Alright, let's try this again.
Now, we know that the gold hoarders are collecting all the chests in the sea of thieves and sending them as tribute to the shores of gold, IE tribute peak. (After giving us our cut of course.)
So, what if there was a new quest type where a gold hoarder sends us after their rivals tribute ship.
Here's how i imagine it working.
1 you accept the quest and get given the ships route and time they will pass by certain islands and the time they will make their delivery. (Yes, this quest is time limited like certain merchant voyages, take too long to complete it and you fail the quest)
2 you can either follow the route from the start and catch up to them or sail ahead of them and set up an ambush. (PS the ship is slower than even a sloop and rides low in the water on account of all the loot, it also shines from a distance.)
3 from this point you have 2 options. One you can sink the ship and get a reduced amount of loot OR, you can board it, and fight off the captain and the crew on their deck and drop the anchor, dropping the anchor opens the brig, which is where the treasure is kept. (It also stops the ship like usual.)
Now to explain how to drop the anchor.
Think of the anchor as like a combination tumbler to a safe. You can't drop it like you can a regular anchor, instead, raising and lowering it shows numbers etched into the anchor's pole. It's a three number combination
To find the correct combination you have to find and locate various journals on the ship. The journals will contain clues like... The third number in the combination is how many days so and so spent in the tavern. You'd have to find so and so's journal and figure out how many days they spent there.
My goal with this quest type was to introduce a "Train/bank robbery" experience.
PS, not going to lie, GH is my least favorite faction and so I don't really know what its lovers want. Plus i'm sure there are some problems with this idea but i do NOT care enough to sit here and defend the idea all day. Anyway, have a good day. o.o/
