What the topic says. Besides the troll moderating uses of the brig, one of the fun uses of it is just for some hi-jinx among a crew of friends. However, the minimum time limit limits its use for this, as throwing a friend in the brig is more fun than leaving them in there. Thoughts?
Why does the brig have a minimum time limit?
@baldmunkee my thought on this is... 1. the time limit (seems like 5 mins) is not unreasonable . 2. it makes you actually think before you brig someone.. also wonder if they were having problems at all on rares end I'm sure its some weird loading if you brig and unbrig sosmeone constantly faster than it can load their white screen
@baldmunkee When you use the brig it immediately teleports the player from their location to the brig. I believe the time limit is to prevent abuse. So you cant say vote someone into the brig to TP them to the ship from an island and then immediately vote them out. This forces you to use mermaids which have a time/distance delay.
Once during a heated 2 hour ship battle my crew got desperate for cannonballs and planks. We began cannoning our shipmates to nearby islands so they could loadup on gear and mermaid back. Near the very end we though hey lets TP back with the brig it will be faster than the mermaid and the timer set us back and put us a huge disadvantage.
I guess that's what I'm saying. You are already kind of trolling someone. If I m playing with my friends, we can handle whether we are "trolling" each other or not. The game trying to enforce how much we want to "punish" someone seems unnecessary. That said @p0pc0rnH3MER01D , I hadn't thought about server strain. Maybe it has something to do with that.
@macx3d said in Why does the brig have a minimum time limit?:
@baldmunkee When you use the brig it immediately teleports the player from their location to the brig. I believe the time limit is to prevent abuse. So you cant say vote someone into the brig to TP them to the ship from an island and then immediately vote them out. This forces you to use mermaids which have a time/distance delay.
Once during a heated 2 hour ship battle my crew got desperate for cannonballs and planks. We began cannoning our shipmates to nearby islands so they could loadup on gear and mermaid back. Near the very end we though hey lets TP back with the brig it will be faster than the mermaid and the timer set us back and put us a huge disadvantage.
Lol. You played yourselves! :) Sounds fun(ny)
@homesickotaku
This is also true. I wasn’t going to mention it as mermaids already exist. But it’s technically faster to brig them. Additionally if your cre goes to board the ship and an enemy boards your ship you could brig your team mate to teleport him back to your ship and then let him out so he doesn’t have to swim or try to find a mermaid. That we way you could defend more easily while attacking.Another aspect is that you can use the brig to store treasures in it so that it's hard for enemies to steal them (it's allegedly not impossible to pick them up from outside the brig, but you need to find a spot from where it works). Without the time limit, it would be too quick and easy to take stuff into the brig and out again.
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