A [Small] List Of My Ideas

[Slouyx]

Here is a [small] list of what I think should be added/changed in POTCO.

1. Old Body Shapes Re-added
When they first changed the templates of create-a-pirate on test, they said the old ones would be available to use along with the newer ones. When it came to open, that was not true. In my opinion, the older body-shapes were a bit better, and even though they weren't completely realistic, they were "cleaner" than the newer body shapes. I'd like for it to be that we can choose from either - the new body shapes, or the old ones.

2. Larger Crew Sizes
Have you ever done an invasion with your guild, and the crew is full before you can crew all of your guildmates? This is often a problem when doing invasion with guildmates. Having two-separate crews can cause confusion, and then complaints. I'd like to see crew size limits to be at least 20.

3. Officer Chat
It's often that officers are busy when you want to talk to a group of them, and you don't want to gather them all onto the same server and start a crew. There should be an option for a guildmaster to set an officer chat within the guild so officers may speak about guild issues without having to say it in a crew/guild/whisper chat.

4. Create-A-Pirate Clothing Customization
I'd like for them to bring back create-a-character clothing customization. In the past we were able to change what color clothes were (in a great extent) and what kind of clothes we had.

5. Basic Access Purchases
I think it would be fair that basic access members may buy crude clothing & weapons from stores, since that is all they can use anyway.

6. Girls able to change colors of pants
Well, this is just simple. Why can't girls change the color of the pants they buy?

7. First Mate Rank
A rank that is only second to the guildmaster, they have all abilities a guildmaster may have. They can act as a second, and if the guildmaster leaves the guild without passing on the rank, the title of guildmaster will go straight to the First Mate that was promoted first. (There may be up to four first mates.)

8. Create-A-Pirate (Pirate Customization)
In choosing a skin color, we should have a color wheel that has main skin colors (to a certain extent.) That way, if we're actually trying to resemble someone, or something, or just have a certain skin color, we can. Also, the same color wheel would go for hair colors (to an extent) and eye color (to an extent.) We should be able to get long straight hair for girls as well. (I don't see the sense in not allowing it. Putting your hair up would be more of a limitation than having your hair down.)

9. More Hairstyles
I'd like to see more hairstyles implemented into the game. Hairstyles with bangs, and such.

10. More Tattoo Styles
Since the eye-tattoo in this game is mainly just a substitute for an eye-shadow, there should be a color wheel (to an extent) for changing it. The same should go for tattoos that are only done in black.

11. Guild Halls
I'd like to see guild halls added into the game. It would be a place for a guild to hang out/talk or have meetings in. The guildmaster would purchase the guild hall, and the guild hall would get larger based on the amount of members in the guild. Permissions to be inside the guild hall would be very much like the boarding permissions of a ship, and you would be able to boot members out of it like in privateering.

12. Pets
I'd like to see pets, such as the chicken potion, added into the game. Realistic ones for pirates, like sea rats or the occasional seabird. They would be like an added skill and would be able to carry out certain jobs.

13. Invisible Log In
This is obviously debatable, but I'd like to be able to sign into a character as invisible. You would be able to see chats going on in guild, or local, but to other players you would be invisible and not labeled at "online." You stay invisible until you type and enter a chat.

14. Larger Inventory
Since we have recently been given new clothing in the monthly catalogs, I think it would be wise that our inventory was made larger as well. I am already running out of inventory space on my pirates and so are many others.

15. Item Recovery
Say you loot an item, or are rewarded with an item from a quest. Then, you accidentally trash it! I'd like to see an update where, items you loot or receive from a quest are available in stores in the case they are no longer in the pirate's inventory.

16. More Potions
More variety in potions please!! I’d love to see the animal ones from test on live. Maybe all of the ones from test except the puking potion…yuck.

[SEAKING23]

Wow great ideas!

But instead of the guild hall, i'd rather have a guild island!!

[Chimera Doll]

So happy to see this list!! I agree with everything that you have said and wish to see them all happen.

[Nate Raidhawk]

Great ideas!!! But I'm a little iffy on the guild hall. I COMPLETELY agree with it, but wouldn't they just cause major lag because there are tens of thousands of active guilds? If you mean like a separate location for a guild hall, similar to how Parlor Games is, then yes, I agree.

[Cannonfury]

I love this list... you should send it to disney.

[Eliza Creststeel]

Very nice shopping list.

1) I agree on body size and types... give us more variety and there was nothing wrong with the old ones.

3) Officer Chat is a wonderous idea! It would make working behind the scenes easier for GMs and make officer meetings easy.

