My idea is to add a pack you can buy from Duke with dabloons that gives 300 cannonballs, max wood, max bananas.
It would last during the session and not persist beyond.
Buy resources with Dabloons
@xboxfanuk It would be better to buy with gold. Using a finite resource to buy a infinite consumable resource is kinda a trap for players. It's the reason I don't really like that you can buy gold with doubloons. Plus gold needs more uses and this would be a good one. It would make you actually think about whether you should spend all your gold on cosmetics and risk being to broke to stock your ship.
@xboxfanuk Although I understand where you're coming from, I really think this would be abused to no end. I wouldn't mind seeing a slight increase to the initial resource supplies on ships. With the new NPC threats, the 15 & 15 & 45 isn't cutting it on the bigger ships anymore.
@xboxfanuk said in Buy resources with Dabloons:
My idea is to add a pack you can buy from Duke with dabloons that gives 300 cannonballs, max wood, max bananas.
It would last during the session and not persist beyond.
I'm sure in Arena you'll be able to stock up on that stuff to your heart's content. Then you can go out and just PvP until the cows come home.
As for the open world? You want to go out and be a pirate, stock up on supplies like everyone else.The limited supplies in this game are a balancing factor.
Supplies are everywhere. I miss the old system where you had less storage. The fights were more fun.
I don't get the idea of wanting to be able to get ships pre-stocked or the idea of being able to buy supplies. You start at an outpost that has a lot of supplies. You pass and go to islands with supplies. You pass supplies floating in the water. Supplies, supplies, supplies. Everywhere.
@dislex-fx said in Buy resources with Dabloons:
You start at an outpost that has a lot of supplies. You pass and go to islands with supplies. You pass supplies floating in the water. Supplies, supplies, supplies. Everywhere.
You still have to take the time to gather them, but that's quick and easy if your whole crew is actively involved. A 4-pirate crew can easily empty out an outpost, fort, or floating barrels in about 5 minutes or less if they split up and know where all the barrels are.
I agree, you should be able to purchase ship supplies with gold, not doubloons. This is something that has been on my mind for quite a while. I have friends who would play... but the idea of spending 30 minutes to an hour stocking a boat because you have to in order to be prepped for random AI enemies does not excite most people, myself included. I would much rather be able to drop somewhere between 1-5k gold to stock a ship with 300 cannonballs, 100 planks, 100 bananas or be able to buy certain items a la carte.
TL;DR let me spend some of my gold instead of a lot of my time so I can start playing the game faster instead of foraging for necessities!
@dislex-fx said in Buy resources with Dabloons:
Supplies are everywhere. I miss the old system where you had less storage. The fights were more fun.
I don't get the idea of wanting to be able to get ships pre-stocked or the idea of being able to buy supplies. You start at an outpost that has a lot of supplies. You pass and go to islands with supplies. You pass supplies floating in the water. Supplies, supplies, supplies. Everywhere.
Oh my this, I miss having 100 supplies max per barrel.
I don't understand people who complain about having to spend 45 min - 1 hour to supply a ship and not having enough time to play the game itself... what's the point?
Do 1 or two rounds of 5/5/10 supplies and just get out and go on with your voyages or whatever. If 1-2 person jump in the water every time some barrels are on your way, or simply come back with a round of supplies after leaving an island, it just accumulates by itself, no need to hoard it all for an hour seriously...
Besides, while travelling from island to island, what else is there to do besides cannoning yourself on islands to scout for beached stuff, bottles and find supplies, or jump in the water to check out the barrels?
@xxxpirate01 That would be classed as 'pay-to-win' which rare have said they won't be doing with any of their MTX. Also the reason they haven't introduced buying resources (with doubloons or gold) is to keep the level playing field between a player who logs in for the first time and someone who played from day one and has millions of gold.
As people have already said, just do a couple of runs at your spawn outpost then set sail, you can get plenty by jumping off at barrels and mermaiding back to the ship.
