Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, or a suggestion of this magnitude is welcome but I’ll go at it anyway.

What about introducing Battleships to Guild Wars 2 World Vs World? How I see it is that there could be one battleship per world, e.g Aurora Glade has a Battleship and another world has Battleship, a battleship could also be an objective which a World is has the option to keep command of and maintain, being large enough to fit many players on it with multiple decks.

Top deck – Cannons, ship’s bridge etc. Large surface area to accommodate a large amount of players who can jump off the ship at anytime.
Lower Deck, (Deck 2) – Resources and NPCs to allow you to repair and upgrade just like when you capture a fort.
Bottom Deck (Deck 3) – Could just be a large area to accommodate players and an opening floor/door to allow players to take a dip into the water and continue their voyage in World Vs World.

I can see this has many potential flaws, however if implemented correctly it could work out and also balancing could be interesting such as balancing the attack power of the cannons and the movement speed of the Battleship itself, not only this but the performance impact on the client and the server of a mobile structure accommodating a potential large amount of players.

A battleship could fit neatly into the Guild Wars universe and could be looked at as a mobile fortress, however travel speed and other things may be affected and have a negative impact on the game and it’s balancing, this is just a suggestion however which may or may not capture the likes of other gamers

Thanks for reading.

this is a very out-there idea, and don’t get me wrong, i like it, it could actually be very awesome somewhere in the future, but the problems you mentioned, especially the performance impact, would simply be too enormous to fit it anywhere, at least for now ;D

^ Basically what Hof said.

That being said, this sounds like a really cool idea, I just don’t think that the game’s infrastructure is ready for that much change yet. However, in the future, this could totally be a possibility, or at least a blueprint for a possibility.

I like it.

Screw battle ships.

Battle zepplins thats where its at.

Rizzy.8293:

Screw battle ships.

Battle zepplins thats where its at.

^ This.
Zeppelin > Battleship IMO, though it would cause even more issues as you a 3rd axis to worry about…

Battle zepline, where you only see mesmers to push you down! Luckly fall dead doesn’t break your gear XD