Playing last night with a friend, scanning islands with a spyglass as we passed them on our way to do something else, thought it would be quite nice if we came across a castaway stranded on a island now and then to be rescued, maybe for some coin, or a decent treasure map, rumour etc.
Castaways
While I do kind of like the idea of castaway/maroon/other rescue missions, it would require some time from Rare to create entire new NPCs with their own unique looks and animated movement, and they're already adding so much to the game. Plus, then it's a step to NPC boats and tbh I don't feel too hot about that idea. I like that every person you come across is a player, and I don't know how I'd feel about that dynamic.
Maybe the castaway could be too weak/dehydrated to walk on their own and you've got to feed them maybe once a day or so and carry them to the ship and off the ship. Maybe, instead of coin, they have knowledge of where to find stuff like mysterious journals do. Maybe they 'put in a good word' and you get sudden reputation boosts.
I don't know. That seems like a neat way to add some interesting content to the game, but it leads to a new dynamic that they would need to work around carefully so as to keep the game from changing entirely.
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