your ship to gather up the loot or even to complete a quest (map, fort, etc) and this is part can be make safer by clearing out all the crew left on the land after their ship has sunk. Again the crew on the ship does not need another advantage over the crew with no ship . The crew with a ship has better fire power and better mobility in that they can sail away faster than swimmers and swim towards them. This is game is about fighting over loot all I am asking for is to keep this fight over the loot even with not outside (npc) scouts helping one team over the others.

@ceeofdeez a dit dans Re-work Mermaids, please. :

It shouldn’t be faster to die to get back on your ship than it takes to find and use a mermaid.

Thanks !

I can't believe I didn't think of this.

Now I have a secure way in HG battle to get back to my sloop spinning around my sinking prey without having a merm pop/depop and sink myself in the process of getting another one to spawn. Just carry 2 blunder...

@scheneighnay never really noticed this . Thank you! When I am on another crews ship I am usually fighting them unless we are alliancing.

@personalc0ffee "used to show someone is there" unnecessarily in my and many others opinions on both sides of the subject and issue of the feature in respect for it achieving balance (as to say it does the opposite and imbalances the interaction in favor of one side over the other)..

@personalc0ffee "Rare have confirmed this is their purpose."

Fine, however others and I are submitting out feedback that this purpose imbalances interactions and favors one side over the other. It is my and others hope that Rare reassesses this feature of mermaids.

@personalc0ffee said in Re-work Mermaids, please.:

Rare has done enough for the tucking play style and aggressive play styles. IMO, they have done too much and have tipped the game in too far an aggressive pvp oriented play style. The overall tone and hostility of the seas has changed.

So if you're trying to convince me that you should be able to hide easier so you can troll the enemy or do w/e, then I'm going to be against that.

I think people can hide too easily as it is, especially on islands.

Please, I have stated numerous times I do not "tuck" on a ship.

If I am on an opponents ship I am fighting them on it or setting it on fire . I do NOT hide on an enemy ship as that would be incredibly boring to me as I enjoy action. If I board I am fighting my way up the ladder or getting there with a cannon if I still a ship to do this from. I do not think in my opinion that players should be allowed to be unobservant to the point of needing a mermaid scout helper doing their scouting for them.

Mermaids are not supposed be taking sides after all .

Again if I am on an opponent's ship it is to sink it outright not hide away on it like a coward (imo) and bore myself to death waiting for other pirate to come back aboard, borrrrrrring.

@personalc0ffee Agreed. I appreciate the mermaids for help player playing on their ships while the float I just don't see the need to have them scout for me too as that is abusing their purpose and using them unjustly also it seems according to the pirate lords respect towards them . They (mermaids) are not our servants after all.