Ahoy Mates!
When Shrouded Spoils launched it added the Roaming Skeleton Ships.
And along with those also came the Skeleton Sloops.
But Skeleton Sloops are part of the Skeleton Ship Battles and the random encounters/ambushs.
They don't roam the seas freely.
So my question to you today is:
Let me know!
Until then see ya on the seas!
They should as well as skeleton brigantines when they are made. To have them only for the fleet battles is just a waste when they could be the perfect difficulty version of the ships for those on sloop and respectively those on brigs with the well brigs.
This would allow them to rotate in the other two as the server starts flagging up that the ship is taking them out with ease to ramp up the roaming challenge the longer they sail.
@th3xr34p3r said in Should the Skeleton Sloops Roam the Seas?:
They should as well as skeleton brigantines when they are made. To have them only for the fleet battles is just a waste when they could be the perfect difficulty version of the ships for those on sloop and respectively those on brigs with the well brigs.
This would allow them to rotate in the other two as the server starts flagging up that the ship is taking them out with ease to ramp up the roaming challenge the longer they sail.
Aye, Skeleton Brigantines would be a great addition!
I wonder if they're in the road map anywhere?
@sgt-palooggoo I think this what Rare wants to do I'ts the Technical limitation have proven 2 difficult as of now for them to overcome as all ships take a large portion Client Memory and in order to balance the smaller AI ships agianst The Larger player ships they would need to have more of them but this would prove to be the challange as the Game is already reached the limits of the Client memory which is set to the OG Xbox 5 GB. Not to metion they would have to make both a Skelly Sloop and Brig more Distinguishable at farther ranges. It's easy to Identify a Skelly Gally as it has 2 extra Lights at he top of the Bow. Plus there A.I. coding skills are not the best. As the A.I. in the game is very simplistic although it is understandable as it is harder to program good A.I. in an open world enviroment verses a closed liner game environment and again this may have also been a design choice to save on limited client Resources.
I do hope they get added one day but this will also limit the chances of having more Player Ships in the future.
The only gameplay reason I could think of that maybe they chose not to have them roam was that it was more difficult to distinguish them as skelly ships and not player ships.
But I think it's much more likely there's some sorta technical issue here. And it's not really a question of whether or not players want them to roam free, or whether they should be. Of course they should be.
I hope my comment is not unwelcome. I'm still finding my sea legs as it were, but I've run across skeletal sloops on several occasions though never took them on myself.
The skeletal galleons seem far more prevalent for sure. Just the other day I formed an alliance with two gentlemen of fortune sailing their own sloop. To make a long story short a skeletal galleon came on us unawares, but after an intense battle we managed to sink it. We'd lay to for what loot we could salvage when a second one hove in from round the island's headland!
My point is that methinks the skull-cloud is only useful to locate a skeletal crew from a distance. Their ships seem to prowl at will, hunting for unsuspecting crews.
