White Knights Get Off Your High Horses

@ersatz-nihilist There are plenty of threads like this too.

@ich-bin-whitey Glad to see you didn't read any of my suggestions.

@ich-bin-whitey Then don't attribute c**p to me that I didn't say. I don't want gear stats or vertical progression.

@picklebeard22 They had p*********s to spend their gold on. While my buddies on Teamspeak and I think that turning the second floor of the outpost inns into a brothel is a great plan, I doubt Rare would be on board.

@ich-bin-whitey said in White Knights Get Off Your High Horses:

If you had gear with stats to work towards, then the only one's dying would be the one's who never stopped PvPing in the first place. But for some reason none of the white knights want stats. So happy greifing!

because with no stats, new players can jump in the game and not immediately be stomped by every player with better gear until they uninstall

@captain-surgee I really do love the feel of the game and have a bunch of friends in my clan to play with. What's really amazing is the amount of time I put in the alpha and beta sessions, but at least those offered new content to test and tons of random players to whip into an efficient crew.

We need more than just cosmetics to sink gold into. We need resources or something that can only be attained via questing and treasures and is capped. Otherwise you can always just stockpile it out, get more gold than you'll ever need or get ahead of progression in some way where you no longer have to participate in the gameplay loop. Simply adding more things to buy, is good, but not that answer to solving this problem.

@nihilent I completely agree which is why I keep pushing my idea. Basic ships would still be completely viable, but it gives you a major gold sink and allows a variety of playstyles and expression.

@quixoticfolly
So more cosmetics should come into the game according to Rare, so at least this should not be a problem over long time.

But you ideas for upgrades and progressions seem to simply don't fit into the game concept.
It was said that SoT will have horizontal progression only, so buying ship upgrades to be better simply makes new players worse equipped, which would frustrate new players a lot.
Just to get this clear: If the game concept would be different, your ideas don't sound bad at all.

But stuff like cosmetics which can be unlocked only by playing PVP a bit (not excessively kill ridiculous numbers of players) sounds good for example, that could be a thing in the future.
On the other hand dropping random loot for players who kill you will most likely cause A LOT of grinding on players which prefer to avoid PVP - that could backfire.

As for the repetitive content: Yes, we will see how Rare adresses this, as there are a bunch of players arguing about this.
For other players random exploring gives enough fun over a long time, so i guess it's up to Rare to set the course.

But honestly if the game bores you right now you could maybe put it away for a while and keep an eye out for interesting updates?

@sirliborius Balanced upgrades that leave a basic ship viable in combat are horizontal progression. They only increase variety in combat and playstyles. Also, I think you misunderstood the special cosmetics drops. Yes, they drop when you die, but that includes death by skeleton, shark, drowning, etc. They would also be generated as hidden spawns or quest rewards, so hunting players wouldn't be the only way to get them.

I'm not bored with the killing people. I'll continue sinking ships, but probably only ten or twenty hours a week. I was in the Pioneer program too, so I've already spent literally hundreds of hours exploring the map. I doubt most people will spend that much time though.

@gr3y-g0r3 You score zero on reading comprehension. Stay in school.