Padaun
Pirate
Hello,
So I'm on fall break and have a lot of downtime during which I can play on TLOPO, which is great fun as always. But one thing that has really bothered me is the rampant freeloading going on on ships. For those unaware, freeloading is when someone boards a ship then promptly goes AFK for the duration of the trip, contributing nothing to the ship and her crew, taking up a slot for someone who would have actually helped the ship and deserved all of the rewards from doing so.
I took my own War Brig, Dark Fury, out for a couple runs this evening and encountered the same freeloader not once but twice; he joined my ship just after I launched, and sat, unmoving as we were porting, hull full of goodies. He didn't move a muscle, and yet was given a great reward. I commented that perhaps he should play like an actual player might, and he didn't even get around to responding until we were about to port, and even then he had nothing constructive to say (some of it bordered on taunting me. Boo!)
The Idea:
Now, I'm no game dev, and so I haven't the slightest idea as to how difficult something like this would actually be, but my thought is to not restrict the captain of a ship being able to boot members of the crew to privateering ships only, but rather extend that to all ships. I imagine it's more complicated than a simple string checking to see whether or not the ship is a privateering ship before administering a kick from the captain, so I understand if this would be more trouble than it's worth. However, as a disgruntled ship captain, it's something I would very much appreciate seeing. If nothing else, I would like a reason why this wouldn't work so I at least understand why it wouldn't.
Naturally, however, this would prohibit ships without the owner aboard (which, while uncommon, can and does happen) from booting unhelpful crew members.
As such, it may be another idea to look into to the future (this one would require a lot more work) implementing a vote-kick system to ships' crews, where one member can begin a vote to kick a certain member, and any member of the crew who agrees can also vote to kick them. When the majority of crewmates vote in the affirmative, the member of the crew will be teleported automatically to their last Port of Call.
Let me know what you folks think.It's something that's been brewing on my mind for a while, something I've mentioned to various crews I've sailed with and has largely been agreed upon as a feature they'd like to see. Thanks for reading!
TL;DR
Freeloaders are bad
Let's get a way to kick them off
So I'm on fall break and have a lot of downtime during which I can play on TLOPO, which is great fun as always. But one thing that has really bothered me is the rampant freeloading going on on ships. For those unaware, freeloading is when someone boards a ship then promptly goes AFK for the duration of the trip, contributing nothing to the ship and her crew, taking up a slot for someone who would have actually helped the ship and deserved all of the rewards from doing so.
I took my own War Brig, Dark Fury, out for a couple runs this evening and encountered the same freeloader not once but twice; he joined my ship just after I launched, and sat, unmoving as we were porting, hull full of goodies. He didn't move a muscle, and yet was given a great reward. I commented that perhaps he should play like an actual player might, and he didn't even get around to responding until we were about to port, and even then he had nothing constructive to say (some of it bordered on taunting me. Boo!)
The Idea:
Now, I'm no game dev, and so I haven't the slightest idea as to how difficult something like this would actually be, but my thought is to not restrict the captain of a ship being able to boot members of the crew to privateering ships only, but rather extend that to all ships. I imagine it's more complicated than a simple string checking to see whether or not the ship is a privateering ship before administering a kick from the captain, so I understand if this would be more trouble than it's worth. However, as a disgruntled ship captain, it's something I would very much appreciate seeing. If nothing else, I would like a reason why this wouldn't work so I at least understand why it wouldn't.
Naturally, however, this would prohibit ships without the owner aboard (which, while uncommon, can and does happen) from booting unhelpful crew members.
As such, it may be another idea to look into to the future (this one would require a lot more work) implementing a vote-kick system to ships' crews, where one member can begin a vote to kick a certain member, and any member of the crew who agrees can also vote to kick them. When the majority of crewmates vote in the affirmative, the member of the crew will be teleported automatically to their last Port of Call.
Let me know what you folks think.It's something that's been brewing on my mind for a while, something I've mentioned to various crews I've sailed with and has largely been agreed upon as a feature they'd like to see. Thanks for reading!
TL;DR
Freeloaders are bad
Let's get a way to kick them off
