Adding sirens to the game?

The siren call could act like a storm making it difficult to stear your ship.

would be interesting to see.

There are older clues, concept art that this might already be in roadmap in the firm of unfriendly merfolk guarding underwater ruins.

Maybe sirens can call you into fog banks and not just not being able to see rocks hide in the fog banks. :)

How about Sirens luring your whole crew, like how grog disrupts movement, except players are safe by being "nearby" player music?

Imagine;
Harpies, nesting in the crags that spear out of the sea, luring passing ships into crashing.
In their nest lays sparkling treasure & fine tradegoods.
A clever crew nullifies the Harpy Song with music of their own, an uses cannon to launch into their nest!

Easy to patch in, as everything already exists in-game (except a Harpy model). Just leave the Harpy model as scenery (like the birds, bats, & fishes) until a later date when proper models & AI are being added.

I came up this, an many other easy concepts (like mermaid ambushes & island pond Vodnìks).
If my idea sounded good please tell me; I REALLY need to make a post to get support for them.

Mythologically speaking, Sirens are Harpies (so are mermaids, but we'll ignore this).

I love this concept. Especially the musical components. It would give another use of the instruments and give some additional challenges.

I think it would be cool if sirens were sort of a disruptive essence. Such as when one player was swimming with loot from shipwrecks and towards the ship a siren could appear and start to drag the player down into the depths and drown him. The other players would have to jump in and kill the siren in order to save the player and the loot.

@amrylin1337 I guess they could add a ''struggle'' mechanic or something. So you just kind of let go of the chest when the siren drags you down and then you have to spam a button to break loose and then kill the siren to safely swim back up to grab the chest and get on your ship.

@amrylin1337
Think of the effects of Grog, but movement is slightly biased towards a Siren. Easy enough to physically fight, but playing a instrument removes the effect entirely.

@neminati

Imagion;
A crew sailing across the seas, when bursting wood is heard down below!
A harpoon has pierced the hull from below! The ship has stopped dead!
Suddenly, mermaides armed with blades crawl up the sides & start trying to cut folks on deck!
The smart crew destroys the harpoons' head & patches the hole, lettting their ship escape!
Gunshot easly removes the remaning bandit mermaids!

How's that?
It would be harder to code than the simple harpie stuff I wrote of, but it does just use the currently unfinished "Kracken Grabbing Ship" code.

@trenix90
Harpies, Siren, & Mermaids are all the same mythology just warped over time by different cultures.

@neminati
I also enjoy your thought of having Hostile Mermaids defending ruins BUT what is there was friendly mermaid ruins where you could pick-up Voyages to clear out other ruins with sharks &/or Hostile Mermaids.
Rewards would be;
•Sharks: Random Trade Goods (they eat weird stuff)
•Mermaids: Etherial Skulls (special humanoid opponets drop skulls)
•Ruins: Random Trade Goods or Treasure Chests (just like islands)

Simple to do. Same code for Voyages & Islands.

@neminati
I've been writting a... pitch, I guess, but I'm keep having to rewrite it.
Delivery is everything.

@aussie-demonx
Your Sirens do to much & are poorly defined.
Think of what they look like, their simple effects on players & gameplay, & how to make it nothing but interesting to deal with them. To me, you described 2 different enemies.
A Harpy (with siren elements) and a Mermaid.

Example;

Looks like a harpie (bird humanoid). Flies around crags like a seagull, uneffected by players (gunshot, cannon, ect; like seagull).
Cause a player movement bias towards roost crag (like grog & storms) if player is within 60 meters.
Players "cure" movement bias with instrument song.
Players use cannons to reach & plunder treasure sprinkled harpy nest.

You can look to a responce I had to Neminati regarding mermaid interaction. Try thinking about that, please.

@aussie-demonx I like where the idea is going. I'm not sure whether sirens should be killable, or whether they should just be an obstacle to avoid while sailing, perhaps particularly dangerous at night?.. If you go near rocks (i like the idea suggested above of them emitting mist so you can't see exactly where rocks are) then you hear a singing... the singing can mesmerize your pirate for 2 seconds where you start walking towards the sirens... then you manage to snap yourself out of it and can move around your ship. 5-10 seconds later you are mesmerized again, but this time for 2.5 or 3 seconds. Every time you are mesmerized it lasts longer, and if you don't steer away in time you will be permanently mermerised and almost guaranteed to crash your ship. The wheel of the ship could automatically turn towards the rocks the sirens are singing from too.

Maybe you'd have to play music on board to drown out the sound of the sirens!

@dorax707 Wow that's an interesting idea! I almost feel like this would be too easy to counter though, I think the main counter should be avoidance.. you want to think 'oh no, there are sirens!' not 'oh look, sirens, someone bang their accordion out please! And we can forget they exist' if you see what I'm saying

@aussie-demonx yeah, i think siens would be a good idea, maybe when you hear the sire song, you get the drunk dizziness effect (no vomit of course) but just the screen blur and wobble