Buy a island and start your own outpost.

@aenima123 said in Buy a island and start your own outpost.:

Imagine you'd have a treasure room in your lair, that you could fill with gold and shiny stuffs (think of the good old pirate cliche with an open chest full of coins, gems, with golden chalises, etc.), you would buy those prestigious items to make your treasure room looks full and nice and to reflect your success.
That would be what any other crew could stole from you.

Hmm here is where I see the problem - I would love to be able to build out my own treasure stash like you described. It could be in a cave, or a private island or a fortress or even buried in the sand somewhere. But, at the same time I would hate it if somebody could just come in and steal all my hard work just because I wasn't home or didn't have enough skeletons guarding it. So facing that dilemma, I would probably choose not to build out the stash room at all because I would much rather spend time doing voyages then constantly worrying about someone looting my precious stash and losing my mind. So if I don't have a stash, then I don't have a problem. It's kind of like choosing to avoid a headache by not hitting your head :-)

@sprucetexas689 Seeing how Rare has handled concepts like losing your ship (temporary inconvenience with no permanent penalty or loss), I would expect that they would not implement an outpost where you can lose anything you aren't willing to. A sort of "I dare you" treasure room fits a nice bill, where you can only lose what you're willing to give up. Perhaps build in some incentive (something like gaining interest on whatever you store there perhaps?) to PUT something in there as well.

@eriberto6 said in Buy a island and start your own outpost.:

@frodj said in Buy a island and start your own outpost.:

This could be cool, but depending on how the servers work it might not actually go so well. Plus you would have to consider how many players would want their own island. More pirates would want islands than there are islands!

I was going to say that.

So for an instance of the game, where there are only a set number of crews, only spawn in one island for each crew. Should keep the number down so long as they don't dramatically up the number of ships per server.

@labarge28 said in Buy a island and start your own outpost.:

@sprucetexas689 Seeing how Rare has handled concepts like losing your ship (temporary inconvenience with no permanent penalty or loss), I would expect that they would not implement an outpost where you can lose anything you aren't willing to. A sort of "I dare you" treasure room fits a nice bill, where you can only lose what you're willing to give up. Perhaps build in some incentive (something like gaining interest on whatever you store there perhaps?) to PUT something in there as well.

Exactly. To me, the first incentive to store luxury items into the treasure room would be for cosmetic reasons. I was talking about items you could buy earlier, but it doesn't have to be the only way, it could be items you find when exploring the world, items you could not sell, so really, their only value would be cosmetic and somehow "sentimental".
If you don't want to make it too punishing, your NPCs could respawn after a certain amount of time, maybe the attacking crew could only pick up a certain amount of item max (let's say 4) before the treasure room close itself. There is a lot of options not to make it too punishing.

@labarge28 said in Buy a island and start your own outpost.:

@eriberto6 said in Buy a island and start your own outpost.:

@frodj said in Buy a island and start your own outpost.:

This could be cool, but depending on how the servers work it might not actually go so well. Plus you would have to consider how many players would want their own island. More pirates would want islands than there are islands!

I was going to say that.

So for an instance of the game, where there are only a set number of crews, only spawn in one island for each crew. Should keep the number down so long as they don't dramatically up the number of ships per server.

That would be a bit weird because you can't just make appear/disappear islands from the general map.
I was thinking more of something like that : If the max number of crews on a server is 10 (let's pretend it's 10), there would be 15 "lairable" islands with names, position etc. Like any other island we know today, but the only role of this type of island would be to be a potential lair for a crew. (i think there is enough room on the actual map we've seen on the alpha to fit 15 tiny islands, there is so much rocky things coming out of the water a bit everywhere).

When you join an instance, if you've got a lair, you don't spawn to an outpost anymore but directly to your lair, randomly on one on the 15 "lairable" islands of the map (randomly to make it more simple).