skolotun
Honorable Pirate
I'm perfectly fine with people leaching (going afk on ships with full cargo).
I recently read a mod post that said they were figuring out a way to boot people that just go AFK on ships that have full cargo, but why? For my explanation, I'm going to describe a war brig and its stats, since it's often the ship that most people board. There's only 6 cannons on one side of a war brig, yet 12 people can come on board. In most ship battles, the captains usually keep the enemy ships on one side the entire fight. This leaves about 6 people with nothing to do except repair, provided the ship has 12 crewmates on board. There's 5 repair games that can be played, but it usually only takes one or two people to fully repair a ship in adequate time.
This only comes out to about 7 or 8 people that are actually needed on board in most ship battles. Even considering this, when looking at what most ships do while at sea anyways (find the big group of people fighting hunters), the hunters and warships only target the ships with max bounty. Unless a ship gets caught in the crossfire, not many repairs are gonna need to be made since they won't be targeted by the warships and hunters. Furthermore, a ship only needs to hit an enemy ship with one cannonball in order to get the reward for sinking the ship. Unless you're trying to solo an enemy ship, you don't have to be perfectly accurate and you don't need many people firing cannons. You really just need one guy on a cannon that can hit an enemy ship to get full rewards, minus a bit of experience.
What I'm trying to say is that there's a lot of free space on ships where people should be allowed to hop on and take a part of the loot. Those people being on board won't lower any one else's loot gain. In fact, they'll typically gain less loot than those that have been on board since the ship set sail. There's really no negative effect that leaching has on anyone actually working on board the ship. The only gripe that I have is that leachers are usually the annoying ones that say "PORT NOW OMG WHY WONT YOU PORT NAG NAG NAG" as soon as the cargo count is full. However, there's an ignore option, and a report option if need be. If captains really don't want people leaching on their ships, it's their responsibility to set boarding options off of public once cargo is full and they have an adequate crew for them. If they fail to do this, it's their fault.
Just what I think.
I recently read a mod post that said they were figuring out a way to boot people that just go AFK on ships that have full cargo, but why? For my explanation, I'm going to describe a war brig and its stats, since it's often the ship that most people board. There's only 6 cannons on one side of a war brig, yet 12 people can come on board. In most ship battles, the captains usually keep the enemy ships on one side the entire fight. This leaves about 6 people with nothing to do except repair, provided the ship has 12 crewmates on board. There's 5 repair games that can be played, but it usually only takes one or two people to fully repair a ship in adequate time.
This only comes out to about 7 or 8 people that are actually needed on board in most ship battles. Even considering this, when looking at what most ships do while at sea anyways (find the big group of people fighting hunters), the hunters and warships only target the ships with max bounty. Unless a ship gets caught in the crossfire, not many repairs are gonna need to be made since they won't be targeted by the warships and hunters. Furthermore, a ship only needs to hit an enemy ship with one cannonball in order to get the reward for sinking the ship. Unless you're trying to solo an enemy ship, you don't have to be perfectly accurate and you don't need many people firing cannons. You really just need one guy on a cannon that can hit an enemy ship to get full rewards, minus a bit of experience.
What I'm trying to say is that there's a lot of free space on ships where people should be allowed to hop on and take a part of the loot. Those people being on board won't lower any one else's loot gain. In fact, they'll typically gain less loot than those that have been on board since the ship set sail. There's really no negative effect that leaching has on anyone actually working on board the ship. The only gripe that I have is that leachers are usually the annoying ones that say "PORT NOW OMG WHY WONT YOU PORT NAG NAG NAG" as soon as the cargo count is full. However, there's an ignore option, and a report option if need be. If captains really don't want people leaching on their ships, it's their responsibility to set boarding options off of public once cargo is full and they have an adequate crew for them. If they fail to do this, it's their fault.
Just what I think.
