Ill state my word: I love the new ship prices. Let’s review some hard topics for people but first: This game is a mmorpg sandbox survival. No one treated it like such and now are being forced to. This new trade system will allow for players to get resources that were inaccessible before to make blueprints. Blueprinting will and is now more important. With that aside lets dive in. The gold cost of the ships are perfect, ships should be valuable and mean something to players not just be “oh let me throw this away to (insert whatever)”. Secondly people complaining about now its impossible for a small group or solo player to achieve bigger ships. Again false me and my mate had a schooner 4 hours into wipe, do maps learn to actually do melee combat and upgrade your gear. Progression is key. This is no longer gonna be a game where someone can start off as a level 1 bob and be as strong as a 120 vet. The sooner you accept this and move on from old ways the sooner you’ll be up back on your feet. So much in this game is about to change and its so far really good changes. Ill give you an example of what this kinda change is already doing too. I ran into a guy in lawless today that was upset because he wanted a fully decked out brig already mass filled with barrels to go raiding people who weren’t ready for it meaning he was a worthless pvp troll ruining the game for others but was stopped because of this one simple change. Now if your still upset by this your probably one of those pvp trolls and i welcome your uninstall. This game is finally going in the right direction and I’ve seen a lot of people who left because of the pvp trolls coming back because they have something finally coming in that helps against it. I hope to see more changes in the future that further reward progression over pvp trolling. Thank you devs for the hard work!
Edit: also advice: ships with real player crews and proper equipment can last forever i know because we had a fight with 4 brigs that had barrels and cannon balls and we outlasted all their ammo and proceeded to go into a melee fight on our deck won and left . So stop building skeleton ships with all your points in one basket and build them to actually last.
Edit2: we were a base ship, they were masterwork+
