The profound lack of “Open Seas”

  • Dairboi
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    With all the little additions to the game over the years, more and more stuff have been added to the map. The most obstructing of all being massive stone arches

    You can never really sail your ship into the endless horizon in search for new adventure.

    I think this is a larger problem than we let on

    The map just feels so, congested and full

    I think what can help alleviate this:
    Create a sizeable expansion to the map, with only 2 large islands
    Maybe a pirate themed one and a Naval/Royal themed one

    Have the islands be quite far apart, and nothing in between just waters. Splash tiny uncharted islands in there for flavor at most

    The game just lacks that sense of adventure, mystery and beauty that open waters provide

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  • Foambreaker
    Sailor

    Sail along the far south edge from all the way east to all the way west and get back top us.

    Passage making is not all it is cracked up to be.

  • JimmyDSpuffy
    Sailor

    There's a whole area to the south of the map that is mostly just long stretch of ocean. I think people call it the Deep Sea.

  • Dairboi
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @crowedhunter yes I’m familiar with it. I just wish there was more of a reason to be out there. Some sort of destination beyond it.
    That’s why I felt like two really cool islands in the middle of nowhere can bring a lot of flavor

  • WolfManbush
    Champion

    Not much interest in it in my experience.

    I've spent a lot of time over the years in open sea, hunting megs, doing my own thing, reading on the shipwrecks, rarely see anyone else doing it.

    Typically the activity is ships coming to attack me out of curiosity lol

    People really just don't do much of that sort of stuff in my experience. Especially since so many sail in groups, tough to get a whole group to approach the environment in that kinda way, someone always gets bored.

  • JimmyDSpuffy
    Sailor

    @dairboi Well for me, I go down there to fish for keys while still being available for meg, skellies, and Kraken.

  • Foambreaker
    Sailor

    @dairboi said in The profound lack of “Open Seas”:

    @crowedhunter yes I’m familiar with it. I just wish there was more of a reason to be out there. Some sort of destination beyond it.
    That’s why I felt like two really cool islands in the middle of nowhere can bring a lot of flavor

    "...sail your ship into the endless horizon..."

    I found a reason in your OP 🐳

  • Dairboi
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @foambreaker I mean there’s a difference

    That’s like me saying I want to go on a hike and you tell me I should get a treadmill

  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
    Insider

    You can never really sail your ship into the endless horizon in search for new adventure.

    Head toward the Shroud....

    I think this is a larger problem than we let on

    Hmm? Explain

    The map just feels so, congested and full

    Most of the map is blocked by the shroud, at one point the DR was hidden.

    Create a sizeable expansion to the map, with only 2 large islands

    Until (if ever) the game drops the old XBOX one and heads further to the Xbox series X, it cant due to limitations.

    he game just lacks that sense of adventure, mystery and beauty that open waters provide

    Are we even in the same game?

  • Dairboi
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @burnbacon
    They’ve said multiple times it has nothing to do with the old gen xboxs

    But if u want a band aid fix literally annihilate the whole lava lands fix

    And if not, open ocean for miles I doubt would generate as much lag as you think

  • ParrotLord6426
    Master
    Insider

    While I do like the more recent additions of mermaid temples and spanish forts, the game feels very crowded for me ever since then.

  • D3ADST1CK
    Vanguard
    Insider
    Founder

    I think they could probably remove the portal arch stones and just have the portals materialize without them, just to get rid of some visual clutter. Your ship doesn't need to be perfectly centered on them anyways to enter the portal so while approaching them from the edge side might look weird I don't think it matters.

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