What are your favored attributes in a naval ship?

daveywavey

Vhaeyne wrote: »

I have seen a lot of pictures of giant squids/octopi fighting ships, but never of one being a ship.

My OCD can't let this one go, I'm sorry.....

Octopus comes from Greek rather than Latin, so it should be "octopuses"...

I know, there's no saving me.

Vhaeyne

daveywavey wrote: »

Vhaeyne wrote: »

I have seen a lot of pictures of giant squids/octopi fighting ships, but never of one being a ship.

My OCD can't let this one go, I'm sorry.....

Octopus comes from Greek rather than Latin, so it should be "octopuses"...

I know, there's no saving me.

Octopi is a perfectly cromulent word.

When you have multiple sets of octopi that is octopipi...

McMackMuck

@Vhaeyne Your post reminded me of Spelljammer. The Mind flayer ships might interest you.
Anything with these kind of organic animal based shapes would look cool. Devs just need to be careful to plagiarize and not outright copy, obviously.

I looked here...
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Ships
...but I wasn't sure if there were more skins yet?

I'd also be happy to see:
Viking longboats
Dunir Ironclads built for ramming
A giant turtle with it's back converted into a ship sized transport vessel (maybe just as a special summon, available for one month)
Elven vessels based on giant leaves folded down the middle and butterfly wings for sails

Dreoh

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Dreoh wrote: »

I would love multi-manned ships, though I'm not really expecting it to happen

It's always a little disappointing when you can have multiple people ride a ship, but only one player does the steering/sail-length/sail-direction/cannon-firing/etc. all by themselves and everyone else is along for the ride. Or when everyone can only ride their own ship.

As someone who has spent an unreasonable amount of time playing Pulsar, Artimis and Empty Epsilon. I have to agree with you here. Unless the game is designed from the ground up to be a multicrew ship game. Most games with ships end up being underwhelming when it comes to how multicrew functionality plays out. That said, I would at least hope that steering and each cannon has to be manned individually.

Personally I could see having your melee steer and use cannons while your mages, healers, and archers do thing thing when you come close to another ship. Could also maybe have ship builders repairing the ship or something? Even if it was just that, I think it would still be a lot of fun. This is how Darkfall was, and it's ship PvP was some of the best times of my life.

I'd love if we pushed it even further too lol

This'll never happen, but imagine if you could use wind mages to power your sails and things like that

Vhaeyne

McMackMuck wrote: »

@Vhaeyne Your post reminded me of Spelljammer. The Mind flayer ships might interest you.
Anything with these kind of organic animal based shapes would look cool. Devs just need to be careful to plagiarize and not outright copy, obviously.

They do. The opening cinematic to Baldur's gate 3 was pure joy for me thanks to that Mindflayers ship.

I have never been able to convince a table to play Spelljammer, but I have looked at the books in awe many times.

McMackMuck wrote: »

I looked here...
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Ships
...but I wasn't sure if there were more skins yet?

I'd also be happy to see:
Viking longboats
Dunir Ironclads built for ramming
A giant turtle with it's back converted into a ship sized transport vessel (maybe just as a special summon, available for one month)
Elven vessels based on giant leaves folded down the middle and butterfly wings for sails

From what I have seen of Ashes concept art. Everything you just suggested seems possible.

Sathrago

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Sathrago wrote: »

I swear the day they remove the ability to post gifs and pics on this forum is the day Black Sails dies as a guild.

Could be worst...
Could be this:

Thanks you've murdered me. I'm murdered. My Eyes are deadddddddd.