@xv-nizzo-vx That's a great question. I wasn't sure lol. I was hoping some people would comment and suggest how often they think they should change location, as well as if only 1 should ever be active at a time.

Perhaps they don't change location until after they have been cleared? That also brings up the question of whether or not they should have a cooldown time like the skeleton fort.

@PersonalC0ffee Thanks :)

@gu1tarpunk41 Thanks :) I was also going to mention puzzles that required more than one person to solve but I left that out because I remembered solo sloopers.

@lucid-stew I don't see why the random spawning would be an issue. This would allow players to stumble across the tomb just by exploring the larger islands. People who are actively looking for the tombs can then engage with NPCs to try and locate nearby tombs. Journals on the smaller islands can point to tombs that have spawned as well so that people are still encouraged to search the smaller islands.

Can you give some examples of the issues your are talking about so that I have some idea of what you mean?

@SimplyButta Thanks!

@NWO-Azcrack Yep, that's true. The best idea I could come up with is that when a player finds a treasure in one of the puzzles they could immediately start taking it back to the boat and the player on the boat would head into the tomb. The crew could constantly swap like this. This would have to implemented by the crew though and is not really a feature of the tomb itself.

@ghostpaw Glad you like it :)

I think you're right, it's just like another other time a crew might send all 4 people onto and island. You have to weigh it and decide.

@wipe-nd-clean Interesting ideas. How long of a cooldown do you think should be between one tomb being cleared and the next one spawning?

@wipe-nd-clean Well programmatically updating the NPCs chat and removing journals from the world can be done almost instantaneously.

@Merlin-MAV-K Thanks :)

@gu1tarpunk41 I can definitely understand that concern but if this type of feature was ever actually being considered for being added to the game I would hope that someone having to watch the boat wouldn't be the reason new content didn't get added in lol.

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@lucid-stew I don't see why the random spawning would be an issue. This would allow players to stumble across the tomb just by exploring the larger islands. People who are actively looking for the tombs can then engage with NPCs to try and locate nearby tombs. Journals on the smaller islands can point to tombs that have spawned as well so that people are still encouraged to search the smaller islands.

A few issues off the top of my head:

1. You're dedicating precious resources to something that potentially no one is interacting with.
2. If they start randomly, then they presumably stop randomly?, and that sounds really frustrating if one decides to do so when you're 9/10ths done. If this is not the case, how does one end that hasn't been completed?
3. Along the same lines as 2, you'll need overlap because what if someone is already doing one and is nearly finished? Does that mean you're going to have multiple instances(again resources), or that everything respawns in an instance for each crew, or that everyone but the first crew is just screwed?

Thanks for the feedback.

For #1, if no one is interacting with it (assuming only one is ever active at a time) I wouldn't think the resource drain would be that bad. If it is constructed with pieces of pre-made floors the server only has to remember the current door/entrance location, the floors that were chosen, and what treasure spawned inside. Perhaps I am missing something though?

Regarding #2, no, I wasn't planning on them stopping randomly. They would persist until cleared (the Captain is defeated in the burial chamber) just like strongholds currently do. Then they could end the same way a stronghold knows to eventually close the vault after being cleared. If someone for some reason is inside when the tomb goes away they just get teleported back to the ship.

Regard #3, I was thinking one shared for a tomb instance for all crews on the server (again just like strongholds). So essentially, it would be first come first serve. We could discuss whether there should be more than one up at a time or if the cooldown should be low so that other crews have the potential to find them easily as well. @wipe-nd-clean said he thought it would be best if only one was up at a time. I'm all ears.

@red0demon0 Yeah feel free to add it to your page and modify the idea any way you want to :)

@braxkedren I think the best option for solo players would be to let their sloop sail on autopilot away from the island and do 1 floor at a time and after each floor bring any treasure that was on it out of the tomb and hide it somewhere on the island. Then once the whole thing is done retrieve your ship and pick up your loot.

But yeah, it is designed more for a team.