NPC SHIPS

  • Kaydence
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    Ship to ship combat is absolutely brilliant. Having various NPC Ships would add a much needed variety to the game. It would allow for more opportunities for players to engage in ship to ship combat (and giving crews some good practice without too much risk) while also serving somewhat as a distraction, giving other players a chance to voyage for gold in peace.

    You could have...
    -Various pirate ships
    -East India Trading Comapany ships
    -An environmental event ship like the Kraken. All of a sudden you’re overtaken with fog and you see a massive ghost ship cut through in the distance.

    All of these could drop random loot. The density of these ships could be tooled with to find the right balance. Perhaps they don’t attack ships docked at islands. Perhaps they stop chase once you’ve retreated a cerain distance away. Lots of cool ideas could be played with. Bounty voyages. Perhaps, hiest voayges where you have to steel a chest off a ship without sinking it? Etc.

    This sort of thing is the kind of non-cosmetic content that would massively improve the dinamic variety of this game. It also adds to the narrative of the world making it feel more alive. This has continously come up in game chat.

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  • SquallyCircle7
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    to me it is amazing this wasn't in at launch, or at least discussed as coming soon. i could think of nothing more fun, short of a contested fort or some pvp ship fights, than working as a crew to take down a well defended ai ship. they could even make especially tough one that required most pirates to team up to take it down.
    the real blast would come when a second or third human controlled ship joined the fray, either in pvp or pve. things would get dicey.

  • SmokinTediz
    Castaway

    I was literally talking about this with some crew members last night! It would pretty epic, like if the keeps or strongholds had a ship off shore defending it, NPC ships have so much potential, ranging from easy to gawd mode, just don't over do it, I still wanna see more people actually playing an not a bunch of npc on the game

  • EVA1977
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    The hungering deep shark should be an example of the camaraderie of playing together against a mutual foe and NPC ships can be this as well at a smaller scale.

  • NunoAzuldimeter
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    @kaydence
    THIS
    WON'T
    HAPPEN
    ....

    Following the rumors, The most likely you'll have is a ghost, stationary ship to work as fort..

  • SquallyCircle7
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    @nunoazuldimeter said in NPC SHIPS:

    @kaydence
    THIS
    WON'T
    HAPPEN
    ....

    why are you yelling? tc is just saying something they'd like to see. i would as well, and i honestly can't imagine why someone wouldn't want this in the game. whether it ever shows up is on rare, but they'll never know what tickles our fancy if we don't voice it.

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    @squallycircle7 said in NPC SHIPS:

    @nunoazuldimeter said in NPC SHIPS:

    @kaydence
    THIS
    WON'T
    HAPPEN
    ....

    why are you yelling? tc is just saying something they'd like to see. i would as well, and i honestly can't imagine why someone wouldn't want this in the game. whether it ever shows up is on rare, but they'll never know what tickles our fancy if we don't voice it.

    Never said I wouldn't want this to happen.. Rare did.. and no many have raised this subject, regardless of what the Devs (people who made this and had the main idea for this and we often forget about they are the people who decides what is to come and what isn't) said.. and that was in this game the only ships (Galleons and Sloops) we would be able to encounter roaming the seas were player's ships. That way we would clearly know there was another crew there. Of players like us.

  • StrawyCascade00

    @nunoazuldimeter could you give some recent refrence to the Devs saying that this will never happen? because i have heard different things on this. Some saying that Rare have said no, while others have said that Rare have been thinking about it.

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    @strawycascade00 said in NPC SHIPS:

    @nunoazuldimeter could you give some recent refrence to the Devs saying that this will never happen? because i have heard different things on this. Some saying that Rare have said no, while others have said that Rare have been thinking about it.

    I'm on this for about 2 year.. checked every single Devs video on YouTube, every inn-side history.. my memory isn't that great enough to tell you exactly where it has been said..

    And why would you want a recent reference.. people need to say the same time over And over to make it be true?

  • NunoAzuldimeter
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    @strawycascade00 but I surely think it was a Q&A session..

  • StrawyCascade00

    @nunoazuldimeter said in NPC SHIPS:

    And why would you want a recent reference.. people need to say the same time over And over to make it be true?

    No, but a more recent refrence will mean more than saying that you read about it a long while ago in a Q&A, and more so if you can't remember it clearly. For all you know, you could be remembering it wrong. And again, i have seen other people who have said the opposite of what you are saying.

    If you want this to be ended once and for all, you need to have real proff that Rare have said something like "we will not add NPC ships, not now or ever."

  • Look Behind You
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    @triheadedmonkey said in NPC SHIPS:

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    Sea of Thieves | Xbox

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    Live your pirate life in Sea of Thieves. Enter a shared-world action adventure game where crews of real players set sail to live like pirates.

    @StrawyCascade00 hope this can ease you eager for truth...
    And no I not remember it wrongly.. I know exactly what they said...
    They said this is a shared world and every Ship we are able to see and encounter is a ship with other players and that was the reason why there won't be NPC ships.

  • COMMANDO SLIPPY
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    i was speaking with a Rare employee on their sloop (was lucky enough to get into one on a server jump with the pretty sails) the guy I was playing with said this is a thought and there is lots talking about it within the company, all he said is we will have to see if this happens (so yes rare are thinking and its possible maybe)

  • TechnoFox260699
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    look at this post https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/60887/order-of-souls-second-journey-type-suggestion

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