jwalkerblue on Aug 23, 2017 wrote:

First off, my main account on the forums here "Technomage" can't talk because I have yet to renew his membership. However, this is my "John Walker" account so I just want point that out beforehand in case anyone is wondering who I am as an individual.

So. Ship PvP, while I'm not a huge fanboy of it. I think it was going to happen eventually. Now currently, while I am absolutely happy for those who do want this feature, the reason I am personally not so excited for it compared to all the other amazing additions discussed in the recent Producer's letter is due to some issues with the Ship system entirely.

First off, it's a repetitive cycle. The reason people don't enjoy ship quests isn't due to not liking ships. Its because the system has no strategy or any level of depth to it. While picking your targets, teaming up on something, etc. That part of land pvp is why it is enjoyed. You can't have pvp without depth. This is why pet pvp in Pirates compared to Wiz sees no competition being involved. There is no system in depth with it. Currently the most there is to the Ship system is the gear aspect. It becomes quickly an actual Pay to Win system. The strongest ship in the game is the max lvl Halloween ship iirc. So that becomes an immediate issue. Since the system would be a "power based" system solely based on who has the strongest ship and equipment. Now if this is how you want Ship pvp to be, that's fine. I don't know exactly what I would like for a Ship pvp system if you were to add depth into it. So I won't go into it because the honest truth is I have no specific ideas as of right now. Though all I can say is if you don't want it to just be flat out a power based system, you will need to add some extra layers to it.

So what is this power based system? Simple. It's a system based only on the equipment/level of your items. It has been proven that every one of these systems are heavily P2W. Pirate101 is already before anything has been even tested, in the category of this looking at what we CURRENTLY have. The current ships available to everyone for starters are weaker than the EVENT EXCLUSIVE Halloween CROWN SHOP ONLY ship. That is an issue. I don't agree with nerfing an item player payed for. So I would like to see a couple of things done if you decide to leave the system as it currently is for testing and use the Power based system.

• Strengthen the stats of all the current gold ships from different worlds
• Add in new ship items/powers that are as strong/stronger than the Crown Shop ones and make them dropped from boss ships around the spiral
• DO NOT make pvp reward ships/equipment, or if you do. Make sure they're on the SAME power level as the others. Make them mostly for experience wise.

Power base systems can be made fair and fun for everyone both competitive and casual. However you have to strictly keep things to a certain power level. Power creep can't be done for this system unless you power creep EVERYTHING. So please be wary of this.

jwalkerblue on Aug 23, 2017 wrote:

First off, my main account on the forums here "Technomage" can't talk because I have yet to renew his membership. However, this is my "John Walker" account so I just want point that out beforehand in case anyone is wondering who I am as an individual.

So. Ship PvP, while I'm not a huge fanboy of it. I think it was going to happen eventually. Now currently, while I am absolutely happy for those who do want this feature, the reason I am personally not so excited for it compared to all the other amazing additions discussed in the recent Producer's letter is due to some issues with the Ship system entirely.

First off, it's a repetitive cycle. The reason people don't enjoy ship quests isn't due to not liking ships. Its because the system has no strategy or any level of depth to it. While picking your targets, teaming up on something, etc. That part of land pvp is why it is enjoyed. You can't have pvp without depth. This is why pet pvp in Pirates compared to Wiz sees no competition being involved. There is no system in depth with it. Currently the most there is to the Ship system is the gear aspect. It becomes quickly an actual Pay to Win system. The strongest ship in the game is the max lvl Halloween ship iirc. So that becomes an immediate issue. Since the system would be a "power based" system solely based on who has the strongest ship and equipment. Now if this is how you want Ship pvp to be, that's fine. I don't know exactly what I would like for a Ship pvp system if you were to add depth into it. So I won't go into it because the honest truth is I have no specific ideas as of right now. Though all I can say is if you don't want it to just be flat out a power based system, you will need to add some extra layers to it.

So what is this power based system? Simple. It's a system based only on the equipment/level of your items. It has been proven that every one of these systems are heavily P2W. Pirate101 is already before anything has been even tested, in the category of this looking at what we CURRENTLY have. The current ships available to everyone for starters are weaker than the EVENT EXCLUSIVE Halloween CROWN SHOP ONLY ship. That is an issue. I don't agree with nerfing an item player payed for. So I would like to see a couple of things done if you decide to leave the system as it currently is for testing and use the Power based system.

• Strengthen the stats of all the current gold ships from different worlds
• Add in new ship items/powers that are as strong/stronger than the Crown Shop ones and make them dropped from boss ships around the spiral
• DO NOT make pvp reward ships/equipment, or if you do. Make sure they're on the SAME power level as the others. Make them mostly for experience wise.

Power base systems can be made fair and fun for everyone both competitive and casual. However you have to strictly keep things to a certain power level. Power creep can't be done for this system unless you power creep EVERYTHING. So please be wary of this.