Large center island with town as a community hub

@ZippyJarl Oh nice... love darts!

@galactic-geek said:

This idea still doesn't solve the problem of players camping outside of it, just sitting and waiting to sink ships as they leave, just for the sake of PvP.

Don't know why this idea is supposed to have already solved a problem that doesn't exist yet. But it is pretty easily solved with a bit of code that spawns a ship leaving the harbor on a random side of the island, or even purposely on a side that doesn't have a ship nearby (the way you currently don't spawn at an outpost or island that already has a ship there)

@ath3na-cr33d said:

I've been wanting a community hub since forever. love this idea! it could also help with players having issues finding other crews to help them on weekly events, maybe? :)

That would definitely be one of the benefits!

@galactic-geek said:

It's supposed to solve the problem before it exists so we don't have said problem to begin with; it's preventitive. That said, your idea is a good one, but won't this whole thing make outposts rather pointless?

It's just an idea, not a fully completed addition. If Rare offered me a job, I'd work out all the kinks before implementing it into the game... ;)

Also, like I said: you are not allowed into the harbor with any loot on board, so you'd still have to go to an outpost tho sell what you have. That and the clothing/item shops are really the only things you do at an outpost anyway, so I don't think the community hub would affect that.

I'm going to say no to this Idea.
I don't like the Idea of safe zones. Just let people be free to kill and be killed. I also hate having another instance to go to. The world is vast and open, having a loading screen seperate this would just break it for me. The only loading screen I want to see is at the beginning and a small one at the ferry.

I'd love to see a gathering hub somewhere. Not a safe zone just a place where people can meet up who want to do events together and just want to roll up. Problem is people are people and will abuse this, that wont last long however because killing people who dont fight back is only fun for so long.

@hynieth Don't really understand how this would be a safe zone, anymore than the start menu of the game or the xbox club where you can go to look for crews. you can't kill or be killed in those places either. This would just be integrating that functionality into the graphic environment within the game.

@otherfanboy Lol, waking up in the hospital ward... ;)

Maybe, but I still think you should limit fighting to duels that both parties agree upon, just to prevent trolls coming in a blunderbussing people who are just looking for a crew.

@woutah78 said in Large center island with town as a community hub:

I'd love to see a Large center island that is like a community hub for all the different servers. Once you sail into its harbor, you get loaded into this map.

You said so yourself, so that's a safe zone. A pre game hub is different. Also that would impact the flow of the game, now it's just klick klick you're in if you'd impliment a pre game hub you'd be tired of it after 5 times. (just like with playstation home (anyone remember that?))

@hynieth Well if you are being chased in the game now, you can also choose to leave the game and load back in on another server, so that's kinda the same thing. And it's not a pre-game hub you would have to load into, just an option. You'd also still be able to start the game the way you are now.

Like I said: it would simply be like a community hub within the graphic environment of the game.

@otherfanboy hahaha, I'm not in the hospital man, I mean that as a suggestion for the respawn if you die in the town, rather than the ferry of the dead ;)

@wipe-nd-clean said:

Exactly, it's an empty ship, let them sink you, you will just respawn at an outpost, not at the community hub. This place is just for finding crews to help with other things, and not real life currency gambling in arm wrestles and stab-the-crab (whack-a-mole) style games.

I'm not suggestion gambling for real life currency. It's a game for all ages, so only in game gold or dubloons.

It would be a nice addition - the only issue I see with it is if you want to join up with other crews (fleet style) then you will have people just farming from the hub and maxing out a server with people they know. They would maybe need to make it a maximum of 4 ships can enter the hub at any one time to avoid this?

The hub would be separate from the other servers, so once you enter the game from it, different ships go to different servers. Though sometimes it would be nice if you could get on one server with more than 3 friends. They could make it a maximum of 2 ships though, so 6 to 8 people.

@woutah78 I think a better approach would be using the mermaids to enter said island (I call it Tortuga). You can't bring booty with you that way. If everyone in your crew opt to do that, your ship sinks (if it isn't already) and gets removed from the server. You'll find yourself washed ashore on Tortuga with no supplies (like usual on a new server).

When leaving Tortuga, again via mermaid your inventory is cleared as well (assuming there are supplies on Tortuga for some cannon lessons etc.). You're brought back to your crew if still existent or spawn with a new ship at an outpost (just like default start).

• Option to form a crew while on Tortuga and leave as one (poor mermaid)
• Option to start on Tortuga (to avoid unnecessary loading)

Don't place an actual island on the map. Only the lost and mermaids/mermen know it's location.

@hynieth You're going to hate being a Pirate Legend, then... because you load into that, as well... and it is a shared space for every Legend on the server.

Opinion:

No needed since 5 ships on server its maximum size
If server can hold more then 10+ ships than we can talk about it.

I like this idea alot!
Good work lad!
And there should be the odd bar room brawl too.