server browser. easy to set up game modes to play with friends with a couple minutes set up time at most. ai enemies from tall tales and adventures. older world locations as special locations such as golden sands and old boot fort. allow us to spawn in npcs and make them do emotes and other such things for making custom story content. if possible walking paths we can map out. ai crews. spawning enemy ships in such as skeleton and ghost. be able to create generic pirate npcs to fill out the world with people.

give us tools to play. to see places. to access everything we can offer ( i understand disney stuff is likely a no but no excuse for the rest ) and have in depth story content possible. we have models. we have animation. you have the abilitys with cut scenes we been getting in season 17,18 and 20. give us these tools to allow causals to have fun. and story tellers to tell more storys. would be a game changer for this mode.

This game mode is so boring, and the new Plunder Pass is too. I'm done playing it. You should either do something significant or end the game, because there's no point if you can't even make new cosmetics. And add new sea creatures. If it's because of a lack of funds or care, there's no point in playing anymore for me, in my opinion.

Will a management API be made available to the public ?
The current commands currently made available are everything we need, but being able to automate ships setup (like the ship starting position or crate placement) would be huge.
In its current state, private PvP server are tedious to manage and player need to contact someone who has authority to setup a match.

Make the resource crates full on spawn
Allow Captained Ships in Custom Seas
The tool is very cool so far. Just needs a few more spawning features

Thank you for finally releasing this tool to the community (and not just streamers with 1k discord members).

SoT is all about player interactions. Going to have so much fun hosting and joining custom games!

I'm mostly looking foward to do RP sessions; home brewed quests, secret identities among the crews, territory control and evolution of lore - adapted to player choices!

Cheers!
Blasts 'Simian Ancres' (Blast Corps) while waiting for job shift to finish

P.S.: if Mike Chapman wants to try it I'd be honored!

@jpskywalker9332 said in Day One of Custom Seas, and Beyond:

@d3adst1ck well that's something they should get sorted out because it's a major request for this mode. The captain is an original character that was created for that and the monkey island area probably will come to custom seas but anything behind that remains to be seen.

Not much they can do because Disney holds both of those IPs, and it probably costs a considerable amount to license them for other uses (and Disney is also notoriously picky about how their IP is used).

Last ship standing takes place in the pirates life tall tale 1 area

I don't think it does? It's just a Sea of the Damned map they made; that isn't specifically PoTC IP.

@d3adst1ck well that's something they should get sorted out because it's a major request for this mode. The captain is an original character that was created for that and the monkey island area probably will come to custom seas but anything behind that remains to be seen. Last ship standing takes place in the pirates life tall tale 1 area and that's confirmed for custom seas so my hope is that POTC stuff is coming down the line but hey maybe the GMU will show up soon with massive ships and I'll forget all about it. Ghost ships we can't spawn either or use quicksail on. There are 3 Skelton lords that we can't spawn. 5 if I include the coral version of the gold hoarder and stitcher jim as an ashen lord. We can't spawn Flamehearts skull or any og tall tale items. We can't spawn any in game props or objects. I'm talking mostly about the set dressing stuff that would be cool to use for decorating or conjuring up new structures. The more custom seas becomes sort of like forge mode from Halo the better.

The inability to use captained ships is extremely disappointing

@jpskywalker9332 I don't know why they can't allow spawning the Shrouded Ghost, but it's definitely licensing when it comes to PoTC and Monkey Island.

@d3adst1ck need to hear it from them if that's the case that's my whole point here. We shouldn't have to speculate. If someone asks where is he shrouded ghost they should be able to have a dialogue and answer that question. It's just weird to draw the line at not being able to spawn that but within seconds we can spawn as many chest of fortunes, chest of legends, box of wonderous secrets, etc as we want. Just feels like a bait and switch the average person is going to see them market this with the keys to the seas tagline and think hey I can finally spawn this and the they open it up and it's like nah you really can't do that much. I was trying to spawn a meg inside of the legends tavern and couldn't but theirs a whole body of water their so it should work. Just struggling with stuff to do with this for the season. It's great for messing around but as a solo your kinda just screwed at the moment.

@captwrath Great work. Hope this is start of something great.

I was one of the first pirates asking for this option. I just wanted to be able to play with friends with two or more crews on two or more ships. And I was a bit overwhelmed when I got into game. I know UI for creating a server that hosts a game must be complex, but that's the art of making a good UI.

I was puzzled with other options. Spawning a creatures works like... ermm. instant. And it spawns them near me. I frankly expected some map where creatures will be spawned. And honestly it could be really crazy. What if I spawn numerous octopods, megalodons, skelly ships around some island which is infested with skeletons, to get to some amazing treasure. So far, I don't know how to do it. I am not even sure I can call friends to make 2 boats naval battle.

