Digging up gold is fine, but as a pirate we should be robbing merchant ships and fighting off the navy. we should be able to sink them or board them. Most pirates didnt really fight eachother. They had pacts and alliances, of course a lot did fight but they had a mutual enemy. The world still feels pretty empty. I feel like this would be huge and make the game fun again... it would also make level up merchant so much more entertaining.
why are there no lootable NPC merchant ships
@rk1-turbulence I dont mean necessarily and abundance of them. What there are 6 ships per server I heard. So add... two merchant ships? that sail from outpost to outpost. filled with sugar, spices, tobacco.
@rk1-turbulence dijo en why are there no lootable NPC merchant ships:
It's a fantasy game, not a historical simulator. Ship combat is reserved for PvP, which is always more fun than fighting bots, and NPC ships would just get in the way.
A merchant never gets in the way of pirates, it would be totally optional and let me tell you that a fight against a NPC man-of-war with 8 cannon bots and a helmsman bot that will never crash against a rock would be fantastic.
We need things like this, don’t buy the excuses of devs.
@ii-axelforce-ii
Then do some reading on your own, or watch some documentaries. While it's fun to go all POTC and Treasure Island, those are woefully inaccurate.@djtlite s**t so youre telling me pirates didnt actually turn into skeletons in the 1700's? Failed that history paper
@ii-axelforce-ii a lot of pirates were incredibly reasonable and cordial. It only came to battle if it had to. If an agreement couldnt be met, 3 things would usually happen. Crews would battle it out (usually one crew was at a disadvantage so it wouldnt always come to this. 2. reasonable men reason. if an agreement couldnt be met, then usually the captains would battle it out, and the losing captains quartermaster would re negotiate.
@deadlock-ganj
Black sails is just as inaccurate as the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. I remember the scene you're talking about quite well.There are very few instances in history where pirates ever fought. The reason is, why would you fight a heavily armed crew when there are countless merchant vessels around, that are significantly less armed and manned? Many merchant ships wouldn't even have cannons. They would have a few guns on hand and the only people with swords would be those that could afford them. Swords have always been expensive, most pirates couldn't even afford them which is why boarding axes existed in the first place. The common weapons of pirates and merchants in the age of sail were, knives/daggers, axes and guns.
@noob-smoke95
A rapier and saber/cutlass weigh between 1-1.2kg and would cost more than most people made in a decade. A cannon weighs between 500-1500kg depending on it's caliber, so you can imagine the cost in comparison to a sword. That's why even pirates didn't have many swords or cannons. Most cannons on pirate ships were stolen and of mixed caliber as a result. Only the navies could afford to properly arm their ships and men, with only officers receiving swords. Also it takes only weeks to use a gun effectively, swords take years of training.If you want a lore reason, it's because the Sea of Thieves is cut off from the outside world. No nations means no trade routes.
Sure, there's the Merchant Alliance that I assume supplies the outposts and taverns, but they're paying the pirates to do their collecting and delivery for them.
Game-wise.... I dunno. Just how Rare decided to do it. I'm fine with it, but who knows, maybe they'll rethink it in the future.
I think the way to look at it would be to add entire regions that are npc controlled, you go in there and you'll have a decent chance of coming across npc trade/navy ships, would make the game more interesting, get a bunch of pirate ships together to try and take on a convoy carrying tons of stuff but at the risk of fighting powerful ships.
@lucky-monkee
You should check out a new sport called HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), a club formed near me and I was lucky enough to fence for 6 months. Only problem I found with the sport is it is ridiculously expensive. Helmets, swords, gorgets, gloves, fencing jackets and armour etc plus club fees. Once I'm actual earning real money I'm going to start up again. But they teach proper fencing from Renaissance and age of sail manuals for longsword, arming sword and sheild, rapier and dagger, cutlass/saber and polarms. It's really interesting, learn about the history, what it was like in real life and just how hard these weapons are to use. You realise just how much the gun levelled the playing field for us poor peasants.
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