Pirate Factions

  • TedjeNL
    Marauder
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    It would be cool if there were for example 4 different pirate factions that a player could choose from. Every faction would have their own outpost located in the outer corners of the world map. At a faction outpost you could then buy special faction voyages which earns you coins and reputation in the faction. You can only do these voyage with faction members in your crew.
    Some factions could have a certain pirate code, like being friendly or hostile.

    And when ship customisation becomes a thing they could add some sort of faction logo and flag to a ship. So you can identify someone from another faction and you know when to attack them. Ofcourse you are not allowed to attack ships and players from your own faction.

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  • canadianmuscle3
    Founder

    I would love to have pirate factions we can join ether at the start of the game or during through some quests. Have your ship marked for that faction you join.

  • hippoawesomus
    Ship Mate
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    @tedjenl Glad I searched first, I was just about to post basically the same thing as you did!

    Notice that there are already 4 different styles of clothing/ship customizations. Admiral, Bilge Rat, Sea Dog and um...Sovereign. Add to that there are higher levels of each (for higher level players). This says to me that Rare may have already planned for this at some point in the future.

    If enough people got on board with the idea, we could always just "play that way". As in, if you are into being a jerk and hunting sloops and shooting guys in the back on outposts, equip all Bilge Rat stuff.

    Or if you are a "good pirate" and only want to make friends or hunt for treasure and cage chickens, equip "Sea Dog" stuff. That way, you could tell at a glance just by the sails kinda what people are into and if you should fear them or not.

    Also, if you saw two ships fighting and one had "Sea Dog" sails and you're down with "Sea Dogs", you could sail over there and help them.

    And to kind of a lesser degree, you could notice when a higher level member of the same faction (with the fancy level customization) was near and maybe go help them out with whatever voyage they were on, maybe for a share of the treasure? Or at least some bananas.

    Even though there is not a specific "faction" system in place YET, there's already enough just in the clothing and ship customization to allow us to ACT like we're in a faction. Just sayin'

  • CowboyArizona

    I've been thinking the same thing. It's a way to possibly find friendlies, and slightly decrease PvP complaints.

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