@Rare-Employee
I don’t know if anyone has had the same idea as be me but I think a flag system would really benefit the game. Bare with me because I don’t know if I’ve explained this right or not but it would basically show other players what moods the crew of a certain ship would have. These flags would be viewed through a telescope. The flag would include:
The Jolly Roger -
• Would be used to show aggression and eagerness for fighting, could be used to tell a ship that it’s ready to plunder
The White Flag -
• Would be used to indicate peacefulness or willingness to truce, opposite of the Jolly Roger
The Tresure Flag -
• Would be used to show that a certain ship is following a voyage
The Explorer Flag -
• Would be used to show that a certain ship is just exploring, basically
The Party Flag -
• Would be used to gather other boats and players, showing they would like to meet up, play music, drink and just generally have a good time
That’s all I’ve come up with so far in the flag region and I thought it would be a neat little feature in the game for ships to communicate with each other.
In general, I wish more songs would be added preferably Trumpet Hornpipe and Jolly Good Sailor (for playable instruments) along with some other instruments as well. I don’t particularly have a preference on what these instruments are, I’d just like there to be four different instruments so crews can just become an orchestra. I thought it might be a cool idea if the ship could be upgraded to have a piano, for up to two people to play, built into the ship outside or inside the captain’s quarters. Going back to the more songs idea, as a child I loved the TV show Captain Pugwash and when I saw this game I thought there may be some references in it however I still haven’t found one. Basically, if you’ve heard the soundtracks to that show you’ll know that you want this in the game as there are so many different types of pirate songs which each express different moods, and there could be potential for comedic use in battle scenarios and intense moments. In legal terms, I don’t think there should be a problem acquiring this music rights, however if this is an issue for getting original music there have been many variations of the Trumpet Hornpipe and accompanying songs so it shouldn’t be too hard to devise a song of the same structure, although I’m not an expert on musical legal regulations. If anyone reading this hasn’t watched Captain Pugwash and loves 90s classic pirate interpretations I highly recommend you watch it as the episodes are not long and just bring back so much nostalgia, for me anyway. I hope the developers have watched Captain Pugwash and to be honest I would be surprised if the haven’t but getting back to the point, I would love some new shanties for the instruments, preferably well-known however open to new songs entirely. The only reason I wanted this whole Pugwash music wish for the game was because Ride of the Valkries is a playable song and I just thought that it could be implemented since RotV is.
Anyhow another possible feature I would like to see is a companion/pet feature where a companion/pet follows your character around and gives certain perks. These perks I would not know could be but please put your own suggestions in the discussion because I really would like to see if people would like the same ideas as me. The companions could include:
•Parrot - possible perk Birds Eye View
•Dodo
•Pig - just thought it would be cool if the pig and chicken could follow you around
•Chicken
•Snake?
•Monkey - possible perk Supply Steal, where the monkey would scamper away and steal the enemies supplies while you are raiding a ship or when on land could look for bananas and such
•Seagull - same perk as parrot
•Pelican - same perk as seagull
•Baby Gaitor - doesn’t really make sense but come on
•Frog?
•Narwhal - would only follow boat and could slow down sinking of boat
Anyway this is what I would like to see in the game in the near future and please leave suggestions for other possible features you would like to see in the discussion as I would like to make all of this possible, if can. Also tell me if you liked this, as I’d like some constructional criticism and I could have written a lot more about these features but if you would like to see that please post your thoughts on these matters, if you actually read up this point that is. This is my first time writing a basis for discussion and I just hope that these and many other features make it to the finished game.
