New game mechanics: Capturing enemy ships

  • Mo McDamage
    Marauder
    Insider

    I would be interested to hear what you think about the following games mechanics idea:

    Normally, when you use a mermaid or died you will get spawned on your ship. This is actually cool but it also takes a huge oppurtunity for enemy crews to kidnap a ship.

    How about adding a feature like "Capture the Flag" where every ship has some kind of "token" that can be stolen or exchanged. (I think about a flag or orb or medal or whatever that is placed inside the ships cabin.)

    It takes a while for enemy pirates to take over the ship so this token has to be defended by its crew. But if the ship has been taken over, the crew cannot spawn there anymore and the enemy has one more ship.

    The feature can help to bring more variety to the game so that other ships are not always attacked for just sinking.

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  • Sshteeve
    Captain
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    Boatswain

    @mo-mcdamage

    Sorry matey, but there are more than a few problems with this idea:

    1. It makes PVE/PVP servers an easy thing to do, as a group of likeminded pirates can just take over every ship on the server. This is against the design philosophy of the game and not something Rare openly support.
    2. It promotes massive griefing of players, as crews can simply strong-arm others to take their ship away
    3. What happens to the crew who has lost their ship? They can't stay on that server, as there are a limited number of ships allowed per server
    4. It forces crews to stay and fight, rather than letting them just scuttle and start afresh
  • Ghostpaw
    Legend

    @mo-mcdamage Capturing another crew’s ship is a horrifying idea. Hard pass. You can sink them. You can steal from them. You can even kill them. But you don’t get to stop the other crew from playing the game. Think about it. When another crew captures your ship, what are you going to do? You don’t even have a ship to fight back with. You are basically stuck on an island. What’s your plan then? Who wouldn’t quit the server?

  • jojo buddy v2
    Captain
    Insider

    You have to be joking right, please tell me you are joking

  • qU1EtoNe
    Rogue
    Insider

    @mo-mcdamage no thanks

  • hammy hamstar
    Commander
    Insider
    Founder

    Nope nope nope

  • ScurvyWoof
    Captain

    I already can, no thanks

  • Ottyman8687
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    So a crew of four could end up holding 5 ships....how do you use all 5 lol

    No.

    People need to be sank to steal loot. The game doesn't need anymore conrent placed in the way of PvP interactions which are already too scarce

  • Mrat13
    Marauder
    Insider

    Slight change. What if capturing a ship turned it into a skeleton ship you could fight, and the crew that lost their ship would get a fresh one.

  • Mo McDamage
    Marauder
    Insider

    @sshteeve Thank you for pointing out the weak points! :D

    I totally got it folks... it is a horrible idea :)

  • Sshteeve
    Captain
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    Boatswain

    @mo-mcdamage matey - respect for accepting other's opinions and not getting defensive. It wasn't the strangest of ideas and could make sense in another platform, but it is just too easy to be abused.

  • Ghostpaw
    Legend

    @mo-mcdamage I appreciate that you are thinking of ways to improve the game and that you are open to other’s feedback. I am sure you are going to post some good ones.

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