PS. on the other note. Why haven't Rare team, used the tools at their disposals, and create a fun and amazing events I mentioned. I feel Rare always look at this game as pure PVP. Despite me not liking PVP, it just needed a few tweaks to be success. Just delete adventure and sailing and roaming around aimlessly for PVP and create a endless war and battles. Log into game, chose PVP, pick your fraction, go to battle here on a map you must win the island.

Take notes from World of Tanks.. World of tanks would be kinda weird game if tanks roam around giant world and meet each other, sometimes engaging in battle, sometimes making friends, sometimes fishing alone. hey?

@captwrath I have yet to play it, but I want to make a game mode where all players have to catch one of each of the ten main types of fish to win, so any tool that will allow me to make that is incredibly appreciated. I want to make a competitive version of the fishES% speed run mode from the speed run website.

Please note that we dont all want to use Custom Seas. I hope next season you can focus on other parts of the game.

Does anyone else get kicked out of custom seas after 20 seconds? I get the Hazelnutbeard error every time, happened in Insider as well. I can't try it, can't do any of the deeds..

Hope to see allow spawning AI npc, so I can have background characters moving about. For cinema

I am hoping for these for custom seas in a future update:

Spawnable NPC ships from tall tales and world events to sail manually for fun, for making stories in legendary locations or for battle:

skeleton ships (sloop and galleon)
ghost ships
ghost brethren ships
ghost burning blade
ghost captain ships
the ferry of the damned
the black pearl
the flying Dutchman
ghost blackwyche
ghost morningstar
ghost wild rose
ghost headless monkey
lechuck's ghost ship
reborn burning blade

Port Merrick as a legendary location, with the Treasury from a dark deception being accessible with a lever next to the secret door rather then a hole, or perhaps the hole could work as a secret switch, where we can look at the relics down there from previous adventure from the past or roleplay

Tall tale locations from a pirates life and legend of monkey island as legendary locations for roleplay

Spawnable friendly creatures such as skeletons or phantoms to fight on your side

An AI crew option similar to the burning blade's obsidian Skeleton crew, if you're sailing alone on a galleon or any NPC ships, you'll have the ability to toggle an ai crew of skeletons or phantoms to repair and use cannons

Spawnable tall tale items

toggleable tall tale equipment in quest redial from tall tales and adventures such as enchanted compasses or tall tale books, enchanted compasses functionality option to point at a treasure item or location

Spawnable journals with custom writing and selectable covers (tall tale and adventures)

Spawnable NPC characters to talk to with custom text dialogue given by players

Custom pop up notifications for actions made by players

@jpskywalker9332 said in Day One of Custom Seas, and Beyond:

How are we supposed to feel like we are valued as insiders when you can't even tell me why the pirates life stuff and monkey island tall tale items are missing.

Probably licensing issues. They can't just use someone elses IP for whatever they want.

I’d quite like a future ability to spawn more than one world event at any given time in custom seas, for example fighting a skelly alliance with the burning blade. Is that ever going to be possible?

Also, what happened to Safer Seas fleets? Was that idea just scrapped entirely? I don't want to use Custom Seas if it doesn't give any rewards, even if it allows my friends and I to run multiple ships; I value my time and don't want to waste it not earning anything.

The update feels... alright, all world events being available is nice for a player that wants a chance to experience them without PVP being a worry.

But going forward, I think it would be a good idea to shift focus towards making a true private server experience available for Custom Seas - no commands or spawning of items, full gold, full reputation, commendations, captained ships available with the same invite-only format that Custom Seas has. If Rare is going to give players the tools and means to make their own experiences, then it should be more robust than it currently is.

Rare please, I want this game to survive and everyone here wants it to survive but you NEED to listen to the community now, please dont go doing things nobody asked for if someone asks for something 99% the community didn't ask for then dont do it. But i know every single person there at Rare is REALLY talented and sure custom seas is REALLY FUN but most of the player base does not want it, so the only thing you have to do Rare is listen to the community.

@theormondroyd

Please tell us what you would do with SoTForge with no file share, oh creativity czar

I don't know much about custom seas yet and haven't been able to try them, but I have a crazy idea. I know this might sound stupid, but what if there was an island editor tool you could make. Essentially my idea is that this would enable players to build their own island from the sea up and terrain edit and detail it however they'd like. Maybe players could even build structures on it with cannons and whatnot. This would really change the way that custom seas work and might be a bit out of the intended bounds that Rare has, but I still think it would be fun.

Custom servers are the most impactful thing you can bring here alongside a featured playlist of the communities best creations (you could cycle through one each month) otherwise this update isn’t going to be that impactful.

I think it’s cool it exists though, everyone here is saying it’s a useless feature but it’s not