Flagships : Baseline (Large)

[Most Lee Harmless]

Its plus ONE trait : which you choose and what ship you put it on and what level, att count or built-in traits exist on the nominsted vessel is down to the player.

[Most Lee Harmless]

Danik, did you intend for this to be a three trait ship, or specifically as it reads, plus one additional ability?

If a player was smart they would use the "extra" trait to make it a 3 trait ship. Don't know why someone would chose to put it on a ship that was built with only 1 trait. That would be a waste.

Yes it would. I don't agree with being just a +1 trait. There are player that have setup and leveled specific ships for flagships and due to how traits work, their ship has only 1 trait. I find that a slight disservice to some players.

Which makes two-trait ships rare and valuable, as they should be. That may make 3 trait flag ships just as rare and valuable : 4 trait pirate flags will be even rarer again.

I have one two-trait warship and I had to buy it : none of my existing war vessels managed to gain two : most gained what I consider a junk trait so I've been pensioning them off. Is that fair or unfair? I dont like it seeing years of patient building and upgrading reduced to a heap of shyte overnight but it is what it is : my ship plunder and coin plunder counts are shyte too cos a big chunk of mine occurred before any counts existed. It is what it is.
No-one gets handed the perfect ship : you need resources : you need luck and you need the patience to build it into the perfect ship. Or you can steal it. Flags gonna be the same.

[Most Lee Harmless]

Suggestion withdrawn : topic archived until we all agree some-one else is right and we aint got a clue.

[Mack]

[DezNutz]

Suggestion withdrawn : topic archived until we all agree some-one else is right and we aint got a clue.

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[Hawk]

Danik, could you possibly add a passive counter to the OP? Simply a way to keep track of battles won and battles lost, versus other flagships, ships, and NPC's. This could be very useful, keeping track from day one.

100% bonus applies to 'normal' plunder = last ship value +% of purse up to the standard 250k cap. This to be taken from the targrts purse.
Scraps and piracy tech bonuses apply seperately as thry are paid by the game.
Skirmish plunder would be doubled plus any tech bonuses.
No effect on PVE plunders.

Also, this as well

[DezNutz]

For Review:

This suggestion is an excellent baseline for flagships. Have only 1 minor tweak and 1 addition to this.

1) There has to be an initial cost. Based on the subsequent amounts, 25 credits seems to be adequate.

2) Addition of stats tracking.


+1 Skyhawk
+1 Roo
+1 Feniks
+1 Clockwork

[DezNutz]

+1 Approved.

[Magnus the red]

Is their an estimated time on this?

[Vane]

2 years while it gets re-worked several times and watered down further until all you can do is add a stamp to the hull and call it by name!