Smuggling

@olde-grim-jack You would see that I mentioned the Grand Maritime Union. Go look them up for Sea of Thieves lore and you will see they are an Anti-Piracy Trading Company. So it would be easy to assume they would also be anti-smuggling. So, as mentioned, they might put pressure on the Sovereigns to try their "best" to crack down on selling of contraband.. Which could literally be anything. Even something wildly ridiculous like Ancient artefact remains.
It's also a game after all.. If you wanted everything to be do on the nose, I could tell you that skeletons can't walk around and shoot cannonballs at you in real life.

@greatfailure82 If that's what you consider complicated. Also, what's your point about participating? If you don't want to do it, then don't. There is plenty of stuff that is participated for a short period of time and then left in the dust. Doesn't mean it can't be made. You also don't need to generalize for others. It can have comms that people can achieve if they so wish.. at any time, which always helps people try content. And it's a simple game loop that allows players to "search" other players ships that can result in organic gameplay on a sandbox style game.

This just sounds like a merchant cargo run quest, except you dont get the cargo at the outpost you start at, and instead return it there. Basically just a reversed cargo voyage with a different name. Just because the cargo would be stored in a barrel for what ever reason, does not make it any less a cargo run in function, its just a reskin of the most tedious voyage that we already have.

@thamb0 said in Smuggling:

@olde-grim-jack You would see that I mentioned the Grand Maritime Union. Go look them up for Sea of Thieves lore and you will see they are an Anti-Piracy Trading Company. So it would be easy to assume they would also be anti-smuggling. So, as mentioned, they might put pressure on the Sovereigns to try their "best" to crack down on selling of contraband.. Which could literally be anything. Even something wildly ridiculous like Ancient artefact remains.
It's also a game after all.. If you wanted everything to be do on the nose, I could tell you that skeletons can't walk around and shoot cannonballs at you in real life.

The sea of thieves is a place that pirates went to avoid the grand maritime union and live out there pirate life without rules or regulations. They have very little presence in the SoT with the sovereigns being that first time they have been in game. Go look them up for Sea of Thieves lore and you will see that they have no power in the sea of thieves.
What is the point of a voyage that is an over glorified cargo voyage?

@goldsmen ya.. and skeleton forts and forts of fortunes are also the similar? If something works and can be added to it, why not? Guess not.

@jojo-buddy-v2 Ya, go look at the Sovereigns. They have the GMU icon on their clipboards, so obviously they have comms between each other... hence my idea.. but never mind.. no point discussing something simple here. Have a good one. Was just thinking about a very simple game play loop that could add more fun "secret" spots to the islands. It wasn't it.

I like the idea but it seems way too complicated and merchant cargo is pretty similar.

If I had to think of something I'd say it could be something like you have to bury a Reaper chest/Reaper bounty and defend the location until those Reaper spies we saw in the battle for golden sands show up and secure the area. You can protect it or just bury it and leave but someone could sail by and dig it up and sell it for less or smuggle it themselves for more.

Sounds fun for tucking but nobody does pvp so it would flop like Siren Song.

@thamb0 you said. "Each ship has a few regular barrels, so adding a contraband barrel should be easy."

I'm pretty sure a few years back Rare took some barrels away from outposts to save server memory. So i wouldn't count on them adding a new storable barrel that easily. 🤣

@thamb0 said in Smuggling:

@goldsmen ya.. and skeleton forts and forts of fortunes are also the similar? If something works and can be added to it, why not? Guess not.

Fof is a reskin of the skeleton fort meshed with a different boss, but its supposed to be the same thing as a skeleton fort because its valuable, and skeleton forts have been a long loved staple of the game. Cargo voyages have been a staple, but not loved by most people.

If they are going to reskin something its better to be something that people like and will actively do rather than something that people avoid like the plague.