Banks

also wouldnt it be cool if when people got banned from the game they could still log in but would be stuck inside a cell at a jail somewhere in the game. I think it would be funny to see people in a jail cell. also it would act as a call out system to shame people for cheating or for going against the rules

I can see the benefits in this, but I can also see this drastically I increasing outpost camping as you an wait for them to turn in their entire haul and kill them to get a chunk of gold. Basically letting them do even more of the hardwork for you bu turning in the haul.

@archaell Agreed. Honestly it is one of the things that really drove me away from games like GTA V.

@d4m0r3d This is more irrelevant than a decent suggestion, no offence at all. Adding a bank will not make a difference with storing your gold, because it's already stored automatically after turning in things to the outpost. You can buy things with the gold that you have currently.

@prorapidkiller I believe he was thinking of something similar to GTA Online where your money needs to be banked, or it is at risk of being stolen if you are killed as you would drop a good chunk of what you are carrying.

General idea is that it isn't fully safe until you turn the loot in, and bank the gold.

@archaell yea probs max you can lose is 10k, idk how they do it in gta but theres a bounty system in that game right, im sure you cant go and lose all the millions of dollars you have in one death

@archangel-timmy whats the difference? one you turn in the gold the other you do not. if there are banks people also cant do the drive past an outpost drop one chest off and continue running away tactic that everyone loves. it would remove those 1 hour long chases that end in no one being happy

really?? how much money could you lose from a bounty? I dont want to be able to lose alll your gold from one death I just think it would be cool to be able to earn gold from collecting bounties. maybe I have been watching too much one piece. but wouldnt it be cool to work your way up the ranks and get a large bounty on you. and if you know you have a large bounty on you, you can just go to the bank and make sure your money is safe

@prorapidkiller I would just like the realism, also would like it if I could actually earn something after chasing people for hours while they do drive by drop offs one by one. im a solo slooper. its hard for me to pvp people purely cause they run away and do one by one drop offs.

@r3d50v13t it makes more sense to me than just having your money go into the vortex. where would a pirate store there money? I think the bank idea is better than having it be phsically stored on your ship or on an island

@lucky-monkee yea actually I was thinking having bags of money would be pretty cool. being able to gamble with it or gift it to other pirates or even hire people with it who knows.

Funny how players want things that are in alignment with WoW. I left WoW for many reasons. I DO NOT want Sea of Thieves to be the stepchild of WoW! Want a bank? Play World of Warcraft. I like my gold safe and secure as is!

@pir8life4meva I havent played WOW for more than 1 min, I dont like that game and i have no clue what is going on in its universe. I also have no interest in playing that game at all

my bank is a sand bank where i burry my tresure!

@r3d50v13t the bounty system sounds like fun to me, I dont think banking would take away from from the fun. sure you can probs make a bounty system work without a bank but I imagine that system not taking any of the persons gold when you collect their bounty wich is ehhh imo but oh well. I just like the idea of a bank just for immersion idk

In the end, the gold may already be auto deposited to the bank. My character definitely doesn't have 3.6M gold in his pockets, so it would make sense that you are not receiving gold directly to your player but an account that gets utilized across the merchants.

@d4m0r3d said in Banks:

@archangel-timmy whats the difference? one you turn in the gold the other you do not.

You just noted the difference. People are already camping outposts in an attempt to steal loot, now you are adding the possibility to steal gold directly from a player (if they forget to bank) regardless of whether they have loot. This is way more incentive to camp outposts and outright attack anyone you may already know has no loot.

if there are banks people also cant do the drive past an outpost drop one chest off and continue running away tactic that everyone loves. it would remove those 1 hour long chases that end in no one being happy

Why couldn't they? They either have time to turn in the chest and deposit which wouldn't take much more time, or they get back to their boat and try again at the next outpost. This would either have no change to the drive-by, or increase the length of the chase as they might have to do more stops.

