@galactic-geek Ressources, lookout, and that's pretty much it. But when it comes to things like these my crew would already be enough to tell how it was gonna go, like I'm always thinking : resources are primary for a fight, but the crew is all that you have. In one hand you've got open crews who I'd stack up tons but we'd sink to anything at all whatever I tried doing (and no, I saw the guys coming). And when it comes to serious sessions w/ my lad, we'd already be pretty much stacked up on everything and other crews were the resource providers (especially since the addition of crates to buy at the outpost).
It doesn't feel like it changes the outcome that much...

@ghostpaw "You actually didn’t really give any options. Just vague ideas. What? Mini games to swab the decks? Complex systems to load the cannons? What are you looking for?" Looking to get my point through, something that's both good and productive, a new mechanic, I don't have anything I want to add to the game I just want to give ideas Rare could go from because whatever I say there'll always be a downfall to it making impossible to be added to the game. So just start off proposing the idea and let the community discuss what's the best for it

@ghostpaw sounds good ^^
"They have given us stuff to do while sailing already." I bet they wouldn't mind doing it again then

" In the meantime people could be fishing, cooking, stocking up, watching for threats, watching out for floating treasure and explosive barrels, and so on." And that's my point about it, it's fun and all for a couple of years but then it just becomes a back pain and nothing more

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@galactic-geek I've been doing it for 3 years and it's beginning to be a little bit of a backpain, I suppose like 90% of the things in this forum I'll be ignored and have to keep on blindly doing it over and over again but I'm just thinking that a little change in terms of productivity would be very nice to welcome

I feel like you're ignoring all of the things they have added in those 3 years.

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@ghostpaw You're blaming the feature itself for being added, as far as I'm concerned it's your crew to be blamed for this then. If that was a problem that means the devs wouldn't have implemented it properly to prevent that issue.

Adding more tasks to keep the crew occupied is not needed. They have given us stuff to do while sailing already. There is actually a lot to attend to in the few minutes it takes to get from island to island. You might have a point if a journey lasted 30 minutes or more, but unless you have a lot of things going wrong, even getting from Sailor’s Bounty to somewhere in the Roar is about 15 minutes or less. And that isn’t a journey people would make that often. In the meantime people could be fishing, cooking, stocking up, watching for threats, watching out for floating treasure and explosive barrels, and so on.

Playing cards is never an option I gave either

You actually didn’t really give any options. Just vague ideas. What? Mini games to swab the decks? Complex systems to load the cannons? What are you looking for?

BTW, see how helpful it is when someone quotes what they are responding to? Help us out here. It is getting hard to connect your replies with what you are replying to. It will help us discuss this more.

@flamenoir4280 now ain’t that an image. Lol

@hijack-hayes he is 👀

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@galactic-geek I've been doing it for 3 years and it's beginning to be a little bit of a backpain, I suppose like 90% of the things in this forum I'll be ignored and have to keep on blindly doing it over and over again

You know you're not forced to play, right? Joe Neate doesn't hold a blunderbuss to anyone's head urging them to play.

@galactic-geek Yet the human nature isn't made that way for most.

@galactic-geek going into much further details when it comes to the stuff you can do would just be overcomplicating things, you know how to fish? great then do it, if that's brown then take it off the stove, shoot yourself there, grab random stuff there and there and do it all over again. Limited to things like these...

@galactic-geek I've been doing it for 3 years and it's beginning to be a little bit of a backpain, I suppose like 90% of the things in this forum I'll be ignored and have to keep on blindly doing it over and over again but I'm just thinking that a little change in terms of productivity would be very nice to welcome

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@galactic-geek True, but it's then only a matter of time before what's fun becomes boring, or what is fun could become even more fun if you were to provide more to it

Some find safety in monotony.

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@galactic-geek Not when the task is so dumbly easy as the highly limited stuff we have today

Could you be more specific (and quote me), please? I need a frame of reference because I don't always have the time to back-scroll.

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@galactic-geek After some time of just doing this it's just not as interesting. Shoot yourself there, grab this, repeat... There's an opportunity to add content where there is none here, to inspire more to the pirate life and sea adventures you could have

Except my sebse of adventure may differ from yours. I've been doing this for 4vyears, and still enjoy it. For others, such as yourself, that may not be the case. Regardless, I hope you find the Goldilocks zone you're looking for, either upon this Sea or elsewhere.

@hijack-hayes This kind of additional content would be aimed towards the many crews who just don't talk much or whether there's nothing else to do or talk about. So that the game experience could stay enjoyable for all members of the community :D

@galactic-geek True, but it's then only a matter of time before what's fun becomes boring, or what is fun could become even more fun if you were to provide more to it

@galactic-geek Not when the task is so dumbly easy as the highly limited stuff we have today

@qu1etone My point is not just random games in the game, I mean something both productive and more interesting than the stuff we have rn

@galactic-geek After some time of just doing this it's just not as interesting. Shoot yourself there, grab this, repeat... There's an opportunity to add content where there is none here, to inspire more to the pirate life and sea adventures you could have

@galactic-geek said in On-deck activities:

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@sshteeve As replied to others, take a step back and you'll see those activities are empty shells

I actually find them quite cathartic and meditative.

That's the beauty of sailing. Solo I feel the same way unless I am encountering issues with other crews trying to stick it to me. When you play with other crew mates we normally talk and the such to pass the time. Two vastly different but enjoyable experiences.

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@mostexpendable Fun and productive activities to do on deck, cause at some point you always just end up sitting here doing nothing cause you're fully stacked up and the sails are angled

Fun vs. Boredom is always going to be a matter of subjective context based upon who you ask, so I'll just say this - it's better to do something rather than nothing.

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@galactic-geek There's knowing how to sail and then there's you trying to see how fast your ship can go in what amount of time. All you pretty much need to know is how the wind mechanics work between every ship and you should be alr, my point is actually having something more that's both fun and productive.

"All you pretty much need to know" versus specifics is what sets the pirates apart from the sailors. To be a sailor, "all you pretty much need to know" is this. But to be a pirate, it takes oh so much more.

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@sshteeve As replied to others, take a step back and you'll see those activities are empty shells

I actually find them quite cathartic and meditative.

@flamenoir4280 Tetris?