Suggestion Custom Ship Titles

Alvis

Alvis

Honorable Pirate
I know I've brought this up a long time ago, and other people have to. But the main update I hope happens is custom ship names. It just seems to be the main way to create a sense of identity to your pirate. For example, if I ever become a top pirate in the game, I would want people see my ship in the horizon, and recognize it as the Kami, Alvis's flagship. And also, if a ship gets a high enough bounty in Privateering, have opposing ships have to board the flagship and defeat the pirates in order to sink the ship
 
Flayzian said:
Of course it would have to abide by the white list of words but I love the idea, rather than going through some preselect names that nobody would ever really look at.
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Probably. But I'd hope if they did do it, it would go through the same treatment as custom Pirate names.
 
The only problem with this idea is that the devs then have to go through and individually approve these names, just the same way that they have to do it for pirate name requests.
 
It'd be incredible to have custom ship names, however as said above, moderators &/or whoever deals with name requests will have to go through another list to sort out. It's hard enough having roughly 1000 pirates to sort out (likely a lot more) let alone 3 ships for each individual pirate, that's a lot of work. Not only that, but, as much as I love the sound of "The Kami" I can imagine a lot of pirates won't be as creative, and may put odd names for ships such as "XxILovePoniesxX" or something, which doesn't quite fit in with the whole theme of the game, so there'd have to be some restrictions on the custom ship names if there were to be such a thing.
 
JakeGaming said:
It'd be incredible to have custom ship names, however as said above, moderators &/or whoever deals with name requests will have to go through another list to sort out. It's hard enough having roughly 1000 pirates to sort out (likely a lot more) let alone 3 ships for each individual pirate, that's a lot of work. Not only that, but, as much as I love the sound of "The Kami" I can imagine a lot of pirates won't be as creative, and may put odd names for ships such as "XxILovePoniesxX" or something, which doesn't quite fit in with the whole theme of the game, so there'd have to be some restrictions on the custom ship names if there were to be such a thing.
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Unfortunatly, that is true. Perhaps maybe put it through the Whitelist favor, like what Flayzian said?
But hey, I'm just really glad I get to play the game again
 
You could put it through the whitelist to pre-screen it, but even then an admin would have to approve it. Also, there will be people who want to name their ship after a ship that already exists, such as the Flying Dutchman.

It's a good idea but I think it would require a lot of work to implement and maintain. (Also, I personally just want to keep it the way it is because I don't like change :P it took me forever to get used to my new profile pic lol)
 
This is such a good idea. It really makes sense to have individual names for our ships even though it requires work to sort out the names. Can't devs make it so that there can be restrictions of words in naming too? It will prevent people from choosing certain words and thus filter the name requests and reduce work for whoever takes care for naming.

Sincerely, Kyle.
 
We've discussed this idea amongst ourselves briefly in the past (maybe there was a similar thread posted earlier)?

From a technical standpoint, this should be pretty straightforward to implement, since we have the Name-A-Pirate concept and code already in-game. But the long term issue is supporting this feature, since now there would be a whole new category of names that would need approval, on top of pirate and guild name approvals. As things progress, we can evaluate how we are keeping up with that process, and whether the additional effort of also approving ship names would be feasible.

(BTW, I personally think this would be a neat feature to have available, although I have my fave ship name that I always used, as many of you may as well) :)

Great idea, keep 'em coming!
 
Right when I saw the title I thought of all the name approvals staff would have to go through. Good idea though
 
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