Hello there !
I already made different threads to talk about Skeleton Fort or the Merchant Alliance voyages.
Today I wanted to talk about something which make people debate for a long time now : the Brig.
Since the beginning of the game, the Brig is used to punish people players didn't want in their crew. Sometimes it's just trolling, sometimes it's because a friend will come later, but in the end, I never saw the Brig being used by people because a player wanted to troll a crew.
So instead of use the Brig against members of our crew, I suggest we could use it against enemies. Here in some points, how it could work :
- When an enemy wants to spawn kill and camp in the ship, if he get killed, he will automatically respawn inside your Brig
- Inside the Brig, the prisoner doesn't have his weapons
- If an ally of the prisoner is on the ship, he can release his friend instantly by pressing X to open the door from outside of the Brig
- A new setting would be accessible to your crew. It would be called "Prisoners" and presents the list of prisoners you have inside your Brig
- You can vote to release a prisoner just as we can do it right now. The prisoner will be teleported outside of the ship without his supplies
- To prevent players to troll, after 5 minutes, the prisoner will be automatically teleport outside of the ship without his supplies
- When the prisoner is released (by voting or automatically) : POLL The prisoner get back to his ship without his supplies (3 votes)
- If the prisoner wants to troll again or get his revenge and is killed in the ship one more time, he will be teleported into the Brig again
- If the prisoner is killed when he's in the Brig, he will be sent back to his ship at respawn after a moment on the Ferry of the Damned
- If the ship, where people are jailed into the Brig, is sinking, all the prisoners are released and teleported back to their own ship
- When a prisoner is automatically released or released by the crew, sharks will spawn around the prisoner who has been teleported outside of the ship
- TO NOT MAKE THE PRISONER INACTIVE : When a prisoner is jailed in the Brig, he will have the possibility to escape with a mini-game where you have to PICK THE LOCK. - If the prisoner successfully picked the lock and escaped the Brig, the door will open and he will be totally free to strike back, steal treasures, sabotage the ship etc. to surprise his enemies
- When a prisoner escape the Brig, he will automatically recover his weapons but will have to take ammo in the ammo crate
Pick the lock : When you're inside the Brig, you can press X beside the door to begin the mini-game. You'll have your character trying to pick the lock, moving each hand depending on which joystick you're moving (on PC, press your directionnal button to control the left hand, and use your mouse to control the right hand).
Example without the hands from Skyrim :
While you're moving independently each joystick, by pressing RT you interact with your right hand and LT with your left hand. When you find the correct position to each hook by pressing the trigger (or left or right click on PC), you'll have a sound (click from the lock) which will warn you you finished the first step of the mini-game (with trigger, you'll also have a vibration in the trigger you'll press while it's in the correct position of each hook). Complete 4 steps to escape the Brig.
First, the goal here is to force players to think twice before they come aboard an enemy ship. It must be a more dangerous moment where people think it will be better to attack the ship with a crewmate and not alone.
Then, time limit prevent players to be forgotten inside the Brig and punishes them enough to make the navigation and the assault a little more difficult for the crew of the prisoner for a moment during a fight.
Also, by teleporting the prisoners outside of the ship, it will reinforce the role play by allowing the crew to watch the prisoners being attacked by sharks while he's looking for the mermaid.
At least, the goal of the Pick the Lock mini-game is to allow people to escape and be released faster than if they wait until the end of the 5 minutes while allowing the prisoners to not be inactive inside the Brig. It would also allow people to surprise the crew and maybe wreck their ship for a revenge ! FInally, it will encourage the crew of the ship to release the prisoners by themselves to be sure they will be teleported outside of the ship and not try to strike back.
I strongly think this could work in this way and could finally make the Brig really useful because except to try to make people leave the game or to make a joke to a friend, at this moment, the Brig is completely useless.
Tell me in comments what you think about this and if you have any idea to improve this way to make the Brig more important and useful in the game. Feel free to upvote if you agree, and thank you for your time !
POLL : When the prisoner is released (thanks for voting with a comment with the number you want)
- The prisoner get back to his ship without ressources : 3 votes
- The prisoner is dropped in the sea and have to wait 1 minute for the mermaid. Sharks spawn at the same time he's released : 0 vote
- The prisoner is dropped in the sea : 1 vote