Docking Pit Stops Idea

Putting aside the logistics of the game determining if you properly "docked" I would think this would lead to more down time as people would be rewarded for sitting there doing nothing. Perhaps if it would fill to a certain amount, say 30 planks/bananas and 50 cannonballs just to spitball some numbers. Enough for a single engagement but not a protracted voyage. Of course this would have to be a quick dump not a slow trickle otherwise folks would wait for those numbers to hit before filling the boat themselves in this case.

@vyx Letting us just buy resources with gold makes way more sense, would be far easier to implement, and wouldn't be nearly as frustrating as having to just sit there. People sit around way to much in this game as it is.

I'm on board with buying supplies from the merchant that are automatically transported to your boat, but they would need to be valued appropriately and you should be required to wait X minutes/hours before buying supplies again. I don't think supplies should auto refill for free - that would be a pretty major game change.

What if you get attacked while docked? Many pirates use the strategy of stealing resources from your ship so that you cant repair/eat/attack/ etc. If your boat is sitting there constantly resupplying how would that be handled?

I like the idea of buying supplies, but think it would be nice to buy the crates from the merchant or shipwright then just carry a crate of 50 back onto the ship.

Another option would be to upgrade the amount of supplies we can carry. Specifically cannonballs and planks. With all the recent threat updates, it's almost ridiculous that we can only carry 5 planks and 10 cannonballs at a time. Especially when you're in a fight on a galleon, with the cannonball barrels at the back of the ship on the lower deck (that design never made much sense to me). If you're taking on heavy water due to a skeleton attack or a kraken, a few extra cannonballs and planks in your inventory could mean the difference between staying afloat and sinking.

15 to 20 cannonballs and maybe 10 - 15 planks in inventory would make sense in regards to carrying supplies back to the ship and surviving a fight (or prolonging an epic ship to ship battle).

A slow trickle of supplies I don't think would logistically work, but pulling into a dock and receiving lump sum of about 10 - 20 of supplies could work.

When me and my friends start it takes roughly 10 minutes of our time to run back and forth and loot the outpost we spawn at completely dry. Then we rarely have to get more supplies.

I keep reading about people wanting to forgo the resource gathering but I think that's what makes the difference between a lazy pirate and a good pirate.
"Want to be lazy, sure don't go gathering supplies, but those pirates who have been stocking up will take you down"

I feel that there's no need to have any kind of buying/ getting stock mechanic. All I'd like to see is the return of better stocked shipwrecks, they used to be a great place to restock and are now just a random chanse for good loot.

@vyx I'll repost a little bit (albeit edited for context) of what I literally just posted in another thread:

Resource collection and management is an important part of this game and making it so you can even partially avoid that not only just makes running a crew less intricate, and thus interesting, but it also makes PvP less intricate through consequences like:

• people will on average have a healthier amount of supplies, so fighting by attrition would be more tedious. This would make boarding even more effective, which it doesn't need
• spamming cannonballs rather than making calculated shots will increase
• it reduces the vulnerability periods of having to collect resources, which is a calculated decision, and thus an interesting aspect of the game
• it makes back-to-back fights less worrisome which makes them less interesting
• any ships respawning from a fight will be able to stock up faster and thus return to continue the fight sooner. The rate at which crews can return to the scene of a fight is already a hot issue with some people

If people really really really wanted increase supply gain, I think the best way would be doing something like allowing treasure to be be exchanged for supplies instead of gold. It still has some of the issues listed above, but at least the increase supplies are earned. Plus, this partially helps combat the treasure-apathy/loot EoL problem

I still prefer the ability to carry more supplies at one time rather than buying supplies.

Last night we stopped off at ancient spire on our way to Devil's Roar to finish up some commendations and while stocking up we were attacked by a skeleton ship. Without a full compliment of supplies we struggled to take them down. Eventually we did but before that fight ended a second skelly ship showed up. We didn't have supplies to stay in the fight and in trying to escape ended up sinking.

I would have liked a faster way to grab the supplies from around the island before that skelly ship showed up.

@vyx Me and my crew waste few cannonballs. We've not been so lucky en encounter a kraken all that often (biggest cannonball soak at the moment)
An agressive skeleton ship costs 1 Gunpowderbarrel to take down and nothing more. And the Megladon is mostly ignoring us (unless we've got to get that achievement) and will not cost cannonballs.

Devils roar is also easy now with the less frequent and less aimbotty vulcanoes.

Just be carefull with resources and resupply every so often at islands/ forts / floating barrels you pass by and you'll be fine.

I like it, as a mechanic I guess it would be similar to docking your rowboat at the back of your boat, as for the level of trickle, I often walk away from the game at port to either smoke or make a coffee/grab a beer so I'd definitely be happy if I came back to a few more supplies for nothing, it would give a nice incentive for people to actually use the docks and line their ship up properly too, plus I assume a docked ship would make an easier target too

@ktingaling We don't kill her, you need to kill each one once for the commendation and I frankly don't really care for the Legendary commendations so I avoid most megs.