Captaineer1
Dockworker
So This is a suggestion and an Idea.
Myself and a few other members of my guild talked this over for fun but after much thought it came to be an awesome idea.
The premise of the Idea is to incorporate Pirate flags onto player ships, and guild's (Players In guilds sharing the same flag)
These flags could be used as a ship item that add a cosmetic look and a stat boost (explained later in the post)
Or as a pure ship customization cosmetic for looks in the game.
It was something that my friends and i leaned more towards the flags being a ship item that adds a flag cosmetic onto the ship that follows the design shown on the item itself, for example a player loots "The Jolly Roger" a standard skull and cross bones (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...and.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Edward_England.svg.png) with +1 Fear (Fear lowers the speed or damage of nearby enemy ships) or +1 to windtracking. this would be used as a ship item and while out at sea the player will see said flag on the mast or above the ship as flag ships did or such.
Though this also came into what would flags do? other than pure cosmetic, if added as a loot item flags in history were a symbol of fear, power, and the name of well known pirates. in the movie a pirates flag was known to tell what the name of the ship. for instance the skull and cross swords was the flag for the Black Pearl and for navy and others that saw such knew it was pirates and The Black pearl itself.
further discussion led to the Flags could be a guild item as well, the guild builds there own custom flag and submits the design to the dev's and upon acceptance is given choices to the effects the flag holds. Guild flags are a shared item to those in the guild ONLY. those outside the guild cant get the flags design or abilities.
This brought up a balance in question "how do we know which guilds get this item?" the answer came to the amount of members in a guild. Guilds would need to be large to hold such an item, activve guilds with over 300 members allow Guildmasters an option of creating the Guild flag. however we never went into detail what Stats the flag would add.
With that discussion over i went into the item looting system and researched into how the idea would work for regular players. As a loot item for ships that would take the place of maps, globes, rams, and such flags would incorporate a "at sea" stat from increaseing broad side damage, ship speed and so on.
and with much more thought i came down to a simple tree of the loot items
Crude:
The Jolly Roger:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...and.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Edward_England.svg.png
A simple piratey flag of the seas.
No stat or +1 to any stat at random
The Black Flag: its a simple black flag mmatted and torn
common:
EITC Duke: A flag of the EITC on a black and white backing
+1 to both broadsides and +1 treasure sense
Navy Standard: a navy flag of red and white
+1 to both broad sides and +1 to turn rate or ship speed
The Devils Spear:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...vBKAvTjB679jBDnc-TR_42Yy-o3jUweOxOUa1mtQIlCYQ
Theres nothing worse than a demon...
+1 to treasure sense and +1 to open fire
and this would go on to rare, famed and legendary being main designs from POTC.
Although this is an idea and a suggestion to the devs and workers part of me thinks this may have had too much thought though if it does become a part of the game or the suggestion gains ground would it be possible for me to request that a design of my own becomes a legendary item?
but what does everyone else think or believe? or what should be added or changed? i do love feedback
Myself and a few other members of my guild talked this over for fun but after much thought it came to be an awesome idea.
The premise of the Idea is to incorporate Pirate flags onto player ships, and guild's (Players In guilds sharing the same flag)
These flags could be used as a ship item that add a cosmetic look and a stat boost (explained later in the post)
Or as a pure ship customization cosmetic for looks in the game.
It was something that my friends and i leaned more towards the flags being a ship item that adds a flag cosmetic onto the ship that follows the design shown on the item itself, for example a player loots "The Jolly Roger" a standard skull and cross bones (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...and.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Edward_England.svg.png) with +1 Fear (Fear lowers the speed or damage of nearby enemy ships) or +1 to windtracking. this would be used as a ship item and while out at sea the player will see said flag on the mast or above the ship as flag ships did or such.
Though this also came into what would flags do? other than pure cosmetic, if added as a loot item flags in history were a symbol of fear, power, and the name of well known pirates. in the movie a pirates flag was known to tell what the name of the ship. for instance the skull and cross swords was the flag for the Black Pearl and for navy and others that saw such knew it was pirates and The Black pearl itself.
further discussion led to the Flags could be a guild item as well, the guild builds there own custom flag and submits the design to the dev's and upon acceptance is given choices to the effects the flag holds. Guild flags are a shared item to those in the guild ONLY. those outside the guild cant get the flags design or abilities.
This brought up a balance in question "how do we know which guilds get this item?" the answer came to the amount of members in a guild. Guilds would need to be large to hold such an item, activve guilds with over 300 members allow Guildmasters an option of creating the Guild flag. however we never went into detail what Stats the flag would add.
With that discussion over i went into the item looting system and researched into how the idea would work for regular players. As a loot item for ships that would take the place of maps, globes, rams, and such flags would incorporate a "at sea" stat from increaseing broad side damage, ship speed and so on.
and with much more thought i came down to a simple tree of the loot items
Crude:
The Jolly Roger:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...and.svg/1280px-Flag_of_Edward_England.svg.png
A simple piratey flag of the seas.
No stat or +1 to any stat at random
The Black Flag: its a simple black flag mmatted and torn
common:
EITC Duke: A flag of the EITC on a black and white backing
+1 to both broadsides and +1 treasure sense
Navy Standard: a navy flag of red and white
+1 to both broad sides and +1 to turn rate or ship speed
The Devils Spear:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/...vBKAvTjB679jBDnc-TR_42Yy-o3jUweOxOUa1mtQIlCYQ
Theres nothing worse than a demon...
+1 to treasure sense and +1 to open fire
and this would go on to rare, famed and legendary being main designs from POTC.
Although this is an idea and a suggestion to the devs and workers part of me thinks this may have had too much thought though if it does become a part of the game or the suggestion gains ground would it be possible for me to request that a design of my own becomes a legendary item?
but what does everyone else think or believe? or what should be added or changed? i do love feedback