Suggestions for Potco?

[Kate McGrim]

Was thinking about some new game ideas that would be interesting to have and wanted to hear some thoughts before i submit them.

What if you could select the colors for the flags on your ship per what guild your in? Back when pirates roamed the seas they had diff types of flags ..... and most flags were not a creme color.

What about a walk the plank option?????? huh? we all know how annoying a stowaway can be ... but i guess the new crew update would take care of that ... but still make them walk the plank and it sends them to a jail in tormenta surrounded by 5 seabeards?? just an idea

also and this one is a bit far fetched but what about a guild hut or fort whatever you want to call it that you can go to and keep treasure and ammo, etc. Also you could raid other guilds' huts/forts depending on how strong they are.

another idea would be to have a bartering system rather then the transfer of gold barter option with other pirates idk about this one though

another bonus would be once you maxed a weapon an option to change skill points only 1 time after weapon is maxed?

anyways just wanted to see if anyone else had some ideas on how to improve the game and what you thought about these ideas

[Nick]

some great ideas. and disney do read these forums for feedback

[Maximvs]

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Originally Posted by pheobes1986

What if you could select the colors for the flags on your ship per what guild your in? Back when pirates roamed the seas they had diff types of flags ..... and most flags were not a creme color.

The idea of custom ships period is a cool idea - I would think when you see that option you may see Guild Flags as an option as well (see Q&A on POTCO site for custom ships coming one day...)

What about a walk the plank option?????? huh? we all know how annoying a stowaway can be ... but i guess the new crew update would take care of that ... but still make them walk the plank and it sends them to a jail in tormenta surrounded by 5 seabeards?? just an idea

Yep - this issue is no more - and has been beaten to death in other threads

also and this one is a bit far fetched but what about a guild hut or fort whatever you want to call it that you can go to and keep treasure and ammo, etc. Also you could raid other guilds' huts/forts depending on how strong they are.

I don't get this whole "lets have a guild hangout" - I as a player don't want to be spending my time "hanging out in a clubhouse" when I have to get 40,000 Noriety...

There are several in the guild though that due to their Limited Access - Speed of Leveling - Playstyle that want a "clubhouse" (maybe Mickey can be there) so though the game has no design of it (and none too soon) maybe a few extra empty huts on Toug would be a cool idea... you won't get much more than this though

another idea would be to have a bartering system rather then the transfer of gold barter option with other pirates idk about this one though

This is the one you SHOULD fight for!! Some type of limited barter system should be incorperated intot he game. I'm not saying have full trade and all that stuff (limit amounts by Level or something), good idea (has been mentione in several threads but another submission never hurts

another bonus would be once you maxed a weapon an option to change skill points only 1 time after weapon is maxed?

Some type of "remaster", "retraining" or just plain "do-over" would be nice Once again, another submission on this doesn't hurt

anyways just wanted to see if anyone else had some ideas on how to improve the game and what you thought about these ideas

There are many listed in seveal sub-forms already - just hunt them down

[PirateMarioJr]

I really like these ideas. I like the Walk the Plank option.

[Rackat]

One feature I would like to see added with the "Walk the Plank" is an icon or word that shows everyone around that person "I was a stowaway". Kind of like a Scarlet Letter.

[Steely Jim]

I think I could put a different perspective on that guildhouse idea, as I think it could be used for more than just an instanced environment for members of the same guild to hang out and chat amongst themselves.

For example, even though Treasures serve no real purpose, our duplicates could go into a guild pool and guild members could receive randomly generated quests with the possibility of being rewarded with a treasure they don't yet have, from out of the guild pool, after completing the quest. Moreover, they could implement a guild bank of sorts, perhaps with different lines of credit for different ranks; this would have to include a "credit rating" that regulated how much could be taken out before something had to be put back into the bank.

In any case, my eyes aren't on the ultimate rep goal anyway. I always look at character development in these games as happening in 3 phases, and it is really only the 2 intermediate plateaus that serve as goals. The 1st plateau is always the minimum I'll need to survive exploration throughout the game world; and, the 2nd plateau is always to find the true peak value of a skill which, given the exponential development models that these games all seem to use, is always less than the actual maximum number available.

In this case that seems to be about minimally all skills to 14, and then maximally having a good plan for your build at all 20s. For phase 1, I employ leveling, training, and playing modes of using the game environment. For phase 2, I move to training & playing only. Phase 3 is focused entirely on just playing.

