Mike L

17 hours ago, Talono said:

a) climbing pick - oil jar - game over for your ship in the large stone gate garage

b) if i am too lazy to climb : One broadside, large stone gate down, byebye ship

You are wrong, solo players are not looking for easy ressources but defences that cause raiders thinking twice if they want to take the efforts to raid.

Doesnt really apply I was saying to build a bear pin inland, to keep the bear safe. Then you have the means to farm everything there, build a shipyard anywhere, but I was saying also to be very careful parking your ships, as people are always looking for easy resources. 

If you build some npc cannons, pickles and swivels where you park the boat, it MIGHT not get sunk if you set them up well. 

Keeping your ships afloat is definately the hardest part, but with the bear a fully done schooner is always less than an hour of farming where I'm at. 

Large cannon still has twice the range over ship cannons. 

That alone is enough of an advantage for them to be used over ship cannons. 

Probably just make them faster than speed sail while ship is closer to full weight, and remove the extra weight bonus. 

Want to start with, I think stone should receive a buff for how expensive it is. 

But honestly for now  I think a big wood honeycomb structure with a stone interior would be the way to go. 

With the buff to wood ,its still annoying to break through. You can burn it but it still take a little while and takes almost just as much cannon fire as stone. 

Plus wood is super easy to replace. 

Ya the only choice I see on sails is speed or handling. 

Speed and weight are the same thing but speed is better. 

A handling sail can allow you to still sail at angles to the wind that a speed sail wont move much at. That could give you a real advantage. 

I'll probably never make a weight sail until they buff/change them though. 

Lawless has been the best for our small company, honestly pretty manageable now since you can spawn on land in lawless. 

Make sure you make a pen with a gate on it, make it extra big so oil jars cant kill stuff inside, once you have a safe bear with a shipyard, you can make boats easy and explore the world or whatever you wanna do. You get trouble every now and again in lawless, but for the most part the mega companies leave it alone. 

Place defences and be creative if your gonna park your ships there though!

The solo players are always looking for easy resources. 

I agree on op that bears and horses with swivels need to be balanced a bit, there the only thing most people are using to take land. 

Good options could be 

Give them a fixed speed close to character run speed when they have a cargo saddle. 

Or do something like op is saying and make it so that they can only fire/have someone mount the gun when its parked. 

Either would work fine and get us back to using carbines, blunderbuss, pistols, bows, and maybe even melee weapons. 

Right now all that equipment is almost useless unless your in a location bears or horses cant get to it. 

I'm not just complaining either, just think the pvp would be more fun with this balanced better.  Only way you have a chance to kill the swivel tames is to get them stuck and oil jar it. Not an easy task with a player driving it. 

I have even build stone traps for them, there effective, but players usually wont fall for it.