Ya'harr mateys,
I was reading quite a bit of discussions regarding ideas for new areas for Sea of Thieves and all the pros and cons and I have thought I would share an idea that I came up with.
If you play sea of thieves for some time, you might have noticed that this game requires your full attention for 2-3 hours non stop(At least!). Although this is very manageable, let's say during the weekend etc, this is not always possible. Developers have mentioned that they want this game to be family friendly. Where a small child, a teenager, an adult, a parent and even a senior would enjoy it and love it equally.
If you are a seasoned player, you are not excited anymore about making 10-20k on your journey, as things you are interested in cost millions. So if you don't have a regular galleon crew and several hours on your hands, you will most likely not launch the game at all and wait until you have more time.
So I thought I would suggest something, which could take sea of thieves in a new direction, which would be appreciated by players with less time on their hands and everyone who is missing the Arena.
Pirate City - how about an area which could be accessed from main menu and also from the main map, just like the Athenas fortune.
The city would be a non PVP zone, where you would have all the shops, maybe some family friendly mini games and maybe a casino, where you could spend doubloons/ancient coins for a chance to win some rarer cosmetics?
The main draw of this city could be some PVP activities. Let's say faction wars with various game modes. 4v4/5v5 mode like Counter Strike or COD or similar, where you would need to arm or disarm a massive ancient Keg (or something new even more powerful to correctly represent the threat of it being detonated) Capture the flag, Team forts, etc.
We were given a Quiz on the main website to determine what pirate are you (even though I don't fish, somehow my faction is Hunters call). What I'm trying to say, players could choose a faction they could represent for those team fight activities.
This would give a great opportunity for developers to bring back Pirate Lords children as representatives of these activities in the pirate city, where each would choose a faction for the month - Let's say Reapers vs Merchants. Gold Hoarders vs Order of Souls etc.
I believe such area could help a lot of players to improve their PVP skills with cutlass/weapons and also satisfy that itch if you don't have time. I would imagine every match would last no longer than 15-25 minutes. So if you only have 1 hour to play, you would still get an amazing, meaningful experience without having to commit half a day to this game. Obviously it is only a portion of what Sea of Thieves has to offer, therefore I don't believe it would affect the main map at all.
Another thing which would be interesting to see, would be player co-op dungeons. We have many tall tales, the POTC pirate's life etc. The content that developers come up with is very creative, so I could only imagine how awesome those dungeons could be.
If I think of anything more I shall add it (obviously if the feedback is not overwhelmingly negative). At the same time, I am aware about the game being limited due to old consoles, but I would imagine this could be achieved some time in the future.
What do you guys think?