I don't mind the 1-hour chases for the most part. If I am out-matched, I will happily waste your time to protect my haul.

@r3d50v13t the main point of not having third person was for immersion. im not asking to be in the real pirate world, just a little more would be nice. listen I just want a bank that we can use or even rob. its just something that would be cool and would make the world seem a little more real to me but watever

@archangel-timmy but if you are gonna camp to get the cash from them that they get from the chests, whats the difference from actually stealing the chests. both works. in both scenarios you are camping for the same gold, only camping to take it out of their pockets means you wait for them to already sell it all, does that matter?

@archangel-timmy true with the one hour chase point though. for me the one hour chases only ever happen when im chasing a bigger ship. its wierd how things work. just a few days ago I chased a brig down for forever and I finally cought up to them and sunk them and they were so salty even though they sold everything that was worth anything. I dont recall ever having an hour long chase with sloops, i think they always turn back and fight because we move at the same speed so they dont think yay we can outrun them. and me I usually fight back and I honestly cant recall losing. what I do is I drive straight, jump off the front, get on their ship, ank, try to kill them, if I do I climb the crows nest and bomb em, if i dont, I just slow them down alot and they just give up normally

@d4m0r3d said in Banks:

@archangel-timmy but if you are gonna camp to get the cash from them that they get from the chests, whats the difference from actually stealing the chests. both works. in both scenarios you are camping for the same gold, only camping to take it out of their pockets means you wait for them to already sell it all, does that matter?

Depending on how this gold drop system would actually work, total percentages or a max take, it would be easier to just let them do even more of the work and kill them in the end.

My main argument is that this would increase camping outposts and potentially spawn killing grief.

@d4m0r3d said in Banks:

what I do is I drive straight, jump off the front, get on their ship, ank, try to kill them, if I do I climb the crows nest and bomb em, if i dont, I just slow them down alot and they just give up normally

I am in no way an amazing player. I utilize the same tactic to try and slow them, but I always seem to get crews that are extremely good at spotting in the water and guarding ladders. I did sink a Galleon that was chasing me once, but it cost me a Mega Keg. T'was beautiful to watch though :)

@d4m0r3d dijo en Banks:

I think banks should exist in this game. there should be a bank at every outpost where we can store our money. you would have to go to the bank to be able to grab money so that you can buy things, also it makes no sense that you can go and hunt someone down race to an outpost and they will sell all the chest, get the gold from them and you cant take that gold. im not saying we should be able to kill people and steal all the gold they have I just think it would make more sense if we had a bank that way it can just be explained as the gold hoarder puting it straight into your bank account or something. also i think bounties would be cool, the way the bounty system would work is if you have sunk alot of ships and have been causing havoc, a bounty is put on you and if someone kills you they accuire all the gold you have on you that isnt in your bank. I think this would be a fun and cool way for people to earn gold, im sure people will even dedicate their gameplay to being pirate bounty hunters

A bank has 0 sense, at least for gold. I mean, you can't lose your gold in any way. You can bring with you as many gold as you can earn... Item banks for storing any resources when you finish a session would be much better. You can save CB, CCB, wood, food, etc for the next session instead of having to load the ship all over again everytime you enter the game. You could login solo, take some resources, bring them to the bank, and be prepared for a later session with friends, for example. If they add a way to buy resources then that could be awesome.

@archangel-timmy oh yea jumping off with tnt is great aswell, usually they arent able to shoot the tnt before they get close enough for it to dmg the ship, also I dive deep into the water and surface when they get close, so theres no way for them to spot me untill its to late

@stormfox57 the reasons I think a bank would be cool would be so that our money has more meaning, its physical, we can carry it around and actually purchase things with it or gift it away. you could also then have bounty hunters, and you can also hunt pirates for their treasure. it would build this world of higher tier pirates because they are rich, ya know. it would be more special to have more money, also I just like the idea of having a place to put my gold instead of it just going into the vortex.