3 People On A Sloop Is Pretty OP

  • Kobetastrophy

    A friend and I fought another Sloop with our's and we were wondering how they were so easily able to maneuver until I realized they had a 3rd person on their ship. With one sailing, one handling the sails, and another on the cannon they were able to line up shots so easily. Luckily I was able to blow that additional third person off the ship so they had to respawn on their own sloop and we were able to get away, but it was a struggle.

    I actually like the idea of being able to have 3 on a sloop though. It's efficient and I feel like they could easily take on a Galleon of 4 that way since they're able to maximize the maneuverability and lethality of the Sloop.

    I hope when the game releases and you can have 3 man only crews it can be on a Sloop instead of a Galleon, or at least getting the choice between the two ships.

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  • CptnCuttlefish
    Founder

    I think being undermanned us intentional. It makes it so you can never bring out the full potential of a ship without relying on someone who can turn on you at any time. It's a neat idea, and seems to be balanced in that way

  • LoopySNOOKEMS
    Marauder

    there have been some talk within some threads about making the galleon 6-8 man and the sloop to 4 man, all player talk nothing from the developers, and make a solo boat that is a dingy with just a sail, rudder, and your sense of adventure.

  • Kobetastrophy

    @loopysnookems I feel a 4 man Sloop would be overkill in a way, but I can see a Galleon having a 5th person even though I'm perfectly okay with there only being 4 since I think that's efficient enough to operate a Galleon with ease.

  • Kobetastrophy

    @cptncuttlefish Yeah I can see that, but I don't think a Galleon is undermanned though.
    You have more than enough people to sail, operate sails, use cannons, and even patch holes. I think a 3 manned Galleon would be undermanned.

  • CptnCuttlefish
    Founder

    @kobetastrophy I think the galleon is. If you don't have two people on the sails it turns abysmally slow, but that's my opinion. And with only one canon to worry about and reload, 3 people on a sloop is better manned than a galleon I think.

  • Kobetastrophy

    @cptncuttlefish To each their own I suppose.

  • Natsu v2
    Lord
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    @kobetastrophy I think the galleon is pretty undermanned compared to the sloop. 4 people raising the galleon's anchor is still slower than 1 person raising a sloop anchor. 4 people trying to flip all 3 sails of the galleon is still slower than 1 person flipping the sail of a sloop. Then there's the fourth cannon on each side that should ideally never be used as you pretty much always need someone on the slow helm. I think the galleon is still undermanned as a 5 person crew, which is something I tend to do quite a bit by allying while playing solo. I would really prefer the galleon to go up to 5-6, leave the sloop as 1-2, and create a brigantine for 3-4.

  • Kobetastrophy

    @natsu-v2 I'm always open to the idea of another ship being introduced into the mix

  • XxAlfonzxX
    Master
    Insider
    Founder

    A 4 person crew with decent communication is extremely tough to beat. When they have 2 full-time cannons w/ a gremlin in the bowels handling repairs and/or 3rd cannon and obviously the wheel person.

    Any more than that would turn the ship into a petting zoo, with battle being the kid that throws the whole handful of food into the goat area.

    I do agree that a mid-size ship would be pretty interesting. Like a slightly larger sloop with 4 guns and 2 masts. It could be crewed by 2-3 and the sloop would be 1-2 people.

    plus getting into the 5+ crew sizes completely destroys the already barely balanced crew vs. crew combat. 4 people is really the limit of a solo's chances of success. Anymore than that and the solo is as they say "p****g on a forest fire" should they get engaged and I just think splitting the servers up based on crew-size kinda ghostbusters the spirit of the game

  • Cable0312

    Everything at all times everywhere is always op all the time according to SOT community.

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