I can certainly see the attraction of being able to do this, but I'm not a huge fan of it - first off it would discriminate between those pirates who've doubloons to spare or gold and those who are new to the seas/trying to save for specific items.
Secondly, while it can be a little tedious, a well prepared ship can make the difference between success and sinking, it's in our interests to put that bit of effort in and stock up. As others have mentioned, there's a wealth of sources, our favourite way is to either take a crate around an outpost and fill it or to jump in after barrels on our way to a destination.
What's more frustrating is losing a well stocked ship ;)I would say no to that, if you where able to buy supplies and roll out then you are ready for battle, no loading, no gathering, no time spent looking for items. If you did this and happened to be on a server with some lower level peeps they don't stand a chance against a ship that can get sunk and return 5 min later fully stocked for round 2.
With that being said maybe you could sell chest to a supplier that fills a barrel beside him with "X" amount of cannon balls, wood and bananas. So at least its fair for newer and older pirates.
@xxxpirate01 I hear what you're saying, but Rare has made a commitment about no microtransactions especially related to "pay to win" type micro transactions. Being able to buy doubloons would effectively negate that commitment. If you can buy doubloons, you never need worry about doing quests to get them in order to get the limited time items, either.
I thinkit would make much more sense to just be able to use the gold you accrue in game to purchase resources if it were possible.
@xboxfanuk any advantage that is bought based on time spent in the game, doubloons or gold is against the spirit of All pirates are equal.
A session starts off the same for everyone, whether you are a legend with millions or a sailor with no previous experience.
The ability to skip supplying of the ship with the ingame currency that persists beyond your session is a no brainer to say, No, thank you for the contribution to the forums, but no.
@katttruewalker said in Buy resources with Dabloons:
I can certainly see the attraction of being able to do this, but I'm not a huge fan of it - first off it would discriminate between those pirates who've doubloons to spare or gold and those who are new to the seas/trying to save for specific items.
Secondly, while it can be a little tedious, a well prepared ship can make the difference between success and sinking, it's in our interests to put that bit of effort in and stock up. As others have mentioned, there's a wealth of sources, our favourite way is to either take a crate around an outpost and fill it or to jump in after barrels on our way to a destination.
What's more frustrating is losing a well stocked ship ;)This pretty much sums it all up for me Katt.
Why would a crew ever worry about barrels again? Especially when contesting forts - just go and pay to win for supplies and reap more rewards to earn that gold back.I hate losing a ship that is well stocked as you have already said. I even cost a crew dearly once when I accidentally blew up the boat when sailing with @J4dio and @DeviOusDogz as we couldn't fight off an enemy crew when we needed to most about 15 minutes later...
@xxxpirate01 said in Buy resources with Dabloons:
@vtb-thumper I don’t mind play like £5.99 for a 100 dabloons on the store.
Rare has stated when the currency was introduced it is never going to be a micro transaction.
If a money currency is added it will be a new one and should be used purely on cosmetics.
Real life financial situations influence gameplay... pay to win.
No thank you.
@xboxfanuk said in Buy resources with Dabloons:
My idea is to add a pack you can buy from Duke with dabloons that gives 300 cannonballs, max wood, max bananas.
It would last during the session and not persist beyond.
As much as I like the idea, it puts an unfair advantage to new players.
I think it would unbalance the game. Thing is when youre out on the seas you need supplies therefore you stop at islands or floating barrels or shipwrecks. If you were to get a.fully stocked ship it would defeat the purpose of stopping at islands and looking around. Who knows you might miss that box of wonderous secrets in devils roar, or missout on some of that beached loot. You know how many times me and my crew have turned around because.one of us hopped off to an island to grab supplies and saw a mermaid or the odd captain's chest with a skull or two. Not to mention when would you ever get cursed balls if you never have to look for supplies? You'd be looking at barrels anyways. Lots of reasons why this wouldn't work and unbalance the game. Not everything can be easy or given to you. Gotta work for it. I do agree that the way the barrels were when it came to.supplies was alot more fun then it is now.
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