Walk the Plank?
 

Should they add a plank to all ships to kick unruly crew members from your ship while sailing?

I don't really find it important or Korsairish, if you have a unwanted crew member, and you want to get rid of him, throw him in the brig until you make port where you can ransom him to whatever nation that wants him, and make a nice piece of profit along the way. If you throw the unwanted seaweed brain overboard, he might survive, and might just happen to tell the next passing ship to go after you, or he might just get eaten by sharks and enemy ships could follow the bread crumb trail.


Nuju-

Yeah, they should add this to the game. They already have something similar to it in SvS, why not add it to regular sailing?

Heck yeah! Im so sick of people hopping on my ships, not joining crew and then telling me where to sail and what to hit. Telling not asking!! Drives me crazy!

HECK YEAH MY GUYS ARE THREATING ME TO GO SOMWHERE OR THEY WILL KILL ME I AM SICK OF THEM PLEASE ADD A PLANK POTCO MAKERS:pirate2wn0::pirate2wn0:

besides what is svs

SvS is Ship vs Ship. Launch from one of the privateer islands, and you can sink people who launched from the opposite island.

That plank for SVS comes in handy. "Alright guys, the enemy is coming, we must prepare quickly... Johnny get off the wheel!!" *Johnny Takes Helm and Sinks their ship... the captain needed damage without sinking. Whoops? No, add the plank, it was used back then, and it will help now. Who's with me!!??!!?!??!?!

yea!I would do that for fun ;)

Yes! i agree with all of you ahaha, i have no clue why they dont have it on regular sailing, im tired of your crew not listening, bossing you around, and sometimes just overall rude players!

Well, tonight I had someone on my ship who needed to walk the plank! I was out sailing getting 20 navy ships I needed for a quest. While out the crew was filling the cargo with royals before we port. This guy starts telling me to port. Correction, he started to yell it. Once he saw the cargo was full he was ready to land. I let it go the first couple times, but after the third one, that was it. I told him that I was out sailing for ships I needed for a quest and that we were filling the cargo with royals before landing. I told him I will not stand for someone to talk to me like that and to plz stop. Rofl, he said he had to go to bed. GEEZ! Someone give me a plank ouside of svs to get rid of the pests like this!

I think it should be put in the game. With this new walk through other player feature if they take the wheel when you take it back in no longer moves them away from it. So if they stand there and dont move when you port they take the wheel and the ship stays in play. It's impossible to dock your ship. I had some guy do this the other night for fun and he wouldnt stop so I finally sunk the ship and sent us both to jail. It would be nice if people could play without the desire to be a pain but thats not going to happen so you need a way to clear your ship of the offending parties

I actually think i have gotten booted from a ship (dont ask).And i dont think it was PVP ship.And i do hate it when people come on my ship and shoot every ship in sight!

Ahoy William Kid, that needs to be reported as a bug mate. That issue needs to be fixed.

I voted to add it as we already have the feature in SVS. I agree there are times when the unruly just need to walk the plank.

Captain Whale

Totally
 

I hate when people do these things! I mean they have one for svs, like somebody said earlier, why not add it to regular sailing??? This would help out so much, its so hard to find a good crew these days ahaha

Hadn't really thought of it that way, just figured it was another charming add on of the non solid body "feature" like all the creative body sculpting on Abassa LOL but you have a point mate will send them a note.

They should add a plank because whenever i'm privateering on one of my ships someone comes in and tells me to get off the wheel and soon we sink and whenever we stop for repairs someone takes the wheel.

Would be great, but also could cause problems... There would be these very smart people with very smart ideas who would think that once they get a crew to help them get their cargo full, they boot you off their ship and you are left on a beach with nothing. :mybadki6:

Good Point Jeanne

They do have this feature for privateering-pull up the offending parties trading card click the moderate button on the lower left side and click the boot that comes up and he is swimming with the fishes.

As far as treasure you get a better haul if you land with the crew. You may know this but thought I would make sure

Aye William, but you have the Captain's bonus without the crew too (i'd recall?). EDIT: I remembered wrong :D

It still wouldn't stop some people, and is good to take into consideration, what can i say... Pirates! :)

I agree that a plank should be added as well. But until that time, if you are tired of putting up with these actions, don't open your ship to public. When you do, you are asking for this type of trouble, so except it. It's part of going public. Know your crew members and this should not happen.

I have been putting this in the survey you get on occasion when logging out for nearly a year now. It sure would be nice. Could it be abused sure, but there are so many other ships on the sea so to speak!!

Come on Disney! Let us have this.:dancetl6:

Back in the day, only option you had was hitting a wild island then taking off again... that way only your Crew could come back.

Speaking of SvS - why don't we have a regular repair function in the game?

