A blessing and a curse?

If you wear the skelly curse, skeletons don't attack you.

Making Skeleton Captain farming easier.

If you wear the ghost curse then phantoms don't attack you.

Fortress and possible Phantom ships

If you wear the wild seas curse, sharks don't attack you.

Making swimming and stealth easier.

I dont think people understand, Tools not Rules concept and just want things because "They already own them"
Not fair and not equal on the seas.

@burnbacon

To repeat myself:

"I was thinking of the random emergent enemies that appear on islands or sharks in the water behaving differently to you depending on what curse you have on."

This means excluding enemies in world events etc.

I suppose you are right to a certain extent though.

I just think it would be more interesting to see thrall level enemies behaving differently to you depending on what curse you had but I wouldn't like it to create unfair advantages so perhaps wild seas curse could mean low tier Ocean crawlers not attacking you rather than sharks not attacking you. Definitely could balance it out so that certain enemies still do attack you. Just a little theatre to add nuance was what I was thinking.

That would go against the game's horizontal progression concept, i.e. you mainly unlock cosmetics and not skills/abilities/weapons which in other games creates a hard barrier between beginners and experienced players.

Aside from that philosophy, those 3 curses would be heavily unbalanced; disabling them in certain situations additionally makes them confusing and nonsensical to use.

@mrpalmerdixon

Nah, you guys are reading into it a bit too much. It wouldn't be unbalanced at all, if it was done properly it would be a slight bit of flare.

On an island:

Player 1 :"Oh look, the skeletons aren't attacking me?"

Player 2: "Cool, oh wait, it must be because you have the skelly curse on?"

During a world event:

Player 1: "skelly curse doesn't matter here, they are still attacking me!"

Player 2: "guess it makes sense, it's a world event."

A little bit of theatre. I'm not suggesting they reward Servants of the flame level 1000 with nuclear bombs for HG. 😂 😆

@SoloVenture6142

With "unbalanced" I actually meant the curses to each other. With your proposal, skelly curse is the most powerful choice and also there's 0 reason to equip wild seas curse; or any other curse.
(Flashback to everyone using DA sails and nothing else because it had a gameplay feature, too).

The concept not fitting SoT and it having weird restrictions were my other arguments which are by far way more important.

If you reflect a bit more on this idea, you'll come to the same conclusion =)

@mrpalmerdixon

Nah, having the odd random skeleton or ocean crawler or phantom on islands not attack you because of a curse you have on wouldn't really make any difference to anything, it would just be a little flare honestly, something a little bit more theatrical than just looking a certain way. An in game NPC recognition of what curse you have.

Having sharks not attack you or enemies not attack you during world events, forts and fortresses and so on would make it unbalanced yes.

The dark adventures sails were a clear advantage over other players because you could see ahead with the sail fully down. Not comparable to my suggestion at all.

If you really look at what I'm saying it would be so inconsequential to game play there wouldn't really be any incentive to wear a specific curse other than for the way it looks which is what it is already but with a little added flare and immersion.

Arguably you could say if someone is doing a GH voyage, they could wear a skelly curse to avoid emergent skellies attacking them while their digging up treasure and wild seas for avoiding ocean crawlers and ghost curse for emergent phantoms and because skellies appear more often than the other two categories the skeleton curse would seem the most powerful but... Not really considering the emergent skeletons, (and the ocean crawlers and phantoms) are so weak anyway.

At the very least it would be a bit of an incentive to get some curses and to wear them just for the immersion. How many folks do you know with curses that don't wear them because there is literally 0 point to them, even theatrically there is no point to them beyond looking a certain way which is a missed opportunity I feel.

Let's face it, won't happen anyway 😂