Galeon - 4 players are enought...?

Here is what I said on another thread on the same subject

@uvg-reign said in Crew sizes:

@moody-true said in Crew sizes:

After getting to play the technical alpha, I have to agree that the current crew numbers are set almost to skeleton crew levels. The schooner could optimally be crewed by 3, the Galleon 6.

More ships, especially a medium one (say with 4 cannons, 2 masts) would be interesting to see.

I used to say that when watching gameplay before I got to play it in the alpha.

I like the skill gap thats created from forcing amount of crew to a particular ship where the members all have to use initiative, not glue themselves to one particular task. Its a good thing IMO. Or would you rather easier optimal ships? IDK im torn between them

i support the idea of bigger crew sizes on galleons, everyone could decide to use a big galleon fully maned with maybe 6 pirates, if some people decide to sail alone or only with one friend, then this is their decision and they have to live with the consequences.

@averagestraw199 I think you should look a little deeper into the game, mate. Remember that at the end of the day, it is just a game - it won't change your life. For what's there, I think it is a very solid experience.

4 players arent enough in this day and age! Being able to sail the seas with 6 or even 8 players on deck would be awsome! I play games with a very close bunch of lifetime friends and theres always 6 to 8 of us which is a b****r as most games only cater for 4?!?!?! If we could ALL sail about on the same ship having fun and shannanagans together then that would be both epic and awsome!!!

Whats stopping players from another ship to join your crew and leaving the one they are currently on, I wonder if that is possible, say 3 people abandon a ship and start working together.

I guess you wouldn't get any experience right?

I feel like 4ppl is actually a perfect number. Not too many not too few. Makes the PVP more manageable

From what we can see of the 4 and 1/2 man ships, Rare seems to be angling to have just a little too much to be done for the number of people in the crew. Deciding how to prioritize the various tasks during sailing and combat on the fly is part of the challenge of the game. The 2 man sloop I feel is in need of some tweaking regarding this, but the disparity is pretty clear between the two ship sizes. I would expect that if they do increase max crew size, you'll see an even larger, more unwieldy ship, that is even more difficult to manage.

I have nothing against that, mind you; I'm simply offering a warning that you're likely not ever going to see a crew and ship combo where every cannon, sail, wheel, and nest is manned, which some of you seem to be after.

@red0demon0 Yes but it is already difficult for a 1-2 man crew to take down a 3-4 man crew so it would only be fair to have a ship that would trump the 4 man crew ship.

@zombie-p1ague and one will spawn on the wrong ship if he dies.

I see this issue has come up again. For those of you who want more o tor crew, nothing is stopping you from having another crew joining you. For those of you worrying about the friendly fire that will ensue, well then be careful. As for the loot, share it. Having more members means more quests to do. Those worried about being outmanned, play it smart. Either run away, or be better than your enemies.

The crew sizes are fine as is. The game is designed so that you can work together with other crews if you want. The sloop are faster and more agile than the galleons for the sole reason that they have less crew members. This and other concerns are coming up far too frequently.

The crew sizes are fine as is. The game is designed so that you can work together with other crews if you want.

you may think different about the issue once there are steamrolling fleets ruling the maps.

@absorbedgecko90 That is honestly unlikely. Playing solo for the first two days of the alpha, the only other ship I saw was manned by a single person. It is highly unlikely that there will be more than maybe 5 ships on a single map at a time. Not only that, but you can only que up with 3 other friends, meaning you won't see entire fleets of people bearing down on you.

A good team of four can manage a galleon like clockwork, even in the heat of battle or a chase.

@red0demon0 Yes but the small ship could easily escape the 6-8 crew ships just as easy as it could the 3-4

@jonn-havoc I was actually apart of a crew of 4 on a gallon and we actually had a good rhythm going with 2 on the main deck one for each sail and 2 on the aft deck one to steer and one for the sails and we chased down a rival galleon out tacking him every turn into the wind it was exhilarating.

@rnjesus said in Galeon - 4 players are enought...?:

I feel like 4ppl is actually a perfect number. Not too many not too few. Makes the PVP more manageable

That statement pretty much falls apart when you have more than 4 friends and family trying to play together. In an 'open-world', pirate theme game, limiting things to 4 players will ultimately end in the games premature death. When there is a group of avid Gamers deciding on what to play for an evening, the game that doesn't let everyone join-in almost always loses out.

Additionally, several of us in Alpha where informally expanding crews by just co-oping a ship when coming across each other. The Galleon sailed a Hell of a lot better, and felt more alive, with 6 and 7 people. The Sloop was great with 3, a little crowded with 4.

On the Galleon we had our landing party and "surface support". The landing party was shot out of cannons by surface support, and while they took to land, the ship was well guarded by a man or two! Surface support was also then able to provide cannon cover for the landing party completing the mission.

You aren't a pirate until you call in a cannon strike from across the island!!!

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Or have someone scream at you from the deck, as you swim with a fat chest, about the shark who wants to eat you for lunch.