I think a great addition to the game would be an outpost where combat is disabled and pirates can just hang out and have a good time drinking and playing shanties. My idea came from Shipwreck Bay from Pirates of the Caribbean. Just a place where pirates have a truce and can just hang out and have fun. Every time I approach an outpost and try to be nice to other players they light me up right away. It’d be nice to chill with other people without having to worry about being shot in the back lol.
Peaceful Meeting Outpost for Pirates to hang out
@platpoacher I’ve mentioned this idea as well, but many folks brought up great points that don’t make this feasible. Namely, wrong doers waiting outside of the zone etc. what I am still pushing for is a similar area to hang out specifically with your guild mates. A customizable hideout. Can be on a diff server to allow for this (i.e. you enter with your guild key, similar to entering Athena den). Can take a lot of the rooms, decorating and storing of items and trinkets already in the game.
Would be AWESOME if the home upgraded with distinction.
The tough part of any social area is not letting it become so chaotic and unruly that it makes it unwelcoming and to not let it become so moderated/controlled and cliqueish that it becomes unwelcoming.
SoT in general struggles with this because it's a pretty small community at the reg level and there are largely two groups and they often fit into one of the above.
It would be really really tough to pull it off successfully at the reg level. Casual players will largely abandon it because SoT can get really unpleasant and there is a mix of people that wanna run wild and people that wanna hall monitor it.
If they ever do this they will have to make it so you cant sail into port with loot or a flag, or have it dropped off of your ship out of bounds of the port, that way people cant run their loot into the safe zone to deny a steal/flag, or deny people taking back loot that was stolen from them.
At that point theres almost no chance that people would ever go to that outpost since the 3 main reasons people will be at an outpost is to sell, because they just spawned in, or to supply up. Not much chance of running into people in a place where they dont have much reason to go to.
One my best times in SoT was something like this. It was during the hungering one event back in the day. Myself and a friend on a sloop teamed up with a full galleon and another two person sloop. After killing the meg everyone went to plunder outpost tavern and drank and played shanties. It did descend into a mass bar fight after someone threw up with n someone else. But was great fun.
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