I actually spend quite a bit of my game time focused on things that have nothing to do with game's real structure anyway. So, I may end up getting Sailing rep for example, but my real focus was probably on removing specific types of ships from a particular sea, for no real reason other than to sea how the game will respond as I change the variable of exactly which types of ships I remove. I really enjoy finding "easter eggs" left behind by the game devs on purpose. My focus is always more on exploration than accomplishment.

So, any use of a guildhouse that encouraged people to go out and explore out of the way places would seem cool to me. Plus, I think getting people to spread themselves evenly across all available zones is one of the best ways to reduce lag generally.

[Angel]

I know they are coming out with the fix to the stow aways thing, but a walk the plan would be a nice feature anyways.. Guild hangouts are nice for the officer meetings too. I dont want to see a trading system come into play because then you get too many gold farmers.

[Eustace the Monk]

I would not mind the gold farmers so much, but the "trade" would need to be 1 way, unless you could sell your treasure pieces or cheat cards (which would not be so bad, if they had fixed prices for the items). The trade would also need to have a limit to the amount of gold that can be given, or everyone would be running around with a full war fleet. Then have it so they need to wait a week before they can receive gold again.

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[Destiny]

I like the idea from above, I get SO many doubles of things that if we could have a collective 'guild treasure account,' it could be SO helpful to your guildmates, not to mention being able to easily give guildmates money then the way we have to do it now >_< Also LOVE the idea of making someone walk the plank! But knowing how nutty our guildmates are we'd just randomly kick each other overboard for a laugh lol. As for the guild hangout, that could be a cool thing to do. I am also wanting cabins on our ships where we can keep our clothes and weapons, where we can go aboard to change or even change out our weaponry depending on what level enemies we were taking on and such.

[Steely Jim]

Personally, I was always more partial to keelhauling than plank walking. After all, it's good to drag something across the hull every now and again; it knocks off some of the barnacles and keeps the ship moving fast....

Also (almost forgot to mention this), I wouldn't want any mice around my guildhouse. I suppose I could tolerate a bear though, any chance they could send Baloo around instead?

[Dr. Zeppers]

I like those ideas, however I would think they would have to put the idea of one guild raiding another guilds stuff as a pvp reward option. Otherwise, the idea ends up being pointless when you have multiple high levels just raiding everyone elses places instead. If my "guild house" or whatever was constantly being raided, I would stop putting stuff there, which thereby warrants the idea useless!

If my bank was capable of being robbed on a whim, I wouldnt put anything in there.

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[Steely Jim]

Personally, I don't take anything about the Treasures seriously; for me, they don't even lend interest since there's absolutely nothing to be done with them. I wouldn't mind some form of inter-guild raiding though; however, as you point out, that could be difficult to implement in a fair and balanced way. I definitely don't want them to go adding content that goes unused.

Still, I can think of at least 1 game where the PvP servers have their towns started from scratch, usually around resources. One town may grow to covet another town's resource and they could go try to take it by force anytime they wished, but detente exists because declaring war has its own costs.

Getting people to use a resource isn't really the problem though, as that can always be accomplished by making the reward worth the risk.

[AdmiralSavvy]

I like the Plank option best, some annoying fan from another ship comes on your's, no problem. I would also enjoy seeing an original Partners In Crime flag.

[Captain Fireskull]

Nice Ideas, I love most of em.

[Aliese]

Originally Posted by pheobes1986

Was thinking about some new game
What if you could select the colors for the flags on your ship per what guild your in? Back when pirates roamed the seas they had diff types of flags ..... and most flags were not a creme color.

What about a walk the plank option?????? huh? we all know how annoying a stowaway can be ... but i guess the new crew update would take care of that ... but still make them walk the plank and it sends them to a jail in tormenta surrounded by 5 seabeards?? just an idea

I like both of these ideas a lot. I'd love to be able to customize my ships' sails (which should be easy for them to do, actually...), and to be able to punish players that board without permission (friends are one thing, but those really rude guys that sail up next to you...).

Something else I'd like to see (which I'm sure has been mentioned), is more options for jewelry. It's not a big deal, but it'd be nice to be able to further customize my pirate, and like the sails, it shouldn't be hard for them to add.