Better gameplay

[Sandokhan]

hello,

i have some ideas about the game to make it a bit better.

-combat: change the combat system a bit, make it non target system just hack and slash of course with the skills like right click is attack and left click is block or other thing. the pistols must better like the sword i mean use a hotkey to take out the gun and put sword back the system of pistol must be like third person shooter so aim with the mouse and left click too shoot. better do it realism ammo and reload time and to use it you need to buy ammo.
also make a mounted combat would also be nice.

-mounts: put some mounts in game like horses and also with equips like wagon, saddle and eye paths and something like that.

-map: make the town map much bigger also the open sea. the town map must have something like a beach or jungel/forest where are some npc or animals that you can attack and also travel with mounts.

-creating: it would be nice if people can build their own nation but first need a guild, the guild must have levels like level 1 just like normal and 2 can join a nation and 3 can build a nation
and also can create a fort or a place where to live in like a cave and a little base or a little village. if people building some thing like werehouse they can built it in their own base so to build it you need a guild and also make a nice housing system

-crew: it would be nice if we can customize our crew

-ship: able to customize it full like change the nation flag and also put some things like a jaguar stone in front of the ship at the armor so it looks much better or antoher stone like lion, tiger or anything also it would be nice if you can put some paint on the side of the ship like a tiger or anything but to do that you must first in a guild and the leader choose what it could be like if the leader choose the lion than you see it on the ship.

thanks guys and sorry for my bad english
i hope i will see somethings of this in the game soon

[RFMARQUES]

Hello there, I disagree with your ideas...

I'll explain why.

Mount:
Noone ever needed mounts, most towns are close to everything you need, and you would carry your horse aboard the ship??


Map:
The map is already big enough... You want the haulers to spend 4h each econ trip?? The speeds got really nerfed... Also, most of the pvp is centralized in Mathew Town, far away ports would be targets for easy port flips, and empty pb's...


Non target:
We need targets to certain skills, that require targets.


Pistol:
NO please NO aiming, the avcom battles are way too laggy for someone to aim properly, most times you would shoot to the oponent's ghost image (ping issues).


Crew:
No idea


Nation building:
No way! This is against the game's rules and ideas... Ppl would create the nation called World of Warcraft and stuff... Plus, portbattles time windows?? If there isn't a limit for nations, each port will be owned by one nation... Potbs got a lot of ports, like 84 or more, 84 nations??? How would that be possible?


Ship customization:
Yea the nation flag would be cool to change and the lion thing, nope...Everyone should be able to customize their ship how they want, without someone telling them if they can or not...


See ya

[Rodrigo da Silva]

I think one should not view the ideas Sandokhan (very awesome name by the way, loved the series) posted here as an update to the current game that shouldn't change much but balance it better, as many other suggestions posted here are meant to be. I think it is more of, and he is free to do that, some general fun ideas that would, if they ever decide to launch potbs 2.0 or something, make for a more engaging game. Thus, IMO, his idea shouldn't be viewed completely in the context of the current state of the game but more in one of a possible future outlook of the game.

So RFMARQUES, I have to say I disagree with you shootin down his ideas so easily. True, in the current game this all wouldn't fit very well. But there is merit to his ideas. I for one would love it if the on-land experience would be improved to somethnig where land doesn't just mean ports or mission instances, but where you can actually go ashore anywhere in game, anytime. Yes, perhaps that does sound incompatible with the current game, but to me it would be fun. And if the on-land experience were to be enhanced, I'd love some mounts as well. And, viewing it aside from the current conquest and governable towns stuff, building a society fortress/pirate lair somewhere on an island does sound like fun.

Some will argue that ship combat has to fixed first and that new player retention is still **** poor, but there's no reason we shouldn't suggest the features we dream of someday having in here. So ofcourse you are free to disagree but if someone here has an idea it would, IMO, be better if we didn't all criticize it and shoot it down immediately, although I do agree that with the curent state of the game it is indeed a far-off dream.

[Sandokhan]

what about the ship boarding system it would be nice if its almost like pirates of the caribean online or other wise if its realistic i mean that you able to see the grapples and the tows and see the crew jumping to the other side and if the cmbat starts that you see also your ship near the ship that you are boarding

[Storm Hunter]

Game engine is too weak for that... Avatars cant even freely jump.

[Sandokhan]

so they better upgrade their engine too

[Storm Hunter]

Potbs 2 - with the whole up to date engine would be sweet.

[Rodrigo da Silva]

yes that would be very sweet. Just imagine what kinds of awesome features potbs 2 could have, running on the latest engines. Maybe ship combat somewhat more like in Assassins Creed 3, with storms and all kinds of weathers and wave heights. And good looking islands. God I'd be willing to pay a small fortune for potbs 2!

[Storm Hunter]

You know Portalus holds the greatest game ever created that is in a very poor shape.If they find investors an get a good team of programmers who can put the game together. Man we talking big money!lots of fun and top if the line mmorpg.

[Sandokhan]

yeah like assassins creed 3 that is fery nice i hope the developers will do it so the game would be very nice