Okay so i know this would be a bit outstretched and this wouldn't turn the game into a survival game but imagine if your ship sinks, and your on an island. Theres some wood in a barrel and you have your lantern. You can build a small camp, like a campfire with rocks around it. Or a small tent with a bed. It would be cool to have a small "base" of sorts on an island where you can keep all of your goods and protect it. and keep if from being stolen by protecting it. This would also probably mean new items? ex: Rocks(for campfire), Cloth(for tent/shelter or palm fronds for shelter), It would also mean more player interaction by defending/attacking the camps. Also if you could build maybe a small dock or something. Thats all in the suggestion. Thanks for reading!
Ability to build structures
With fire being added you can build the campfires now. However its only in preallocated locations.
I think this idea is not too bad at its core but if the server had to keep track of new buildings all over the place it would be a nightmare for lag.
I offer a counter idea. Still build up your house and whatnot but instead of anywhere you want, you can repair the ruins found throughout the world.
Wanderers Refuge has multiple small destroyed settlements and could be repaired in predesigned stages so you could build them back up. These houses would be able to be burned down or destroyed with cannonfire/explosives. But you can't just go to some random island and make a base.
@zherron-vorse I like that idea that you can rebuild things, although a fix would this would be like 5 objects per vessel. That would definitely help the lag, because five objects in my opinion would be good. And also the ability to rebuild things would be cool. And Sea Of Thieves is very optimized if it runs all this stuff already. But definitely a limit on stuff would probably fix a lag issue
@calebwar04 i think that would be cool for roleplaying a castaway. but it does sound kinda like survival, however i dont believe survival is possible since everything done on the server is wiped when you log off. plus there isnt really any good to be protected
Do you mean protection for your loot as in the structure prevents people from taking it? It would certainly make it easier to amass loot stashes on islands, but I think it would serve as a frustration for players who return to find other players camping their stashes and demanding they give them up (assuming it won't be possible to destroy the structures protecting the treasure). I'd rather be able to bury my items with unique dirt mounds on them to preserve them than big obvious tents and what not.
Also what is a tent with a bed supposed to do for you? You can't time skip with any beds in the game. I guess the best use for it would be that it functions as a clothing and vanity chest. I could see it being used as an alternative respawn point, if such a thing could even be balanced.
