<![CDATA[Did Rare pick ships out of a hat?]]>

I love the game, and this doesn't really matter, but sometimes I wonder if Rare designed their ships and then picked names out of a hat. The galleon has neither the beakhead or the lantern rigged rear mast that are the distinguishing features of a galleon. The brigantine would require the mainsail to be gaff rigged rather than square rigged. Its bizarre rig is closer to a brig, but is really pretty nonsensical. And the sloop is so far away from a sloop that it's not even worth going into.

So how did Rare assign these names? Did they pick at random? Did they only know the names of 3 types of ship?

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@william-flint 🤣 In 2007 Disney published a turn based mmorpg based off the Pirates of the Caribbean films

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This was their take on a galleon

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Interesting from a historical point of view, but otherwise...

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@uribedh ouch. What is the abomination in the second picture from?

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@william-flint @NWO-Azcrack

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That's the cog. A limited 10th to 13th century trade ship.

And below is a Frigate with front chase cannons, not built to carry cargo but to fight :D
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@william-flint
Ye i seen that. Friggin looks exactly like our sloop. Wonder why they didnt call it a cog

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@nwo-azcrack look up a cog if you want to see something close to our "sloop"

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THAT ought to be what a War Sloop looks like. The game has basic sails, but at least it uses the mechanism of wind for speed boosts, so I'll give SoT some kudos there!

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@william-flint
I went and looked up the ships to see what ur talking about. Wow they all look different....

BUT THEN i saw the sloop o war..... looks like a galleon lol. Well a SoT galleon anyway

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@dislex-fx I also noticed the flintlocks and blunders are way more accurate and way quicker to reload than in real life.

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The magical skeletons aren't anything like the real ones either.

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