A Few of Nate's (Big) Ideas For the Game
 

Now, I'm not going to go overboard with these ideas, but these ideas will 'spice up' the game a LOT. By the way, Disney should increase the game memory to 1 GB, to hold more content.

1. The pvp system needs some help!!! Instead of a regular 5 minute game, there should be a PvP Cove, free teleportation like Avaricia and Porc. No, this isn't like an all-out war island. It should be like a normal island, complete with gypsies, shipwrights, and some shops. But then, there should be a... what do I call it, a PvP Master NPC where you can set up a PvP. You can customize it too, for example, how long it is, how much people, crew battle, guild battle, mayhem, and a location where it will be held. ( I will mention special locations later ). Of course, the regular Lookout system pvp can remain.( I will also mention how setting up a match will work later ).

2. Like what Leo says, SvS does need some help. Here is what I think. Porc and Avaricia should be expanded, complete with caves. AND..... what exactly is the point of those rocks in the middle of the SvS battle grounds???? I have an idea for these too. There should be FORTS built on these rocks. Yes, forts. A spanish fort and a French fort. These forts will have cannons, and the point of these forts is to shoot at the opposing side's ships. The forts will have layers, like the bottom layer will have a few dinghy's to launch a Spanish or French ship. The middle and top layers will have spyglasses and cannons. Pretty cool, eh?

3. Ship Interiors. You should be able to enter through those hatches on the ship decks. Light sloops will only have a small interior with lanterns and cargo. All galleons and frigates will have an interior and a Captain's Quarters room, with a desk and windows. Sloops will have a Captain's Quarter's and an interior too. And, for Disney, I'm going to say that basics cannot enter the interior/quarters on their own ship, but they can enter somebody else's. ALSO. SotL's will have a Captain's Quarters room and TWO interior rooms.

4. Customizing your own ship!!! At Shipwrights, you should be able to customize hull colors, figureheads, sail colors, and colors of cannons. That is ALL I can say. You can also find sail color designs in loot drops.

5. More ship features. Like the SotL thread, the Captain should have a button near the boarding position buttons where he can choose whether to abandon ship or not. Designing your own flag for your ship at the shipwright should be added, too.

6. Davy Jones and Kraken!!! There should be a secret cave on Tormenta, where you fight Davy Jones in a Boss Battle. This will be a second story chapter. You will do Chapter 2 quest for Jack Sparrow at LvL 50, once finished rescuing Pearl. When finished fighting Kraken and Davy Jones in two separate Boss Battles, these boss battles will be repeatable Treasure Maps. Rewards: When Kraken boss battle is complete, you will get a potion that summons the kraken ONE time to sink 5 ships for you. ( Yes, in SvS, too. ) When Davy Jones boss battle is complete, he will drop a skull chest with 75% chance of Famed cursed blade/legendary. BOTH BATTLES WILL BE VERY HARD.

Uhh, what else was I thinking... can't remember. So drop by and toss me a comment. :piratear:

I like the fort idea. What about this idea:


Every time a side sinks a ship, they gain points, and this goes to the GRAND total which will reset during a certain interval. When you hit certain levels, your side gains bonuses: i.e. at 1000 collected points you gain 5 percent extra damage. At 2000 points the Fort you gain will gain more health, etc etc.

The Fort will reset every say 1-2 hours or so, and the only way to dispatch the fort is to get it to 1 health and then enter the fort and defeat the leader which is guarded by many guards and soldiers that you must defeat first. When you defeat the leader, you gain bounty and then more points, and the fort support is destroyed.

I would like to implement this idea to gain new bonuses and to create more of a twist to SvS.

Good ideas Nate! I especially like the PvP and SvS ideas. Even if they don't add your specific ideas, they still definitely need to add something.

Yes, sort of like leveling up a Navy Cannon in Cannon Defense. Good idea.

I agree. They should do something to help these topics.

Great ideas!!
But it think basics should be able to enter any ship cabin, including there own. but they can only buy a light sloop/ frigate/galleon.
As for the kraken potion, i think you should be able to summon it once every game day. and davy jones chest should always have a legendary/famed.

All great ideas except kraken quest should be at lvl 40 or 45 and I'm loving the fort idea. Everybody send a link to disney to this page or an email whichever one works.

I think that POTBS's simple ship customization system would be completely imaginable in POTCO. You can:

1.) Have two hull colors. Any color.
2.) Have a customized sail.
3.) Have a customized flag.
4.) Have any sail color, with or without a pattern on your sail.

That doesn't seem too much to ask for with Panda3D.

Awesome ideas! Try sending them to POTCO via e-mail, maybe they might make some improvements as suggested

Okay, for ship customization, they could be pretty basic. Everything Witchdawkta said, plus minor hull shaping.... ooooor....

How many of you have played Spore? I sure hope a lot of you. We could have ship customization like THAT. Where you can customize EVERYTHING. Shape, cannons, masts, colors, EVERYTHING. I mean, they would have to put a certain limit on it, but something similar to that. That would be almost TOTAL customization. That I would like...

But does that seem like Panda3D at work? Spore has an advanced engine that I've read about in a gadget newsletter. Apparently, the engine was so cutting edge at the time that other gaming companies were shocked and realized they had to catch up. Now, the POTCO Devs aren't trying to keep up. They're like that fat guy you see in the almost very last of the NYC Marathon, they don't need to be up front, they don't want to, and they wouldn't know what to do up there.

I didn't know I could make such good analogies...

Spore was amazing. There are almost infinite possibilities... maybe there ARE infinite possibilities. That could be both good and bad. Good because people can make whatever they want, bad because, well, that kind of thing is really out there, and I can just imagine all the lag....

It would be something that POTCO would probably never add. Ship Customization: Possible in the future, maybe even near future. Ship Customization with Spore-like Customization: If that happens, I will never ask for rum again.

You know what I have realized that these are some good ideas, so I am going to send the rock fort idea and a few others to Disney. If they don't add my ideas, I'm fine with that, I just want them to do something with these topics.