Where's my anchor? :0

@quickbeam24

I think you guys should have an anchor under the ship when it gets put down, just to add to immersion when swimming below! Maybe a little animation of it dropping too?

While I'd love to see it, I doubt it's gonna happen, since they didn't add it in the beginning when the game was much smaller in size. Anchors on ships are getting dropped from inside the hull, on the sides of a ship (whether back or front). And to make them animated and proper looking - somehow I doubt they'll redo hundreds of textures across 3 different types of ships. It's just way too many regular + emporium ship skins now.

Also maybe rainbows after storms if it gets sunny

Sure, why not! Nice addition for immersion. SoT is already a beautiful game with great scenery. This would amp it up a notch when it happens.

And a 3rd person view would be really cool just to see my beautiful character more, I know it's supposed to be me and I'm in the world but I wanna see how others see me when I'm running around, I think it adds to the immersion and let's me take better selfies and screenshots lol

Eh, while it would be good for screenshots, it wouldn't be so good gameplay wise. For the same reason FoV will not be raised above 90.

One more thing is more NPCs walking around? Sailors and townsfolk walking about the outposts, might make it seem more lifelike, especially in the tavern!

Good for immersion, but I don't know how much it would tax performance on already struggling servers (and the game itself). But if anyhow possible, yea I'd like to see outposts and islands in general looking more alive.

@quickbeam24 said in Where's my anchor? :0:

I think you guys should have an anchor under the ship when it gets put down, just to add to immersion when swimming below! Maybe a little animation of it dropping too?

The way anchors work in SoT isn't very realistic, making an animation of it would look very weird:

• It takes the same time if you anchor in shallow water as it would in the middle of the seas, so it would go down very slowly or very fast depending on your location.
• Getting the anchor up also would take the same time (per ship type) no matter how deep the sea is - the anchor would be free of the bottom of the sea while the ship still isn't moving if the sails are (a bit) down.

Would the anchor have collision ? What when you anchor precisily above the entrance o a Treasury or a Shrine ? Would it hinder you entering it ?

So a visible anchor to include the animation, misty rainbows after storms, 3rd person camera, NPCs/sailors/towsfolk walking around, playable music for an audience...

And to think we have issues with lag, ping spikes, stuttering, etc. now.

@r3vanns Also 3rd person view already exists for emotes and sitting