Ahoy!
I suggest showing an event existence time timer and an event icon somewhere in the hud, so that the player can manage time and priorities on the server more efficiently. I don't like the fact that I sails to world event for a significant amount of time and the world event just disappears. The game is played mostly by kids, so I think adding a feature to promote time management would be a good idea.
Current World Event and Timer on HUD?
@ixxxoloff sagte in Current World Event and Timer on HUD?:
Ahoy!
I suggest showing an event existence time timer and an event icon somewhere in the hud, so that the player can manage time and priorities on the server more efficiently. I don't like the fact that I sails to world event for a significant amount of time and the world event just disappears. The game is played mostly by kids, so I think adding a feature to promote time management would be a good idea.Played mostly by kids? Wow, that assumtion is new to me...it's definitly not
The game has a minimalistic HUD, that's one thing I like about it. Don’t change that.
One event disappears, another comes up...so you got enough to do anyway.
And you can dive to an event, this way it's not gonna disappear, use the tools you have.I don't like the fact that I sails to world event for a significant amount of time and the world event just disappears. The game is played mostly by kids, so I think adding a feature to promote time management would be a good idea.
Much like how the sea changes and everything happens. You can’t expect everything to go your way. And a timer would just be a thing to worry about out. Nobody wants that
As for “played by kids” this be sad. But also…why does that matter?? Time management isn’t a kid thing more adult thing. Kids don’t care
@ixxxoloff can't see this being a thing. The Hud and ui design is very minimal based on immersion in the world so that kinda data wouldn't fit that well.
@ixxxoloff said in Current World Event and Timer on HUD?:
Ahoy!
I suggest showing an event existence time timer and an event icon somewhere in the hud, so that the player can manage time and priorities on the server more efficiently. I don't like the fact that I sails to world event for a significant amount of time and the world event just disappears. The game is played mostly by kids, so I think adding a feature to promote time management would be a good idea.Absolutely no!
the timer for world events reset every time someone come into its area and only starts ticking again when nobody is in the area. Displaying such a timer would reveal to everybody that someone is there. That would for instance remove all the posibilities for sneak plays. No rowboat play to do a worldevent unseen anymore, because the timer will betray you. Tuckers would be extremely easy to find: just sail away from the event for a moment and see if the timer starts running or not...
This would just completely destroy some gameplays, while the ability of playing how you like to is what makes the game so fun. This idea is only hurting that.
I’ve always said, world events should appear on the map, sometimes it’s difficult to spot a world event due to clouds, fog, storm etc. as for a timer on the hud I have to disagree, I like the minimal hud. Maybe the event gets fainter on the map the closer it is to ending due to nobody showing up.
The map icons can be the events signal like the cloud/tornado etc.
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