Consider removing sink stat or having it be hidden?

Now that I reread my post, I'm looking at it from both sides.

People are leaving the game to cheese their sink stats, not intended I'd imagine but just like server alliances what you gonna do?

However, the fact that a captained ship can not become captained again if the captain D/Cs for too long. Now all milestones are stopped from everyone.

Fixing both (cheesing sink stat and letting ship persist) could be making when the captain leaves the ship is still considered a captained ship for at least 10 minutes. This would allow people to at least fix their internet, rejoin, etc. and prevent players from cheesing sink stat.

@dank-jimb0 Honestly, i have no idea what the issue is, it doesnt affect gameplay to have an increased sink stat, if you leave because you dont want that number to go up, i think thats more of an ego issue, because i think only the person who owns the ship can see that stat.

@dank-jimb0
So your captain prefers to have his crew have a person less so he won't have a sink "blemish" his milestones ?

Not a Captain I would want to sail with.

Ah, it's your opponents who do that ... I don't think that if they would stay, the fight would be much better if they have that kind of attitude.

Why do people even care that much lol no one's gonna see it. And even if someone does, why does that matter?

Does it even show in the captains log unless you pin it? If it doesn’t, then I don’t see the point of anyone doing this. Needless to say, I find it a silly thing to do regardless. Some you win, some you loose. That’s just how it is

I can’t imagine this affecting so many people that it becomes a huge gameplay problem. I don’t think we should do anything about it. As far as I’m concerned, they are being punish enough if they scuttled their boat and forfeit their loot for a stats every time a boat come close to them.

The only way to become good in a game is through experience, which requires to be sunk and killed enough time that you don’t even care anymore. I do not associate someone with a zero time sunk with being a good player at all.

@crowedhunter said in Consider removing sink stat or having it be hidden?:

@lafrules Well you'll never get to see my logbook anyway if you never sink me. Neener neener.

If it is like most log books my crew finds, nobody updates it so it is all zero anyways lol

@crowedhunter said in Consider removing sink stat or having it be hidden?:

@lafrules Well you'll never get to see my logbook anyway if you never sink me. Neener neener.

I’ll just follow you around until you log off and pick it up from the water 😜

Anyhow, easy fix: right off the bat, ask the captain how many sinks he has. If he says zero, log off 😉

sink stat, i don't care about

however, the gold cost of having to repair your ship, i could see how someone would rather leave the game and save gold than sink and have to pay 1k or more gold by staying to be sunk or scuttling

i did leave at one point myself, becuase the crew wanted to spawn camp me. And scuttling is a 1k+ fee for repairs after, so instead i just logged out. Not like i had anything on board (being a fisher and having just sold all my fish) so in that case i definitely preferred logging out and saving the gold than scuttling and eating a gold fee

It's unfortunate that people are cheesing the stat but honestly does it really accomplish much? You can tell by their gameplay when they've they cheesed it. No different to fighting a full DA boat and going yup you're definitely an alliance server noobie.

My poor Convict has been sunk twice now 🥲 (once because I can't park property)

It’s kind of hilarious that people are trying to cheese this stat. Man, I sink all the time, I keep my pirate in his skivvies so he’s not having to spend half his time drying out his jacket. The sharks are starting to high-five me instead of biting. I mean, if you’re not sinking you’re not really playing, right?

It has definitely affected my play choice. I have only been sunk once and that was to see how expensive scuttling would be.

I've chosen to logout instead of scuttle because of server conditions. Not because it was a thing or I could keep my log from being sold. Not like I can sell it anyways.

The scuttle was 1000-1500 ish btw, and as I understand it no log is generated from scuttling either. Could be wrong about the log.

It is currently hidden to everyone but your pride. Unless you pin it to the log. And mine is Shanties, Grogs Poured and Provisions cooked/eaten because sometimes a pretend life doesn't always have to be epic.