New feature updates

Customized fort that belong to character

That be your Ship.

You know what he meant.

New islands

Map is over expanded atm, cant be done.

Matter of perspective and ingenuity.
Another map could be created, where players have to dive to at the edge of the red ocean. This way each map could still have the same spread of players present, without compromising the stability of the servers by not adding more players to each server.

New ship class

We need ship classes first to add "new ship class"

There are 3 in the game currently.
Sloop, Brig, and Galleon.
I think it would be great to add a new ship class.
Used to always push for a 5/6 man style ship, which would be great.
Guess we got the Burning Blade now.
Haven't played in 4 1/2 years till this week.

Nah, what would be cool is to add a new 1/2 player ship, a new 3 player ship, and a new 4 player ship.
All very similar to their respective counterparts, however, with small variants that make them worthwhile.

And hopefully with a design so the same hull cosmetic textures can be used from their respective counterparts, as making new textures of every existing cosmetic for new ships would be a nightmare.

Edit: Instead, a new ship halfway in performance between a Brig and a Galleon, with 3 cannons on each side, that can be sailed by a crew of 4.
Then have the Galleon sailable by a crew of 5.

A Carrack/Fluyt for example.

"Carracks were usually lightly armed and used for transporting cargo in all the fleets of other Western European states, while galleons were stronger, more heavily armed, and also cheaper to build for the same displacement (five galleons could cost around the same as three carracks) and (galleons) were therefore a much better investment for use as heavily armed cargo ships or warships."

Basically same ship as a galleon with less firepower, more maneuverability, and more expensive.

Guild servers:

Pve server?

Yeah that'd be lame.
Would be cool to be able to commandeer another player's ship so that your guild mates can Captain that ship instead, letting your guild have an Armada on the seas.
Not sure how fun that would be in execution however. Just a thought.

@burnbacon said in New feature updates:

You know what he meant.

I can’t read minds. Just reading what they typed.

Reading minds is not needed to simply know what he meant.
He wants a Fort to dock at and make pretty, so he can stand there, look at all his pretty stuff then look at his ship.
Simple.

Another map could be created, where players have to dive to at the edge of the red ocean

So a whole new server just for a map. A new area to balance and maintain. Yeah that seems bad and waste. But heck we can visit the SotD but it isn’t fully server.

Why are you so against new content?
"A whole new server," you're making it sound like there isn't a server (lobby is specifically what we are talking about here, not a physical server) everytime more than 4-5 ships join a lobby.
There is.
There was a whole new server (lobby) for every arena match too, and you go to a new one everytime you dive. (Amazing mechanic.)
It's not a big deal and it's the core of how the game works.

Add in a new map where players dive to reach.
5 ships or so on that new map, just like on the old map.
It would play just the same, but new areas to explore and learn.

As far as a "new area to balance and maintain" the game has been out for 7 years now.
Some new areas to sail would be nice.
Nobody cares about how balanced an island is, just as long as it isn't Plunder Valley's difficulty of finding treasure.

There are 3 in the game currently.
Sloop, Brig, and Galleon.

But he wants classes. Those are just types of ships.
But again. Adding a new ship they have to balance around the original three and it’s already heavy issues with players.

Once again, you knew what he meant.
You are interpreting his post in bad faith, by playing dumb and acting as if you didn't know what he meant.

It is possible to balance the fun out of a game.
And yes, it's been 7 years, it would be nice to have a new ship.
Can't imagine what the game would have looked like had Rare not listened to us about adding a new ship prior to us getting the Brig, or even the Sloop.

There is plenty of room in the game to add another ship.
The galleon has always felt too empty, and too under-crewed, so adding another joinable slot on the ship for players to participate in would be amazing.
They fully implemented the Captain's Cabin now, so how is the Captain supposed to demand food if he is being requested to manage the sails too much? Another crewmate needs to be added, simple as.
But then we would have no 4-man ship anymore, so adding a slightly more manageable version of the Galleon would be fantastic.

Balancing is whatever, that can be ironed out through tweaking and doesn't need much maintenance after the fact. Its that every ship cosmetic for the hulls and sails would need a new set to accommodate the new ship.
And now every cosmetic after the fact would need to be made for 4 ships, not 3.
That's the real hindering factor.

Would be cool to be able to commandeer another player's ship so that your guild mates can Captain that ship instead

Yeah…until new players start complaints about losing there ship to players.

Thats why I said "Not sure how fun that would be in execution"
T'was just a random idea.