Reduce skeleton ships spawn rate!

Sigh.

So we are going back to empty and quiet seas. Because players can’t stand being attacked by not just players but npc. Shame

A potential middle ground could be something along the lines of how the Roar is a separate area and unique experience. Have random spawns be more frequent in certain areas like the wilds, and less frequent in areas like the shores of plenty. We already know that if you dont want to be dealing with ship fires you stay out of the Roar, perhaps the same could apply with other passive threats.

Want to avoid fire? Avoid the roar.
Want to avoid megs? Avoid the wilds.
Want to avoid skelly ships? Avoid the ancient isles.

Something like that.

@wolfmanbush
So lets fix both problems.

As i said before with the different areas for different spawn rates, but have the high rate area be what meg hunters are chomping at the bit for. I know i would love the idea of having to be aware of different threats in different seas. "Here there be monsters" and whatnot. would add a new level of preparedness too.

Or aside from that, meg lures? like a ball of chum that has a 15-20% meg spawn chance, otherwise it summons 2-4 sharks around you.

@wolfmanbush said in Reduce skeleton ships spawn rate!:

I don't get it, I just don't get why people want an adventure game with so little activity.

There are 2 groups of players that complain a LOT more than the others...

The group that just wants to do their A to B voyage and nothing else...

And the group that wants to hunt those people.

Unfortunately, the rest of us seem to be at the mercy of the squeaky wheels.

Frankly, I wish the shark spawns would stick around as is. The skelly ship and meg spawns could be a little less predictable while being equally as frequent and I'd be fine with that.

Safer Seas should get the nerf. Leave high seas alone. If you can't handle a skelly sloop you shouldn't be on high seas anyways. Not even get good. Get baseline...

They might as well just give us an invincible ship.
I mean i understand players can get frustrated and it can be annoying to have that ghost ship or meg attack when you least need it but players need to be greateful Kraken was nerfed as it used to be at one point practically unbeatable.
Now all it takes is a couple of shots and disappears under the waves as a sad shadow of what it was.
Also Megs used to attack and not go away until you actually sunk them or they sunk you, now they are just big fish swimming in the water as what seems to be part of the secenario only.

The correct thing that should have been done and should be done for this game is have dynamic difficulty, if you are a newbie then have that weak Kraken attack you, if you are a very experienced then have the relentless version of it, same with everything else which is better than nerfing across the board to suit the needs of inexperienced players.

@eva1977
the question is, how does one measure experience level?
faction reputation is clearly not an accurate indicator of skill level, perhaps a self selected 'level' that augments the random event difficulty but also nerfs income at lower levels like safer seas.

@whitestag1992 I don't know how they do it in SOT but there are a lot of metrics that can be used to say, ok this player is good at shooting ships, this one is good at killing kraken's, this one is good at killing other pirates and viceversa, all these stats can be used to create code that tell you approximately the skills of players.

@eva1977
not an unreasonable concept, but perhaps too involved for what we're looking to augment. especially for random world events like skelly instances.
We can all agree that the risk of a skelly ship is less that they are a huge combat threat and more a nuisance that tend to add chaos at seemingly the worst time. more hands make less work, so as far as simplicity of code is concerned why not have the difficulty of the ship be proportional to the population/type of ship being targeted?

The easiest ships attack solo sloopers.
Intermediate ones attack two man crews on sloops and brigs.
More challenging fights for full brigs and three man gallys.
And the most difficult only spawning on a full gally crew.

Just spitballing here, after all a two man team on a sloop could throttle a two man brig of the same skill level so i suppose ship size means less than crew population for this case.

@whitestag1992 Well just because you have more players doesn't mean they will be able to take on higher difficulty threats, for all we know they could all be new players and don't even know how to get the ship to move let alone defeat a difficult Kraken.
But lot's of games do this, they gather up all the stats possible and then have specific events trigger based on these stats so it's not a difficult thing to do should they want to, half of the stats are already tracked for us to see anyways.

@eva1977
fair enough, i just know there are a few people whose response to that approach would involve how the servers are overburdened as they are, so its safe to have a few ideas on the 'how' side of the concept ready to pitch.

I know from my perspective I don't mind fighting the skelly ships or megs i enjoy it actually. However I am getting tired of if i just put a toe in the water 4 sharks spawn and rush me. I kill 2 of them and 4 more spawn etc. But the spawn rates being so heavy with this and the rest is where i think it was the straw that broke the camels back. Since this season started i can't count how many times i have fought the skelly meg combo in some form being two ships and a meg or the skelly galleon meg and then another ship poping once one of them die. I love fighting these things as much as anyone but again adding all three of these heavy spawns together is a lot of busy work.

I can also only imagine what it's doing to the servers lag. Which I bet it will help some to.