Suggestion for a new game feature called "Greed" factor. A way to make hunting ships and engaging with other pirates more accessible and fun!

Sad part is players in this community have said they “hate” the player sinking them when they stack loot. Waste of time as they said.

So this feature won’t do what you expect. Some will enjoy but the louder voices Rare listens to most will say nah nah.

Slowing ships down discourages stacking, if loot should have an effect on speed, it should make you go faster, not slower.

I'm wondering how many cannoballs vs a trinket, a skull or a crate of tea will weigh ... and how many chests it will take to make the weight of the ship not matter to create a 45% speed decrease ...

When a mostly PvP crew can't catch a crew that, as it seems, avoids fighting - perhaps the former is lacking some tactics and / or insight in when a battle won't be fought and it's better to look for some other prey.

Part of the fight is the chase !

No need for Rare to have "stacked ships" drop in the lap of other crews; besides it will also discourage PvPvE crews who like a bit more of a risk to keep their loot on board for a bit longer.

@lem0n-curry The point of the "greed factor" is to improve the chase not eliminate it. For example, if the boat is moving slower it means they have lets say at least 10-20k worth of loot for tier 1, so that could work as an indicator to the hunters that they have something.
So their effort could be rewarded if they chose to invest into that hour+ chase.
On the other hand too, if the crew didn't have anything and just wanted to fish, sail around, or goof, the hunters (most likely) wouldn't mess with their experience by making them run away in fear of sinking or dying.

As for how the weight would work, think of it as the equivalent of the "Hourglass value" we already have, that is based on the value of the items stored on the ship while Hourglass is on.

Lastly it's not about stacking world events, it's about making 1 world event or a few voyages be worth the chase, any of them, not just the latest super stash.
Although, even for those that do enjoy stacking, but constantly fall victim to reaper 5 hopers, it would be a way to stack loot without an emissary and still make a decent profit from the money / exp multiplier they would get on grade 5 of "greed factor".
High Risk = High Reward!

Thank you for replying!

No one wants a non opt in system that makes them more of a target for playing the game. Your opponent being able to get away is called balance.

I like it BUT it should not slow you down, rather you take on water faster if you are over loaded. If no one is attacking me I do not want to be slowed down for no reason. This would also improve server stability and make turkey walls come at a cost. It needs to be impliemented in a way that logically consistant and, easy to calculate by both the server and the players. Lets call value loading points and larger ships can carry more.

Loot: Should be based off the number and size of items not the value.
Trinkets, (anything you can sprint with while holding it), flags and commodities are worth 1 loading point.
Empty storage crates of all types and collectors chests one point.
Most chests are worth 3
Top level chests (reaper, legends, fortune etc) are worth 5.

Supplies:
Add a fireworks barrel to every ship. This is not used in the loading calculations and fireworks no longer go into the red barrels.
Your default supplies levels do not count towards the loading, but every x amount of cannon balls, y amount of wood, z abmoiunt of food in chests or storage crates ovrer this amount adds 1 of loading.

No thank you, its another form of punishing a playstyle. I say this as someone who chases significantly more than runs. The choice is important, yes long chases are frustrating...but it takes 2 parties to decide to stick with it for it to draw out. I get people who run messaging me often about how pointless an exercise is and it makes me laugh, its a mutual effort, everyone involved has a choice. A mechanic that influences this tells people this choice and playstyle is wrong.
Honestly if you're tired of chasing, become a brig abuser, you will catch everyone but brigs.

The problem with this is that you see nothing wrong with the way you choose to play (which you shouldn’t, play however you want) but you have a problem with how others play the game.

No one owes you a fight in this game. If someone wants to run for an hour or more, they’re free to do so. If chasing someone is that frustrating for you, don’t do it…

@erchos-drakyon said in Suggestion for a new game feature called "Greed" factor. A way to make hunting ships and engaging with other pirates more accessible and fun!:

Based on the "greed" factor of the crew it would slow their ship down, like for example the "Skull of the Siren Song" would.

• Each rank would slow the boat down more and more -rank 1| 10%, rank 2|20% , rank 3| 25%, etc-, all the way to let's say 45% speed reduction.

I think your percentages are a bit steep, I would figure that only a 5-10% difference in top speed would be an ample to make sure a runner still has a chance if they're good enough. Which is important I think, you don't want to be a sucker target after finishing FotD or FoF, otherwise why do them?
If the difference is small enough that the runner is only slightly slower, giving both sides a chance, I think the idea could have merit.

A speed penalty for loot stacking is literally just a server hopping Brig/Gally crew's wet dream. As a mostly solo slooper that both hunts and farms, I'd be fine with it as it would lean me further into the hunter role...but this would just further discourage solo PvE play for the masses.

You're basically talking about adding a penalty to Emissary play. But why? Because you don't like chasing people? Or is it because the reward at the end of the chase often times is ho-hum?

It can be difficult to tell if a Grade 5 Emissary just sold, just dove from a different server, or is stacked to the gills. I largely blame diving, but I think it's safe to say that that (absolutely terrible) mechanic is here to stay.

For that reason, I believe the Emissary system needs re-worked. There's a lot that could be done, but IMO there should at least be Emissary penalties for diving the same as there are with old-school server hopping. Players should be encouraged to stay on the same server and rewarded handsomely for doing so.

I so miss the pre-diving days of SOT.