Update ideas???

@BBJJ52612 I invite you to my sloop. You and I stack Athena for 3hrs, and have amassed quite a lot. A friend of mine who still needs Athena rep and is very close to distinction 5 messages me, asking if I have room. I kick you from my ship and invite them instead and we turn in. Would you be perfectly fine with this? Oh, and if you raise a ticket about me, all I need to say is you were griefing me because you anchored us, or ate a pineapple when we had plenty of coconuts to top off your health. Are you cool with this? Also fun fact, sloops used to have brigs, before they were removed.

-Adding another cooktop surface to the brig/gally, wouldn't exacty be fair to the sloop now would it?

-Changing the layout to ships? So if I board your boat and need ammo, I can't find it? How is that fair? If I'm doing hourglass, I can place 2 cannons on one side of the ship? This not only sounds like a complete mess, but a nightmare for the devs to code as well.

For instance, not all of us have "invested" in pets. I think if you gave a small purpose to buying them

Purpose. Because we want a pet to take with us, put clothes on and run around with.

What if a pirate that has a pet were able to hand it a skull, gem, or other type of small item to hold/carry.

P2W item. If you dont have a pet, your missing out and not everyone has money to spend on such features.

Another idea would be captained ships having the ability to "kick" or remove a player.

Con: Join random crewmate, spend hour together, have hoard of loot. Kicked because Capt friend wants on. :/

We should have more say in who gets to sail with us or not.

Close Crew, Open a Looking For Group.

Some pirates would like to see more cooktop stations on their boats.

Or visit a Fortress...now you have 6 cooking pots.

Would it be possible to make it when a pirate purchases a ship, they could choose the layout?

That be a whole new coding thing, and Im sure it has it up and downs. Depending on how much freedom they give.

@europa4033 Sure, we can spend 3 hours gathering loot together. Oh wait…we just lost everything to another ship because they wanted it. How is this different? I’m not trying to be negative. I’m just curious. Maybe this can be resolved by closing out this option whenever there is loot onboard or within a certain time after a world event is completed by “team”. I’m don’t wish to take anything away from people who actually want to play. I enjoy joining open crews and meeting new people. There are always those players who just a downright TOXIC! How many times have you had a player join you just to fire bomb your ship or drop everything into the water just to leave “when they are done”? I just think, if it’s your boat, you should have a little more say in the matter.

@bbjj52612 said in Update ideas???:

@europa4033 Sure, we can spend 3 hours gathering loot together. Oh wait…we just lost everything to another ship because they wanted it. How is this different? I’m not trying to be negative. I’m just curious. Maybe this can be resolved by closing out this option whenever there is loot onboard or within a certain time after a world event is completed by “team”. I’m don’t wish to take anything away from people who actually want to play. I enjoy joining open crews and meeting new people. There are always those players who just a downright TOXIC! How many times have you had a player join you just to fire bomb your ship or drop everything into the water just to leave “when they are done”? I just think, if it’s your boat, you should have a little more say in the matter.

To answer your question, I've never had that happen to me because I don't do open crew for starters. The point is, kicking players from your ship can be abused too much by players, and they'd come here with torches and pitchforks saying how this isn't fair. "Within a certain time after a world event is completed by team." So, if I complete a FotD, wait 5min, ask this random player to choose a number 1-5 and he chooses wrong, I can kick him and turn in the loot myself. Got it. If you enjoy open crew, that's great, however you run the risk of being trolled, your food eaten, your supplies dropped over the side, etc. Just because you want the kick option to deal with it because YOU'VE chosen to accept that risk doesn't mean it should be implemented/created, and applied to the playerbase. Because now innocent people will get kicked.

@europa4033 I appreciate your response and input. All I'm saying is people who have a sloop and chose open, should have some way of either being able to kick someone or jail them. I'm not saying this is something that should be done in order to give people power to abuse. i'm just saying something should be done to help people protect themselves and/or their ship. I don't mean spend 3 hours together stacking and then kicking them when it's time to sell either. If someone is with you while you earn treasure, they should be able to be with you while it's sold. If there is a kick option, it should have rules or a point system like the new one they are about to implement. When players chose to play "open", it's usually the ones who don't own the ship who have all the power. Something should be done about that. I can see if it's a chartered ship, not giving the ability to remove players, but just like how you play closed, you get to decide who you play with. Every now and then, I chose to play open because I enjoy mixing things up from time to time and playing with players on all different levels. I'm not saying it's perfect, it was just a rough idea. When people come over to your house, do you let them stay and do whatever they want because they can? Or do you expect them to respect the fact that it's your house? When I'm on the seas, I don't mind letting new players up my ladder. As long as they show me the same respect I show them, they can stay as long as they'd like. Noone should have to leave their own ship because someone is toxic or won't leave themselves.

@BBJJ52612 You have to realize that people will absolutely take advantage of that power to kick others if it means their friend gets to cash in. Rules or a point system is relative to the individual and pointless to implement. I can say whatever I want about a random player and use that as a means to remove them. He keeps going AFK. He's wasting our supplies. He keeps eating the pineapples. Regardless if any of those points are true or not, getting you kicked so their friend could join is still the point, and will continue being abused.

To answer your question about guests over at my house, yes I expect them to respect the fact that it's my house, but you forget sir: this is a video game, and you don't control other players. It may be your ship, but to expect people to "play nice be respectful and do the right thing all the time", isn't going to happen lol.

No one should join a ship, help complete an objective, and suddenly find themselves getting removed. If this was the case, you'd destroy the SoT community discord in an instant, as no one would be able to trust anyone else to not remove them. Can you imagine the amount of tickets and reports they'd have to deal with? "I helped this guy do a FoF, we go to turn in, and I find myself removed, saying I wasn't there was I was." Who are you going to believe?

You choose to play with random players, whatever happens after that, is the result of your choice. Don't ask for this option to deal with griefers you've subjected yourself to when that ability will get taken advantage of so much by everyone, and for anything.