So, I just had an eureka moment as to how to impliment alliances into the game so that crews can cooperate with each other to do quests, voyages, or even form an armada.
Introduce the handshake!
We now have the hand-off mechanic.. what if when you use it.. it give you the ability in your menu to turn off friendly fire for that person!
If two captains shake hands, or parlay by exchanging an item.. then they can then put up for a vote to link the crews and turn off friendly fire for the crews.
Now, it wouldn't be able help against ship to ship attacks... maybe even making it so a ship to ship attack would cancel the truce. (It does detect which person fired a connecting shot due to the sound queue, so it is possible)
It would be a nice use of the brig.. say if someone broke the truce and went against the crew.
Any person could go back into their menu and turn off the truce at any time and still allow the backstabbing to take place.. I don't want to see that go away.. maybe a little note that said.. player1 ended your truce..
I mean, you can still surprise attack and shoot them at the same moment to kill..
But it would open up a whole new avenue of maybe splitting turned in items between the crews.. the ability to run multiple voyages at once with a large armada.
What do you think? Anyone have anything else to add?
