More Piracy Incentives!

Yeah let's create even more situations so your PC buddies can grief us EVEN MORE than they do now Rare!!!

do whatever you want AFTER that opt out is in place and actually WORKING.

@wickeddeath
I'm xbox, your argument just died.

@ultmateragnarok said in More Piracy Incentives!:

@xxcaptmichaelxx

Buying ship size changes or resources is linear progression, which Rare doesn't want. We'll probably see ship size changes in the game at some point, but they won't cost gold. As for resources, go find some shipwrecks, strongholds, rowboats, Barrels of Plenty, outposts, or even player ships and get some. They're not hard to get, buying them isn't needed due to its already heavily discussed side effects.

Well I know resources are easy enough to collect, and finding a storage crate on an island is reasonably likely, yet I feel the process for collecting stock needs to be jumpstarted a bit. Why not use gold to purchase stock?

Barring that why not just allow a player to purchase an empty storage crate? One crate per session for sure, otherwise someone will buy tones in an attempt to crash a server. It'd make initial resource gathering way faster and less laborious.

I don't understand the issue with shifting a ship type mid session though.

I agree that stealing the treasure needs to be in commendations, as Athena's Fortune already does. Perhaps the Bilge Rat Adventures and Mercenary Voyages could also go back to their roots, with the Bilge Rats orchestrating events between pirates once the nonsense with these skeleton lords dies down, like they did with the Skeleton Thrones, the gunpowder skeletons (supposedly they created these by burying kegs near skeletons), or the Cursed Crews event.

Yeah I feel they need a whole new page of commendations dedicated to theft.

@ultmateragnarok said in More Piracy Incentives!:

@xxcaptmichaelxx

From what others have said, it seems the game can't easily change crew size anyways, but it's not the kind of feature you should need to play for some time to get. Any player can simply leave and rejoin with a larger ship why lock skipping the loading screens away from newer players who don't have the spare gold to spend on it?

Well in my experiences I've had many alliance situations in which people need to eventually quit, or don't have enough spots on a ship for other friends to play. This leaves us in need of either more people to handle large ships, or with ships too small to accommodate new players from joining. Being able to switch the ship type would alleviate both issues at the same time.

Whether or not it should cost gold could still be up for debate, but I know for sure that a lot of people would pay in order to preserve their stock when switching while maintaining the current server and alliance. For the ease of the developers the current ship could simply be scuttled and a new ship type should be accessible via mermaid. The stock can easily be stored in a crate and later transferred to the new ship.

For collecting resources, it's partially about progression advantages, and also about how it would affect gameplay. Doing contested events, such as the FotD or some of the newer ashen fleets/strongholds, would become nearly impossible because crews can buy resources and come back with a full ship, whether they just sank, were hopping servers, or simply neglected to prepare. Those at the event now have to fend off well-stocked ships constantly, rather than barely stocked ships and stocked ships which lose their resources if they sink in battle.

Well you're right, just trying to come up with ideas for gold. The black market works ok, but there needs to be something more.