A Island On the Back of Giant Sea Creature, That Moves Around the Map! What do you Think?

@crackerjackx13 just putting in my 2 cents. Love this Idea! Would be super cool if it were a sort of rare occasion though. Like it surfaced every 2 hours and only stayed up for an hour at a time. Two ways of knowing it was surfaced, 1:Another ominous cloud in the sky, similar to the skull fort. 2: A sign on the interactive map on the ship.
Also it would be constantly moving, making it mainly accessible by cannon.
As for what the challenge was once your on the island? Maybe a new AI threat? Walking, underwater sea creatures with different abilities? (nothing to crazy though, you'd essentially only have about 45 minutes to get the reward from it.
I would say the reward shouldn't be anything to crazy, maybe between 3,000 and 7,000, or even less. You wouldnt want people to just constantly grind this thing!

@crackerjackx13 I feel like this would kill two birds with one stone. Ive read more then one instance of players wanting a giant sea turtle creature added to gameplay. However, theres two ways it could go, one being that the turtle is just for scenic beauty, and the other would be making it a threat. Instead of having the AIs on the island, the turtle could have cannons mounted that shoot automatically(but please God no auto-aim) and could use its limbs to attack ships that get to close, pushing the players to utilize the cannon route of entrance.
The only problem with this would be the amount of ocean space the island and the competing ships would take up. It would have to come the form of an expansion event, or it would simply have to move slow enough so that you didnt have to go all the way across the map to finish the challenge.

@crackerjackx13 all your idea, man. Im just riding the coat tails. LOL

Curios to know any other ones you may have. Rare probably wont see them, but its always fun to hash em out in the forums.

@crackerjackx13 This is the sea creature forum! LOL I just got done reading through you quick sand idea and i dig it. As for rare employees seeing this, they probably do skim the forums. My question is though, how far out is their content planned? Do suggestions like this have a future spot on the idea board? Is this already an idea? I hope it is!

What if as an event, like the fort, an island is selected at random to start floating/moving around? It might be a huge island like devil's ridge, or it may end up being much smaller like cutlass cay. they all have treasure on them, and some form of threat that hopefully wont be a skeleton. It would be so cool to be sailing around, and to see that island over there is in the sky...

I love the idea, but maybe to make it feel different than pre-existing mechanics you could just have no place marking it. Then people can be out sailing and be like, "Where did this big island come from? It's not on the map, maybe I should explore it".

@joesakabe said in A Island On the Back of Giant Sea Creature, That Moves Around the Map! What do you Think?:

Cool idea. Made me think what if there was a large ship, really large that is also an outpost that sails the sea. In fact thelat ship could be the safe zone people keep harping on about. Made safe by the fact that if you're near it and your cannons or flintlocks fire it unloads on you as a deterrent. On the large ship there are shops and guild representatives and a tavern and supplies. What makes this idea of a moving island or outpost appealing I think is the idea of trying to dock with a moving location. Maybe you have to tether your ship to the outpost when your close enough and then you're taken for a ride with it. Could be a cool place to meet other players in game. It would add variety to merchant missions where you've got to deliver by a certain time but to do that you've got to find the island or outpost ships first, adding yo the challenge.

I also really like that idea.

I see what you did here! Earth is on the back of a flying space turtle so why not!?

I love this idea, I hope Rare sees this and mentions this in an upcoming dev update.