Farming System and maybe a New Company

Nobody is saying go full minecraft, but a simple minecraft esque crafting system and plants and animals with harvestables that have purpose and use in the world from creating food and consumables to utility items like being able to craft a movable ammo crate or unique cannon ammo out of coconuts, etc.

Give us a light economy and rig the npc to make it fluctuate with the days of the month, to incentivize real merchanting to facilitate more realistic piracy, gives reason to make trades if there are rare versions like the shrouded ghost for animals and plants and other harvestables as seen in the merchant crates, if the item pool has enough depth then we will have a lot of combinations of these ingredients and a small pool of 25-40 base resources can allow thousands of unique recipes/outcomes to be added to the game over time.

This isnt what the entire gameplay loop would be if they added stuff like this, it wouldnt remove gameplay, it would just add to the variety of what happens in between more expected pirate gameplay like treasure hunting or combat.

Idk why people shoot this idea down so much, it makes perfect sense for this game and is the best way to make the world feel alive and full of various things to encounter, along the journey.

We have the shovels and buckets already, at the very least a bunch more animals with harvestable parts and plants that can be watered to make bloom which increases time spent harvesting but increases yield as well, would be fitting.

@thevolta89 thank you! I think just making the game support this depth of pve activity with the same level of freedom that pvp is supported, they will actually incentivize more friendliness through things like trading and actual unique stories (things like people who just encountered a shrouded ghost telling another crew about it) than broken alliance systems duplicating gold or forcing co op of multiple crews like the hungering deep event.

I would have so much more reason to ally with players and devise trade routes for rare and exotic plants and animals, because they want the title/cosmetic for the commendation for rare black bellied gold spotted salamanders, and i want the one for eating the most rare blue sea salmon rather than selling them, etc etc.

The game needs to have a wealth of these types of goals and connections between them, with subsequent depth of possibility occuring because of it. Like you could sell those fish for a lot rather than eating them when you dont need to, except to get the commendation, and the fish are less predicatably caught than the salamanders, so you have to make an uneven trade based on current prices and your bargaining skills and knowledge of item value in the game. You’ll get your swindlers and your saints and both will provide interesting gameplay.

@kenji-salk thank you, i think simple “cause and effect” crafting is what this game needs, and in that sense you could put that label on things like the planks being used to repair the ship or taking a bucket of water out of the ship, but this could happen on islands with nodes for all the various merchant crate resources we see, and then crafting could be facilitated with island based “minigame” activities that are fairly simple to learn but harder to master and require teamwork to increase efficiency. Things like brewing grog or a minigame where you dry leaves on some sort of contraption for tea crates, or islands with banana plantations to harvest/be more pirate and pillage.

Things like cooking and fuel for the stove being a thing and items like volcanic stone being harvestable only in the roar but used for creating grapeshot ammo for the cannons but can also be used as a better fuel than planks, which should have an island dedicated to their creation where players can stock up on planks by working there or something.

Stuff like this adds so much purpose to the actions that players make, the locations they visit, and the stories that can be created imo, this year is looking big already, maybe by the end? Lol

@thevolta89 i bought ark but never really got into it, they pump out content and updates fast but the quality imo is low, if im going to play a game with bad animations and hitboxes, and questionable ai (though i wouldnt say bad) id rather play WoW or Runescape lol, neither of which ive played in years.

I just think for a game about piracy, and made by rare, providing an item economy and having some “wonky” rare themed minigames for item enhancement and production would not only improve the core game loop but is something rare as a studio even with new people could do to add their little brand of humor and they have experience with plants blooming for viva pinata, etc.

Content like ive described seems light hearted and not too hardcore for rares vision, while also opening up a lot of possibility for players who do enjoy the more hardcore aspects like physical map tables and open pvp.

@r3d50v13t said in Farming System and maybe a New Company:

...... Play Minecraft, I thought this was a joke or troll post, and reading the comments you all just blow my mind, and not a good way
I can't believe this is even a suggestion for this type of game
You're pirates
Why is this difficult to comprehend?

Why is it difficult for you to understand we just want more fun pve to compliment the pvp and social interaction better? The fetch quests are fun for you after the 1st or 1000th time? The cargo runs qualify as in depth merchanting to you?

Pirates didnt just sail around killing each other, they worked schemes and sent spies onto plantations to gain intel, they did all sorts of things involving working and stopping at islands for extended periods and all of them likely knew a good amount of carpentry and agricultural skills, etc. people were just generally more useful than they are now though lol not just pirates..

But if you dont want to farm or fish or cook fine try to steal mine lol, we can see who the better pirate is when that day comes. My bet is on the pirate bold enough to risk attempting to farm with a server full of pirates.

@thevolta89 Light farming system would be cool, nothing complicated and i was thinking maybe instead of planting your crops on islands we can do it on the ship.
Just grab pots put in there seeds and you get get flower or simple vegetables to eat.
Plus you can decorate your ship with them or sell them.
It wont be farming simulator just a funny option you can bring a flower to another ship as a token of friendship then equip a blanderbuss and go into full homicide mode!