9 and 10) - Having more variety of any kind for hair, tattoos, piercings etc. is always good. I know that they have decided to not to eye patches and hooks since there would be overkill, but how about ONE option for all of it? You could have either a patch, hook, peg etc. if you wanted but no combinations to prevent everyone having ALL of them. Or make a quest where you could get one.

11) Guild Halls - The only real advantage would be having private meetings, unless the game could come up with a Guild Bank that members could contribute to help buy bigger ships.

13) Invisible Login - I like this one as a Guild Master, simply because when I first arrive I get swamped with questions and hellos before I can get settled and caught up. The problem with this option is so many people would use it - you'd never know if anyone was on at all. If they did this, have a line that says "5 Friends Online - 2 Invisible"...

14) Larger Inventory - The screen is already pretty busy. This is where a Captain's Quarters would be useful and that would open up whole new areas of stuff we could make and buy to decorate our spaces with. ALL of the other Disney games have homes... WHY NOT US??

16) Potions - How about a potion that lets you look like a Navy Officer or EITC Thug so you can sneak in places?

[Catherine Ironcutter]

Originally Posted by Eliza Creststeel

11) Guild Halls - The only real advantage would be having private meetings, unless the game could come up with a Guild Bank that members could contribute to help buy bigger ships.

The Guild Bank would be complicated. They'd have to put some sort of restriction on it... or say the GM has to complete the transaction to give people money they requested. We don't want some weirdo emptying the bank, now do we? Perhaps 5,000 could be the limit per day to remove without GM permission, however, an officer would be sent a notice saying "so and so has removed 2,000 from the Guild Bank? It would probably tie in with the First Mate rank, sending all bank removals under 5,000 to the first-promoted First Mate for review. It could have a "bank removal" log, so that if someone was removing 5,000 daily, the First Mate would be able to either ask them what they were doing, or suspend their bank privileges until the GM reinstated them. They would have to put some sort of restrictions in place, but it would be a great idea. Or you could gift money to someone through the bank. That would be nice too.

I think these are great ideas. I never had a problem with the body types, new or old. I'd love to be able to change my pant colors on Emily and Catherine... I want some pink pants!

[SEAKING23]

Love the guild bank idea. i was thinking people could rent guild ships, witch are to expensive to buy your self. a player could rent them for a day or so.

I was thinking that the GM could make it so people would have to give up some of there plunder to the guild bank. And people could ask for loans, but the GM would make a limit on how much money you could take,

[AdmiralSavvy]

Dear people who posted before me, including Slouyx,

I agree wholeheartedly with all your suggestions. They are, in fact, amazingly fantastical ideas that must be added to the game some time in the future.

Sincerely,
Savvy

P.S. Slouyx, about time you posted this. >_>

On a different note:

But I'm a little iffy on the guild hall. I COMPLETELY agree with it, but wouldn't they just cause major lag because there are tens of thousands of active guilds? If you mean like a separate location for a guild hall, similar to how Parlor Games is, then yes, I agree.

Yep. If they were to implement this, they would have to figure a work-around. But it shouldn't be that difficult. If they were to have it similiar to parlor games, that would be great.
It's possible, even with all the active guilds, though. When I played Shaiya (which has guild halls), there would be a portal that you walk through which will take you straight to the guild hall. No lag was experienced at all; if I had lag before, it was all gone once I entered the hall. It's a possibility to have guild halls without the lag of 400k active guilds; I don't see why not. :]

[Tiberius Fireskull]

The bank idea is really good. I would love to see this. Maybe if you purchase a guild bank, it will automatically have 1000 gold in it, just to get you started off. It would be great if you had a guildmate who just needed some extra gold. I also like the approval idea. But not for every purchase. The guild master could just set some options such as "Max withdrawal amount per day", or only allow certain ranks to be able to withdraw gold, lock the gold bank, or as you said, make approvals. They could set it so that any withdrawal above a certain amount requires Guildmaster or First Mate approval.

[Captain Sharktooth]

Yeah those are great. I like pretty much every concept of all those ideas you have, especially the old body types. The new are really, really bad, especially for boys.

[SEAKING23]

What were the old body types?

[Tiberius Fireskull]

I agree Sharktooth.

Well SEAKING, the old body types are similar to the newer ones. I think you have the new body type.

There were five. There was short and stumpy (Bart Badpigge, Billy Fireskull's other pirate, has that body), a thin one which is just skinnier than the current thin body. Then there is the fat one, which is really just a pretty normal body with a very fat belly. There is also the really buff one, which is the one I have. Finally, there is the normal one, which is like the big and buff one, except on a smaller scale.

All in all, they were better than the current ones...

[SEAKING23]

ohh....... well i'm glad they got rid of the fat, becuase some people might select that and forget to put on clothes. -_-

[titanic95594]

Dont think 1 will come back.