Hello I would like to start by saying thank you for this amazing game I look forward to the full release and the next beta. I Feel like a major thing that could ruin the experience for players is the mermaids bringing players directly to their ship. If they where to bring players to the respawn ship it would solve allot of problems for the game. I know at this point in the game it would be way too hard to program retractable ladders on the ships to control when people can board your ship, but me and my friends encountered a few malicious people who would just repeatedly ride around on a solo sloop and shoot themselves at our boat over and over. if they missed their boat was still safely sailing away and the got a free ride back on the mermaid to try again. If players where to also die, the extra time to wait for a mermaid and respawn would deter allot of people from utilizing the mermaids for malicious reasons. I even feel there should be a increased respawn time for repeated use under a time limit. Thank you again for you time and the great game!
Mermaids may sink the game :( Dont let them!
@wtsheadshotspst I can understand the frustration, but honestly if they were leaving the ship unmaned, and your crew could kill them, you should have an overwhelming chance of catching and then sinking there vessel, as a solo player during alot of the beta, i had mult man crews board me and were still able to overcome them and save my ship thanks to the mermaid system, so I really feel like its where it should be to balance for a solo guy to survive at all, but hey thats just my opinion.
@barthalomuquint yes I understand to clarify, they would get on the boat and just drop the chest we had in the ocean and try and leave it in the water there is now way they where going to get the chest they just didn't want us to have it. ultimately we did both kill and sink them but it was clearly just people being trolls and exploiting the mermaids. I hope the fix I proposed makes just enough difference to make that harder to do.
@charles-vaynee said in Mermaids may sink the game :( Dont let them!:
In other hand, i think the mermaids only can spawn if we wanted to...Like an option to press a key and it appears, because for example when I try to abroad the other ships swimming they will see the mermaid and will know that im on the water already
only if they see the mermaid
only you see the smoke, other crews dont (thankfully that was patched after the 3rd or 4th alpha)
@wtsheadshotspst I agree with you, there should be some type of system that increases your respawn time when you get to the mermaid or die
I played the game for a while and there where only a total of 2 times I actually got knocked off the boat without wanting to. So I feel if the fix I propose should not be too harsh the mermaids are there to help the lost get back to the ship so if it takes a little longer to get back by using a mermaid that's good. It will still save time from having to turn boat around and pick people up. don't get me wrong the people we faught where using a great tactic and for sure out played us for a while, but there always should be a good risk/reward for any action. just because the boat is unmanned does not mean its stationary so if you want to risk shooting yourself off it should be just that, a risk.
