Balsafer Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Currently you hail a trader ship and you automatically see if they have contraband I suggest instead you receive the option of telling the trader to stop for inspection or be sent to davey jones locker. The AI/Player can choose to keep sailing or not and risk being caught and sunk or submit to inspection. And from there you crew boards ship and for random chance find contraband you can initiate boarding combat and take the ship and contraband and prisoners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 the question is: what is the act of inspection and how do you know if it is contraband or not. if the player does not have contraband he will stop happily if he does have contraband he won't stop ever because any check will find the goods. Thus logically we can just show if he has contraband and you can decide on the chase yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allons! Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yesterday i brought up an english traders brig with contraband, after successful fighting (grateful noob i was) there was nothing in their hold BUT they had ships upgrades with them. Classic contraband were goods for war equipment etc. If we could trade rifles etc. & everytimes we load these goods and then we change into a ship with contraband, that would be a nice idea.. Greetz, Allons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 the question is: what is the act of inspection and how do you know if it is contraband or not. if the player does not have contraband he will stop happily if he does have contraband he won't stop ever because any check will find the goods. Thus logically we can just show if he has contraband and you can decide on the chase yourself. I would suggest that you need to get very close on OW to reveal contraband goods. That way smugglers can skirt the line between "playing it cool" around players of their own nation and actively avoiding them (thus making it obvious they are smuggling). The "I see you therefore I know you are a smuggler" model does not really support smuggling as a form of gameplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yesterday i brought up an english traders brig with contraband, after successful fighting (grateful noob i was) there was nothing in their hold BUT they had ships upgrades with them. Classic contraband were goods for war equipment etc. If we could trade rifles etc. & everytimes we load these goods and then we change into a ship with contraband, that would be a nice idea.. Greetz, Allons! Loot tables are not yet connected to traders.. its coming in one of the next patches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bart Smith Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 And what about incrase point area when hailing? its hard hit far far ship to check it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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