Pirates of the Burning Sea

Fixing this game.

The future is by giving shipwrights alternative things to produce for profit like port governors, housing, quality weapons or armor; PvP that gives the underdog a better chance to flee from speedboats or 6v1.
Ships will be cheaper to produce with more dp & less insurance.
PvP players will be able to progress in a lower risk environment instead of being knocked back to whence they came..
Improved personal status with rewards on a regular basis, better avcom & street battles. Skirmish will introduce PvP for newbies to participate in RvR.

Conco is cathing up fast & Potbs will have in-depth adventures for treasure & wealth.
There will be improved grouping & society facilities perhaps with an epic mission waiting list system. The auction houses might have buy orders.

More populations & red circles with extra servers needed to facilitate them.
Easter & Xmas events with turn-ins for presents & goodies.
Players will have more things to smile about & much less to moan about.

Given time FLS will eventually get there as they have no alternative if they want the game to be a commercial success; it should have all been in at release but life is never perfect.
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No. It's very simple. Go back to putting captains on their ships in first person with a optinal telescope and OPTIONAL 3-d view for those who want it.

Get rid of  WOW type buffs and have experience instead with attention to REALITY; like better loading times on cannons is fine but magic buffs are game destroyers. Might as well make the game blobs vs blobs because in it's present state, there is no reason to have ships at all.

Have new setting so players can option to play only 1 v 1 OR have real world escape for small ships.

It's simple....will they do it? Probably not and they deserve everything they get as a result.

Originally posted by obamaphony

No. It's very simple. Go back to putting captains on their ships in first person with a optinal telescope and OPTIONAL 3-d view for those who want it.

Get rid of  WOW type buffs and have experience instead with attention to REALITY; like better loading times on cannons is fine but magic buffs are game destroyers. Might as well make the game blobs vs blobs because in it's present state, there is no reason to have ships at all.

Have new setting so players can option to play only 1 v 1 OR have real world escape for small ships.

 

It's simple....will they do it? Probably not and they deserve everything they get as a result.

 

 

obamaphony,

Not saying your ideas are wrong - just that the game is post release now so massive changes (including many which would require a complete game redesign) are out of the question.
It's not that the Devs don't care...  it's that they can't.

For example, one of my personal hobby horses for this game was the 'travel map' and travel times.
I think the travel map is too small and travel times to short.
If I had my way the ocean would be like something form Silent Hunter III and the 'world' would be larger.
I think the game would be more immersive and many issues would be solvable.
BUT: That said you would need to completely redesign and rebuild the whole game at that point.
We are talking years of dev time and millions of dollars.
That is simply not going to happen - so I don't bother any more.

Please stop opening new threads to promote your own rant - when there are already other threads (like this one) where you can rant along with the rest of us....

Originally posted by Gyrus

 

Please stop opening new threads to promote your own rant - when there are already other threads (like this one) where you can rant along with the rest of us....

 

lol Gyrus, the "rant along" bit made me laugh.

Populations have fallen to critical low levels & temporary emergency measures are needed until they increase:
Something needs to be done with lsbs & other action as large  in-game systems can no longer work as intended with the few players left who have mainly gone into closed society production for only their own needs.

Other ideas like double all deed & captured ship duro or cut resources to build ships & insurance by half are needed to give an immediate boost to the economy to get the FUN back into PvP.