Imagine harponing these giants, getting them to the shore and recolting the hoils etc etc !! Hours of funs!!
Whales hunting would be so fun!
@anamazingmann Then I could live out my dream of joining Sea Shepard.
In all seriousness though I wouldn't be opposed to something like this in the game down the road, but let's get basic fishing in the game first before we start harpooning whales. They seem like an entirely different challenge from a development standpoint. Especially since fish don't actually have to spawn until you toss your rod in the water.
Please no. Pirates didn’t hunt whales. But more importantly, even though whale hunting was prominent during the Golden Age of Piracy, it was and is a horrendous practice. We don’t need it in the game for the same reason we don’t need slave trading. Besides, we’ve already got the Megalodon. Whaling wouldn’t offer anything new.
@genuine-heather I mean, killing sharks IRL is just as bad as killing whales. Why would killing sharks/Megs in a video game be fine but hunting whales in a video game be horrendous?
@theunionjames said in Whales hunting would be so fun!:
I think the solution is you just have to make the whale look really evil!... I know it's dumb and childish but no one feels bad killing sharks or the megalodon and that's just as bad in real life! Otherwise replace the whale with.... I dunno a giant whale-sized shrimp or something!
I think it's more complicated than making an evil whale because this could be as dangerous. To be honest, the Megalodons are the best alternative, they don't exist in real life anymore and they are different enough to not connect them unconsciously to whales.
I agree, hunting sharks is as bad in real life. But in Sea of Thieves right now, sharks only spawn when you are in the water for a little while to attack you. Most of the time when you are going to kill them it's to defend yourself and save your life. But here, we are asking to give tools and means to specifically hunt whales. Hunting fantaisist animals as the Kraken or Megalodons will probably not cause any issue as they only exist in Sea of Thieves world. But if you give tools to the players to hunt those creatures it will be even more difficult to introduce a sea life with whales and dolphins as it will be really important these animals can't be killable.
We are in a sandbox where players are able to give any meaning to the tools or features, that's why I think Rare - at least I hope - are very attentive to what they bring into the game, especially when it's going to be a hunting-related feature.
As contemporaneously correct as whale hunting might be I suspect it would never be part of Sea of Thieves for the same sort of reasons that you die in a cloud of green smoke rather than a spray of red blood; or that there will never be a "Slave Market" trading company. Despite you thinking it would be "hours of fun", it just won't happen.
This is not Grand Theft: Nautical
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@genuine-heather I mean, killing sharks IRL is just as bad as killing whales. Why would killing sharks/Megs in a video game be fine but hunting whales in a video game be horrendous?
Megalodons are a long gone extirpated species, sharks are living still, that's the difference.
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