Give galleon captains the option to create a larger crew of up to 10. This could give more options for role assignment; repairing, cooking, sails, cannoneers, helm, and other things. While this would be completely unbalanced in a regular server. There could be specified servers where only larger crews could join. For example 5-6+ players. This could remove the unfairness that would be created but also allow those crews to have larger battles more frequently and create higher risk and higher rewards for winning battles. There could also be other things to balance like starting recourses, recourse availability from structures, stronger events like skeleton crew buffs and whatnot. Could also create longer play sessions.
Larger Galleon Crews
@utmostshelf9319 I'd suggest a search to see the reasons laid out in other threads with the same kind of request. They are numerous.
@redeyesith a lot of those don’t really have a way to counter the imbalance it would make. Like more cannons or buffing the galleon while keeping everything else the same. I said there could be extra servers for only galleons. Or give a post where I can see an example of this.
Give galleon captains the option to create a larger crew of up to 10
Rofl. No. 10 versus 1, 2, or 3 would be literally unsinkable.
While this would be completely unbalanced in a regular server. There could be specified servers where only larger crews could join. For example 5-6+ players.
So Arena. it would basically be Arena.
This could remove the unfairness that would be created but also allow those crews to have larger battles more frequently and create higher risk and higher rewards for winning battles.
So...You want Arena back.
There could also be other things to balance like starting recourses, recourse availability from structures, stronger events like skeleton crew buffs and whatnot. Could also create longer play sessions.
The devs aren't going to bring back special servers like Arena had.
@captknuckles686 said in Larger Galleon Crews:
@utmostshelf9319
Agree my suggestion was to add cannons to the second deck as well.And everyone told you why this was a bad idea. Stop spamming it.
Player caps is a big one under your proposal. Servers can handle between 16-20 players currently as I recall. I think at the best we've had it was 24.
So that is 2 Ships on these servers effectively (less than 2 Ships if we are currently at 16 still). Maybe you could get more players in since there are less Ships loaded (and those do make up the bulk of the strain), but that is a pretty small pool of Ships. So now we probably have to start talking about special smaller Maps just for this Mode so the two Ships have a more reasonable chance of coming into contact. You'd also have to completely rebalance the Galleon effectively making it a new ship type with that many people on it just for this mode which now starts cropping up the issues we had with Arena where updates to the game probably start having knock on effects to things and making it a nightmare again.
That's just a couple for you.
I think one of the intended fundamental challenges of this game is that whatever ship you choose, you always have slightly more jobs to keep on top of, than you have crew members to keep on top of them. You're supposed to feel slightly overwhelmed. You're supposed to feel like while you're doing one job, another is falling behind. That's part of the design.
Being good at the game isn't just about being good at each individual job (Cannons, bilge, helm, boarding etc.). It's about learning to balance them all. If you have enough people to cover every role so no one has to multitask, I think you would lose an important part of what makes the game challenging and fun.
7 out of 10
