Hi all,
(I appologize for any english mistakes)
I would like to suggest a completely new customization system, at least for ships, based on what was said in the past, what players want, what Rare want, and what may be planned in the futur !
So, as we all know, what we seek for is to become a famous and unique pirate, and that's what was said before the game come out.
When you cross other crews, we can see almost the same ship customization, so my suggestion should offer more variety to the ships you can see.
here is what ship customization should look like according to me :
- Hull Colour : Players would be able to buy a Hull colour containing a priamry colour and a secondary colour (primary for the majority of the hull, and secondary for the borders and decoration). When a player buy a Hull colour, he choose the primary and secondary colour, and once he bought it, a new choice is added for the hull in ship customization, and he can't change it, if you want new colours, you need to buy another one.
- Hull decoration/decalls : Today, when you buy a new hull, you have its colour (for exemple Black and red), and you have some decoration (white stripes). My suggestion would be to split this, and sell those decoration separately, this way you could see green ship with stripes, black ship with skulls and what ever you could come for (and if you want to add a level to that, you could add a 3rd colour to the hull for the decoration)
Almost the same thing applies to the sails :
- Sail colour : you could choose two colours (colour 1, colour2)
- Sail template + decoration/decall : this would be the drawings you can see on the sails or the template of which colour goes where (for exemple : a triangle going down, or one half of the sail is colour 1 and the other half is colour 2 etc ... )
- Sail type : you could also add a level to it with sails type (ripped, different shapes maybe ...)
The figureheads could stay the same I think.
The same could be applied to flags latter if they are included.
What's the benefit of this system ? :
- More unique ships across the seas
- More freedom and less frustration for players
- If Rare is going to make a cash shop with ship skins ... (I don't like this but ... ) They still can sell the hull decalls and sail's templates, the figureheards (don't sell the colour please)
- More gameplay opportunities : Find dyes to use for the hulls/sails, or new drawings
I would be happy to see this or something similar to be included in the game, you could amost identify a crew by it's ship because you won't cross the same ships all the time (what are the odds to cross a ship with the same primary and secondary hull colour, same decalls, same primary and secondary sails colour with the same template, and the same figurehead ! you will, but not in the same session)
I'am willing to give some more details if needed, do some photoshop to explain my self, etc ...
Let me know
Babar
