Should Deckhands be redone THIS UPDATE?

[anon57467371]

@Artanaris

Deckhands

I’ll start by being frank: we absolutely didn’t know how things would turn out with the Renown system during the closed testing of the game by making Renown a big part of it; we have our fair share of ideas to tackle this issue to make it more PvE, but most importantly, more casual friendly, as do you.

Deckhand Rework - Orbay789567

Replace the current renown requirement system for upgrading your Deckhands. Upgrading a max level Deckhand to legendary requires you to be on the leaderboard (1.25 million renown). This is simply way too high of a goal just to upgrade your Deckhands. It should be replaced with a “feat requirement” (the actions that are listed on your bounty poster/assassination contact). The Deckhand would ask you the complete a certain feat or multiple feats before allowing you to upgrade it to the next tier. With every upgrade, the feat(s) would become harder to achieve. So for example, a Deckhand you’ve hired named Bob would ask you to kill 200 pirates before letting you upgrade it to the next tier. Once you’ve upgraded him once, he would then ask you to kill 300 pirates AND 200 Assassins. A potential list of feats that your Deckhands could ask of you:

• Defeat x amount of pirates/assassins/Navy marines
• Defeat Commodore Kai/Architect Merlot
• Save x amount of castaways
• Release x amount of prisoners
• Stop x amount of executions
• Commit x amount of cases of property damage
• etc.

Deckhands would only want feats that fit your reputation path, taking into account whether you are in the Grand Navy, Assassin Syndicate, an independent organization, or clanless.

This suggestion impacts the levelling part of the Deckhands, but I can assure you guys that we also have some ideas for the recruitment part too.

Should Deckhands be redone this way in the coming updates?

• Yes
• No

[AMultiversalEntity]

Since the Dark Sea relies heavily on your ship, and Deckhands are for ship upgrades, I vote yes.

[HiPhilhere]

tbh this is the most critical moment for deckhand rework, we need good deckhands for the dark sea no matter how much the pvp dwellers try to convince you that “its just slight number changes”

[TheoreticalExistence]

What do you mean that the collective stats of several deckhands can make a massive difference???
Impossible!!!

[TheTom]

deckhands need to be changed now. I absolutely despise this system and i agree that with the darksea we will need them

[dev]

Deckhand suggestion absolutely needs to come with this update, people are probably gonna want speed but I’m telling you now that those stability buffs from deckhands are gonna take priority over any speed deckhand lol

I’d also like to see perhaps one of the ideas in the works for deckhand recruitment in the update, whatever it may be, I don’t mind whatever it is as long as it doesn’t involve me grinding the ever-loving shit out of rep just for a single deckhand

[dev]

Like come on

[tanf36016]

Prepare to grind npcs 1 million times

[nilexrl]

I agree, my deckhand setup for my Brig is going to be 2 speed, 2 stability, if not 1 speed, 3 stability.

[PinkButterflyGaming]

YES. It has to be in this update. Especially considering the content in said update.

The Dark Sea, basically being this game’s chaos mode or hard mode, would really need the ships with the best stats to survive in it, long enough anyway. But Deckhands GIVE ship stats, meaning they absolutely can give better survival rates in the Dark Sea.

So if you put it into this perspective, Deckhands become ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for the Dark Sea content. And with the current system, thats a yikes. Like, a big yikes. Making a system dependent on renown, thus pvp, absolutely necessary for the replayability content of the game. Oh my Olympian Gods, you’re asking for all hell to break loose in this game.

It has to be changed in THIS update. Not “it has to be changed at some point”, NO. It has to be in this update, or it won’t bode well considering the playerbase. Seriously.

Of course, Im not saying NOW now, since Vetex usually does these adjustments last, so he’ll probably do it only do it after he’s done the big content, but the Deckhands need to be adjusted and changed in the Dark Sea update. It can’t be after that.