@whawk0 said in Removal of emissary flags during the battle.:
It seems that all the people who are against this proposal just want to mess with the players.
What? Mess with what players?
The folks arguing against it are correct that it's a completely different scenario to the Burning Blade. The Burning Blade is a world event, the Emissary system is not. If you were to make them equivalent, you'd block the selling of all loot when another ship is nearby - and that's a terrible idea.
You don't want to give up the banner, fight, you don't want to fight, either run or leave the session, and people will take the banner.
All this just sounds like sour grapes, if I'm honest. It just seems like you want easy flags handed to you. You want people to fight, then bring your own flag and loot as well.
Rare have already introduced plenty of concessions for players chasing others, including a change to how the Red Sea works, now dumping all loot and flags on the edge of it when a ship sinks there. If an Emissary portal hops, they also drop a copy of the flag. You cannot cash in Hourglass Allegiance if another opted-in ship is nearby either.
We have enough ship blocks in the game and all a change like this will do is make it even harder for you to get the flags you want, as less folk will raise a flag to begin with.