Yay/Nay: Whaling in Naval Content?

For the record, I'm *WAY* against whaling in *real life*. It may have fit humanity in the past, but it's an out-dated and un-needed practice in the modern world. Perhaps an exception for some indigenous tribes - but only because they literally use so much of a whale.

In the game, though?

I think it could fit, for the time-period/technological level of Verra. With resettlement, we're not really looking at a highly-industrialized civilization, and the amount of whaling Verra's to-be population would do would realistically be sustainable, and probably culturally appropriate. Whale blubber and caviar sound like appropriate crafting ingredients for things like food processing/crafting. Maybe I'm wrong, though....

Maybe we could just have whale-like creatures and call them something else? Would it be sending the wrong message?

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Noaani

Geophysical Ninja wrote: »

I guess a lot of people would rather kill a whale than a sea dragon or a Mosasaurus. I think that's sad.

If you actually bothered reading, you would see that I am a proponent of both.

Any fictional world should have both the familiar and the fantastical.

I mean, we have oceans filled with water, we have horses, we have foxes, we have stone, iron and gold. The trees we have in game are somewhat generic versions of real trees, we have grass and other smaller plants.

This is because this is good basic world building. You build the world on the known, and add the unknown.

daveywavey

Nerror wrote: »

Let's get some of these guys, Verra style:

Let's just get these bad boys back into the conversation. I'd love to see some of these fight back!

Asgerr

I would love a whaling system of fishing in the game.

I think it could also be interesting to make whales in the world a finite number, requiring a long time for them to respawn, so long as there are whales left to reproduce.

This would crearte a cycle of whaling seasons where we allow the server to repopulate the whale species, long enough for Guilds and Alliances to rake in the optimal amount of profits.

Plus, that scarcity would foster increased opportunities for conflict and open world naval PvP. Perhaps even sabotaging other Guild's ships etc.

I could also be that the first large Guilds with naval capabilities will extinguish the whaling population entirely as soon as they can. This would suck for other players, but imagine the server lore around the Great Whale Hunt and subsequent extinction. Plus the fact that said Guild would then be the sole owner of whatever resources whales would drop. Hording them over time and artificially inflating their prices due to their monopoly of them.

This could then further lead to more PvP, caravan assaults, sieges etc.

daveywavey

Asgerr wrote: »

I could also be that the first large Guilds with naval capabilities will extinguish the whaling population entirely as soon as they can.

This would happen instantly on every server. People never know when to stop.

Noaani

daveywavey wrote: »

Asgerr wrote: »

I could also be that the first large Guilds with naval capabilities will extinguish the whaling population entirely as soon as they can.

This would happen instantly on every server. People never know when to stop.

Indeed.

Not only that, but the fewer whales that are left, the more each of them is worth.

Having players affect the games ecosystem didn't work as far back as UO.

At the very least, there needs to be a minimum spawn rate. However, I would just not tie the spawn rate to how many exist at all.

BreadedChicken

Nerror wrote: »

I would prefer if they dipped into ancient sea monsters for this one, instead of whales specifically. Firstly because they are way cooler to hunt and they fight back. Secondly, whaling quickly gets political, and it's an easily avoidable controversy by simply exchanging whales for sea monsters.

Let's get some of these guys, Verra style:

I really like this idea. Something along these lines. Fighting semi-mythical creatures sounds fun!

daveywavey

That enormous crabby is a must-have!

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