More stuff regarding the burning blade

The design philosophy ship sizes have always been bigger ship = slower turning. 5 cannons per side along with a crew that can shoot all 5 no matter the player count or what those said players are doing is incredibly powerful. If smaller ships were unable to sail out of this broadside due to similar mobility, then it would be death sentence.

"Obviously, real players would be better, but good skeletons would be of help."

As for "Player Skeletons", this is an often-seen request across many posts to have AI on your crew that functions essentially like a player. Would all players be better than the skeleton AI you are requesting? Even swabbies that have just started? Where would the skill level of these skeletons lie? If they are better than some players, then we will have complaints that the AI is too difficult and unfair. If they are not as helpful as desired, then there will be players complaining "What's the point if they can't help against the crews I actually need the help against?"

There is a very fine line that must be walked when you start to bring the AI skills and abilities closer to those of an actual player. At the end of the day, you, me or any other pirate on the seas does not want to see AI more capable than myself or any other pirate on another players crew. If we did have that then we would see ships full of AI with only one real player sailing the seas and stealing our loot.

Slightly faster turning

Its just a large Galleon. So where it has power, it needs balance. Thus its turning speed.
Even if you increase the turning speed...wont fix or prevent boarding :/

Smaller crews will have a very hard time defending the ship.

My crew and I, Duo sloop. Defended against Galleon and Brig for whole solid Hour. Skeletons did there job and we did ours. It really isnt hard as you make it sound. Comes down to players.

To make up for it, there could be some sort of "Player Skeletons"; that is, skeletons with a much stronger AI that should act like players.

Grab a Reaper Chest, you got extra skeletons who are technically stronger.

They only spawn until you have a total of 4 players PLUS player skeletons, so they act like placeholder crew members.

So a Duo Sloop will have Two extra "player" skeletons as placeholder...for crew members that wont appear. :/

have a much more accurate cannon aim

idk about your BB skeletons, but Ive noticed mine dont miss often, especially when you join as well.

Obviously, real players would be better

than...join a Galleon crew.

• Athena Ships

Every few tens of minutes AND if a player ship isn't nearby, NPC galleons with allegiance to Athena could rise from the water and challenge the BB

Im sorry, I dont wanna fight every 10min...it takes 15 at best to travel between Camps.
By reasons, only Skeletons on ships attack this way. Why would Athena start doing this?

This offers some more stuff to do in the burning blade other than completing rituals if the server is too quiet.

yeah..that only thing I wish to do on a quiet server :P

One of the big issues that always gets unanswered is: What skill level should these AI "players" be? If you make them too good, they become overpowered, but you make them too weak and you risk them being useless. Player skill levels are so diverse that no individual AI skill level would be applicable to even most players.

Then the other question is: If you have an AI doing all the work for you, are you even really playing the game or is the game playing itself while you spectate? How much of the work really is earned when you just let an AI win your battle for you