@sharktoothjake You’re proposing Rare designs a common market for pirates to trade goods for a currency (essentially trading time expense for gold coin) - and whilst this would be incredibly ambitious and fascinating - I don’t think it belongs in the simplified world of SoT. And it doesn’t meet the gameplay purposes that SoT was developed for.
Why would somebody pay gold coin for supplies when they can just farm resources themselves? It does save the grind and effort but I can’t see pirates parting ways with their gold for such a thing. And if they would then they are either lazy or Rare isn’t putting enough things in the game that gold coin can be spent on.
It also takes away from the gameplay balancing. If you have a lot of resources you / your crew have wisely expended time to accumulate your wealth of resources to handle whatever PvE or PvP tasks are put in front of you. Other crews may not take such precautions and would suffer the consequences in PvE or PvP as a result. There is a skill gap in that example. And let’s admit that maybe there are some lazy pirates out there who would happily part ways with their gold coin for resources, this feature would upset that skill gap and gameplay balancing.
I also don’t think it would be easy for Rare to implement a comprehensive feature such as having the value of goods fluctuating to supply and demand. You’re suggesting Rare implements a commodity market in their game which is quite complicated. And even if possible - by the time it was developed to be in the game - would it bring enough quality and depth to the game? I don’t think it would. I think Rare could be spending a lot of that time bringing much better new features into the game.
People complain enough already that things like Tall Tales have added PvE elements that don’t reward loot which are killing the treasure hunting and PvP reward aspects of Adventure mode. To suddenly add features that give pirates a choice to be market traders instead of being pirates in a pirate game... kinda kills what SoT is all about.
I don’t hate your idea - I just wanted to justify the reasons why I don’t think it belongs in SoT. I love your imagination. And I encourage you to keep thinking that far outside the box - I think you could think up some amazing features that do belong in this game! :)
