Dev's HAUL WIND! Running a Shot Across Yer Bow! Ships cam girl!

[Jay8454 25]

To: The Developers,

The Atlas is chooching along at a great pace! I can say I am seeing a world coming together and this Atlas has wondrous possibilities! 

I have seen my share of negative issues but not worth reporting because they seem to get into the next patch or hotfix before I can report an issue, and the fixes are more than satisfactory.

You ALL are doing a great thing, thank you!

As this is a suggestion part of the forums I would greatly appreciate a small contribution or a reflection on an idea of mine and a shipmate or Co, of 2 and a half (the Monkey Jack).

ENGINEER AI

Engineer, AI would be a really wonderful possibility to attain aboard one's ship! 

The engineers' duties are mainly ship repairs, and cleaning maintenance, other duties are gathering ship wreckage on the ocean.

• Repairs: After a battle or normal wear and tear, effects repairs drawing from available ship supplies. Also can slowly repair the player armor while drawing from the ship supplies as well.
• Cleaning: Poop from accidents and animal cleanup. Makes the crew happier, healthier, wealthier and wise! Less hunger too.
• Wreckage Gather: While over a wrecked ship Engineer gathers all the none clippable hewed logs on the surface of the ocean and adding to a ships inventory.

AI Engineer Cost?

Should be greatly expensive! Drinks and eats but, beer and alcohol to make cheaper for gold consumption. This, AI Engineer when onboard makes the main crew running cost much less to operate. Humanoid like could be AI character for the hands-on work and maybe a monkey to gather poop. The monkey could also work for berries and beer and has a chance of falling overboard cause he's a drunk!

Future Suggestions

• A clad of iron, and a monitor lizzard!
• A long boat for the muruders of old!

Keep your sails in check and your gallies clean, And give no quarter to thy enemies!

[Jay8454 25]

The monkey can open and close water barrels automatically when it rains, after level 15 skill, a smart monkey. Take another sailor's knife with a command, should be an easy script to adjust instead of "attach my target" the monkey takes a weapon sorta disarms a ship assailant. But the monkey always drops the weapon a short distance away from the assailant, more of a nuisance than a threat to the assailant.

[Hodo 147]

I am still waiting for the flying ship in the "cover" art, and the hat the guy on the left is wearing.

[Jay8454 25]

Oh, the mod thing! Hot air balloons would be more real of a thing, I'm not trying to push toward crazy, just things ARKish, Falloutish, Dayz Origins, and piretiey, (if that's a word?) more toward easy scripting for developers to make do with what is already in the game but, just a script rework. The crazy monkey idea would work due to the scripts that are already written in the game. It would be just another workaround and re-title make a new .txt doc. Basically another page to add slight wording differences. The short time I enjoyed ARK I noticed a draw toward people and their tamed animals so this would be another dynamic to add using ARK scripts but reworking to make a draw toward a simple animal.  The engineering thing would be a COMPLETE new scripting effort and maybe some time, but, would add for those small companies of 2 or a little more.  I thought it'd be constructive for such small groups because it's rough out there and huge, with loads of stuff to do. If someone had a big group they'd have most likely have a galleon ship and, loads of people in their group to maintain the thing easier than most, and maybe ranks etc.  Not only that, it would be a REALLY COOL PIRETIEY THING!!! Imagine your monkey grabbing a gun off of a foreign intruder on your ship and it drops a few feet from that said, "foreign intruder", the intruder picks the gun/weapon back up and has to wait the recharge time to use the weapon again. 

Points? 

Engineer: Would be what people are asking for, "less ARK", more, "that is really cool!".

Monkey: Animal companionship, and, actual functionality. I have seen few, functions for the monkey and this would be an easy adjustment for developers to accomplish, and unique. 

Thanks for the constructive criticism!

[Jay8454 25]

Crossbow? 2 shot with a random one at a time shot or 2 shot or misfires without. Na, too over the top.