Scoundrel of the Seas
 

Looks like sail customization and bounty hunters are on the horizon.

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Excellent! I guess it's coming sooner than we thought...

Interesting... Looks like new enemies too!

It seems as though those aren't so much new enemies as they are bounty hunters, pirates who fly their sails that will try to come and sink you! Whether they are player-run, or are run by the computer, beats me - but certainly does this look like a worthwhile thing to come!

I think that they're NPC ships rather than actual players: the ships seen in the video have levels under them, while normal player ships don't show any levels. Plus, computer-operated ships would be much more fun, as you wouldn't need to go to an A- server during the day to find bounty hunters.

This seems like a combination of infamy and Svs. Except you don't need to be french nor spanish.
The enemy war sloop was a I'm pretty sure a player ship, because its hull colour was the same as a player ship, and it also had a player ship name. As you sink ships, you get some infamy ish points.

So seems like Svs II

Well, Pirates never did just co-exist did they. everyone wanted what the other had this could be this being brought into the game. Although I think it is more than likely a NPC ship that spawns when you start going after ships. QAR will be a challenge now. I have yet to see someone fight its broadsides without getting hit. Get a good haul in from it and there ya have it. Bounty hunters will swarm you that should be a challenge.

This is.... possibly one of the best updates ever to come to POTCO, least to say. I like how they have been listening to our suggestions about hunters coming after us and all. Hooray for POTCO!


They're actually NPC ships. You can tell by the way the fireshot arcs at the end of the video, and only NPC ships do that, not player ships.
And player's don't broadside explosive.

I noticed that; and the Cutter Shark also circles around the player's ship in the video like an enemy ship would. Also, "Cutter" isn't available as a first name when naming your ship.

I'm curious as to what causes bounty hunters to come after us, though, and whether or not the Cutter Shark is the only bounty hunter ship. I guess we'll find out soon..

Its an Update mate things can change....

Probably A new ship thing. They will add new ship names, add all the new ships, and have a bounty hunter quest. For every so many ships you sink, your flag would be updates until it got the the "Captain" flag. Thats when thr bounty hunters get better rewards for sinking your ship. The flags on the bounty hunter ships are pre chosen, so you'll you'll pick from like, 3 different color options. The red and blue from the video, a green and orange, and a black and gold. ( for examples. ) Then if A pirate sunk a Bounty Hunter ship, the bounty hunter would be sent back to their last island, with their ship fully repaired, and no groggy. Kinda like the SvS, but you end up on land. When a player gets enough points, they will earn special "Titles" or maybe even Badges. The titles would be a color lke green, and be between the guild and Pirate name. It would go up with rank. Lke a level 1 would get the title "Soggy Sailor", A level 2 might get "Clever Poltroon", and it would go up in rank until rank 4, the "captain" rank, and they would get the title "Scoundrel of the Seas". A bounty hunter would get different titles or badges. Thats My idea of what it is.

So much for ranking ships eh? Will be hard to do with one of THOSE on your tail.

What I have in mind is something slightly different from Davy... obviously, its looking like sail/flag customization is coming, hopefully new ships, and bounty hunters. Think about it realistically for a minute. What did bounty hunters do? When a group of people (EITC, let's say) saw that a lot of their ships were being sunk or their soldiers were being killed, they would obviously want to find and kill whoever was the cause. So they send out bounty hunters. Now think about how SvS works for a moment. MOST people who SVS want to sink the ship with the highest bounty, so they can get the most gold. My idea is that as you sink ships, you will slowly start to build up a bounty from the EITC (or whichever faction you've been plundering from). As your bounty gets higher, they will start to send stronger and larger amounts of Bounty Hunters after you. If you need it put simply, you start sinking a faction's ships ---> they get upset and put a bounty on your heads. They send out some weak bounty hunters ---> they try to attack you but they aren't too powerful. You continue sinking ships and your bounty builds up even more ---> they send out even more bounty hunters after you. ---> so on. I think this will be a really cool update. I'd love to feel like the hunted rather than the hunter sometimes. This way I actually need to keep an eye out behind me.

Oh, and now that I think of it... think of all the quests that this could be used for...

Yea, i agree with davy on the whole bounty hunter thing. I hope that there is going to be some sort of reward system like they did with the infamy update, because the clothes that the GMs have in the video seem pretty cool.