Pirate Ship Battles and Housing
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Ok, just to show off my support for this general topic, I’ll try to post my basic suggestion I made in the german forum also here translated as good as I can into English. I’ll shorten it down to just the most important parts and expanded here with some extra ideas
Players as also Guilds should have the option to craft their very own Ships.
Ships should be used in several different ways:
1) As instanced transportation feature to let us travel between either continents (From Tyria to Cantha for example now), or to travel to explorable Sea Map Parts, as the Map has alot of empty sea parts, where even no islands are, where content wise could exist either only underwater content in form of like Quaggan Villages, Ship Graveyards or diferent kinds of Underwater Dungeons that are truly missing in this Game so far.
I want to see the map of Tyria truly being explorable to 100%. I definetely don’t want to se a World Map like in GW1 again, where mostly like 70% was just lame unexplorable filler and only the other 30% explorable. GW2 should be so, that everythign we can see on the map, should be also explorable and this should also include the sea parts, even if its harder to think up interestign content for these kidns of areas. But there comes also ships into the game and the second feature, that you provide to us
2= NAVAL BATTLES on the Seas, all those spots where Arenanet wouldn#t come up with Underwater Dungeons, quaggan Villages or whatever, these map parts would be used for Naval Battle Maps with different themes (Stormy Sea, Sunny Sea, Cold Sea and so on)
Naval Battles could work with similar gameplay mechanics as the game has them already within WvWvW.
Every Ship would have a CAPTAIN. Captains would work exactly like Commanders do work in WvW. Captains organize their ship crew on deck of their shiff, they navigate the ship, while the ship crew on deck fights against monsters and enemies like pirates, that try to conquer the ship.
Captains would have following 10 Support Skills:
1) “Set on Sail!” (“Stecht in See!”)
This skill will temporarely increase the Movement Speed of your Ship Crew, allowing for quicker Cannon Shots, repairings of the damaged ship as also makign it possible to quicker set the sails so that the Captain can quicker navigate the ship.
2) “We will keel you!” (Wir werden euch Kiel holen!)
This skill will temporarely increase the maximum power of the Cannons and their maximum shot distance.
3) “All Clear Ship!” (“Alles Klarschiff!”)
This skill will temporarely increase the maximum defense of the ship and give the Ship Crew stability, so that incoming cannon hits won’t knockdown your crew.
4) “Praise the Sea and hold at Land!” (Lobet das Meer und haltet an Land!)
Makes the ship temporarely invulnerable against attacks from big sea monsters of any kind.
5) “Provisions against Scurvy!” (“Proviant gegen Skorbut!”)
Heals the Ship Crew, also curing Burning, Poison, Blindness and Cripple giving them additionally Regeneration, Vigor and Protection for some short time.
6) “Now we fire full Broadside!” ("Jetz feuern wir volle Breitseite!)
The next 5 Cannon Shots will let all Cannons fire at the same time, thus increases the maximum precision of these shots enabling a much higher chance for critical hits.
7) “The Silence before the Storm!” (“Die Ruhe vor dem Sturm!”)
Protects temporarely the ship against environmental weather effects that could damage or slow down the ship, like huge tidal waves or thunderstorms.
8) “Land in Sight!” (“Land in Sicht!”)
The captains radar range will increase, makign it easier for him to navigate the ship around dangerous points, like coral riffs, sharp rocks. Also enemies will be detected from wider distance, when this skill is active for the moment.
9) “In Front of the Wind is good Sailing!” (“Vorm Wind ist gut Segeln!”)
This Skill will temporarely increase the maximum movement speed of the ship that the ship can reach, if the ship crew has set up for their captain all sails to maximum.
10) “The Captain leaves the Ship last!” Elite (“Der Kapitan verlässt das Schiff zuletzt!”)
The Elite skill, that will greatly buff the captain as last man standing, if the ship crew got totally beaten. He is then the last chance for the ship to rally as with every kill from a captain will rally up a dead crew member.
So, thats just my basic ideas about Naval Battles.
Maybe one of you here has suggestions for improving the skills I made up here, or in geenral for naval battles, ship crafting ect.
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
