I understand we have three core ship sizes currently in the game: sloop, brigantine, and galleon. I realize this topic may have been mentioned before. Hear me out...I think it’s time we as a community push for Rare to implement a 4th ship type into the game: the man ‘o war.
I have a few variants in my head that could actually work out to be a real ship type. Either 3 sails or 4, you decide. Two decks of cannons; either 3 or 4 on each side, but one upper deck and one lower deck. Perhaps this could be classified as the heavy attack ship of the sea of thieves fleet. Thoughts please? Also, they would need to accommodate server sizes for this ship to enter into service. Plus, roaming skeleton ship fleets could be more frequent in the world when one of these ships are active: one sloop, one brig, one galleon, and then a boss wave man o war. Just a thought.
A ship size bigger than a galleon
@subtletty with they amount of space we got in the game they should. Well @Galactic-Geek most people wouldn’t hear them out so my conspiracy sense are saying the conspiracy is piracy with cons
@bugaboo-bill said in A ship size bigger than a galleon:
Idk why Devs should put any effort in developing and balancing this, when 90% of players prefer solo slooping.
Where'd you get 90% from?
@freelancecamel5
The way I see it, we should have a slightly larger 5 person ship, the 'man O war' or 'ship-of-the-line' or whatever other no quite accurate name it's given, which looks basically like a ever so slightly larger galleon (same cannon count and everything, just slightly bigger and with more crew). Then a 4 masted 'frigate' with a 6 person capacity. It would sort of look like a larger galleon too with another mainmast and longer decks, plus a third one below.
@ultmateragnarok
I like the idea of the frigate. Just frustrated by only having four in a crew...when I have at least 5 other friends that would love to hop in and play...it’s like “You’re gonna be excluded because there is only 3 spots.” Nooo. I hate that.@freelancecamel5
One of my older suggestions fixed this by essentially having multiple ships in the same crew, but it wasn't received well
because it was built off of the alliance system.@bugaboo-bill said in A ship size bigger than a galleon:
@galactic-geek
personal experienceI'm sorry, but that is not a quantifiable statistic.
A ship size bigger than a galleon would quite frankly be a frigate rather than a man o war/ship of the line.
Frigates are actual predators as far as ships go, designed to seek and destroy/capture enemy ships and raid merchants.
Ships of the Line/Man O War's on the other hand are comparatively unwieldy craft built for defense, blockades and battle fleets.A Frigate also makes more sense for a fair but balanced representation of a warship as they were heavily armed but lacked the durable hulls of larger ships. And in all fairness, ships of the line were in principle "unsinkable" by small ships.
@crazed-corsair I agree, a frigate would be perfect. I think the devs know by now we want a bigger ship, I feel it is one of the most requested things I know of. As it was said, a larger server is needed, however I doubt they would change server size unless they add another part to the map, so they dont increase player density too much. I think they would add this new ship in an update along with a map expansion.
If they did a man o war I think it would be cool if it was a boat that spawned on the map that everyone in the server could race for. First one to get to it gets to use it. Once it sinks it spawns back at original spawn. I also think it would bring people together. Because it’s not a ship you can spawn with and crews are limited to 4 people. You would have to get another crew in the lobby to help you sail it.
I dont know what other people think, but I would find more "useful" to be able to play with friends by joining their server (ech one in their respective ships) than having such a big ship... I dont understand why people want to get a bigger ship, I can get it sounds cool.. but It would need balancing, and time to get it... I just don't see the point ath the moment on getting that.
Also just think on how Galleons work now... I havnt seen lot of Galleons lately, and most Galleons in which I have been or I have seen are formed by Random people that cant even manage to move the ship correctly... so how is it suppsed to be managed a ship that requires a whole lot cooperation by people that dont even talk or type in the chat! ( Dont get me wrong, i find totally cool to have a big ship, but looking how the game is now... I dont find it useful, and most people wont use that ship).
Yeeeehaaaaaa!!!
Spreaaad the cuuurse in the seeeaaaas!All we need is the ability to have friends on a server. We spend more time jumping servers attempting to join the game in the same session than playing it. Yeah yeah ruins the balance etc but I am finding that we play less often as its such a hassle trying to get together. Nobody playing the game is worse than an option for bigger crews or private servers or just more boats on a single server at one time.