Shipwrights are still helpful since you can get fixed INSTANTLY as opposed to waiting, but when you have a shipful of goodies and the baddies are between you and cashing out... it would be nice to be able to patch up before making a run home.

yeah
 

ok people who made potco i have a idea about planks well this is a suggestion first you add a plank to all ships even if you are basic please well i am unlimited but think about the basic ok add the plank then you press the button boot and it will ask anybody onboard if they wanna see the cutscene then there will be a cutsene of a pirate falling off its like what ever ship you are on you dare the guy to fall and then he is off if you would like another suggestion ask me

This is another one of those real old ideas, that is a good idea so it continues to resurface.
They have given us since the early days better means of controlling our crew though instead.
(Used to be you could click on any person on a ship, and TP aboard without their permission, and wreak havoc!)

I do think they should put the feature in, however those walking the plank (being 'booted' from the ship), should receive their fair share of whatever plunder has been gathered while they were aboard, otherwise some wisecracker nefarious captains could start booting all their crew to keep their plunder hauls for themselves. I like the cut scene idea too, but likely only appropriate for the poor bloke walking the plank.

Well there is already a kick a person off of you ship but only In SvS ( Ship vs Ship ) and I beleave they have to be in your crew. How to do this is click their tag. Bring up the Icon on the far botem left. Then 3 Icons will pop up. At the very top is kick of ship. In a picture of a Boot. When you click this they will be kicked off your ship and out of your crew also: Hope this helped you mates out =).

Ben Lockshot ~Gm of GoT~ Lvl 50

yet, again this will be very handy!

thanks
 

thanks dude for the complemint of the cutscene and only boot the pirates that threaten you or do anything bad like not letting you have the wheel but you gotta be captain to make pirates walk the plank

If we are doing cut scenes I want them to get a black mark and the Kraken to rise up and eat em LOL

i never thought of it that way.So maybe this wouldnt be a good idea.

I have been rallying for this FOREVER, all Disney says is to change servers, to put them on ignore, to report them, all useless stuff!!! Inconveniences the Captain and crew and does nothing to the trouble maker, not to mention that if you leave a server like Abassa and amass a nice big crew, now you may spend a LONG time to regain such a similar crew,,, if you even do...

I know D wanna do good but it's ironic how their own GM's KO people when acting up at an event because some folks dont cooperate and such...,,, Why dont you GMs put the player on ignore or change servers yourselves!?!?! Practice what you preach, mates!

They can simply add a plank, a brig on the ship from which they can leave at any time and end up on land just like when we all go to jail, booting off a ship is available on ship PvP... DISNEY! Get it together, mates !!! ALLOW BOOTING ON ALL SAILING SETTINGS!!!

Ah! And I got a warning letter from the game for using the words, wait for this... "Boo hoo" as a response to a threat!!! And "Noob" as a response to an insult to me... I complained back, their answer as lame as it could be,,, change servers, ignore them, report them!?!? USELESS...

This ^

~ Jere

Point #1) Walking the plank animation already exists in the opening tutorial. Should be extremely trivial to add it into the regular game.

Point #2) The "Boot from ship" button exists already but is inexplicably disabled. Even without the animation, there is no excuse for it being disabled in regular sailing.

Point #3) A person booted should go to jail, not to their port of call.

Point #4) A captain that abuses the button will have no crew his next voyage out. Inherently self-correcting. (This phenomenon can be seen in SvS today.) The fact that the captains bonus is exactly the crew bonus X 10, means that a captain abusing the feature right before landing, will hurt themselves as well.

Point #5) Disrespecting the captain was NEVER tolerated in pirate times. Yelling "PORT" to the captain is not only rude, it is distracting to the entire crew. In a dicey situation that is the last thing needed.

Point #6) Boarding a ship is something done with the captain's (or boatswain's) permission. Setting "public" should allow people to request permission to board. NB: in today's navy, one must salute the flag, then the boatswain and then request permission to board. That has been a maritime custom since ancient times.

Point #7) Most of the times I've sunk my ship have been intentional, to get rid of unruly passengers. (On January 23rd, I accidentally sunk. All the other times I've sunk this year - at least 20 times - have been to get rid of miscreants.)

Point #8) People boarding my ship should automatically be removed from their old crew and automatically added to my crew. Someone "escaping" my crew and launching their own ship should automatically be removed and automatically start their own new crew.

Sidenote: In real life, a crew inherently *is* the people aboard a ship - rarely if ever (now or historically) a gang of compatriots on land. Once you set foot on shore, technically, you are no longer part of the crew. Why POTCO has to have its own conflicting definition of what a crew actually is, is misleading and confusing.

Point #9) Someone who is booted off a ship might even learn to be polite. OK, OK, that's a really big "might" - but hey, I can dream.

It is unbelievably frustrating to open my ship to public for the well-being of other pirates on a busy server, only to be swarmed by nincompoops. I don't open my ship because I need sailing rep - sailing is usually the first thing I master no matter how hard I try to save it for last. I open my ship to be courteous, so that others can get some cannon rep. To have my good intentions and good actions undermined by rude fools, is absolutely horrid.

For point 8, if they launch their own ship I take them out of crew. However, there are times when my guild is fleet sailing and others may join us. In this case it is convenient to have all the captains in a crew.

I've exploited that bug also, for guild events I've hosted. That doesn't mean it isn't wrong. It also doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed.