Glorious Potato Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 So of course, with the open comming soon, the question of how nations / groups works appears, and what I mainly wonder of is how piracy will work. Will pirates be individuals or will they also be a part of a pirate nation? How will pirates attack and plunder on the open seas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destraex Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 There are a fair few topics on this... as far as I am concerned pirate nations should not be in game unless they are historical ones like the barbary states. Even then their ships left harbour in ones not fleets. Very occasionally pirates would get together in small fleets of light vessels and even more rarely they had one big vessel that might be the size of the surprise. As is often stated... the period of the game was one where pirates were rare for 80% of it. I sincerely hope that most people purchased the game for the naval and nation combat or merchant game and not the pirate combat. But that's just me. I know that historically pirates would have rarely if ever been seen in this era and for the most part had tiny ships. But in game 90% of players will be jack sparrows. In reality I know that every little boys eyes light up at the mention of pirate stories Watch Disney's treasure planet for instance. Where almost nothing has been made in the naval age of sail arena. How will they attack and plunder... good question. Have you seent he video that is circulating of the open world and a pirate turning yet ?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Blackwell Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I say piracy should be all about small ships and even smaller numbers. A pirates life should be hard, to discourage great swarms of small vessels, yet rewarding enough to entice those reckless enough to attempt it. High risk, high reward. A pirates life for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTMatt Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I read about the developers ideas, they seem to want a pirate faction with organized support but not exactly like that of a real nation. I guess like POTC Tortuga or something heh.How to be a pirate you may have to be part of the admiralty or a privateer and commit a crime removing you from the nation. After that you're pretty much on your own hunting merchant ships or whatever else you dare to attack. Personally I just want no organized support for pirates, make it a super hard mode worthy of the best captains. Good replays potential right there along with letsplay videos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest raat Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 A pirate...nation? Doesn't that go against everything pirates stand for? I would imagine you just sail unaffiliated to any nation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious Potato Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 There are a fair few topics on this... as far as I am concerned pirate nations should not be in game unless they are historical ones like the barbary states. Even then their ships left harbour in ones not fleets. Very occasionally pirates would get together in small fleets of light vessels and even more rarely they had one big vessel that might be the size of the surprise. As is often stated... the period of the game was one where pirates were rare for 80% of it. I sincerely hope that most people purchased the game for the naval and nation combat or merchant game and not the pirate combat. But that's just me. I know that historically pirates would have rarely if ever been seen in this era and for the most part had tiny ships. But in game 90% of players will be jack sparrows. In reality I know that every little boys eyes light up at the mention of pirate stories Watch Disney's treasure planet for instance. Where almost nothing has been made in the naval age of sail arena. How will they attack and plunder... good question. Have you seent he video that is circulating of the open world and a pirate turning yet ?? I do think having a bunch of young people is quite absurd for a game like this. I'm pretty sure most people who'd be interested in this will be over the age of 20. The problem of there being to many pirates can still occur, just not to the major scale I think you're having thoughts of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MATANZA Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Oh come on, not again. Please, close this topic and discuss in 1 of 100 other topics about piracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William the Drake Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 There are a fair few topics on this... as far as I am concerned pirate nations should not be in game unless they are historical ones like the barbary states. Even then their ships left harbour in ones not fleets. Very occasionally pirates would get together in small fleets of light vessels and even more rarely they had one big vessel that might be the size of the surprise. As is often stated... the period of the game was one where pirates were rare for 80% of it. I sincerely hope that most people purchased the game for the naval and nation combat or merchant game and not the pirate combat. But that's just me. I know that historically pirates would have rarely if ever been seen in this era and for the most part had tiny ships. But in game 90% of players will be jack sparrows. In reality I know that every little boys eyes light up at the mention of pirate stories Watch Disney's treasure planet for instance. Where almost nothing has been made in the naval age of sail arena. I disagree on this. There is normally just two viewpoints of pirates: the extreme of "jack sparrow" and he opposite of a cruel, black-hearted, ravenous cutthroat that eats peoples' hearts (L'Ollonais). The players who want to play one of these extremes will probably make up 15-20% of the players planning to go pirate. The rest will be just like real pirates: somewhere in the middle The truth is that the real pirates populated both extremes and everything in between. The Pirate Republic of Nassau, the Pirate Haven of Tortuga, the Barbary states etc. where all real entities. The Naval reaction and dealing with piracy is part of the naval history and naval combat. The last thing that anyone should do is automatically stereotype someone who wants to play pirate as a "little boy" who doesn't know what they are talking about. While they do exists, vice versa is also true. And also, this has been discussed in-depth elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destraex Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Fair enough. We shall see. BTW I was not referring to young people thats eyes light up 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Alvarez Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Fair enough. We shall see. BTW I was not referring to young people thats eyes light up I'm not young anymore. When my eyes light up, it's because the inside of my skull is on fire. Literally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destraex Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 lol..... I am the same. My eyes rarely light up these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barberouge Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 No need to multiply the topics. You can find them here, open world / pirates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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