I think one major thing this game needs is the ability to invite people to your crew while in game. How is this not a thing?? If you have 2 already, inviting an additional person automatically warps you to an island with a galleon. This would be similar to when you ship is sunk. To prevent people from abusing this, switching ships would cause you to lose all items and chests that were onboard. Please add this for the final game!!
Inviting people to your crew IN GAME!!!
@infamousbaton2 said in Inviting people to your crew IN GAME!!!:
I think one major thing this game needs is the ability to invite people to your crew while in game. How is this not a thing?? If you have 2 already, inviting an additional person automatically warps you to an island with a galleon. This would be similar to when you ship is sunk. To prevent people from abusing this, switching ships would cause you to lose all items and chests that were onboard. Please add this for the final game!!
It would definitely make things smoother if you could invite people to your crew while in-game. For balancing purposes, if you invite a third member while in a 2-man crew with a Sloop, it would be need to be scuttled before the new crewmate can join you. Until then, the crewmate could be stuck on the Ferry of the Damned, and when the sloop is sunk all three crewmembers would respawn at their new Galleon.
Conversely, if you have a Galleon, and crewmembers leave so you have two, the vessel will become locked, and you will need to either invite a third member or scuttle the ship.
This is all hypothesis, and would likely be difficult to implement.
However, the fact remains that it would greatly smooth the process over if someone could be invited to an existing crew that's already in-game.
I agree with u but I could see it causing probs for instance: if some group of people wanted to rush one person up to pirate legend, you could gather chests, invite that person to the group and turn it all in. Then he could leave and join another group that turns in etc. that being said, inviting people to a session would be really nice.
I'm pretty sure when I was playing with a couple of friends on a galleon and another friend messaged us to say he was ready to join, one of our party used the Xbox app to invite him to join. I didn't do it myself so I don't know exactly what he did, but one minute we were a three man crew and the next we were four.
@blam320 What about instead of needing to scuttle your ship you have the option to have a 3rd person on a sloop or run with a less than full galleon. OR if you really want to change ships you can go to the Shipwright/harbormaster and request a different ship. All your items get switched from one ship to the other.
@nightmare247365 said in Inviting people to your crew IN GAME!!!:
@blam320 What about instead of needing to scuttle your ship you have the option to have a 3rd person on a sloop or run with a less than full galleon. OR if you really want to change ships you can go to the Shipwright/harbormaster and request a different ship. All your items get switched from one ship to the other.
You already have the option to run three people on a Galleon. The problem is you need to exit the current instance and invite the third person to your crew if you want to start up a galleon.
Running 3 people on a sloop makes it too easy to handle. You will have one guy at the helm, and two flexing between navigating, gunning, bailing/repairing, and adjusting sails to get max speed/maneuverability; it would turn sloops into a powerhouse, since with each crewmember added you greatly increase the efficiency with which you run the ship.
That's why sloops are restricted to two people; adding a third gives you an unfair advantage not only against other sloops, but against even fully-crewed galleons, who constantly need to micro-manage their firepower with their speed and sustainability. With three on a sloop, you remove the penalties involved with sacrificing your ability to repair in order to fight back, or vice-versa, since you will have enough people to do both.
I also disagree with transferring items between ships. Because then you could use a sloop's superior speed and handling to accumulate lots of cargo and treasure, then swap to a galleon and cash all of that in for the new guy to quickly gain rep with the different guilds without actually participating in the voyage. Transferring things like planks, cannonballs, and bananas also removes much of the need to carefully manage your supplies while on voyages, since good pirates always plunder islands for every bit of materials they can find.
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