Ahoy,
i know that may others also wrote about the following Problems / suggestions. but i dont have the time to read all the Posts. So first i just wanted to speak about the following Problems:
1.) Sloops & Team Problem
if you Play with friends it is wonderful. but if you Play with random Groups it is 99% horrible. 30% are doing nothing and 20% are total noobs, 10% are good ones and the other 40% are TROLLS. And there the big Problem starts. you cant do anything against trolls due it is not possible to kick them out. they anchor ships middle of water or just drop all your loot in water or just stealing your ship and sink it. thats not how random Teams should be. each 2-3 round i get a troll that sinks my ship or destroy all the work and i cant do anything against him! yours Need to think about this (hardly). Trolls destroy the whole teamplay.
2.) Solo Play, Ship missing...
Yeh, as the Topic says the Sloop is more designed for 2 Players. yours Need to make a singleplayer ship! is very hard to handle and survive with a Sloop. for me ist not a big deal but i am driving boats in real life! and even for me it is very stressy to handle the Sloop, Elements, map and enemys same time. it is not real fun, just pure stress! so please think about a singleplayer ship. this would make the gameplay more interesting.
3.) To hard Missions for to less Gold
i mostly run the skull missions or chest missions. the animal collecting ones are totaly boring. but at all, the Gold you get for the Missions is not much. For Singeplayer it is a Long timewaste for some Gold. Yours Need to think about how to give this more sense and fun. the Prices in the Shops are very high and the effort you get is realy low. for me it is okay due i have much time to Play. but to buy a ship design or to get some other Gimmicks you Need to waste many many days with grinding. So the fun Level is realy low, ist more hardcore working. May give 30% more Gold for Missions, then it would make more fun. (but even more Content / possible Missions are needed!)
4.) Overpriced Shop / not much to do!
yeh like in the last Point, ist to expansive, there is no fun with endless grinding.
i know yours may have not much items in store and so you wanna Keep the Little amount yours have "rare". but for Players this isnt funny and even not a big Adventure, just boring! There should be even much mor Ship Modifications but also small Things with lower Prices. (Cosmetical). There are only mods for rich ppl ;)
5.) The horrible Price of this Game!
the game idea is awesome but the Price is to high.
€ 70 for a game that isnt finish in any way is a way to much!
i would take € 49 (MAX) for this game, best Price € 39.
then more People would Play it and Team Building would get more easy.
6.) Grapple the Ship!
i miss a Grapple Function in the PVP Moments.
Ist horrible to Orbit 30 Minutes a Ship to get it down.
Sometimes this is more " catch me if you can " then fighting.
A Grapple Function would make Pirate Life so much easyer!
7.) Better Team-UP System
teaming up with friends is horrible!
thats also why yours will never have as much sucess with this game.
yours Need to think about a more easy System like steam is using.
also if i start a game i cant invite a friend to a active session. (only with the bad xbox app)
For PC Players this is totaly c****y and there are many ways to improove this. yours Need to think about a more easy System to invite / manage friends and as a captain of a ship you should have more rights to choose the Crew and give them different Jobs (cannon, repair, spy etc.)
8.) EXP for Ship Kills / Player Kills / NPC Kills
use the EXP for a PVP Ranking (even for finding good Crews in Random Groups). Then there would be even one more Thing you can collect. Ranking would give the whole Thing much more sense. Or find a other way to give honor for Things like that!
HORRIBLE BUGS:
A.) Only one Weapon to choose (you Need to die once to get it back working)
B.) Sometimes endless loading while buying a Mission (counting Money...)
C.) Sometimes Chests of a Mission dissapear (it's Magic...)
D.) Ingame Voice Chat broken for most Players
Ill hope some of the Rare Crew will read this.
Keep your work with this game, it's a great idea, just Need to be finished :)
Greetings,
JackyTheCaptain
UPDATE (in front of the troll Topic):
It is about a Group Founder / Leader Thing, but due it is a Pirate Game it is better to call it "Captain". But well, for now we call it "GL (Group Leader)".
The GL starts a Game Session and a second Person joins.
This Person would get Basic Roles (Cannons, Repair by example) automaticly.
So from the start on he can do something to Support the Group.
Then the GL can decide if he wanna be on Deck or the Driver or if he gives all Roles to the second Member of the Fleet / Group. Well, now he got the Roles and starting to Anchor / Move the Ship against Rocks. The GL is now able to instantly kick the Player or removing the Roles to avoid more Damage to the Group / Fleet. Thats it! Easy way to avoid trolls....
And now if the GL (Captain) is the troll is not that big deal, just search a better Fleet. Even in Real Life or other Games you cant say "you are a bad Leader, leave your own Ship, i make the Fleet/Grp now", thats abnormal!
To optimize this there should be a Option to choose on the Group Finder. Just hit "join a existing Group" or "create own Fleet/Group". So each one can decide the Way he wanna go. With a Ranking System People also could see how good the GL of the Fleet/Group is. This would improove the whole System much more.
