Theories/ideas for legendary ship captaincy

  • Soulless Rager
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    From the sound of it, once hitting legendary status ship captaincy will allow you to use your own unique custom ship rather than everyone in the crew adding their different cosmetics together. A handful of obvious ideas that have been hinted at previously are

    • Naming the ship. There's an empty plaque above the captain's cabin, and surely space on the back of the ship. Naming a shared ship doesn't work as well, but it's an obvious choice when you have personal ownership.
    • Portraits. A while back the idea of screenshotting epic moments and framing in portraits on your ship was played around with. This seems like the obvious way to implement that, if it's gonna be a feature anyways.
    • Changing the layout. I can't remember if this has been talked about way back, but choosing how to organize the interior features of your ship like furniture in the captain's cabin, or location of resources and the like below decks could be an option.

    What are some other possibilities that owning your own ship allows?

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  • tavishhill2003
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    @ant-heuser-kush said in Theories/ideas for legendary ship captaincy:

    @soulless-rager I think once you become legendary captain you get the ship. Becoming a pirate legend only gets you the hideout.

    ^This. The ship captaincy will be the big content update in June. I'd like to see the ability to set up flags a certain way though.

  • svetli97
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    @soulless-rager if the first two ideas are added they will be added to all ships and the last idea will never be added because it is unfair. The idea of the game is not to grind your way into being able to beat new players without even being more skilled than them. I suppose they might make the legendary ship as a set of cosmetics that you can apply and not as a fixed ship but idk. I hope they do it this way so that you can combine them with some of the other cosmetics cuz there are some pretty nice looking once from what we've seen in the beta.

  • xxPROZxx1211
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    On the reddit AMA they replied to a comment which asked about the plaques. They said you will be able to fill in the plaques. So that’s neat

  • Inbred Chimera

    @svetli97 It wouldn't be unfair if they added it to all ships.

    I'll breifly mention the 'living ship' mechanic from fable, where the ship visually alters based on your behaibours.

    Honestly they're quite limited with what could be done. Legendary only content is risky because it won't be immediately available to players who migtht get bored and abandon the game before reaching legendary status.

    I can't actually think of much. Maybe a ship bio either written by the player (high risk of cheese) or by the game based on the ship's past exploits (this would take some fair programming).

    I also liked the idea of an 'aura'... alteration of colours and atmospheric sounds effects when near the boat. Issues would be when two auras come into conflict though.

    Hoarde - a small room in teh ship that shows your collected wealth. can't be taken though, its just a visual representation of your wealth.

    Maybe writing your own music could become possible.

    It's a tough area to expand into without customization being considered, especially since anything made exclusive to legends will not be directly available to non legends and thus a risk of people becoming bored and quitting the game before reaching legendary stautus is introduced.

  • svetli97
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    @inbred-chimera it would be cool if they do the thing with the "collected wealth" but I think the captain's room is a good enough place for that. Also being able to actually play on the instruments will be fun. It would really make travelling less boring cuz you will be making music on the way or just playing your favorite tunes!

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