World Event Concept - Flagship!

I very much dislike pushed cooperation in a pirate game

this is a serious and unfun inconvenience for many people and is very very taxing on inexperienced players and those that don't have the social or pirate skills to get this stuff done

let people work together when they want to, pushing people together does not work

@wolfmanbush As i mentioned, this is not for inexperienced players. An event like this, could perhaps be spawned in, only by 4 pirate legends together for example.

This world event would be the most difficult one by far. It should be beaten by a galleon or even brigantine with a skilled crew. But for the lesser skilled, then an alliance would be appropriate. There's no incentive to be allied in the game. There is absolutely no reason for it. Earn 50% of their cut? No, lets just sink them and get 100% of the cut.

@zhocket said in World Event Concept - Flagship!:

@wolfmanbush As i mentioned, this is not for inexperienced players. An event like this, could perhaps be spawned in, only by 4 pirate legends together for example.

This world event would be the most difficult one by far. It should be beaten by a galleon or even brigantine with a skilled crew. But for the lesser skilled, then an alliance would be appropriate. There's no incentive to be allied in the game. There is absolutely no reason for it. Earn 50% of their cut? No, lets just sink them and get 100% of the cut.

it'll just sit there like fort of fortune often does now and be another cheesefest for alliance servers

I agree with an environment that allows pirates to be whatever kind of pirates they want to be. What I find incredibly flawed is the times we throw the mice in with the snakes in the name of cooperation.

Things shouldn't be technically voluntary in a shared environment of hunters and prey it should be the true spirit of voluntary to where things aren't locked behind cooperation for commendations and titles and cosmetics and then those low on the food chain are told "you don't have to do it"

People get betrayed and robbed and messed with enough organically I don't like when features/content are brought in to incentivize more of it.

even if someone doesn't subscribe to my same outlook on pushing cooperation it can't really be denied that there isn't enough activity on any random server to keep this sort of thing organically active enough to justify it taking up limited space and resources.

@touchiertooth28 The idea was never thought to be a substitute. Actually quite the opposite. The game lacks content at sea.

There is:

• PvP
• Flameheart
• Skellyship event
• Random Skellyships
• Meg/kraken

6 things. Six, at-sea related things to do in a game thats about being a pirate and controlling a ship.

My idea was simply to make a cake of all those things (including pvp strategies) into one large and challenging event.

Being a sloop and taking down a skelly galleon, requires the minimum of skill. And not a single PvP strategy is worth using. No boarding, no chainshots, no anchoring, you name it. You literally just spam canon balls in the same general area for about 20-30 shots while your buddy repairs. (No need for helm/steering, can stand still or go straight forward).

@retroraccoon741 Wow! Really like the idea of it beaching!

@touchiertooth28 PvP is rarely staring at my face. More than 50% of the times i encounter player ships, they are either beginners or very unskilled and usually with no emissary raised, and usually either no loot, or very litte loot.

Sinking them, feels both unfair (because they dont have a chance at all) and unrewarding. Sinking someone for the sake of sinking them, and getting barely any reward for it, is not fun content.

The other 50% of ship encounters are divided into 3 categories; Fresh spawns, Fleeing ships, or sweaty reapers.

The amount of times i encounter a skill matched ship, or more skilled ship than me, is around 15% of the time. I encounter freshspawns, probably around 15% of the time and the remainder 20% is fleeing ships.

What this means, based on my experience at the game, is that most encounters are not worth it. Chasing a fleeing ship that has a tonne of loot might be worth it, but as it works in this game, running and chasing is the same thing. If they're good, they know how to run, if they're bad, they probably will run off to the world border so that nobody gets loot and it sinks in the red sea.

Of every encounter i have with players, around 15-20% are worth/rewarding/fun to engage combat with. Thats around 1 out of every 5 ships. With me, being the 6th ship, this would on average put me in a realistic scenario of encountering 1 ship per server, that would be fun fighting.

But out of all the 5 ships, which would it be? Will i have to chase people around to find a worhy opponent, or a rewarding oppononet? Yes, yes i would have to do that, is that fun? No, its time consuming and barely rewarding.

Thats on average. Some play sessions are awesome with a tonne of fighting and running, with up to 3-4 ships engaing in fights, trying to rob eachother of some world event loot.

Other times, is see 4 sloops and a brig, none of which even has en emissary, and half of 'em just doing tall tale.

PvP is not, staring down my face.