New ship repair mini games

[Pirate Bood]

I have to say, Ive had my concerns in the past over some decisions to update the game in ways that will drastically change either of its end games, but never more so than now...

The end games of privateering and pvp are where people end up after all the questing has been done and pirates are levelled to the max. With 8 months of your year long subscription to go you have to go some where right ?

MINI GAMES TO REPAIR SHIPS

I have tried this on test in privateering to fix a normal frigate from red hull. As ever the captain has to let go of the wheel in order to repair. Frigates tend to have less repair holes than some ships and more hit points to repair, in order to repair it you have to complete the games three times which takes a crew 10 minutes with one crew member at each available hole.

I hear some of you say 'YAY!! We may have a chance of competing in the major leagues of svs now'.
But it would be very unfair indeed to take away from the hours and days and months that some top svsers have spent perfecting their game to be as good as they can be. Same as any sport or hobby people become very involved and work hard to perfect the things that they are passionate about. NOW imagine that the things that keep you paying, perfecting your skills and tactics suddenly has the goal posts moved to a completely different playing field...

The mini games to fix ship will crush privateering, you will be sunk while trying to repair, this will make people port to fix taking bounty and score and making pirates wonder why they are privateering if you cannot maintain bounty or score.
IMAGINE if when you took a tonic you had to play 5 mini games before you could heal, your enemy/enemies keep attacking, so you would have no chance of survival.

DONT get me wrong I see a positive side to the ability to fix your ship this way in normal sailing ESPECIALLY if there was a repair skill that could be lvld and mastered, that would be an advantage across the board and fun to do.

But to be honest if we dont feed back and air our concerns this will be live before we can blink and as we have seen in the past it takes a very long time to get over sights like this corrected after they have gone live to the main game.

IF YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR PRIVATEERING

Your opinion on this is important, because one thing is for sure we are ALL pirates and which self respecting Pirate of the Caribbean would see his opponent caught up in a ten minute fix and not sneek up and take the bounty ?!! We are pirates after all, opportunists all the way !

Some of the results of people being sunk while fixing in a lengthy repair process would be: people porting to fix, the problamatic area of use of other programmes to gain advantage over your opponents would intensify and all manner of complaints would hit disney from disgruntled members who would look for other games to play, and the drama that is associated with ANY competetive area known to man would make the game a very unpleasant place to play.

COMPROMISE

There is a compromise because we all want to see the game develop but by building on its successes not by quashing them.

If we have to have this in privateering one possible compromise could be to allow these repairs to be done by half of your crew when your ship is in motion so that the disadvantage is not so great as making yourself into a sitting duck.


MAYA MARA