Weaponised wildlife

@goedecke-michel lol... oh come on, it could be fun. It would give animal crates a whole new use, a new reason to collecting animals and at the end of the session you'd sell what you had to a merchant.

It would have to be done in a cartoon, comic way and in no way bloody or cruel. I mean, blowing up frogs is waaaaaay worse. At least these animals wouldn't die, they'd just fly

@galactic-geek This is a comic game which is supposed to be humorous. I mean, we shoot ourselves out of cannons, in this world, being shot out of a cannon obviously never leads to actual physical harm.
I don't see how if this is done in the "right" way, it would promote cruelty to animals. Okay, if chickens were to splatter against the hulls of ships in a puff of blood and feathers, then yeah, it would be awful... But if they were to bounce like us pirates do and swim to the nearest island essentially escaping captivity and a life within a tiny wooden crate, I would say the pirate shooting them would be releasing them back into the wild, saving the animals from a cruel and miserable life.

@gundy-the-shark Yeah, I remember seeing a clip of someone who had boarded someone's sloop to find that they were a very busy merchant pirate. The sloop had a HUGE collection of animal crates all full of pigs, chickens and snakes. The captain of the ship wasn't with the sloop at the time.

For the boarding pirate this cargo had very little value, so instead of being a descent player and leaving the merchant grinder alone, he just started swinging at the animals with his cutlass killing every last one. I thought the behaviour was disgusting especially as the food update hadn't happened when I saw the clip. He literally did it to ruin someone's day and get pleasure from someone else's misery

@gundy-the-shark having said that. If a psychopath did start hoarding crates of animals. There are far worse things they could do than release them back into the wild by shooting them from a cannon... They could drown them, slay them with their cutlass or blow them up with a powder keg and then cook and eat their carcass.

I'd say releasing them into the wild after a short, comic style flight would be a kindness rather than a cruelty. (Perhaps change the chicken instakill... i can see how impaling a pirate with a chicken could be thought of as cruel 😂)

@guybrush3pwood2 I have to object. Shooting is fine, but no chicken (or pig, or snake) should deal more damage than a hit with a human. Pigs and chicken should leave red marks on the deck at best.

Other objections:

• Direct hits with cannonballs are already OHKO.
• Trying to snipe other players beyond the current max range of cannons doesn't sound like an enhancement of gameplay to me.
• "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" Intervention (Why is their official abbreviation not allowed?)
• Dislike Angry Birds

@crimsonraziel yeah... kinda changed my mind about the chicken instakill. Thought it would be deemed as cruel to impale a pirate on a chicken beak.
Lol, the angry bird thing made me laugh.

I kinda liked the "seeking" idea. So you could veiw the flight from the animals perspective. I'd use it for scooping out islands amd exploring places. Be nice to be able to fly off in cannon without actually leaving the boat and having to swim all the way back

@cookieconsumer6 i don't know how pets are going to work, I might be wrong but i thought they were going to be micro transactions with real money... i don't think Rare would want to give someone who had paid to have a cosmetic an advantage over all the other players. Perhaps they are planning on having a limited amount of pets available without spending real cash... no idea

This would be dope and slapping people with fish. Like a kickback instead of an attack

@cookieconsumer6 I'm all up restrictions and different idea's how this could work. I think the snake thing could give the solo slooper an invaluable defence against attack. But yeah i see you point... 20 or 30 snakes landing on your ship would be too much. If you were stationary you'd be instakillled nearly everytime you respawned. Perhaps over time the animals could naturally jump ship and swim for an island?

@guybrush3pwood2 Some people have ideas to drastically change and improve the game, adding value to unappreciated aspects. They get 0 votes, and little attention.
You suggest putting a chicken in a cannon and get 11 votes and 21 comments.
I don't know what masterminded technique you used to brainwash the Sea of Thieves community, but you have my admiration for it.

That being said, ever since the Hunter's Call, there's not a lot of value in keeping chickens and chicken crates, so being able to shoot them from cannons would give them more value. From a gameplay standpoint, this is a brilliant idea that balances old gameplay mechanics. I think they should function identically to cannonballs, but your opponents get that animal on their ship. Just because it's incredibly hilarious. A pirate, in a panicked state, trying to survive, and then suddenly there's a chicken on deck in front of a hole. Snakes would become super valuable through this too. Maybe they should give animals the ability to swim when the ship sinks so that the chicken isn't condemned to the bottom of the ocean.

@gundy-the-shark said in Weaponised wildlife:

This may lend itself to animal cruelty, so I have a counter-proposal: how about being able to release animals from their cages (especially on ships)?

I want this so badly. I want to travel the seas, a ship full of chickens. I want to be the feared Chicken captain. Other players would be so confused. It would give chicken crates more value too.

@nefnoj hahaha! The start of your post made me laugh.
Ever since i started playing and i went up to a cannon with something in my hand and I got the message "you cannot put that item in the cannon" I've wanted to be able to put whatever i want in one.
Say you could fill one with fruit and it would spray fruit gunk all over their boat. Anyone on deck would get the same screen effect they get when they've had sick thrown at them.

I guess being told "you can't do that" made me think "ahhh but what if i could?"

@guybrush3pwood2 I love the way you think. You should be put in charge of game development.

I like the idea to release pigs on to ships to wreak havoc on food stocks, and the idea to shoot chickens in the sky for a Birdseye view. Snakes can already be utilized in a defensive manner, but the possibility to release snakes onboard would be fun too.

@nefnoj lol. I wish!!!! Guess Rare probably likes the relationship. Idea's for freeeeeeee.
I'd love to see something which looked like one of my ideas in the game.

I like this creatively original Idea, and it would make sailing hilarious because you know very well there would be ships full of nothing but livestock. I can see it now, dying to a chicken and telling the crew over mic "Guys, I've been clucked"

What if instead of going for resources, the pig would just bounce players off the deck? It would tie in great with the 'heat seeker' mechanic as well as stay in the category of using animals as projectiles in the spirit of PvP, and would be a good reason to implement animals into the Arena.