Respawns after a ship sinks - Curious of your opinions

@xcalypt0x said in Respawns after a ship sinks - Curious of your opinions:

@sneakler

Let me frame the question this way. If someone walks through the ferry door and their ship has been sunk and is past the point of no return...should they respawn at their new boat or not?

IMO, yes.

It's tough because I have become accustomed to waiting for their final respawns and making sure they die or take their mermaid yet part of me feels they should just respawn at their new boat.

I totally understand anyone who feels they deserve one last chance at payback.

@mattydove74 said in Respawns after a ship sinks - Curious of your opinions:

@sneakler said in Respawns after a ship sinks - Curious of your opinions:

After a ship goes down. Players that died during and sometimes after the ship is considered "down" get that final respawn where they get to choose to continue the fight or take their mermaid.

I don't have a complaint either way but I was curious to hear if others think players should be granted this last hoorah.

The reason I ask this is because there are certain instances where a galleon crew will be sunk at a fort and as one player or two begins to bring their boat back the rest of the crew will stay to troll and buy time and it always has me thinking do they even deserve this opportunity?

Let me frame the question this way. If someone walks through the ferry door and their ship has been sunk and is past the point of no return...should they respawn at their new boat or not?

Having been on both sides, I like it. We even lost our galleon to a solo sloop respawn(disappointing because I told them to watch for respawn), while we were engaging an opposing galleon.

It's easy to defeat if you are paying attention and usually sharks will finish the job for you.

As the surviving ship, you still have a mobile respawn, so don't be reckless and you will be fine.

If the ship is truly gone, they do usually spawn at the new ship, I think they only respawn if the ship has not completely despawns before they come through the door.

Yep, I feel like they are respawned at their new ship if their ship is actually at the bottom of the ocean and has disappeared. in 90% of cases it is no problem just waiting for them to pop up and killing them again.

It is the situations where there are multiple ships involved or you are at a fort where their ship is gone and they respawn in the water and they are all trying to keg you and such that you have to be careful. I just never see people talking about this and wanted to hear everyones take on it.

Everyone should respawn where they died until the ship has been sunk for more than 30 seconds.

It's not consistent and makes the black loading screen a variable.
There are multiple instances when I hear people in chat trying to repair, fight, bailing and I'm entering the door and get stuck for like 12 seconds while the ship then sinks, only to respawn on an island with a new ship.

There needs to be a set delay so the decision isn't waffled back and forth from client to server.

@mubhcaeb78 said in Respawns after a ship sinks - Curious of your opinions:

Everyone should respawn where they died until the ship has been sunk for more than 30 seconds.

It's not consistent and makes the black loading screen a variable.
There are multiple instances when I hear people in chat trying to repair, fight, bailing and I'm entering the door and get stuck for like 12 seconds while the ship then sinks, only to respawn on an island with a new ship.

There needs to be a set delay so the decision isn't waffled back and forth from client to server.

An extended black screen is just awful. Especially in important moments.

@etnwill said in Respawns after a ship sinks - Curious of your opinions:

imo the player spawns are fine the way they are but the recently increased spawn distance really didn't solve the problem they were trying to of defeated ships coming straight back to a skull fort. it still needs to be farther away

Yeah this mechanic is inconsistent. A week ago we had a ship return 3 times and on the 4th fight we both sank and we respawned in the very corner of the map but the 3 times they went down they were back within 5 minutes or so. I understand people coming back for more but the respawns should be consistent.

Since the game can detect that you are near a skull fort with a key so you are not migrated then they should detect when you are sunk near a skull fort and give you a maximum distance respawn 100% of the time.

Honestly, I strongly prefer a no-respawns, ever system. Elimination style where the player doesn't come back at all while the ship is still "in-combat" (enemy players within 100 meters or so near your ship). So you can imagine how I feel about an after-loss respawn.

@natsu-v2 said in Respawns after a ship sinks - Curious of your opinions:

Honestly, I strongly prefer a no-respawns, ever system. Elimination style where the player doesn't come back at all while the ship is still "in-combat" (enemy players within 100 meters or so near your ship). So you can imagine how I feel about an after-loss respawn.

Lol. I can imagine this being the mechanics for a hardcore type mode a year from now on this game. The map table would have no icon telling you where you are at you would just have to know from the nearby islands and if you die you couldn't come back until your ship was a safe distance from enemies. Sadly I don't know if this game has a large enough hardcore population : )