as you all know sea of thieves right now has 3 ships the biggest of them being the galleon. as cool as the ship is i feel that it lacks what it needs to be a true beast of the seas. i suggest making a ship thats so huge it needs 5 sails has 3 floors with 16 total cannons 8 on the top floor and 8 on the second floor. the trade off with using this ship would be it has an increased chance of being attacked by krakens and megs. and the usual tradeoffs like being a way easier to hit target for smaller ships. i think it would be balanced and awesome at the same time. and it would make the game alot better. adding 1 ship can mean a lot to this game
a new ship
I admire your enthusiasm for a larger ship. But it still has to fit within the game.
I would like an additional ship also, but think a new 4 player ship between the Brig and Galleon would work better.
This would free up the Galleon to become a five player ship.
But before any of that the game needs Pirate Legend content/gameplay loops imo.
@biter-wylie i could see that working aswell but my main problem with the galleon is that it still just looks so small. i just want a huge ship XD with a load of cannons and it has to be cool looking. idk im just some pirate of the carribean kinda pirate guy that likes big ships
@captain-coel Queen Ann was also one of the larger pirate ships (in terms of carrabian piracy). And Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hiend was about the same size.
@william-flint exactly. our galleon is twice the size. the difference is our galleon isnt cramped and tiny like an actually historic ship would have been. But this game is based on pirate fantasy not actual pirates.
Honestly, I’d like to see a new ship, but only in the sense of a new public event. One GIGANTIC ship that spawns in randomly, patrols the world, and can only be taken down by team work among multiple ships.
Something grand, sixteen cannons a side, a true force! That, I’d love to see. I miss the way Hungering Deep forced light coop.
@captain-coel pull out the ingame compass and walk from the back to the front of the boat im pretty sure thats not 60 steps
a step each being 1m@xluck101 said in a new ship:
@captain-coel pull out the ingame compass and walk from the back to the front of the boat im pretty sure thats not 60 steps
a step each being 1mFirst person games often boost the rate of foot travel. If we actually traveled in game at a realistic rate then it would feel like we were moving far too slowly for doing what we wanted. Watch someone running along an island sometime and then imagine if you saw a person moving at that rate in real life. It would definitely look supernatural. You have to use other cues such as character height and so on to gauge distance. Have a look at the bed in the Captain's Quarters, imagine the height of someone laying within it, then consider how many of those beds could be laid out from stem to stern (now I'm curious).
I had the chance to visit the Jamestown settlement in Virginia last year and stood on the three ship replicas of the Godspeed, Susan Constant, and Discovery. The Godspeed replica at 65 ft is about 25% smaller than the real version, but the dimensions and overall layout felt very familiar and similar to the SoT galleon. 60-65 ft is not a small ship for that period. The Susan Constant was about 55 feet and carried more than 70 people across the Atlantic.
EDIT: I am not arguing for accuracy in the game. I am just saying using footsteps as a gauge is going to lead to problems, and claiming pirates would have used bigger ships than what we have is questionable. I'd be fine with a bigger ship in game if it makes sense and fits well within the game (remains balanced).
There is actually a Lore reason that there is no ships bigger than a Galleon in the Sea of Thieves. The Galleon is the smallest ship that can make the journey through the Devi's Shroud (the area that turns the water red and damages the ship). I'm not saying that there won't be some ambitious shipwright, say Sandra from Daggertooth, that will build one but for now Galleons are the biggest sea-cows out there. #Slooplife :-)
@uribedh not strictly true. Galleons were for a time the main ships for battle in fleets. And even the ones that were cargo ships were heavily armed cargo ships, something pirates were much more likely to have access to than frigates. Those pirates that sailed something that big that is. What we really need is a variety of ships the same size or smaller with different characteristics.
@bugaboo-bill but think about how hard it is to steer a ship so big it even need 8 cannons on each side i think it would be a fair fight for a brig and a galleon. and as far as sloops go these are mostly solo players that arent looking to engage in pvp. so to say that this would be unfair to them is stupid. in most situations even if this new ship were to fight a sloop the sloop could easily outrun the new ship
@ghostpaw You just gave me an idea - measuring ship length using steps.
Pacing from stem to stern, how long is each ship?
- Sloop = ?
- Brig = ?
- Galleon = ?
1st person to answer all 3 correctly gets a pri... Well, my thanks. 😅
5 out of 17
