Respawning Issues + A Possible Solution

@austinaciousp This is a great idea! With the modifications people suggest, maybe a 45s lockup, 5 minute cooldown and a release lever, this could massively improve the currently quite weak steath aspect of the game.

@LogansDadToo It wouldn't be that bad if you actually think about the idea all round rather than just how it effects those on the recieving end. If someone makes it the whole way to th base of your ship without being detected, and then kills you, they deserve to be rewarded with a little grace period, not punished with having to fight respawning pirates.

Even a 30 seconds delay or even 20 with give that little extra time to grab some chests and get out of there. You can't really ask for enought time to clear a ship of all its chests, that would be too much. But you could theoretically do it if you were super good at stealth.

Either way, two thumbs for this idea, it sounds great.

oh and @AustinaciousP I advise you update your OP with the suggested better timings as the community will barrage you with negative responses fo the current setup.

My suggetion would be 30 seconds for the cage, with a 6 minute cool down before it can be triggered again. The release lever would also activat the cooldown, but only if the locking system has beenn activated.

With the respawn at about 15s? and 30 seconds in the brig, that's plenty of time to grab a few chests, detonate an explosive and get out of there.

@logansdadtoo He's actually not, read the post. He's asking for a triggerable grace period for a successful stealth attack. It may need balancing, but the core idea is very good.

@logansdadtoo But it's ok to ask that the mechanic not to be changed purely to suit your playstyle? That's hypocrasy. And punishing a player for being killed on their own ship surely is fair. You'd rather there be infinite instant respawns?

A small delay to respawns not in general, but specifically for those players who have put the extra effort into making a successful stealth strike, would be fair if you ask me. Not enough time to clear the ship out, but enough time to grab a chest, maybe fire a round into the hull and get well clear so they can't immediately see where you've ran off too.

If you sneak on a ship and kill all the crew, you get to steal what you want anyway. That's already in the game. This brig thing would just mean you also had time to sneak off again, which is fair. It's not easy to sneak all the way to the bottom deck of a ship and then kill the entire crew.

@tre-oni It should, and I greatly hope they alter the spawning of ships. But, that would also deny the stealth elements of the game. The game only needs very minor changes to make stealth a more viable tactic, and it would greatly improve the game if you ask me.

Though, i suppose you can currently sneak on a ship, grab chests, and sneak back off. So maybe locking people in the brig is a bit unessecary.

Possible Solution and Normal solution :

When you die you can respawn only on your schip....

And if your schip is sinked you respawn at the close outpost with new schip..

So you have all the time for loot and take your reward

Sry for my bad english..

@evilraiden Unfortunatey that is not a solution to the OPs issue.

Any one else getting sick of hearing the word “Solution”?

I like the brig idea, but not the time limit. Keep the current respawn method, but make it so if there is a hole in the ship. The dead member once entering the ghost ships portal will be in brig until all the holes are sealed. This would be the indicator of if under siege or not, and be a "revive my teammate" type of mechanic. Once holes are sealed and player is waiting to re-engage they are let free and back into the tear. This would also prevent other teams from being able to perma-lock you in the brig. Also it would disable the scuttle the ship option so to give enemies pirates time to loot.

This sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. This is what this situation would lead to. we already have enough people complaining about solo slooping being "impossible" which is ridiculous. we have even more people complaining about forced pvp in a pirate game which is even more ridiculous. This would just be an incentive for 4 man teams to go after solos so they can easily brig them and take their stuff with no fight whatsoever. Any non naval fight is going to be won by the 4 man team if they have been playing this for more than an hour.
I could see this feature being a good addition for solo players only against 4 man galleons but i don't think that would be a good idea either because i think ship combat is properly unbalanced right now and this would just stir up a whole new group of moaners complaining that 4 vs 1ing a sloop is too hard.