On-deck activities

What am I supposed to do now?

• Fishing
• Stocking ship
• Organize resources
• Cook
• Barrels in Water looting
• Keeping a LOOK OUT! for ships and such..

you know a few things...

What are you asking for?

I feel like the only way they could add more deck-hand activities that are useful - and not just more work for the sake of it - would be to add a crafting element to the game. Nothing complex, but here's my basic thoughts.

• Fruit salad...combine fruits for overheal benefits. Like Combine 2 bananas and get 20% overheal. Or a Mango and a banana for 40% overheal. Something like that.

• Cursed ball/firebomb crafting...use Flames of Fate, the stove, and cannonballs to craft cursed balls and firebombs. Don't love this one as much as it could get OP.

Outside of crafting, there's not much they could do to add "activities" that aren't just more work for managing your ship.

As it stands, when I'm going from A to B, I am typically hopping off to every Island, floating barrels, and shipwreck I see to gather supplies....and I'm fine with that

I would agree that we need some stuff to do when sailing, obviously just small activities as generally you don't need to sail too far.

Here are some ideas:

• Games table, a table where you and your crew can play cards or dice, etc. Games would be over relatively fast, so you could easily have a round between islands.

• Duelling, this has been mentioned previously, and it is a good idea. My thinking is that in your weapons locker you should have 'training' weapons, just simple non customisable versions of the 4 weapons. Once equipped, you can be damaged by your crew, IF they have these same weapons. This way you can minimise open crew trolls and have something to do.

• Ship Maintenance, this idea would be so that you can grant your ship certain buffs by doing tasks in board. E.g. scrubbing the deck makes you move faster when on board, or cleaning the cannons allows you to fire them faster.

These are just ideas, but if any were to be introduced (especially duelling) I think it would definitely make sailing between islands a bit more interesting.

@wolfmanbush Drop off at random islands, grab ressources, fish and cook. Do that over and over again as I have and you'll realize how much of an empty shell this full time job actually is

@burnbacon You can delete ressources organization, lookout for ship cause those take a few seconds. When it comes to the other stuff after some time it just becomes so damn boring and you wish there was more to the pirate life than just shooting yourself in an island to grab random resources...

@sshteeve As replied to others, take a step back and you'll see those activities are empty shells

@galactic-geek There's knowing how to sail and then there's you trying to see how fast your ship can go in what amount of time. All you pretty much need to know is how the wind mechanics work between every ship and you should be alr, my point is actually having something more that's both fun and productive.

@mostexpendable Fun and productive activities to do on deck, cause at some point you always just end up sitting here doing nothing cause you're fully stacked up and the sails are angled

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@burnbacon You can delete ressources organization, lookout for ship cause those take a few seconds. When it comes to the other stuff after some time it just becomes so damn boring and you wish there was more to the pirate life than just shooting yourself in an island to grab random resources...

Few seconds is all it takes to sink a ship from a bunch of players who are playing games inside the ship. Keep a look out 99%

I mean you can fish and still keep a look out. You can chat with your crew and still keep a look out. But if your sitting in a chair below deck, out of sight. Your doomed.

Enough people complain already about being sunk because “they weren’t paying attention”. This would just make it worse.

I have this image in my head of them adding unmarked islands that take 30 minutes of sailing the open seas without another island in sight. You use the stars and directions like sail towards the warrior for a day then turn to the fish for a quarter day to reach your destination. Someone who need to stay in the crows nest looking for the island but the rest of the crew wouldn’t have much to do.

In this scenario they’d need to add dice or playing cards to help pass the time.

@burnbacon Hell you don't even need a spyglass to be able to do a 360 of the horizon every 5 minutes to check if there's any ships around, it literally glows in the horizon with or without lantern.

@ghostpaw You're blaming the feature itself for being added, as far as I'm concerned it's your crew to be blamed for this then. If that was a problem that means the devs wouldn't have implemented it properly to prevent that issue. Playing cards is never an option I gave either

@flamenoir4280 Tetris?

@galactic-geek said in On-deck activities:

@flamenoir4280 said in On-deck activities:

@sshteeve As replied to others, take a step back and you'll see those activities are empty shells

I actually find them quite cathartic and meditative.

That's the beauty of sailing. Solo I feel the same way unless I am encountering issues with other crews trying to stick it to me. When you play with other crew mates we normally talk and the such to pass the time. Two vastly different but enjoyable experiences.

@galactic-geek After some time of just doing this it's just not as interesting. Shoot yourself there, grab this, repeat... There's an opportunity to add content where there is none here, to inspire more to the pirate life and sea adventures you could have

@qu1etone My point is not just random games in the game, I mean something both productive and more interesting than the stuff we have rn

@galactic-geek Not when the task is so dumbly easy as the highly limited stuff we have today

@galactic-geek True, but it's then only a matter of time before what's fun becomes boring, or what is fun could become even more fun if you were to provide more to it

@hijack-hayes This kind of additional content would be aimed towards the many crews who just don't talk much or whether there's nothing else to do or talk about. So that the game experience could stay enjoyable for all members of the community :D

@galactic-geek I've been doing it for 3 years and it's beginning to be a little bit of a backpain, I suppose like 90% of the things in this forum I'll be ignored and have to keep on blindly doing it over and over again but I'm just thinking that a little change in terms of productivity would be very nice to welcome