Replace Sloop Brig With Something More Useful

@dcr-lt-kanada said in Replace Sloop Brig With Something More Useful:

Now I don't play on a sloop often but when I do, and I've also heard this from other players, but the brig on the sloop has no purpose. It sits there looking pretty although we are unable to use it due to the fact that bringing take a majority vote.

Voting someone in the brig isn't possible and if it was you're basically playing by yourself anyways so why not turn it into something more useful? Perhaps something that could give the sloop a little more uniqueness over the galleon. The only idea that came to mind so far is an escape hatch that could be used in various ways.

What do you guys think? What else can that space be used for?

I wan't a cooking space........

@dcr-lt-kanada
A bed? The Galleon has one.
I need to catch some Zs!

The Brig should get an overhaul in general.

It is meant to be a temporary punishment basically, or essentially a videogame time out. With that in mind, I don't think there should be a "Vote to Release" fiddly mess, it should just be timer based. If you get voted to the Brig you are in it for say 30 seconds, maybe 1 minute, after which point you are automatically released. You could be sent back of course if people felt it was needed with another vote, but that simplifies it nicely (and now that we have Closed and Private Crew options we don't need people using it as a non-stop lockup anymore).

If that is the case, we can also switch it to only needing a 50% vote to get someone into the Bring, which means a solo player could bring themselves (silly, but they could - and they would be auto released after a short time), and duo crews could also Brig one another as they would meet the 50% requirement on the vote with a single vote.

Should also make it so someone in the Brig can't vote someone else into the Brig (they are blocked from Votes while locked up).

Then you can keep the Brig on the Sloop.

@dcr-lt-kanada said in Replace Sloop Brig With Something More Useful:

@redeyesith I feel though if you have the potential to brig someone on a sloop you might as well play alone. Since needing to brig on a sloop isn't common then it should be replaced with something that makes the sloop unique.

Or you're just having some fun, or any number of other reasons you might do it (playing with your kid and they start doing something you need to prevent, etc.). And, for the sake of making it so all players have access to all the exact same stuff equally (so Galleon doesn't need a unique Brig and Sloop needs a unique something else).

With that said, it wouldn't be horrible to give it a difference, but I think addressing the underlying issue with the Brig system does fine by opening it up to Sloop players if they want to use it.

@dcr-lt-kanada I’ve actually been brigged before on a sloop. It happened when I got 2 beard type messages in a row trying to join my friend. I think it’s there purely for afkers.

@dcr-lt-kanada can confirm being stuck in the sloop brig, was actually literally yesterday this happened with my buddy. If it happens again I’ll be sure to record it next time. When it happened my buddy was able to vote me out of it but not back in.

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I wan't a cooking space........
This was a Joke at first, But if they do decide to add more food/healing options, this may be something to like, cook fish so you can eat them to heal