New sail cloth and new uses for it

  • Shadow20642
    Marauder
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    Remember those old pirate games like sea dogs, pirates of the caribbean etc, you go into battle and at the end your sails are in tatters?

    Well its strange but in Sea of Thieves we always have pretty much immaculate sails.

    My idea is to put to you a few uses for it and implement it into the game in various areas such as extended ship damage, player health and traversal.

    Firstly, Sail cloth is a resourse you can find just like planks and has its own barrel on the ship.

    Use 1)
    Cannon fire through sails put a hole in them. This causes the ship to lose speed, up to 50% depending on damage. You must use this cloth to patch holes to regain max speed.

    Use 2)
    When fighting players with the sword sometimes you can get wounded and will bleed out. Use this cloth to bandage the wound. Understandably there doesnt need to be actual visible blood as kids play the game, but the mechanics would be nice. (This is my least favourite use and tbh not bothered if things stay as they are without this)

    Use 3 (My favourite use for it)
    Firing yourself out of a cannon with the maximum amount of cloth in your inventory will alow you to deploy a makeshift cloth parachute that will negate fall damage.

    You can also steer it until it lands, so you could use it as a way to board. Careful though, one sniper bullet and it will cause you to fall.

    In response to this, perhaps increase fall damage meaning no impromtu cannoning yourself

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  • Clumsy George
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    Well, Sir , if you have followed or played this game for a while , you have seen that this game , in time , has evolved when it comes to damage.... At first only the hull could be damaged and those holes were one size nomatter if you took 20 cannonballs or just scratched the rocks or shore under the shallow water... Masts , Capstans, and Helmswheel seemed to be made of tungsten steel because it never got damaged, in the beginning...

    Now, today , a lot of different damage is added and as repairing is one of my favorite things to do for the crew , i have jumped over the moon ( * and wrecked your back, moron) and i really think that , in time , the sails will take damage and also will need to be repaired...i hope.

  • NWO Azcrack
    Master

    @daringclarky

    I think we have enough tedious work to keep track of now with the new ship extended damage.

    Sails are way to easy to hit. And having to carry another rescource and repair another piece of the ship just doesnt sound like fun.

    But who knows. Rare is apparently adding fire soon, so sail damage may be a possibility

  • Shadow20642
    Marauder
    Insider

    @nwo-azcrack said in New sail cloth and new uses for it:

    @daringclarky

    I think we have enough tedious work to keep track of now with the new ship extended damage.

    Sails are way to easy to hit. And having to carry another rescource and repair another piece of the ship just doesnt sound like fun.

    But who knows. Rare is apparently adding fire soon, so sail damage may be a possibility

    In all honesty, id be happy to just have a sail cloth parachute. Fire yourself over and island abd glide down.

    Sneaking onto a ship by gliding towards it from the sky.

    Killing an would-be boarder by sniping his parachute and watching him fall.

    I bet the scenery would be beautiful too, slowly gliding down.

  • Exolinity
    Rogue

    @daringclarky said in New sail cloth and new uses for it:

    Remember those old pirate games like sea dogs, pirates of the caribbean etc, you go into battle and at the end your sails are in tatters?

    Well its strange but in Sea of Thieves we always have pretty much immaculate sails.

    My idea is to put to you a few uses for it and implement it into the game in various areas such as extended ship damage, player health and traversal.

    Firstly, Sail cloth is a resourse you can find just like planks and has its own barrel on the ship.

    Use 1)
    Cannon fire through sails put a hole in them. This causes the ship to lose speed, up to 50% depending on damage. You must use this cloth to patch holes to regain max speed.

    Use 2)
    When fighting players with the sword sometimes you can get wounded and will bleed out. Use this cloth to bandage the wound. Understandably there doesnt need to be actual visible blood as kids play the game, but the mechanics would be nice. (This is my least favourite use and tbh not bothered if things stay as they are without this)

    Use 3 (My favourite use for it)
    Firing yourself out of a cannon with the maximum amount of cloth in your inventory will alow you to deploy a makeshift cloth parachute that will negate fall damage.

    You can also steer it until it lands, so you could use it as a way to board. Careful though, one sniper bullet and it will cause you to fall.

    In response to this, perhaps increase fall damage meaning no impromtu cannoning yourself

    Love it. Maybe not 50% slowness, but a little less. The parachute idea just sounds amazing. Props to you for thinking that up. Apart from that, cloth sounds nice and a good resource to have. All checks out. Take my upvote.

  • Shadow20642
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    @exolinity Thank you. Really nice of you to say 😁

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