So earlier the day this post went up I was on a sloop with a buddy and wanted to grind athena and hunters call at the same time and there was tons of fishing worms in the rowboat chest so I could row around and get fish while my friend tried completing and Athena but we decided to do a fort but I was pretty far away from the fort and wanted to fish and move at the same time so that when I got there I could have lots of fish but also get to the fort before my friend finished the fort so I think that adding like a three foot tall sail or something like that to the rowboats could be useful for fishing and rowing and I know that there would be issues with things like how to steer when the sail is lowered so here are some ideas
• the sail a lot like on a ship would have an adjust sail length and angle on the sides of the rowboat
•steering would not require a steering wheel just use the oar brake and that would provide resistance and pull the rowboat a little to towards the direction of the specific direction you want to turn
•the sail raise and lower time would lower in .25 seconds or half a second to lower and to raise it would take the of two players raising a brigantine sail but for one player on the rowboat
•there could be a tiny anchor added that is a hand crank instead of a full body push or something
• the speed of the sail would push the rowboat with the wind pushing the sails faster would be the speed of a sloop against the wind and the speed of it without wind but not against wind would be the sped of a galleon completely against the wind and maybe the speed of a running on flatland player be the speed of it against the wind I think (I haven’t tested the galleons speed completely against the wind vs a player running alongside when the galleon has reached its peak speed against wind) so that it would be able to be liable in transportation rather than running away or anything that would be a good way to not make its speed overpowered I think
• instead of having to find a new rowboat to replace your old rickety broken one, you should be able to repair it someway, maybe instead of making the rowboat look like it ran into 50 rocks then make it have two layers of planks that build the rowboat and as it takes damage on of the planks on the outer layer falls off of it or disappears or maybe falls into particled splinters of would I’m the water and the same way a plank in your hand suddenly slims down to fix the anchor and wheel it should bend when needed in order to complete the rowboats texture and to make it more visually damaged than just some random planks falling off but the rest of the planks look fine, make it with each plank added a lot like how the texture of cloth cargo slowly turns dark to indicate waterloggedness the wood planks that still remained on the rowboat would look gradually more splintered with each plank that fell off
•the oars should be kept on the rowboat for maneuvering tighter turns and such so that the old easy rowboat docking procedure stays just as easy and you don’t have to really on hopefully the sail on the rowboat pulling you towards the docking point of your main ship
•if there are any problems with this if it gets added then the lovely players and insiders could give suggestions on how to improve and perfect if any of this gets added or considered at all
• also having a mobile map of the whole world map that could be accessed and pulled up a lot like the x marks the spot maps would be cool and would go with this and would also show a rough look of where just your individual pirate is standing or swimming would be nice and in order to make it to where you’d want to use your ship a bit more make it not show reapers marks or your alliance locations and not show where your facing in order to make it to where you would actually have to use your compass and it not take up a spot when in arena but always be at the top like where a tall tale book would go
These are definitely some awesome things that could potentially be added into the game and I think no one could disagree with it in any way because it’s not like the rowboat has cannons or anything just a way to maneuver and catch fish at the same time would be absolutely amazing and it would blend together really well with the hunters call so please consider this sea of thieves devs
