Naval Battles.

[Kator Viridian]

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Just think about the lag of a first rate ship of the line equppied with it's cannons AND marines

By Battleship I didn't mean a first rate lol, for one its too much effort, your more looking at sloops, maybe with 4 cannons, or 6. And maybe bigger sloops. I wouldn't mind seeing naval battles as long as everything was moddled right, and atleast well though through so that when moving you don't glitch around or suddenly get propelled from the ship when trying to load cannon, also with the cannons your looking at a new loading systems otherwise you'd have to point it then move it to the side to load it ... afterall you don't want it sat too far back so that it dosn't hit your own ship before the enemies.

I'm sure a larger ship than a sloop is possible, and if members of the community can build their own ship(which I have played on) then it shouldn't be too huge of a task to get the thing moving, which I believe Vincenzo has already managed doing. Having a sloop with only about 30 deckhands doesn't seem very much like a naval battle, assuming that neither ship is ever boarded. If anyone remembers a the 'brig' from ETW, that had about 20 cannons on it I think? And with that, you'd still have plenty of room for marines and repairmen. It isn't that it's a bad thing if there are a lot of cannons on a ship, but that too few would hinder a lot of people's desire to operate them, I think, only having 6 people be gunners out of a 20 person crew.

That's just my 2¢ on it lol. I know there are a few flaws here and there in the idea, but ultimately bigger ships than a sloop I think are favored, and possible.

I would never take ETW as any kind of historical evidence towards anything that actually happened or existed, ships varied and were never set to build settings, not every sloop had 16 cannons, not every brig had 20 cannons. The bigger the ship the bigger the strain on the server, multiple smaller ships would present a better more varied game to have one massive ship on each side that meant once destroyed is game over the opposing team ... unless the devs made some way of linking ships together offencsively rather than the 2 teams having to have the same idea and getting close to one another.

I'd also like to not a gunning crew will most likely be smaller than a boarding crew especially for those smaller faster ships, and pursuades the game to a more boarding type of play than long range shooting which limits the team but dosn't push away the idea of shooting one another a bit.

 

[MaHuD]

+ Multiple boats would allow for a nice strategy.

Whereas one ship, well hm. You are quite limited to only tactical decisions.

 

[Kator Viridian]

+ Multiple boats would allow for a nice strategy.

Whereas one ship, well hm. You are quite limited to only tactical decisions.

Aye aye.

 

[Bite Me]

Multiple smaller vessels with maybe one larger one per team is best I would think. Maybe on a full 200 player server 2 sloops and a small frigate? 20 people on the sloops and 40 on the frigate?

By the way, I agree with Kator, boarding focussed gameplay>long range cannon sniping.

 

[Darkenmal]

Ever since the start of mm (the actual start, pre-waterloo) I had a bit of a wet dream of maybe someday being able to have large battles featuring ships of the line blasting at each other, complete with epic boarding actions, marine assaults on coastal defences, and more.

My question is, do I share this dream, this need? And what are the opinions on others on this matter!

This coooould be a useful thread/poll for the developers .

EDIT: Please poll on the assumption that all the new land battle features have been implemented already, and that this addition would not adversely effect the land based mod features.

Just do ship maps and land maps.

Or both in one.

 

[TMAN78]

God naval battles would be epic...

 

[Oldplayer]

vincezo is it true you lost your inspiration?

 

[Kator Viridian]

vincezo is it true you lost your inspiration?

Question time only happens on the BBC.

 

[Refleax]

vincezo is it true you lost your inspiration?

When that time comes, if it ever does, the world will cease to exist.

 

[Bite Me]

He hasn't

 

[TMAN78]

huzzah!    I realy do hope naval battles are implimented.

 

[lanserdesdoods]

I voted myself 5, its so epic.
Ships vs ships and you can blow them up would be awesome, I think the guys who voted 1 dont realise how much fun this can be!
(I hope thats like this).
Maybe in 10 years we will finally also have Mortars and Rocket ships and every faction and 1000s of players who are addicted.
Than I can say: I was one of the first who played this.

 

[gokiller]

Mortars... rockets ships 10 years  let's keep it on the basic cannons 

 

[mikkel the great]

well, if we ever will have 1000 people in a server.... I dont think that anything would be working... Unless the optical pc have been invneted by that point..

 

[lanserdesdoods]

Technology is going faster than ever.

 

[mikkel the great]

yesh but dont hope for the impossible! But I agree, having multiple big ships would be a most aweosme thing... I can image a broadside......

 

[Phaiak]

I made the 'Klabautermann'-mod for some Naval-Battle-experience in the custom-battle-mode. It is very funny to fight with up to 12 ships and 200 combatants on the sea. I would love to see a professional Naval-Battle-mod for mp. But then i need a new pc.

 

[Gentil]

It would be cool to do D-Day

 

[Püskevit]

never think of it till you said Gentil, but now it sounds awesome to organize such event besides we have great mappers to make it possible, eh?

 

[MaHuD]

Attackers should be opolcheni