The Flying Dutchman as an encounter like a kraken, how it would work is that when there are no more world events, and you have an emissary 5 for reapers or Athena Fortune, with a very valuable loot on board, the Dutchman will spawn and begin fighting, the Dutchman will have it's top deck and below deck cannons, even it's front facing triple cannons if the player tried to run, and the damage and amount of cannons being used will change based on ship size, a sloop will receive small holes but will get bigger if not patched while still being shot and the amount of cannons will be small and time between shots will be long but still stressful, and it will of course increase with bigger ships, and it can not spawn on a burning blade that is player controlled with emasariy 5. if you defeat the Dutchman, Davy Jones will lash out in anger and go underwater, leaving behind loot that can only come from the Dutchman that are worthy a pretty penny, but if you fail, your ship will sink halfway before jones appears on your ships deck and offers you death, or service of 30 minutes on the Dutchman (this should be a crew vote), and in time of serving the Dutchman you will fight other player ships that are also valuable, if the you are not affected if the Dutchman loses, but players will join if the Dutchman is victoraise and they choose to join jones, if the Dutchman can't find it's next victim, it will resurface on a random server and will sail around, no clouds of any sort will spawn above it, showing it as a skeleton ship but with the possibility of players serving it, and in the time the Dutchman is just sailing players can do task such as loading cannons, adjusting sails, manning the helm, and playing liar's dice, and so the ship doesn't become over crowded, some of the ai crew will disappear matching the same amount of players who joined, and in the time of not fighting, jones may sometimes play his organ like his theme or a shanty with a eerie sound to it. also when fighting jones the ai can't bail water so it's not impossible to sink, and the ai crew will look like the cursed crew from the movie. when your 30 minutes are over, jones will announce it before you are transported to your ship as if you sunk (same way if you chose death) and based on how much you did on the Dutchman, you receive some gold, from sinking ships, to loading a cannon. for lore Davy Jones and his ship are being punished to sail in the sea of thieves we're he can be outmatched by almost any pirate. if you decide to be lazy on the Dutchman and do nothing, before your service ends, your shirt and jacket will be automatically unequipped, and you will receive wipe marks on your back, that will stay until you start a new session. hopefully this will be a great idea the devs would do for like a season, but still stays around after the season ends.
The Flying Dutchman encounter Idea
@coopers-rum I don't see it making sense since it's still Davy Jones ship we just become apart of the crew for 30 minutes and were under his command
This seems almost cool, but very poorly thought out. Davy Jones offers me death? Ok, shoot me, I don't care. The Ferry exists. He only does it when my boat is about to sink? If I've already lost, then I've lost. Also, being able to fight on it because you lost to it means that you are given the power of the largest and most powerful ship in the game because you lost. People would lose to it on purpose to use it to attack other players intentionally. Also, how does that work? Would it merge multiple crews together? If I'm already crewing it and it sinks another player, do they get the option to join or do they just sink? Unequipping your clothes as a punishement? Half of the playerbase plays naked anyways. No one would care and even if they did no one would ever see it. Seems pretty pointless
@potatosord this is just an idea for players who want more than just the frustrating get killed and respawn somewhere else, instead I hope this will excite pirate of the caribbean fans about serving the dutchman or fighting it, if you want death then that's all you
