I highly doubt this would be able to be integrated into the game… but it would definitely feel cinematic.
As an hourglass battle progresses, a storm slowly starts forming over the circle. No damaging lightning strikes, or wheel spin, but the waves will get progressively more and more choppy the further out from the center of the circle you are.
Then if the battle still keeps going a maelstrom like effect will happen, forcing the ships towards the center of the ring.
And finally the intensity will pick up to the point the boats will be entangled in the center, and if both ships have been unsuccessful in sinking the other, both sink in a stalemate… I’m thinking this should be around 45-60 min elapsed time.
If both sink this way they would both get 1/2 the value of a standard sink.
Again, probably hard to implement and others probably won’t like this idea, but just popped in my head and I think it would be interesting.
