Break Dive

I've definately thought about it a lot as someone that plays a lot and afks a lot.

I like the idea of a break without taking up spots on a server but it's tough to justify the dev effort in a live service game that thrives only when people are active when participating.

Something we hear a lot now is "priorities" and that's gonna be how it is till the end of sot. They are in a situation now with SoT where they gotta prioritize game health. Afk convenience just really doesn't fit into that, even though it would help some people out.

I totally get where you are coming from though.

@wolfmanbush

yes but i think thats the point. afk is a thing that you can't avoid. everyone needs to have a break from time to time. whatever reason it is. having then people on a server that are afk wont do anything, so they just take away space for someone that isn't afk, which would lead to a better game health, i guess.
people won't be afk forever.

@BurnBacon

You’re free to logoff and go take a break. This just helps alliance servers more.

i guess you don't have kids to take care of.
please tell me more about alliance server benefits if i leave the server while diving ?

@SweetSandMan
thanks captain. will definetly do this one, because faster.

@h2o-d2o said in Break Dive:

Hello

i had an idea recently. If i'm playing for like 3 hours or something and its dinner time or like for cooking it, or having to deal with something else, it would be great to be able to have a break. For now i and my crewmate we just drive to the edge of the map and hide the ship whatever size it is behind a big rock for like an hour or something.

it would be really great if we could vote for a dive. so like on the captains table to take a break-dive until we vote to dive up again. we wouldnt take a place on the server like hiding behind a rock, i guess. we could vote for diving up and still would have our supplies from those 3 hours playtime before.

this would be a really great feature for me ... because i have kids and yes, i like food from time to time. :-)

Greetings

I used to do this as well. I’d go to the store or make food or both while my ship sat idle somewhere. I call this being “‘married to your supplies” and it’s something I’ve learned to divorce over time. I find that being married to your supplies is overall negative in SoT; for one, you’ll be more disappointed when you sink, even though all you lost was a bunch of sups you’d likely never use; for two, one feels inclined to hide their boat in order to preserve their supplies while they eat, this would also include some kind of key sequence to avoid getting a lazybeard.

I’m not against your idea, but I think that in the meantime you should consider divorcing your supplies. They aren’t important. How often do you need 600 cannon balls in a a fight? Are those 30 pineapples really important? I think you’ll find some peace of mind if you just log off and get new cannon balls upon your return. I know I did. Not to mention that your computer could likely use a break after a long session. Do your computer/console a solid and let that thing cool off for a bit.

I always try to convince my crew mates to not change their play style simply because they have a lot of supplies. We do HG a lot, and occasionally someone might say something like “do we really want to do HG” with all these supplies? Sometimes people decide they don’t want to do a certain thing (like log off or something risky) because they like their supplies too much. Kick the supply habit!

I like the idea…

…and that’s all I want to say.