Ahoy ye scurvy sea mates,
My name is Capt. D. Holt and I am the Leader/Co-founder of THE BOAT MAFIA on the Sea of Thieves. I am not one to post "feedback or suggestions" to threads of these sorts but since my recent addiction to this game and have streamed it for 12+ hours per day on my Twitch channel for the past month I've came to the conclusion in doing such.
These are just a couple of my suggestions and I know someone may have already thought of of some of them but I would just like to reiterate on such topics.
(SPOILER ALERT) Salty the parrot: since having completed the TT's a few times I think it would be interesting to implement having a parrot on our own boats when we queue into a server. The parrot has already been introduced to the game and I think it would be amazing to have one on the boat that could sing along to our shanty's we play. Maybe have "interactions" with the parrot per scenario of some sort. Just something along those lines.
Carrying barrels: Okay, so those barrels you quite often see in the sea that you can loot for wood, cannonballs, etc. Why can't we pick them up like we can TNT kegs? They are the same size and relatively the same in my opinion. Instead of jumping out in the water and looting a few things, before they sink, or harpooning them to your boat and making countless runs to pick up everything before littering them back into the sea I think it would be a whole lot easier just to jump in, pick it up, and after all of the items are relinquished from the barrel it de-spawns.
Carrying space: I know earlier upon full release you could carry a tad bit more items on your person. I, personally, would like to have the opportunity to go back to those changes before they were taken away. Or, have the option to purchase a satchel/ pack in order to increase inventory space. If you're like me and when you get online you plan to "grind" a session out for multiple hours the option to only pick up/ carry 5 pieces of wood at a time is sort of repetitive in my opinion. Dibs and/ or coins could be another way for us to purchase cosmetics such as satchels/ pack to stow on our person to increase this quality of life on the Sea of Thieves.
Maps: I'm sure there's a lot of us who's just been minding our own business and trying to "grind" out some Order of Souls or whatever and we have a TON of loot on our boat and all of a sudden... KRAKEN! You're running low on supplies and don't have the supplies or manpower to defeat the kraken and it does that weird bug where it "wraps the open stairs in your boat and you're either stuck above the ship on the deck or you're stuck below deck and cannot bucket." So, in the event this happens, you load all of your loot on the rowboat and now what? Your boat is sunk and your crew has to go spawn in another boat but you're stuck in the black water not knowing where exactly you are. I think it would be a cool idea to implement a map on one's person so you could easily communicate to your crew "Hey our boat sank right outside of Devil's Ridge I am on block P-19 come get me."
Harpoons: This to me is kind of common sense. We are able to customize a lot of things on our boats but someone left out the harpoons? Need I touch up more on this subject?
Music/ instruments: I am sure thousands of pirates have already given their two cents on this subject matter so I will keep it short and sweet. Please add more instruments and more shanty's. C:
Weapons: So, I have only found two weapons to have a mediocre iron sight (Mercenary and Ebon flintlock). One of which you can have in arena and the other for casual play. If more of these cosmetics were openly available that'd be nice. Iron sights in general, I don't know how it could be added, but to other weapons would be greatly appreciated for PVP.
More Weapons: I am sure that thousands of other pirates have already touched up on this subject so I am just leave this here as well.
Arena: There are 3 different boats in the casual play but only one for Arena. Ok. For someone for plays/ streams this game for countless hours every day of the week I find myself playing solo some of the time. It would be greatly appreciated if more boats were added to the Arena for "content" sake.
Outpost: This one is probably a touchy subject and I don't know how exactly it would be implemented correctly but I would like to brush up on the subject in it's entirety and would love feedback from the community to see what other's have to say. "Being attacked at an outpost on spawn." I am sure there are tons of us who have just queued in and are looting the outpost and getting ready to set sail and all of a sudden... BOOM! Someone has done a drive by on your boat and TNT'd and sank your boat before you've even started your journey. (slightly triggering). I know it's a pirate game, yes, but could there be a timer at the beginning of queue to be in a "safe zone" of sorts? Maybe. Also, PVP on outpost is kind of cringe in my opinion. I am specifically touching up on the just spawning into a server portion of this matter. There's been countless times where I have just spawned in and am trying to load up my boat and then BLAMO blunder'd right in the back while trying to get my bananas from a barrel. Sort of tilting not going to lie.
These are just some of the things I've thought about and kept record of over my COUNTLESS hours of being a pirate on the Sea of Thieves. I hope someone finds these "Qualities of Life changes" helpful. See you out there! UwU
